Monday

A small pubic service announcement: since Sunshine already gets Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving, and, well, the next few weeks look rife with frenzied moving-related activity, and there is a conspicuous build-up of comp time just sitting there, we have decided to take the whole week and have one last hurrah before heading back to the US. I mean it's been, what?, almost three weeks since we took a vacation, and there's another three weeks before we leave México for nearly two months of home leave starting with the Christmas holidays. So why not? Trust me when I say that those three weeks will be very much like some nightmarish jog through red tape, punctuated by official early-morning visits by coolies and walk-through inspectors alike. The latter will stroll around and point at things we will then have to spend an hour apiece cleaning. So each of those weeks count as two really, and the frustratingly close deadlines will not be helping any there, either. So now we have handed The Cat off for a couple of days, and I'll be turning out the lights at this Update Sidebar until, probably, Friday night. Vacation or not, the movers show up bright and early on Monday, and we will need the weekend to get ready for them. Oh, and a post script to the admin here: I am keeping my fingers crossed, but internet transmission might very well become intermittent after next weekend. We will be shutting off the cable prior to the end of this month for billing reasons (and because the cable company is a pain in the ass) and while stealing signal from the church has been reliable so far, I'm afraid I cannot promise there won't be some gaps in my coverage. Okay. Later. [Cavin]