Just heard from  MatthiasRat that he had just booked our room for Furnal Equinox next year. We'd just missed ou on the lakeview suited, but managed to grab one of the last 3 doubles left. Apparently the hotel sold out in less than an hour this year. Hopefully we'll also be joined by  Salvestro,  wolfFriend and hopefully  Cobalt_k if he wants to join us again this year.

In other good news, I splurged on one of the more expensive scratch lottery tickets($40) at work and won myself $100. After that I just took the money and run. Just in time for my trip.