On vacation!

As of today, I am on vacation for a week. I'm not doing anything in particular except not working and I imagine it will be pretty fun. Okay, so it might not be the most exciting thing in the world but, prior to this, I have only taken off 3 days in a row from work. That left me with quite a few (over 150) vacation hours and I think that means I've earned some time off. So I took it. I also took New Year's Day and the day after off, meaning that I have a very short work week when I get back next week.

Being off work doesn't mean that I'll be blogging more often. In fact, I'll probably be blogging less. I want to try and stay off the computer as much as possible and just use my iPhone if I need to go online for something. I don't want to completely detach from technology, but I work on computers all day and I believe that my vacation would be more enjoyable away from one. The only reason that I'm using mine right now is because I had to wait for my iPhone's applications and music to re-sync to it after the restore from backup that I did with my replacement iPhone for my replacement iPhone.

Looking forward to a relaxing vacation and happy holidays.

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