I was on errands too.    Uh, well, that is, tearing the town down singing mostly French songs plus "Let the Good Times Roll" in 5 pubs, In Mardi Gras finery.   Tradition started about 4 years ago here and it's snowballing.    There's already one pub where the fire marshall might welll shut us down soon.

Well, hell, if he is so thoughtless as to schedule SOTU on Mardi Gras what does he expect?