Alright, under a month to go for the ST Octane Academny/Unthrocon in SLC on Halloween weekend. So far I'm going it alone it seems. I have room and car space available for that one and enough vacation saved up that I'd be really shocked if work finds a way to hose me out of that trip so I consider that one a lock at this point.

MFF update, the airfare is paid for and I've got a room now. Either the block expanded and they didn't say anything or I got lucky enough to catch a cancellation in the system and snatch it up. If someone's looking for roomspace in the Hyatt I'll be there Thursday morning and leaving Monday. The room is a king bed from what it says so you'll have to live with floor or being cuddly with meeeee *swoon*.

Work continues to be... interesting. I'm staying busy, and I'm well outside the line of fire from what corporate will be looking for, but we've had kind of a running tour of the big wigs coming through to explain things and try to make folks feel better (it's not helping so far). At this point we wont know if they hit their volunteer retirement package target or not until the day it's supposed to happen. There's legal reasons for it I'm told but it's kind of hard to plan when basically the folks trying to get it and even our own managers wont know who's leaving until the 3rd of Nov, and then on the 4th those people are supposed to be out the door. It's been putting a lot of stress on folks trying to align project work, but that's above my pay grade so it's okay.