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BY JOHN McLOONE

The last couple weeks I definitely let 2022 get the best of me.

I spent the weekend recharging my batteries, and now I’m ready to slip and slide into spring.

Speaking only for myself, I left the house only for 10 minutes in two days. And I needed that.

It wasn’t completely unproductive. I had hauled my office home during that brief blast of winter, so I did actually get ahead of a few things in that regard.

But there was a whole bunch of doing nothing in there too. We’ve all had a couple tough years. Between COVID, the flu and whatever other droplets are trying to attack, it gets wearying. Our little company seems to have been under siege in the last couple months. I’m fairly confident that with everything everyone has called in sick for, there’s no excuses left.

It’s all-hands-on deck from here on out. The built-up natural immunity has to be at peak strength now.

And I hope that’s the case everywhere. Is there a light at the end of this tunnel? It appears so, but we’ve been lulled into that false sense of security before. We were allowed to lower our defenses, and then something springs up. The next thing we know, we’re besieged with sneezes everywhere we go. I don’t know about you folks, but I’m at the point in this pandemic where I get anxiety now whenever I hear a cough or sneeze.

Top it off with everything winter throws at us, and we’re all under more stress this time of the year.

So, I felt the only way to deal with it was to remove myself from all of it, if only for a day or two. I was offered the opportunity when a coworker offered to spell me from my Saturday duties, and I jumped at the opportunity to do absolutely nothing for the day. I was on the road for a couple days at the end of last week, battling snow, wind and icy roads, so by Friday afternoon, I was not good company.

On Saturday, while my darling bride was scurrying to and fro with her Saturday cleaning, I did everything I could to “help.” I reclined my chair when she needed to vacuum around me and picked up my coffee cup, so she was able to dust under it.

The weekend was just what the doctor ordered. I’m rested and ready to get back in the fight against 2022. At least I think I’m ready for the next month. If it’s not spring by then, I’ll likely need another few days of hibernation. It worked once. It can work again!