Hooray for the Weekend!!

Today the title is HOORAY FOR THE WEEKEND!!  I have decided to throw out a few thoughts and see what bounces back.

GOOD REASON: Why do I care if it is the weekend or not, I am retired.
I report to no one except my Wife. So, lets start with TV. Most of the best sports on the "Telly"  are on weekends. This is when I get to see many of my "famous" list <--- Being polite here. That includes such Sports folks as Shawn Johnson, Jamie Little, Both Williams Sisters, Maria Sharapova, and Christie Martin to name just a few. This is also when I can sit all day and Watch Football, Boxing, NASCAR, Women's Tennis, Fishing, Shooting, and the Olympics. That's about sums up my interest in sports. Saturdays and Sundays have a bigger following of fans and therefore more audiences for the networks to provide more sport to so they can make more money than a Tuesday evening for example.

GOOD REASON: I think I will say FOOD next.
Yes you can cook anytime you want but on weekdays there doesn't see to be a lot of time for long prepared gourmet meals. I don't know why but, that is a mystery of life. Friends are available on the weekend where dinner in or out is considered social interaction on the fun side. Home BBQ should be just as good on Thursday as it is on Saturday. (But, it isn't). A guy or gal working the early shift the next morning don't look at the dinner meal the evening before a work day as fun. Folks just don't want to laugh and play Monday evening when Tuesday morning there is a meeting promptly at 8:00 AM. Yes, the old weekend has it's benefits here.

EVIL REASON:  Fun in the beautiful open air.
You know out in nature. Filling your lungs with pure unadulterated air. Yes, and then you cough you ass off because  A- Your lungs can't handle anything without "particulate matter' anymore. B- The weekend is usually when the heat inversions decide to show up. No, I don't know why. This is when the heat is jammed over your head and everything is super heated to the point of a steamy South American Rain Forest. No breathing here and no outside. Nope, great family excuse to become a vegetable for the day. We have not even discussed the idiots jamming the roads or the same Idiots jamming up all the parks and recreation areas.

EVIL REASON:  Getting all those home projects done.
What is the quickest way to piss of the Hell's Angels neighbor who has been out on a drunk most of last night? Yep, you got it. Start the friggin" lawn mover at 8:00 AM. That has gotten many a family man beaten severely. During the week no one except night workers care because the "normal" person is gone to work already. Moving on to "Honey Do" lists. You wake early, about 7:00 AM on Saturday morning. You decide on a project from the family list or prepare to do the fix-it that broke during the week. As you stare  at the project you decide how to complete it (right or wrong) and also what you will need as far as materials and tools. It is then that you realize it is Saturday and not much is open where you can get your needs. You also realize that that the places that do have what you want on a Saturday don't open until 10:30 AM. You are now mad and nothing is getting done yet. Finally you get to the store right along with 200,000 other idiots who have decided to spend the weekend doing what you are doing. What should take you about twenty minutes to pick up and get home now takes an hour and a half. You come home sweaty, mad and missing at least one of the items you need. We, are "Handy People". OMG, that is absolutely the most politically correct thing I've ever said. "The simple job that will take about fifteen minutes" has now worked it's way into a six hour heavy project because you have put things in wrong, forgotten to buy principal items, and are about to pass out from sweating profusely and not eating. If you had done this during the week all the stores will be open, ever the one on the corner up the street that is closed on weekends. There are Crafts Persons and Technical Persons <----Oh I am so happy with myself available to come right over and repair you messes. They will only charge you twice what you would pay for a day call but, it is now 6:30 PM. But, you are saving money because anytime on the weekends is quadruple what the normal weekday rate is.

So there you have just a couple thoughts on weekend fun. What do you all think?

I will leave you with a final thought about retirement. Every retired person, no matter what age will tell you, " I don't know how I have ever had time enough to work for a living. My days are so full."    Bull Shit!!!  They get up late and have breakfast at noon. Then they watch TV until 3:00 PM. This is when the DVR taping starts with Doctor Phil. They dress and drive over to the local restaurant for the "Senior Meal" at a great savings if you can eat meatloaf or chicken every day forever. Then it's home and flop in the chair so you don't miss NCIS that you will sleep through anyway. Then you wake u and go to bed.