A bad day on vacation beats a good day at work, hands down... 
I'm not at work but definitely not on vacaion either. Been cooped up since having surgery. Im not the type to just sit around so it's been a chore to entertain my brain... 
Good time to catch up on good movies or TV series. "Archer" is on Netflix, hysterically funny and the new season begins in January - I've been catching up from the beginning for a few days now. Lots of other good shows, too.
It does suck a little in that many movies just aren't there. I can see "Captain America: the First Avenger", "Thor" and "The Avengers" but I can't get the sequels to the first two nor can a get a single movie in the entire "Iron Man" trilogy. Been considering dropping it and switching to Hulu Plus.
Apple really needs to start a streaming service for a monthly subscription.
And there's always Solitaire! I play a version called "Canfield" (known in the UK as "Demon"). There's over a hundred variants of card solitaire games. Gotta be hundreds more one-player games on your phone, tablet, computer, games shelf, etc. I personally enjoy the classic Mahjong puzzle layout called "Turtle" as well as Minesweeper at Expert level and Sudoku - my version has unique difficulty levels: from low to high - I'm New, I'm OK, I'm Good, I'm Awesome and I'm Clinically Insane... My record for Clinically Insane is 6:22, though I usually resort to "brute force" methods (lots of note-taking) to determine all the numbers. On Awesome, I try working more without taking any notes on the board.
Lastly, books are a great way to spend recovery time. I was quarantined in a hospital once for about five days - they had rules out avian flu but couldn't rule out TB and by law they couldn't release me until they were sure I was clear. I had one visitor, my brother, who wore a bunny suit before they'd let him in. He brought the one thing I asked for - the charger for my smartphone (at the time it was a flip-top Treo, can't recall the model). I used that thing incessantly whenever the TV got too boring - in a world filled with thousands of cable channels, the hospital still had less than twenty to choose from. I had games to play and I'd pre-loaded a few electronic books into it - ebooks were very primitive then but they were effective.
Even minus a great deal of mobility, you live in a world that's filled with options for keeping yourself entertained. Feel better soon, but in the meantime avail yourself of what's out there that can be brought right into your lap without even having to open the front door!
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