With the staff off for the Memorial Day weekend, the writer stays in—facing cold, rainy West Virginia weather—and plans to work through unfinished items while keeping a close watch on anything new around the NFL during the three-day unofficial start of summer.
It’s Memorial Day weekend, and out in this particular stretch of West Virginia, the weather isn’t cooperating. Cold air hangs around, rain keeps falling, and suddenly the “unofficial start of summer” doesn’t feel like summer at all.
So the decision is simple: work. The staff has the weekend off, which means it’s just you and me—stuck with the same byline and the same desk-bound rhythm for the next few days.
Inside, the plan is to catch up on items that haven’t been taken care of in recent days. At the same time. the attention stays wide open for whatever else might be happening—anything new that breaks through while the calendar runs on a three-day Memorial Day stretch that people treat like the first real breath of summer.
There’s no dramatic workaround for the rain. The work is typing. Typing and typing some more. Whenever there’s a lull—whenever you’re killing a little time—you’re invited to stop back and see what’s happening around the NFL. If something new lands, you’ll see it here.
Thanks, as always, for giving some time and attention. It’s never lost on the fact that you have plenty of ways to occupy yourself. But when things slow down, giving you a reason to come back matters even more.
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West Virginia Memorial Day and it’s cold?? wild.
So they just… stay at their desk and type instead of doing anything? I mean I guess that’s content. Also NFL stuff always drops right on holiday like clockwork.
Wait this is about a writer’s weekend?? I thought it was gonna be some big NFL trade news or something. If the staff is off then how can “anything new lands” lol. This sounds like they’re basically pretending there’s news but it’s just updates whenever they feel like it.
Memorial Day weekend turning into a solo NFL check sounds like the only real “start of summer” is someone refreshing their feed in the rain. I don’t even know who this author is but West Virginia weather is always like that, it’s like the state can’t commit. Anyway if it’s “unofficial” then does that mean the NFL season starts unofficial too? Like training camp late? not sure but I’m mad about the cold vibes.