A euphemism for calling in sick to work so that one may stay at home and fist his or her significant other throughout normal business hours.
This does not require the employee to actually be ill. Instead, a California Sick Day is defined by the act of business-hours fisting, regardless of the health of the participants.
Employee 1: You missed the big meeting yesterday.
Employee 2: Indeed. I took a California Sick Day.
Employee 1: Up to your elbows in shit either way, right?
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)