When a family has a vacation place, as does mine, there are all manner of tasks to be done. And there has to be a family ringleader to organize things.
Enter older brother "Buzz." (If you were christened Brimford, you, too, would have a catchy nickname). Buzz has things to do, places to go, and a million invented tasks that would ruin the longest "vacation" of any normal human. Cranky Curmudgeon in tow, he briskly runs up and down hills, clears paths, moves zillion-pound granite mooring blocks, launches boats and in general, comes up with an endless array of things needing doing that really makes it difficult for me not to feel guilty should I try to relax and, I don't know, VACATION.
I've consulted the Curmudgeon Handbook on this troubling interference in my vacation time and it is disappointingly silent on the matter. I am therefore defenseless against these intrusions.
His motto: "no to do list long enough, no item too urgent." For Buzz, waking up in the morning with nothing on the list is inconceivable. No day should ever be non-productive.
Of course, that is the very thing I aim to wake up to: a Calvin and Hobbes day.
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