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I feel like I sort of salvaged what was trying to be a really crappy long weekend (Andrew and I each had Friday off as our magic free day per month). The bad started on Thursday when my back went completely bad. I rode, it felt fine, I got off my horse and it seized up to stabbing pain whenever I moved or reached

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[marilynmike]

Glad you're feeling better. Maybe you could have mentioned your sore back in at least one of our conversations this weekend. Have you found out what was wrong? Did the x-ray show anything?

[k_hourihan]

just curious... is this magic free day a real magic free day, or one of those bad-economy salary-stretching required-extra-unpaid-holiday days? (they've had to institute those here at the University; if everyone takes a few extra days off, without pay, then it saves money without anyone getting fired).

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No, it's exactly the opposite of a bad-economy free day, because it's the sort of thing oil companies in Alberta came up with during boom times, as a staff perk, but it hasn't gone away yet even though things are not booming anymore. At Andrew's work they have one free paid day off per month they can take whenever they want; at my work everyone gets the same day off so there's an extra long weekend every month.