Take a vegcation

Vacations are somewhat silly in the publishing business. The longer you take off, the more work that is waiting when you get back. I usually check mail and work every day of the year, just to keep from being depressed when I get back. But for the holidays, I decided to lavish my two whole days plus weekend off taking a vegcation. You may have heard of the staycation, where you don’t go anywhere, or the mancation where you hang around your dirtbag reprobate friends instead of your wife. A vegcation is where you just turn into a vegetable for a few days, and don’t do anything but eat, sleep a lot, and sit in front of the TV, drooling. It was great, four whole days of not checking my work or my home email, or answering the phone, or opening the bills. A true festival of irresponsibility. I don’t know how you folks with kids stay sane. I mean, they start crying the minute you stop feeding them and they need so darn much attention. I guess you folks will have to wait until you are empty nesters before you can take a vegcation. Hang in there, it is worth it, believe me

It wasn’t like I could manage to be a total couch potato. I trimmed the trees and cleaned up the back yard. I also got my surround-sound entertainment center pretty much finished. I will tell you about that project and what I learned about building furniture, LCD TVs, Dell computers, Windows 7, and AV receivers. I also fixed a Black and Decker weed-whacker and an old hedge trimmer a buddy gave me. Stay tuned and I will let you know about those projects.

Well, I just downloaded my 1245 personal emails, all but 4 were spam. Now I have 20 or 30 work mails to get into, and lots of distasteful stuff like doing my performance review stuff on the company web site tool. I am sure I will be busy as a bee for the next three days, until I get two whole more days off, which I may turning into Vegcation II. Til then, I need some coffee.