Houseworking Vacation

I think I've noted here before that I have an absurd amount of paid time off (PTO) from my company: in addition to the eight market holidays, I get a pool of 22 days paid time off per year. On top of that, I carried over 10 unused days from 2005, a complex story in itself. Company policy is that you can only carry over 5 days. However, our PTO allotment at our previous firm was much less generous, and none of the development staff properly budgeted their time in 2005. Thus, come the end of November, almost everyone had 10-20 days unused. Rather than have all development completely stop for the month, our department head wrangled us disposition to carry over 10.

Anyway, the net result is that I have 32 PTO days this year, of which I have to use 27 or lose them. When the year started, I jokingly suggested that I just take a full week off whenever we had a three-day weekend, but I'm mostly going to be taking them one or two at a time. I decided back in January that I was going to take two days around Washington's Birthday, giving me five days off in a row to do some serious habitat renewal, all of it in my study.

( The challenge of the Crap )

( What I've accomplished this weekend )

A lot of work remains. I haven't even touched the comics collection, which I also want to cull severely (my goal is a more modest 30%, but that might be insufficient to the space goals). But before I can cull, I need to organize the last few years' accumulation so that I'm not just jamming unsorted comics into the mountain never to be seen again. nellorat wants to dig a few titles out for a paper she's doing for the ICFA; I don't know how I'm going to be able to accommodate her, but things have a way of working out.

Maybe I'll go alphabetize a few boxes before I go off for my morning chores.

Update: Chanting protesters on BBC remind me of my current slogan:

What do we want?
Incremental progress towards measurable goals!
When do we want it?
In due course!

Onward.