day 352 - back to work Monday

Today is the 2nd day of the 51st week, the 18th day of the 12th month, the 352nd day of this waning year, and:

•  Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf - remember the celebrity phone answering machine tapes?  I rather miss having Boris Karloff, John Wayne, or Jean Luc Picard answer my incoming calls...
• Arabic Language Day
• Bake Cookies Day
• Flake Appreciation Day
• Give a Wine Club Day 
• International Migrants Day
• National 'I Love Honey' Day
• National Ham Salad Day - it really is very hard to find a good ham salad these days 
• National Roast Suckling Pig Day
• National Twin Day
• National Wear a Plunger on Your Head Day - no.  Just no.  
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 33m 49s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:

"To invite a person to your house is to take charge of his happiness as long as he be beneath your roof."

~  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste

The Monday morning after the end of your vacation is always a tough one.  There were 259 emails to plow through, and many questions to answer, and all that took hours.  

Triscuit, however, was unconcerned.  I envied her complete detachment, resting secure in the knowledge that she, at least, was contented this blustery, cold Monday