I did get a nice send-off from the local Subway today, though, in the form of a free lunch. Over time of being a regular customer there, I'd gotten to know the owners and a couple others there... when one of the owners asked me a couple weeks ago when my last day would be up here, I kind of suspected this might happen, but it was still a nice surprise.
For a four-day weekend, this will likely be just as tiring as the last two, if not more so. The nice part, at least, is that I wont have to make the return trip to NC in time for work Monday morning :-)