After presenting a number of series on my day off from newspapers, I was invited to London to become one of the presenting team for a new daily current affairs magazine programme called Sixty Minutes, the BBC's successor to Nationwide.
In my day you went off to war: World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam to get your tuition money from the government.
Contrary to these throwing off my day or making me feel pulled in too many directions, I embrace these as exciting developments that add spice to my work-life.
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There are things I'm after and challenges I want to take on that just don't fit with my day-to-day schedule here, so off I go.
And I'm able to keep up right now in my off hours between the paying day job.
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When I said goodbye to my son at freshman drop-off day, I was thrown into a black despair over how much I'd miss him.
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After going 16 straight months in my new entrepreneurial life without taking a single day off, I slammed head first into a mental wall.
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And every day, I love you less and less, I've got to get this feeling off my chest. (Unintelligible) for some rest since every day I love you less and less and less and less.
"That's a word that has never crossed my mind, " he says on a rare day off.
While I know the school district wanted to ensure I drop my child off two hours late on a snow day, I already knew that before I went to bed.
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By the time I awoke the next day, shook off the collywobbles and registered my mouse clicks, only a dog's breakfast of event choices were left.
As I reflected about this the other day, I tried to recall off the top of my head the biggest life lessons I should try to always carry with me in life.
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So I can start building my island and leveling up my characters on my phone, and later log into Facebook and continue right where I left off, and then pick up my tablet later in the day and the entire gaming experience carries over seamlessly.
When I tweeted from the pub on a day off the other day, it never occurred to me that my boss was one of my followers, and he hasn't stopped teasing me about it, which is a bit embarrassing.
Every day when I get off work, and I see the light from my own house, I will see hope.
"On the day I got laid off I got a packet slapped in front of my face and that was it, " she says.
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But I think we've got a good shot at getting a majority of both parties in both houses, which has been my goal from day one, and if it happens, America will be much better off.
Ms. COLLINS: With Stacy Keach and Olympia Dukakis, and so I was in the park and doing this show, and I think we came up on the night that was our day off, I guess, and Stacy and I drove up with my sister and another friend, and we got to the office.
"I'm still able to get my work done here, and like I said, tomorrow would have been an off day anyways for me, " Granderson said.
Managing thousands of details and multiple risks for each of the multimillion-dollar houses he builds, he spent years rushing around with "one foot off the ground 20 hours a day, running the same scenarios through my mind time and time again, and being unable to put it aside, " says Mr. Weissensee, 58, of Mill Valley, Calif.
Two aiders and a rat's nest of other equipment hanging off my harness made getting through the trees to the ground the crux of the day.
And still, as I write this, I can hear my kids outside my home office, laughing as they play freeze tag and hide and seek, enjoying another day off school.
However, I also go to the gym every day, take time to play tennis, meditate and go to my recovery support meeting, meet with friends, and have certain times of the day that are off-limits for doing work (unless very extenuating circumstances), namely the evening from when I pick up my daughter at school until when she goes to sleep.
Then it happened, on January 25, the day of the big speech and my pending catalyst for the move, SunPower (SPWR) was off.
But muscles recover, and I was soon off to the other events of the day: an interview, then to collect my wife and daughter (who also ran the full marathon).
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My wife has a gift for baking and because she is naturally generous, the mixer rarely takes a day off.
The next day Hurricane Rita hit and it was full again so my wife, Sharon, dropped the gear back off.
It was -- it capped off what for me was an extraordinary day because I had the distinct pleasure of bringing my son for his birthday to the Nationals game yesterday.
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The second time I stayed at the Palms, nine months later, I stood in the lobby for 15 minutes before anyone acknowledged my arrival, waited two hours to get into my room, discovered that no one could be bothered to look up the day's weather report and finished off the day at the wrong off-campus restaurant thanks to directions a concierge gave the taxi driver.
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