Taking a Break, Holiday, Leave, Sabbatical, Vacation: Whatever

The last time I changed my schedule for this blog was in October of 2011. I'm not sure that I'll do again soon, but I definitely need a rest.

Life Happens, and a Decision

More accurately, there's quite a bit of my non-writing life coming up next week. I started 'catching up' on next week's posts, when I decided that what I really wanted to do was take some time off.

I didn't catch this year's flu: but am dealing with something like a cold. I could just 'keep on keeping on,' or I could be sensible. I've decided that I need something from this list:

• Break
  • A pause from doing something (as work)
    (Princeton's WordNet)
• Holiday
  • Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
    (Princeton's WordNet)
• Leave
  • The period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
    (Princeton's WordNet)
• Sabbatical
  • A leave usually taken every seventh year
    (Princeton's WordNet)
• Vacation
  • Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
    (Princeton's WordNet)

Candles, a Computer, and a Non-Vacation

What I'm looking forward to next week isn't "leisure," so at least some of my time off won't be any sort of a vacation. The family business, Spiral Light Candle, will be keeping my wife and a majority of my kids busy next week.

I know what they'll be doing, but nobody's told me what it is that I'll be doing: except that it involves a computer. With my background, that doesn't narrow the possibilities nearly as much as you might think, and that's another topic.

What's Ahead

I plan to write tomorrow's post, and Sunday's, and then take a break from this blog at least until a week from tomorrow.

By then I'll have decided whether to go back 'on schedule' here, or take a longer break. There are some art projects that I haven't found time for, so I wouldn't be doing nothing more than sitting at the end of a dock, pretending to fish.

Since it's January in Minnesota, that would be a chilly pastime: even by my standards. That's, you guessed it, yet another topic.

Vaguely-related posts:

• "A Post: but Not the Regularly-Scheduled One"
  (December 10, 2012)
• "Due to Lack of Interest, Monday has been Cancelled"
  (November 26, 2012)
• "Getting Back to a Normal Schedule: Maybe"
  (July 5, 2012)
• "A Change in Schedule"
  (October 2, 2011)
• "Faith With a Cold"
  (October 18, 2010)