The rose parade is on the 2nd if the 1st is a sunday. That makes it at least an unofficial holiday. I recall generally getting an alternate day off for 'new years day' if the 1st was on a weekend.

Maybe somewhere with a different calendar entrenched might not care so much about Jan 1 though.

As a general rule: expect nothing much at all from people between (roughly) Dec 21st and January 4th.

It is a 2 week period where fuck all tends to get dome because somebody, somewhere is on PTO or otherwise unavailable.

Except, of course, this upcoming Jan 2[0].

[0] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-...

uh, its going to be the 2nd in 2023

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/federal-...

Wrong.