See? It's not like we're the first ones suggesting this.

Some people have called the Five Day Weekend a crazy concept. Crazy great, maybe. But crazy? What's so nuts about wanting to refocus our lives and devote our time to the things we really take joy in doing?

Allow us to give you some perspective on crazy.

Believe it or not, we actually weren't the first to promote a Five Day Weekend. And while we admit that our concept is a tiny bit radical, the earlier proposal puts us to shame in thinking a few miles outside the box.

In 1989, author Peter M. Rinaldo penned The Five-Day Weekend: A Proposal for Calendar and Work-Schedule Change. This obviously wasn't a mass-market hit, so it took us a while to track down a copy of Rinaldo's hot-pink manifesto.

Here's a summary snippet from his intro:

"Specifically, the book proposes a change in the length of the week from seven to five days, so that there would be 72 five-day weeks per year, grouped in twelve months of six weeks each (plus five holiday days)."

But wait, there's more. We haven't gotten to the workweek yet.

"This calendar change would be accompanied by the shift in the work schedule alluded to in the title of this book — five days of work followed by a five-day weekend. While one employee was enjoying the long weekend, a 'job partner' would be doing the same job."

Now sure, we could scoff. But who are we to say that he's not right? Several of our critics have said that five days off and two days on every week would leave society standing still most of the week. We disagree, but Mr. Rinaldo's proposal does seem more aimed at that concern.

(Oh, and he's not the first to propose doing away with the seven-day week. Check out our interactive timeline to learn about other failed attempts at calendar change.)

It seems strange to us that ideas like ours and Mr. Rinaldo's are seen as being on the lunatic fringe, especially when our 16-hour workweek pales in comparison to the four-hour workweek being promised by a certain New York Times best-seller.