One More Day

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This out of routine mess is coming to a close.

Today should be the last day that the world runs at half-speed.

I’m thinking we should all get back to the usual by Monday.

Perhaps it was weird that the holidays fell on a Wednesday this year. I spoke to a roofer on Thursday.

“We just got the one day, and the way it was set up, if we didn’t come in the day before or the day after, we didn’t get paid for the holiday. Couldn’t even use a vacation day. They excluded that.”

“Ah, man,” I said. “It’s weird. You amp up to go back to work and then you get a day. Work at half-speed and two more days.”

And the 5-day work week seems a little much when you consider it in the context of your life, but it is what we are used to.

When I woke on Thursday morning, I did my internal inventory and I kept thinking it was Monday.

When it hit me that it was Thursday I don’t know if I was excited or not about the coming weekend.

Also, it didn’t help that 2025 got off to a truly violent, tragic, terrible start.

I thought about those who were sending their thoughts and prayers to New Orleans.

Does the politician who spouts that nonsense believe that they’re truly comforting a family who has lost a loved one?

I don’t ever want to have to think about losing someone in one of those mass events…

…but your senator sending out thoughts and prayers for the ten thousandth time is supposed to help?

I don’t know…

…I just need to get back into the swing of things.

One more slow motion day.

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