I Can Drive 55…

…but my transmission sticks when I try to put it in “idle”.

My employer gave us a four-day weekend last week.  I can’t say that I’ve never had employers give us a floater on the day after a Thursday Christmas.

But not only do we have today off – we have tomorrow off as well.

I wouldn’t say I’m a workaholic – I like my job a lot, of course – but I don’t do time off very gracefully.  Part of it is having been a contractor/freelancer for most of the past decade; time is money, or at least it was for a long, long time.  Part of it is I’m just not someone who relaxes well.

Today’s one thing.  Nobody’s working.  I can  more or less justify taking a long steam at the gym and vegging out and watching the Monk marathon.

Tomorrow?  Ugh.  I’ll be fidgeting starting by 6AM.  I’ll probably start sanding floors by 9.

How do people learn how to relax, anyway?

4 thoughts on “I Can Drive 55…

  1. Man, I took a lot of crap for posting the question “Why is January 1st a holiday”. It was an academic question, but people seem to take it personally.

  2. I started taking my vacation at Christmas, when I realized I had 5 weeks of vacation left to burn before the end of the year or I lose it.

    That’s not going so well, though — I’ve already done a a design review and logged in at least once each day to do some work during my vacation.

    My wife is not pleased. Oh well, at least I rebuilt her computer for her and that got her off my back for a day.

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