Family Day Is Nigh

Tomorrow is the inaugural celebration of Family Day in Ontario, introduced last Fall as the result of an election promise (some might say, "bribe"). Regardless of the rationale behind it, a public holiday in February is overdue and very welcome, indeed. That long, seemingly-interminable haul from New Year's Day through Good Friday, coinciding as it does with the worst stretch of weather in this part of the world, was always a recipe for depression if you ask me. We get enough time off in the summer months - that's what vacation days are for, after all - but boy oh boy, our winters can be hard to take. Anything to break up that misery is fine by me!

I'll be enjoying my day off tomorrow, and I hope everyone else will, as well.