There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
The labor union is a great scheme to interrupt work. It speeds up loafing
Ford was a virulent hater of labor unions. He even hired goons to beat up union members.
In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know that it would be, like, six weeks long. Taking a six-week break was a very big deal for me. I have never taken that long of a break from stand-up other than my honeymoon, which was 14 days long.
How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?
And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
I had some personal issues to sort out so I couldn't work for a while.
I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.
When I take a break for a week, it takes me three weeks to get back to where I was.