With a good proportion of the work force not working I wonder what they will be reflecting about this Labor Day.

Anyhow, of all the things I read about how Labor Day came about the inclusion line that it is the "kick off" time for NFL and college football seems to head the list for some of us. Not me, but some of us.

I, for one, having left the student days far behind (no buying of loose leaf notebooks for me; does anyone use loose leaf notebooks anymore?)  am an inactive member of the work force (everyday is a non Labor Day) and never quite got my, shit, it's Memorial Day bathing suit beach body under control, now that the summer is officially over I don't have to think about that until next year. Unless, of course, I see my way to another beach holiday sometime during the winter doldrums. But, since laboring away does finance that fantasy, that activity may be a stretch.

In the meantime I will spend Labor Day pondering about things like, why do people give their houses names, aren't their addresses enough? Walking around the neighborhood where I am staying now, every other house had a rather weather beaten piece of wood with words along the lines of  "sunset paradise" or "sunrise idyll" or "wedeservethis"…Hearing one set of neighbors, too often, I have often wondered why they don't remove their 'heaven" sign and replace it with "don't love you anymore" but "can't afford the divorce."

Happy Labor Day.