Newspapers like ours that still put out a weekly print edition plan their weeks on a different cycle, from Wednesday morning through Tuesday afternoon in our case, than you might do in your line of work. And the holidays, though welcome, shorten the time we have to gather all we do to put stories, event announcements, letters, columns and more on wiscassetnewspaper.com, boothbayregister.com and our combined print edition, even though the pages still need about as much content each week, no matter the number of workdays that went into it.

For example, Thanksgiving week last week, we finished the paper in great part Monday, a day earlier than usual. And this week, by the end of Tuesday afternoon, we should be all set with the pages as usual, despite getting in less work due to the Thanksgiving holiday and the office also being closed Friday. It was a nice break. Hope your Thanksgiving was what you hoped.

This brings us to overall having three days’ work on news and other content, instead of the usual five, to put in the paper along with the advertisements important to their businesses and ours, and you as a consumer, to know what you can get where, and when.

So with our usual hard work on these unusual last two weeks, and others when the office observes holidays around the year, we aim to have it all look as seamless, planned and full as you hopefully always find it.

This week, I caught myself referring to the Dec. 2 print edition as week 49 of this publishing year, instead of 48. Friday also felt like Saturday, and this made Sunday even better than usual because it felt like it should be Monday, but it wasn’t. Do holidays and long weekends from work have the same effect on you?

Sunday night felt like those childhood ones after Christmas and February breaks, where the thought of Monday is harder than on regular Sunday nights to know the workaday or school world restarts Monday, because you were really getting used to less work or study. But here we are, immersed in the routine again, and it is good to be back.

Week’s positive parting thought: Good luck, Wiscasset Holiday Marketfest! May it be fruitful for shops and shoppers, and ease us all further into the season. Learn about Marketfest and other area events by clicking on the “Fall into the holidays” banner at wiscassetnewspaper.com and boothbayregister.com