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I had planned to only take a few days off this month when my boss swag­gered into my office boast­ing about his 100 accrued hours of vaca­tion time. “I’m def­i­nitely gonna take some time off soon,” he said.

“Well I have 71 hours and I am only tak­ing three days off.” I replied.

“Wow, 71 already? You should take the whole week off.”

So I am.

I just bought a bus ticket for a short trip to NYC to visit some friends from col­lege. I don’t know if I will get to see every­one I’d like to see, hon­estly, I’m not sure that mat­ters. I, of course, want to see every one of my pals that I don’t  get to see often but I really just want to get away from this area for awhile. NYC is about as far from Nor­folk, VA as you can get, as far as scenery and over­all vibe, with­out going to the west coast. I just need a damn break.

Unfor­tu­nately, Kim won’t be com­ing a long, but this gives her a break from my non­sense too. When I come back we’re hav­ing a “stay­ca­tion” in Ghent. She says I have to bring her back some Ital­ian cook­ies like the ones we got in Brook­lyn last time we were up there. I won’t be stay­ing in Brook­lyn this time, but I am sure I’ll find something.

I am trav­el­ling with a small char­ter bus com­pany (i.e. not a Grey­hound) and the price is a ridicu­lous bar­gain. If it works out well I might do this more often.

Brett: since I just remem­bered that I for­got to call you, this is my for­mal announce­ment that I am com­ing to the City and if you can make it out, I’d love to meet up.