2/4/22 Why Don't We Get More Days Off?

     Honestly, looking outside, it seems that today could have been salvaged and the kids could have gone to school and even Wife could have gone to work, with a late start, but I have to ask why?  Why is it bad to take an occasional day off as a society?  In as much as we use the holidays, Christmas, specifically, to spend time with family, why can't we do it more regularly?  Sometimes it seems we are in such a routine with school and work, that the idea of a break is the only thing that keeps me going.  I know there have been times in the past where I would tell myself "Come on, another month and a half and we get a week off for Spring Break."  After all this time off for Covid, those years past just seem a little sadistic.  Maybe it is true, that Americans put too much value in work and structure.

    I love a random day off to make a weekend into a long weekend.  This one was great, with the potential for bad weather coming in on a Wednesday night, it just became "let's take Thursday and Friday off."  In my head, the whole city shut down, but I don't think that was reality.  For starters, Boy's GF was here Wednesday night and she got up and went to work Thursday morning before 6:00am.  I myself got home after midnight on Wednesday, but that was with the thinking that I was just finishing the work to get us through the work week having met all our commitments.  Then we see our manager texting us that he is out and about enjoying breakfast in Bastrop, "the roads are a little slippery, so be careful" was his warning.  There were also other little signs that this freeze was not as bad as it could have been, but I still love the idea of being locked in.

    Baby A keeps saying he is happy he is getting a chance to rest, it has been rough for him, with practices at 7:00am.  Add to that, at this point in the season, most wrestlers are hobbling around with various little nagging injuries they have gotten while getting thrown around, in the moment of the sport.  Whether we admit it or not, this is really a vicious sport, a lot of matches can go by when nothing much seems to happen, but then there are nose bleeds, dislocated shoulders, and worse.  A couple days off before the district meet this weekend might not be a bad thing.  The kids know what they know, they just have to go out there and perform.