Work has been absolutely insane these past few months so I decided to max out my coming vacation to 30 days (raised a few eyebrows but whatever)
Looking forward to kicking back, relaxing, and enjoying travelling around Peru with some down time in Rio.
In the US we call that not having a job to come back to.
My motto this year is work hard but push for as much time off as I can get.
Not much point in making lots of money and not be able to enjoy it. Time to splurge a bit on travelling. The office will be fine without me for a while (its a quiet time of the year anyways).
Wikipedia confirms, but with the additional info that all 57 inmates who assisted were already trustees. Not stated, but likely IMO, is that only trustees could help. (Likely because if all inmates could help I doubt that no non-trustees would have helped)
Traveling is for suckers.
lol nah
I will post a few pics from Sacred Valley in Peru and Macchu Picchu so you can see how interest travelling and exploring can be.
We’re going to be doing MP in style via the Belmond train as my wife had a family member who did it a while back and loved it.
I think traveling can be interesting, but it’s a pain in the ass. The latter is my sticking point.
Our Alaska cruise is getting real. We booked a couple small things today, different stuff from what we did two years ago. I’m really excited for it!
I’m sure you’ll enjoy it, even though my wife and I greatly prefer the small ship / outdoor adventure cruises. She and I first did 4 (maybe 5?) Windjammer Barefoot cruises in the Caribbean in the late 1970’s or early 1980’’s. Windjammer went belly up. Uncruise is now available and we liked it. Maybe we’ll do another with them.
(Uncruise is much fancier than Windjammer was. On every Windjammer trip we did, the plastic juice cups for breakfast were the wine “glasses” for dinner. But Uncruise is still pretty primitive compare to big cruise ships. The only one of those we did was Disney. The Dream, I think.)
Our Windjammers ranged from about 60 to 220 passengers. Our 3 Uncruises (2 different ships) have both been a maximum of just over 70 passengers, but I think only one of the 3 has full.
Oh yes, another Windjammer memory, and a Happy Thought nonetheless. No private showers on most of the boats, and the toilet was essentially in the shower stall. Toilet paper roll had to be very high, above shower level, to avoid getting soaked. [Not communal showers, and locked from inside, but for almost all passengers no individually assigned showers or bathrooms.]
Older son is at Coachella and having a great time.
Got some butter tarts at a Royal Canadian Legion hall without YOU KNOW WHAT!!!
Someone brought chicken tamales to donuts after Mass this morning. Yum!
Not confirmed, but many comments in response on Facebook described similar reactions by the Amish in other disasters.
Next week I’m at Uwaterloo marking their high school Euclid math test. I look forward to this every year. Three days in a room full of people who love math and are all smarter than me lol. Plus they’ll have some breaks where they bring in a prof or two to do weird math tricks, those are always cool.
One of my favourites is still going strong at 95.
I leave for work a little before 6am. This morning is the first of the year that I didn’t have to turn on my headlights.
shouldn’t this be in the Annoyed Thoughts thread?
