this weekend

[Mark A Mandel]

To me, "this weekend" means the one now in progress, or, if today is a
weekday, the one that is going to come soonest; never the one just past.
I.e., "this weekend" is never more than five days away, and the
direction is always forward. I've taken to saying "this coming weekend"
or, for the following one, getting lengthy as in "the weekend after this
coming weekend"; similarly "this past weekend".

I hope nobody finds "this coming/past weekend" ambiguous!

-- Mark A. Mandel