1) This Labor Day weekend feels strange...and I know why.
This weekend is usually full of football and the football jones that I’d been nursing since the middle of July becomes...satisfied.
But not this year.
Granted, I strongly feel that players at the collegiate level should not be playing right now; the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences made the correct decision to cancel the season, IMO.
Still, when the other three Power 5 conferences begin playing, I can’t say that I won’t watch. I will.
2) Labor Day weekend also marks the unofficial end of summer and... how was my COVID summer?
I did go out for fresh air and sun more than I did in COVID spring but I still have not caught the el train into Chicago, been to a protest march (this past summer, of all summers, I would have gone were it not for COVID) I still have not gone more than a mile from my house. Which...is not me, I am the type that really like to get up and go and be gone.
I did do outdoor dining last night for the first time this summer. A co-worker was having a rough day and asked me to meet him for dinner and I do so only on the condition that there was an outdoor dining option.
It was a little scary but OK, I’m not freaking out too much. But I am back to taking the temp 3-4 times a day for the next 14 days, though.
3) I know that Labor Day is supposed to be a day honoring the labor movement in America but you know what?
American labor history is one of my weaker areas, I honestly don’t know much about labor history...which seems strange given that I do so much writing here at a progressive blog but...there it is and...honestly…
I don’t know that much about health care: I am forever getting lost in health care threads. I guess that, like everyone else, I am better articulating about some subjects better than others.
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