Vacation Update

Well let's see this is early in the day of Day 6.

Day 3 was Christmas and spent alot of the day tweaking my computer a bit and testing stuff.

Day 4,  I went and did a private job and picked up a new DVD burner for the lady in the house that has been dealing with a loud CDRW egg-beater for ages. My boss called and informed me that he was unable to contact the right people for permission to get a 4th-party company to cover my area. And of course not enough of the other full-time staff was available because of vacation also.

Day 5,  Worked for 6 hours at double time. Found out Santa couldn't get through the chimney because we have the pellet stove going 24/7. So he told me to stop at BestBuy.com and order Seasons 1-5 of Babylon5. I gotta admit the bearded guy has quite an eye for deals. $19.95/season saves around $200 bucks! Santa says it's on the way but the sled isn't tracking yet.

Day 6 is still up in the air.

We had planned on taking a run up to the SETI project at Hat Creek and taking a tour yesterday but we have been unable to get a reply back by phone to confirm them being open for tours. In addition to the holidays, the road back into the site may be somewhat covered with snow. I doubt if I would chain-up even for aliens. I have 2 private calls I need to run prior to the 31st which I may do late today or tommorrow morning.

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The difference in cost between CDRW and DVD burners are just a few bucks now. Amazing how cheap this stuff gets.
All you have to do is wait until the manufacturers start bundling a product with new computers and then everyone one gets a better deal. It's the guys that have to get the newest gadgets out of the gate that get screwed. This is definately a case where patience pays...and in this case big bucks.