The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Loverboy said "Everybody's working for the weekend". I say "The bear works so he can takes his vacations".
Yesterday I got my crack at the vacation calendar for work. This is the latest it's ever been delivered to me, making it a challenge as to where and when I'll be going in 2014. This round I can schedule up to 3 weeks of time off, then I can schedule remaining days that I have after it circuits one more time.
The way I work scheduling time off is to coordinate as much time off that I can match with Tina as I can for our own trips. Anything that's left over goes to "me" events, like conventions. I have the whole weekend to match this time up.
Although it'll remain in flux till next Monday, right now this is how it's looking:
1/16/13 - 1/20/13 - Further Confusion (confirmed)
2/14/13 - 2/16/13 - Unknown mini-vacation with Tina as anniversary present. Probably a SoCal trip or Pismo Beach trip.
3/27/13 - 3/30/13 - Biggest Little Furcon -- I cannot schedule time during the week off for this, but I will play a sick day for 3/28. Depending on the weather, I'll arrive in Reno either Thursday night or Friday morning. I'll leave for work either Sunday evening or Monday morning.
5/30/13 - 6/1/13 - Califur (almost confirmed - easy to get to)
5/22/13 - 5/27/13 - Confuzzled -- We have to reach a decision on this. Both of us want to do another trip back to the UK and I want a redo of CFz, but we'd have to fit it in a tight vacation window to accommodate my calendar and finals schedule. We also can't afford two European vacations in the same year, so either this or EF will be the casualty. I also won't travel overseas without Tina.
7/4/13 - 7/6/13 - Anthrocon -- I don't have to take any time whatsoever for this since the holiday butts up against the weekend. I'll redeye out Thursday night and be at the con Friday morning, leaving sometime Sunday night. Short, but better than no AC at all!
8/20/13 - 8/24/13 (+beyond) - Eurofurence -- The more likely to happen European con. August is wide open on my calendar and I don't have to worry about school interference. This will likely be combo'd into a trip possibly to Poland or to Czech Republic. If I go this will be my first Eurofurence.
9/26/13 - 9/28/13 - Rainfurrest - Likely to happen. Close enough that it shouldn't be a problem.
10/11/13 - 10/26/13 - Possible major trip if the two convention plans don't pan out. We have enough points for a Hawaii trip including lodging. This could also be a different European trip that falls outside the two cons that I mentioned.
That's the tentative schedule for now. There's the potential for another con or two which could include Megaplex, RMFC or the new Furfright. This is all dependent on if these fall outside Tina's schedule or not and if I have the time available. I've sort of eaten into my stockpile of extra vacation time over the last few years, so I can't plan too much more until I accrue more.
Now let's see how much of this changes by Monday! :)
Yesterday I got my crack at the vacation calendar for work. This is the latest it's ever been delivered to me, making it a challenge as to where and when I'll be going in 2014. This round I can schedule up to 3 weeks of time off, then I can schedule remaining days that I have after it circuits one more time.
The way I work scheduling time off is to coordinate as much time off that I can match with Tina as I can for our own trips. Anything that's left over goes to "me" events, like conventions. I have the whole weekend to match this time up.
Although it'll remain in flux till next Monday, right now this is how it's looking:
1/16/13 - 1/20/13 - Further Confusion (confirmed)
2/14/13 - 2/16/13 - Unknown mini-vacation with Tina as anniversary present. Probably a SoCal trip or Pismo Beach trip.
3/27/13 - 3/30/13 - Biggest Little Furcon -- I cannot schedule time during the week off for this, but I will play a sick day for 3/28. Depending on the weather, I'll arrive in Reno either Thursday night or Friday morning. I'll leave for work either Sunday evening or Monday morning.
5/30/13 - 6/1/13 - Califur (almost confirmed - easy to get to)
5/22/13 - 5/27/13 - Confuzzled -- We have to reach a decision on this. Both of us want to do another trip back to the UK and I want a redo of CFz, but we'd have to fit it in a tight vacation window to accommodate my calendar and finals schedule. We also can't afford two European vacations in the same year, so either this or EF will be the casualty. I also won't travel overseas without Tina.
7/4/13 - 7/6/13 - Anthrocon -- I don't have to take any time whatsoever for this since the holiday butts up against the weekend. I'll redeye out Thursday night and be at the con Friday morning, leaving sometime Sunday night. Short, but better than no AC at all!
8/20/13 - 8/24/13 (+beyond) - Eurofurence -- The more likely to happen European con. August is wide open on my calendar and I don't have to worry about school interference. This will likely be combo'd into a trip possibly to Poland or to Czech Republic. If I go this will be my first Eurofurence.
9/26/13 - 9/28/13 - Rainfurrest - Likely to happen. Close enough that it shouldn't be a problem.
10/11/13 - 10/26/13 - Possible major trip if the two convention plans don't pan out. We have enough points for a Hawaii trip including lodging. This could also be a different European trip that falls outside the two cons that I mentioned.
That's the tentative schedule for now. There's the potential for another con or two which could include Megaplex, RMFC or the new Furfright. This is all dependent on if these fall outside Tina's schedule or not and if I have the time available. I've sort of eaten into my stockpile of extra vacation time over the last few years, so I can't plan too much more until I accrue more.
Now let's see how much of this changes by Monday! :)