My boss told me today that I could have next week off, and then the mon & tues we're off in observance for xmas and boxing days, so that gives me a 10 day window to get off the rock, get home, eat turkey, give pressies, hoist a round with the 'West Coast Crew' (that means you too, Feddy. I'll be heading to the Irish Heather straight from the airport) and get back again with Jeep parts to get my ride fixed up nice-like.

I will have a cell phone while I'm there, I just don't know the number yet, as I'll have to pick up a SIM card when I get there. I will have email access at my parent's place, so shoot me a line if you wanna get together and I'll fill you in with the deets when I have 'em.

The good news is that I'm only using up my five pro-rated vacation days for this, and I still have my five Hurricane Ivan relief days, plus one in the bank that I can use for goin up to Miami in January with Johnny-boy.

I tried to get off the rock right away friday night or saturday, but holy carumba are the flights FULL! I bought a ticket from aircanada.ca from Miami to Vancouver round-trip for $380 which was a pretty good price, and I put in for a pass to get to Miami Sunday and home again in a couple weeks.

Better dig out my woolies. As cold as it is here right now (gotta be down around 70f outside and it's 78f up in my loft... it usually doesnt get this cold when the aircon is on!) it's gonna be a whole lot colder when I go home. Maybe I'll even get to see some snow!!