The R.C. thinks Denver should take today and tomorrow off, when the weather is supposed to be gorgeous, and work Saturday and Sunday, when it's supposed to be cold and snowy. I agree.

I still have a tiny handful of shopping to do but by-and-large, I am done! Not only that, but I brought all but one of my to-be-shipped packages with me today. Assuming I can find time in my busy goofing-off schedule, I'll get those addressed and to the post office at lunch and then sit back with a sigh and enjoy the remainder of the holiday season.

(And chew my nails, waiting on various online order to arrive....)

The aforementioned tiny handful of shopping--I still have four hours of my "birthday holiday" owing to me. I'm going to take an afternoon off next week to get that stuff done.

You know what drives me bonkers? What drives me bonkers is automatic "update" programs for Windows that won't let you set the time of day you want updates searched for. Every freaking day I come in and after I boot up in the morning, the stupid computer pulls down updates and wants me to reboot immediately. I've checked the program a dozen times and there's no way to tell it to check for updates at 4:30 in the afternoon or something, when I'm going to be closing the computer down anyhow.

Also, it drives me bonkers that you can't "install updates and restart." No, your only option is to "install and shut down" so you can't even let it update and go work on something else for a while without having to come back and reboot your computer for the second time. Very, very annoying.

But I'm not cranky today.

I finished one Holiday Project last night (aside from the wrapping and boxes mentioned earlier) and one of my long-awaited packages arrived five minutes ago. After running to the post office to do shipping at lunch, I'll be in good shape!