You are probably right, Oblivion…but it still seems like a dumb system. Get sick when I go back to work, so I’m not “wasting” my vacation: that would be smart 😉

Irene and I say “Merry Christmas to you and yours, Leaha!” As for coming to Edmonton over the next few weeks- that’s not happening. Travel for us is a seemingly complex thing- with a house full of cats, it means finding critter-sitters willing to do house calls. Irene usually makes it back at least once a year by herself while I stay home to be cat mommy. I don’t do much travelling at all lately, and I think I’ve made it back to Edmonton only a couple of times since we moved. But I might get myself motivated to make the trip sometime in 2007- it would be good to see you and other folks I’ve missed.