{"id":16776,"date":"2016-08-27T00:50:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16776"},"modified":"2016-08-27T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:50:28","slug":"have-a-nice-weekend-sure-whatever-you-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16776","title":{"rendered":"‘Have a nice weekend’? Sure … whatever you say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n

I spoke earlier today with someone over the phone about an interview I am trying to arrange for a story I plan to write for KFDA NewsChannel 10.<\/p>\n

It’s a part-time gig. I don’t work full time any longer. I’m semi-retired — with the emphasis increasing on the “retired” part and decreasing on the “semi” part.<\/p>\n

When the conversation ended, the individual on the other end of the call invited me to “have a nice weekend.”<\/p>\n

The thought occurred to me at that very moment: Uh, sure thing … except that my “weekends” are bleeding more and more into the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

There are moments when I forget the day. It’s not that I’m suffering from some kind of short-term memory loss. It’s because my schedule is no longer wedded to responsibilities at the workplace.<\/p>\n

To be truthful, one of my sisters told me about this phenomenon after she had retired some years ago. My other sister still has a full-time day job, so she still has those obligations.<\/p>\n

Me? Or my wife? We have none of that.<\/p>\n

My wife has been retired as well for a couple of years. I’m in the process of transitioning toward that status myself.<\/p>\n

But I do understand fully the idea that “weekends” arrive at various times during the week. Their arrival isn’t necessarily at end of the Friday workday. It could arrive on Thursday, Tuesday … any day!<\/p>\n

I will do my best, though, to keep a civil tongue in my mouth whenever someone wishes me a “nice weekend.” They mean well.<\/p>\n

Hey, maybe they think I’m a young dude.<\/p>\n\n

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