@hazardwarning Mostly a staycation. My wife used up most of her vacation hours dealing with her mom's passing, but we're going to take a couple of day trips up to the Central Coast area of California, and go out to dinner. It's our anniversary weekend.
If there's anything more useless than USPS tracking, I don't know what it is. Half an hour ago, the most recent update on my package showed it at US Customs in New York. Five minutes ago, I got a notification that it left the distribution center in Santa Barbara and is en route to my local post office. Bit of a gap there.
Vacation out-of-office message has been activated. I repeat, vacation out-of-office message has been activated.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
@joeo10 The problem with unlimited vacation time is that people are afraid to take more than their co-workers, so people take less vacation overall, as has been shown in study after study. Ours appears in our time sheets as overhead and is not differentiated from other non-project hours, so it makes productivity and utilization rates look lower than they should be, also--which is problematic when one's utilization rate is a formal goal, and is used as a basis for determining raises and bonuses, as well as decisions about RIFs.
// @streakmachine
@streakmachine I have allegedly unlimited vacation time, but my wife doesn't, and even if she did, we couldn't afford to go anywhere right now anyway.
@streakmachine Being an American, I would have to win the lottery in order to be able to take a long vacation. :-/
@matigo Thanks! Incredibly well-made, too. Much better than the equivalent Seiko models at the same price point (and still actually made in Japan, not Malaysia).
Early anniversary gift from my wife. Orient Mako II. Automatic, hacking, with hand-winding capability. I've been coveting one of these for a while.
