The Federal Shutdown, partial as it may be, is now in Week #5. And after much consideration, I have decided to join the shutdown. For the foreseeable future, there will be no more work from me!

What does this mean? This is how the rest of the weekend is going to go. Help make the bed? No way! Barb will just have to handle that heavy duvet and put karate chops in the pillows all by herself. I won’t be bothered.

Sunday is usually a grocery shopping day. But sorry Sunset Foods, Whole Foods and Mariano’s. I won’t be wandering down any of your aisles today, comparing prices, eating free samples or squeezing the produce or the Charmin. I won’t even take advantage of 24/7 Woodman’s Market. I am on SHUTDOWN!

A lot of snow on the ground. You think that I am going to shovel? I am not going out in THIS cold. And I don’t know what to tell you, Milo. No dog walking for me today. It’s a Shutdown Day.

How about my usual job of clearing the kitchen table and washing the dishes after supper? Sorry, it just isn’t in the cards. Although I am willing to compromise. If we use paper plates, I will agree to personally toss the used dishes in the recycle container. No matter what else is going on I do whatever I can for the good of the planet.

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day. Students and teachers have their day off, but it is a work day for me. HA! I will certainly still be on shutdown. Look at biopsy slides? I think not. Sign out all those Purchase Orders that end up on my desk? Good luck with that! Keep on preparing for my quarterly Lab-Clinical Quality Assurance Meeting. You are joking, right? It’s going to be just another shutdown day for me.

So I think I see the next few weeks or even the next few months. I’ll be sitting around watching television, surfing the Web, eating fast food, and sending ridiculous pieces to social media. Just call me Dr. President!

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