We are open 24 hrs, so no early leaving ever. As a salaried person, I can leave a bit early if I choose. and I think I WILL choose today.

This will be the last "closing early". From now on it will be, if all your work is done, you can leave early. AS IF!

We *never* close early, unless there's life-threatening snow falling.

What about for an imminent Second Coming.

I'm guessing the fact that we aren't closing early is proof that Jesus isn't coming back today.

Meh again.

Typo takes tourist 13,000 km out

Hasn't something like this been in the news before?

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- A 21-year-old German tourist who wanted to visit his girlfriend in the Australian metropolis Sydney landed 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles) away near Sidney, Montana, after mistyping his destination on a flight booking Web site.

Dressed for the Australian summer in T-shirt and shorts, Tobi Gutt left Germany on Saturday for a four-week holiday.

Instead of arriving "down under", Gutt found himself on a different continent and bound for the chilly state of Montana.

"I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt told the Bild newspaper. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the United States."

Gutt's airline ticket routed him via the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, to Billings, Montana. Only as he was about to board a commuter flight to Sidney -- an oil town of about 5,000 people -- did he realize his mistake.

The hapless tourist, who had only a thin jacket to keep out the winter cold, spent three days in Billings airport before he was able to buy a new ticket to Australia with 600 euros in cash that his parents and friends sent over from Germany.

WOO HOO! We are closing at 2:30! So awesome! I am no longer cranky!!!

I stayed home sick today and Tom made me curried parsnip-potato-leek soup, which was Teh Yum.

Man, I'm so glad to be home and able to cook in my kitchen again. Or, rather, have Tom cook for me in my kitchen.

I told some people away from the office on their vacation that I would have a draft for them ready by this morning. I've barely started on it. They won't read it until Tuesday anyway.

For lunch it was a quesadilla and the cafeteria chef's special "rice with granules" (...I don't know either) because I "look like the kind of woman who enjoys life." Apparently. And then the cafeteria cashier tried to convince me to become a teetotaler, I think. I think the cafeteria employees need to confer and agree about what kind of person they want me to be next year.

We get to leave early too, but then I have to go to the eye doctor to figure out what's wrong with my eye.

FUN!

You can enjoy life as a teetotaler!!

Isn't gandules peas?