poke (prelude to Friday night redemption blocks)

Parkinson's law is biting my new work schedule? (I don't even have a
deadline for the posts I want to finish, but it would nice to be get
through it all in 2022, which I expect to be safely before the world
ends.) It's too late to make the most of my four-day weekend, but if I
had a lazy and (maybe?)  relaxing non-aristocrat weekend-equivalent,
now I can work really hard the next two days!