I asked the following in a recent post:

• if you like your job, are you funemployed?
• if you are funemployed, can you take a staycation?
• can you take a staycation if you work from home?

The first question hinges on an ambiguity concerning funemployment.   I believe it to mean either a) enjoying your unemployment time, or b) to work just as much as you need to to support a hobby.     See this or that or one of these for definition a, see all those cool folks you know who ride their bikes around bartending jobs and snowboard around smoke-jumper jobs for definition b.   Though it is tempting as a wage slave who mostly likes his job to co-opt such a cool word to feel better about one’s soul-killing fate.

By either legitimate definition,   a staycation is impossible if you are funemployed.

A staycation is possible if you work from home, as long as you don’t check your crackberry.

Many people I have posed this question to have attempted to say a ride while working from home can be a staycation.   This is incorrect.     First, a ride is not a staycation, since you are moving. A ride could take place on a vacation, a ride could take place on a staycation, you could have a riding vacation, or a riding staycation if you started close to home. You could be funemployed and ride. You could not take a ride on a staycation while funemployed.   But semantics of riding vs. staying aside, a ride during work hours is not a staycation. It is a lunchbreak, a meeting when working at home, a doctor’s appointment, or a nooner.   Though really a nooner is when you get laid during lunch. I like nooners very much, even better than i like riding. I would give up a nooner ride to have a nooner.