My standard vacation MO is pleasing to me – return from some time off; immediately book additional time off. The hours I spent gazing into my crystal ball has foretold that Canada Day falls on a Thursday this year, so it would be beneficial to everyone involved (me) to take Friday July 2nd off. So I did! Four-day weekend? Yes please!

As much as I’d rather still be on vacation or at least sleeping, I am pleased that my return to the office is not traumatic. I’ve had jobs where I couldn’t trust the status of my belongings when I got back, or came in to find that people had rooted through my desk and helped themselves to what they wanted. The mountain of highly professional toys surrounding my workspace appears to be untouched, and there were no unpleasant surprises when I came in this morning. In fact, my desk would have been covered in downright excellence, had I not come in on Friday afternoon to pick up the 4 packages waiting for me. Hooray for mail! Hooray for presents for others!

I am, however, disappointed to learn that I am not a notable person worthy of an entry in the Who’s Who of Technical Writing. I mean, I am – but only according to the spam email I got congratulating me on my acceptance in the 2010 Cambridge Who’s Who Journal at NO COST TO ME. Hooray! Finally I am A Somebody with the aptitude to fall for an incredibly old scam! I was surprised to see that people are still doing this con; I thought it died out around about the time we stopped using dinosaurs for transportation. Learn something new every day!

I need to go renew Lola’s insurance and find out why I cannot slap a sticker on my ridiculous enhanced license to change my address. I have a sneaking suspicion they’re going to tell me I need an ALL NEW license for the low low multi-time cost of $35; something that will FILL ME WITH RAGE because for non enhance licenses, you get a stupid little sticker and that’s it. I’ll report back – it is very possible that there is a downside to allowing the government to track my every move.

My birthday is in four days. Everyone should buy me an iPad.