Damn, I'm Lazy!

Next week is a 3 day work week. This is due to the holiday and our flex schedule. Most of the office is going to be gone. I had planned on going in to work, not realizing that it was a short week. When everyone was taking off, the lure became too great. I have to use 70 hours of vacation time this year, or I lose it. I'll only use up 27 ours of it this next week, so I couldn't help myself.

It seems a little selfish, though, since I am having surgery on Friday. I'll have to take the following week off for recuperation, according to my surgeon. I'm having work done on my knee, and he wants me to lay down, with my leg above my heart, to prevent blood clots, for a full week.

I have a feeling I'm going to go stir crazy. I've purchased books from Amazon (gotta love Prime shipping). However, while I have bought something on the order of 7 books, I've already read one and am on to my second one. I have a feeling I'm going to be reading books next week, to some extent. Oh well. I've been waiting to watch Heroes, since NBC has them available to stream. I just hope they are there in 2 weeks, since the season is now over. I've watched something like 6 or 7 episodes, when they showed them on SciFi on a weekend marathon. Once I found out that they were on nbc.com, I chose to wait to watch them while I was recuperating. Good thing my laptop has wireless.

I am sure that I am going to hate my sofa in 2 weeks. It's a foldout, so that's probably how I'm going to be vegged out for a while. I will still probably hate it.


Since I'm going to be gone two weeks, I did as much as I possibly could before I left. I made paperwork for everything that I have currently stored in the oven to cure (propellant has to bake like a cake). It might not cure, so the paperwork isn't necessary, but it's there in case it does. The PhD I work for doesn't really have a good handle on the paperwork required, so he leaves parts off, or doesn't do all that is needed. So I have it all ready whenever he needs it. He can move it himself, if need be, but just needs a hand with the paper.

Speaking of my PhD, he's been working hard trying to get me a promotion, which I think is awesome. I don't need it. I wouldn't mind having it, though. It's one I didn't expect until years down the road, sometime 10 years from now, possibly. I think it's great that he's trying to get it for me. He's running into some opposition, but I think that's more to do with the fact that I've only been on base 7 years. The people who have been there for 20 are the ones who have earned that promotion. It would be my last promotion of my career. I'd still get pay raises, but it would be the last payband jump that's available to me.

I don't think it will happen this year, but it is still a nice thought.