Another magical 4-day weekend! Yeeeee! Although the way my boss broke the news, you'd think I was diagnosed with a terminal disease or something. The situation is, they're only running a couple lines on Friday, and won't be needing as many people showing up for work, myself included. But I'm not getting paid, naturally. "I'm sorry, but I don't have any work for you." Well, I'm lucky enough in life that I can afford to lose a day's pay. So what am I doing this weekend? Same thing I do every weekend, Pinky...sleep. Too damn long. Well, I'll try not to oversleep too much this weekend. Just like I keep telling myself every weekend.

Which segues nicely to another point: I think every weekend should be a 3 day weekend. I don't care if we kept a 4 day week or made a 8 day (5 and 3) week, but weekends should always be three days. I'm sure it's different for everybody, but here's my line of thinking. I always end up feeling like I've wasted the first day of the weekend. After a long week, I like to sleep in on Saturday. Like I just mentioned, thanks to my personal schedule I sleep in way too damn late...just last week I got out of bed at 6pm. And you feel like you can't get anything started then, so you just goof off the rest of the day. Then you've got Sunday to get stuff done (if you can, if everything's not closed), and then...oh boy! Right back to work again on Monday. SO...we get "Friday" so sleep in and generally rest from the week. Then you get Saturday to get stuff done, and Sunday to finish up and prepare for the week without feeling rushed or dreading getting up for work the next day.

Now off the subject...
I think the Spankees should throw the ALCS. Let Boston win. I'm not saying that because I want Boston to win...well, OK, partly for that...but everyone seems poised and eagerly anticipating a Sox/Cubs World Series. EVERYONE would want to watch a Sox/Cubs World Series - NObody (except perhaps people in New York and Miami) wants to watch a Spankees/Marlins World Series. A different combo (Sox/Marlins, Spanks/Cubs) would draw some interest, to root for the "underdog" (the team who hasn't won in so long), but not nearly as much as Sox/Cubs. Let's see, we've could have the team that won (however improbably) a few years ago versus the team I'm sure most people are sick of seeing in the playoffs - YAWN - or we could have two storied teams battling each other and 180 combined years of frustration in an epic series for the ages! Whoo! At this point, wouldn't anything less than Sox/Cubs feel disappointing?

Another nice note...thanks to the All-Star Game, the Sox would have home-field advantage in the World Series if...ahem, WHEN they win. >:-)

I mentioned before I wouldn't want a Sox/Cubs WS to happen, mostly out of fear of losing "again"...but even if it did happen, I would cheer the Cubs winning.

So, a message to New York: Bring it. and oh yeah...YANKEES SUCK!
teehee
posted by Tim at 2:37 AM