I had no idea you were so funny. What a joy. I am in heaven. Sharon

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Thanks for painting such a clear picture of yourself! It is fun to get to know people you communicate with on the blogs.

Just to commiserate - it has been close to 100 in Chicago these past few days.

I do what you do. Stay in and play with my computer or read!

Summer in the south is really hot and humid. Just standing still outside in the shade will make you sweat your clothes through. Actually doing something, like cutting grass or cleaning up the yard, could cause heat exhaustion in less than an hour. Since the grass does have to be cut here at least 8 out of 12 months, I take it easy from mid-May through mid-September. I mow the back one day, the front another and clean up branches and weeds a third day each week. I get three days of exercise without heat stroke. I used to try to get all the yard work done in one day and it darned near killed me, so I quit and started taking a much more southern attitude toward it. Do a little, then rest and cool off.

School starts in early August and so does tutoring. Fortunately, the libraries are freezing cold so we get a break from the heat early in the school year. If I tutor in the summer, it’s also a nice break. 66 degrees beats the heck out of 95 and 80% humidity! I have to wear long pants and a jacket in the library if I’ll be there more than one hour.

I tend to get the blahs at Christmas if it’s warm enough to wear shorts. It just doesn’t feel right when it’s hot at Christmas time. I guess we should try one of those winter vacations somewhere cold and snowy.

Thanks for a timely summer article,
Sherri

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As usual, your comments are priceless! Thanks for our laugh of the day.

New York, FYI, is worse. No one works on the weekends for the entire summer. They go away. The city is deserted.

The weekend begins on Wednesday night and ends on Tuesday morning.

So be grateful for Chicago - at least there is someone around sometime.

Actually, I sold my travel agency in the early 90’s but I still do some travel for old clients from home. Usually only complicated trips because so much can be done by people themselves now on the Internet.

Tell me your plans. Maybe I can help you in some way.

But I liked your comments on how you get out of the blahs. Looks like they worked! You are blogging away.

Time off is important. I think we all get burned out. Especially bloggers. I never realized at the beginning this was a J-O-B.

Wow you you’re in the travel business. I’m also trying to start one myself.

Last month I had an episode of blah…Then I took a week off doing things opposite of internet marketing.

After the “break” I had problems coming back to my notebook, so I started slowly by checking emails, reading everyone’s blog and slowly get into the mood of working.

It’s a bit like starting to exercise after a long holiday :-). But once I got started, I kept reminding myself why am I doing this and things picked up again.

Now I’m a bit wiser, at the onset of blahs, I take half a day off to get refreshed.

Rgds,
Hai Liang