Working on Thanksgiving...

It is Thanksgiving day and I am working. It doesn't happen every year, but when it does it is not so bad. Yeah, I miss the family get together and all the comraderie of catching up and going over all the old stories of days gone by, but in a different way I gain a shared experience with the fellow News 19 coworkers who cover the news, weather and sports today.

I guess it is all in the way you go about it. You can grouse about how unfair it is to have to work on a holiday, or you can treat the day as a great time to enjoy and be with your colleagues. I choose the latter. Of course for it to work it helps to do something different than the normal workday. In this case those of us who have to work joined a fellow coworker for his family's Thanksgiving dinner. Since we work in the evening, there was plenty of time beforehand to pull it off.

It helped to have a Green Bay Packer game on to watch, and of course it was nice to socialize with everyone. The dinner was superb and we all ate too much, but we had fun. To top it off the leftover pumpkin pie joined us in the evening!

I hope your day was as enjoyable as mine.

Dan Breeden
News 19 Chief Meteorologist

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[Molly]

Dan-

Thanksgiving 2007 was one of the best for me! Well said. Glad to have friends like you!