QUINN: After the holidays

Many folks say that after a busy December, January can be a snoozer. So, here’s something to ponder: What is Santa Claus doing now?

How about those reindeer? Ever wonder what they do? Me neither.

Donner, Blitzen, Comet, and other first-stringers have enough seniority to draw vacation pay.

I‘ve heard that the substitutes — Delbert, Elmore, Hubert, Fester — often get called at the last minute to fill in for the main guys. This is called “passing the buck.”

Idle thoughts fill the mind of Post-Holiday Man, and make him long for cold-weather diversions.

This leads some of them to do wild things, like jump naked into a frozen lake and call it a sport. Or even worse, he will go out to an icy pond, dig a hole, and try to catch frozen fish, which already come packaged at the grocery.

Here are some ways to get over the winter whines. I can’t guarantee they work, but I plan to test them…soon as I get back from ice fishing.

1. “If all the world were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.” — Shakespeare reminds us we must toil again to pay off credit cards.
2. “Spring is right around the corner.” — Yeah, right. That’s what they told Columbus about the New World. But on the plus side, he discovered the Bahamas.
3. “Begin anew.” – This new year gives you plenty of time to reinvent yourself. Last year, one of my lazy friends did just that, and he succeeded brilliantly. He rents himself to self-help groups as a “bad example.”

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Rix Quinn is a former magazine publisher who works as an independent biographer and broadcaster.

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