Five days.

Am I excited? Yeah. But it's been cut into a great deal by events of the last couple of days. I should be fairly bursting, but... I just don't have the energy. No, instead I've got a stress headache and what feels like wicked sinus pressure around my left eye. Yeah, exactly how I expected to feel five days before the trip.

It's supposed to snow on Christmas, two days before I leave, but don't the "meteorologists" say this every year about a week before Christmas? Barring dumb luck, when are they ever right about anything they say a week beforehand? Let's hope that record holds. The sky is blue and the sun is shining today.

Merry Christmas Eve Eve Eve aka the First Day of Winter. Never mind all that snow a couple weeks back.