Patrick's solution is an acceptance-rejection method for a truncated discrete uniform distribution. Depending on what the OP wants, he can use Patrick's solution as is, or he can imbed it in a DO-WHILE loop that continues to generate random numbers until a weekday in [2,6] is found.
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