Ready for the Holidays

Work has been quite busy over the past couple of weeks as we are wrapping things up for the end of the year. Fortunately I now see the light at the end of the tunnel. The rest of the year is shaping up quite nicely.

Today (Thursday) will be busy but one more busy day I can handle.

Tomorrow I am off work attending a certification exam for SAP in the morning. I have done some preparation for it but am really hoping that a combination of skimming the manuals; 2 hours of solid cramming tomorrow morning; multiple guess...I mean...choice questions and some vast recent experience performing quizzes on Facebook will get me through. Actually, I really don't expect to pass - this is more of a fact finding mission for determining what I need to read up on - but if I could get through it would save me a lot of hassle.

The weekend will be busy preparing for our trip next week. I am then only working until Wednesday lunch time when we leave for Florida. We are doing the drive in 3 legs, stopping in Charlotte on December 18 to see AC/DC for the 3rd and perhaps final time and finishing in Jacksonville to spend a couple of days with Mindy's dad. We then have 5 days in Disney planned before a few more days of recovery, arriving back in NJ on December 31. The kids are excited so hopefully it all works out well.

I have been reading one of my early Christmas presents. The Onion book "Our Dumb World", filled with delightfully politically incorrect observations about a great number of countries around the world. Just when you think they are as inappropriate as you can get, you turn the page and are confronted by something even worse (a.k.a. better). I guess I will be doing a lot of reading over the next few weeks - Mindy also bought me Artie Lange's book "Too Fat To Fish" as well as a John Lennon biography. Throw this in with the shape of the package I received from Australia and I have a lot in front of me!

So...better get back to it so I can get out of here and begin winding down!