Friday is a sweet day and even though I am chained to this key board, I look with envy to all the millions of workers who:

Get up before dawn

Get to commute on average two hours a day along with a couple of million of their closest friends

Get to reach a workplace filled with challenging and rewarding work

Get to take direction from kindly and intelligent managers

Get to hob knob with the cream of the crop of co-workers who all pull their weight

Get to fill out endless forms to request needed business supplies

Get to invent ways to get the job done with no supplies

Get to interface with interesting and sympatric customers

Get to eat lunch at their desk trying not to spill mayo on the Fisk report

Get to feel the pride of having produced great output for the day

Get to feel the accomplishment of surviving with no increase in pay for years

Get to work until well after sundown at the last-minute request of a grateful manager

Get to join the millions of friend on the commute home

Get to arrive home in time to pack on 2000 or so calories before bed on an already stressed body

Get to toss and turn all night in anticipation of a total repeat the next day

So here is to Friday and a wish for a happy weekend for all of you who have Friday as the end of the week. (if that same manager has not asked you to put in a few hours on Saturday)