Andrew's Day Off: 1242PM

All.

Today I have the day off. I didn't approve this with any of my bosses or anything, I just conspired with my people to cover for me and let me not come in to work. The bosses will probably figure it out, but I really don't think they'll mind (or else I wouldn't have done this).

Saturday is basically the only day during a week where I can legitimately pull that off, and as folks in my shop start going on leave in a few days, it was now or never--take today off, or wait until my no-kidding leave in July/August time frame.

This is the first day off I've had since December 17th, 2007. That was the last full day I spent at home in Virginia with my wife Lauren. For those of you wondering, I worked for 137 consecutive days before today. That feels like a lot to me, but I don't have much basis for comparison. It's certainly unprecedented in my life, but I'm sure a lot of you have gone through similar stretches.
I guess you can say that today hasn't technically been a "day off"--I stayed at the office until about 1:30 in the morning getting everything taken care of so I could play hookie today--but it's as close as I'm going to get.

I celebrated the day off by sleeping in until about 1215PM. As many of you know, I can be quite the sleeper when I set my mind to it, and with a bed time of ~2AM it was pretty well inevitable that I would sleep into the afternoon. I feel a little lazy for doing so, like I'm not going to be able to make the most of my day off now that I slept through half of it, but what're you gonna do?

Either way, I'll be checking in here throughout the day to let you know how things are progressing. It's lunch time now, and after food I think I might read a bit.

See everyone in a bit!