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2008-04-14

Vacuous Vacation – Day 1

Filed under: General — 19day @ 23:37:26

I took a week-long vacation, and it started today. Work has been particularly trying at late, for a variety of reasons. But ultimately, I’m just getting really tired, fatigued, and generally sick-feeling. I wake up and get to work so late, so I work late to compensate, which means I’m up late, and do it the next day and so on. Weekends seem to screw me up more, not enough time to reset.

So a friend of mine suddenly decided to take this week off, and I thought, yeah, that’s an idea, and I put in my request as well, but I admit I wasn’t expecting it to be approved, since basically there won’t be a time until after summer that is a ‘good time’ for a vacation, but I got it. Maybe she and I will get together at some point during it.

This first day (I’m not counting the weekend, just ’cause) I got some materials to enjoy the vacation with. I got some groceries and some alcohol to drink myself to death with. Actually, I fear I might not have gotten enough, but I haven’t actually bought for myself for quite a while. Normally the only time I buy booze is when going to a cottage or a friend’s party, so I never expect to drink it all myself anyway.

The grocery store near me was about 5000% busier than I would have expected for a monday afternoon (about 1pm), it was packed with people. I wanted to yell (why aren’t you at work). Curtis and I discussed this once, and the general sense was that there is a large enough population that during any given day, a certain number of them would be off either due to shift work, rotating working weekdays, or on vacation themselves. Of course there’s the non-working husband or wife and the old folks.

There was a heavy concentration of old people actually, in two places; The lottery kiosk, and the LCBO. Both of those are kind of depressing. There was a constant buzz around the lottery kiosk, people going up for a ticket, going off to the side to do whatever they need to do to it, and back again. I’ve never bought any lottery ticket or scratch card myself in my life to my knowledge. I’ve received them as stocking stuffers, usually my brother wins $5, and I win nothing. Since that can be expected, and I had a 50/50 chance to get the scratch cards with the $5, which is far better odds than anything I’ll ever see anywhere else, and I still lose… well, that was my sign never to play those things. Maybe I will once I’m on a fixed income too, but it seems an even worse bet there.

In the LCBO, it’s quite an eye opener seeing these little old ladies with their walkers buy larger assortments of hard alcohols than I am, or indeed, have even heard of. I bought a bottle of Triple Sec, Banana liqueure and a vidal Icewine. The last stands on it’s own, and the first two are mixed with sprite for generally pleasant effects. The little old lady in front of me was buying like 8 bottles of stuff. And that’s not my only sample point, there were others of similar temperment in the store.

Back home I managed to do a little cleaning. My bedroom is approaching a displayable status. The livingroom needs a bit more work. The kitchen and bathroom need to be hosed down with acid I think. Hopefully I’ll make progress over the course of the week.

And hopefully eliminate this fatigue

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