Hey! It’s Monday, the first day of the week ‘n I slept in....well, actually I got up several times, I just didn’t stay up until ten-ish...tenish has a good sound, doncha think? Sort’a like an old black ‘n white movie, one of those quirky little comedies from the thirties when Hollywood pictured the world as a happy place even tho’ most of the country was scraping bottom....that was a real depression back then with real hunger ‘n despair, a time when families trudged the highways ‘n byways of the country searching for even the semblance of a job....not like t’day when we have the bottomless pit of government welfare masquerading as unemployment....not like t’day... but there I go again, digressing....in my idle tho’ts (‘n there ain’t no better kind) I like to think of m’self as a world-class digressor...’course, I know it ain’t so...MiGawd! I don’t even hold a candle to the pros...us dyspeptic ‘n disillusioned Americans like to think that our Congress is loaded with world-class digressors ‘n there ain’t a doubt that we got some that qualify but considering the world stage, we don’t really have that many...
Anyways, gettin’ back to Mondays....it was always an interesting day to begin the week, why you’d think that someone somewhere deliberately invented Mondays just as a start to the workweek....when I was a very young boy, Saturday was the ending of the workweek but that changed after WWII (the big one, according to Mr. Gillis) ‘n Friday became the soul-satisfying ending that we all know ‘n love t’day....
I don’t know if we’re on a cusp of changing that or not...what with furlough Fridays being so common here in California....all depends on the courts, I guess, but if we adopt a more European lifestyle, ie, a shorter workweek, why I guess that Thursday would become the last day of the week ‘n our weekends would stretch out to three days ‘n become the new norm....ah well, idle tho’ts.... A three day weekend would lead to a lot of idle hands ‘n ev’rybody knows that idle hands are the devils workshop.....
I’m just sayin’.......
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