a couple years ago i heard a story on npr about vacation stuff in the u.s. versus the rest of the world that works for living.
if you are well-read, then you know how much vacation time the europeans get and this story was about how we americans dont take as much time in one block as the rest of the world. it seems to me that i used to, and i see that my friends and family tend to jam vacations full with as much, or more, stress as work.
gary slydecker and his family are fucking sharks on vacation. wake up, go to the zoo, then the childrens museum, then back to a science pavillion, hump to local cultural hotspot, meeting the mayor and making a pilgramage to some historical landmark all before noon.
we used to go down to florida for a week. leave friday, drive straight through, get there saturday, need saturday & sunday to sort of recoup from the drive. before you think your brilliant, flying would have the same stress, but with more expense.
so then the vacation starts. on the beach hanging out, oh, but then what about disney? gotta trek to orlando for a day and a half, waste a shitload of dough on supreme evil, then back to the condo for a day of relaxation before we have to start packing up and going back home.
it fucking sucked.
now, we leave on thursday, drive straight through, get there friday, recoup, hang out maybe think about doing something in orlando, but now have 14 days to get it over with. we got fucked by the evil kingdom so we do other places less evil like seaworld & universal.
all the fucking time in the world. for two days, i never left the condo, got up, made brekky brekky brek for a shit load of family, played some halo & mass effect, went out with the kids on the beach for a couple hours, in for lunch and more xbox, then out to the pool for few hours of floating, then in for dinner, tv, xbox then sex. repeat for the next day (minus the sex. even thought the ocean does wonder for your sex life, two nights in a row is simply two much to expect)
with the vacations coming up, please, take at least two weeks. you are not needed at your job. if you run your own business, close it for two weeks, you wont go broke and you wont lose your customers, they will only want you more, and they will envy you that you had the balls to do it.
