So OK it’s like this: I am still on vacation. I burned 4 days of my vacation in conjunction with the Memorial Day holiday; which gave me a grand total of 9 days off in a row. But I have a complaint that I must place before the Board of Connectors (whatever that is): even though they’re not quite gone yet, these days off seem to have vaporized all too quickly.

Last week, I was taunting all of you with my Nyaa Nyaa Na Boo Boo ha ha on you I have vacation and you don’t song. Well maybe to you it wasn’t a song, but to me it was. So there. And before I went on said vacation, I may have mentioned to a few friends at work that I was really really REALLY looking forward to the time off. We had absolutely no travel plans, although I think I may have put 143,000 miles on the brand new, used, 2001 Chrysler Town & Country Racing Minivan MuttMobile thing. I was told this is now called a “staycation.” Well for a person who was supposed to stay, I did a lot of moving around. I’ve never been a very obedient doggy.

As I fully expected, very few of my grandiose plans actually saw anything close to fruition. I did get some stuff done though, so it wasn’t like we sat around and ate Fig Nortons all day. My Beautiful Girlfriend and I slept until we woke up every day except one. In other words, we told the alarm clock to go stand in the corner and don’t come out until we say so, darn it (can you tell we’re parents?). This morning we had to set the clock because a friend of ours was due to arrive at 9 and we didn’t want to be caught dashing about the house with nothing on but the radio.

Our vacation has been very enjoyable thus far. I very VERY rarely checked e-mail from work. Only got bugged by my boss once because someone’s phone barfed and the boss man couldn’t find the spares. I forgot what day it was a couple times. Spent quality time with family and friends. Had some nice meals. Got some garden work done. Actually got a taste of what retirement might be like. “I could get used to this,” I told my Lovely Bride Lady more than once. The time just goes too quickly!! My Sweet Honey Pie said today, “if vacation goes this fast, can you imagine how quickly retirement will go??” “Sure,” I said, “I’ll get out of work for a day or so and then we’ll be dead!!” Then I reminded her about a valuable tool we acquired some years ago: “let’s just try to stay in today and enjoy it.”

Remember what I said earlier about telling a few people at work that I was looking forward to vacation? Well there’s only one problem with doing that: inevitably someone tells you something very real that you’d really rather not hear. One of my friends said, “it’ll be the fastest week of your life, Ken!” Upon hearing that, I gently replied, “SHUTUP!!” and of course we both laughed. I ain’t laughing no any more. He was right. Ah well, when I get back to work I’ll start staring at the calendar so I can plot when to tack the next vacation days onto a holiday weekend.

In the meantime, I’m still on vacation, so Nyaa Nyaa Na Boo Boo!!

We did get to go to the movies… but it wasn’t this one. However, I really believe that the work these two fellows did is timeless.