The Long Stretch

I don't know about where you work, but here, we are entering a very long stretch with no holidays. After New Year's day, we don't get another one until Memorial day in May. It's a long hard stretch of 5 day weeks and predominantly bad weather.

It's hard to say exactly why there aren't more holidays during this period of time. Sure, there are bank holidays, and those of you who work for banks are probably wondering what I meant by "5 day week". The only thing I can figure is that the weather has always been too nasty for anyone to do anything historically significant during this period of time. Especially in the US. They didn't even write the Declaration of Independence until it warmed up a bit. No one wants to work when it's that cold and rainy, especially in the days before heat pumps.

Based on that data, and the fact that we get a day just for workers in the fall, I think we should all get "The Weather Stinks and I'm Cold" day, sometime around the beginning of March. That would definetly help to break things up a bit and give us something to look forward to.

Also, I think that people that live in Florida and Southern California should be forced to work 16 hours that day, just to give the rest of us a one up on them for at least one day a year. I suppose I should work on a petition to get this set up, but at this time of year, who wants to get started on a project like that?