zzzUpdate

Okay, I haven't even looked at my flist, but I suspect I'd be on skip=106428539 if I did, and not have time to read it all before I go back off the radar tomorrow.  I've checked my e-mail and done a relatively quick glance at the past week's worth of posts in yuletide, and can make the following report:

• the Assistant Chief Umpire gig at the Junior Playdowns was better in every way this year than last year.  I knew what I was doing, I knew the people I was dealing with, I was crashing with the Head Official (= no hotel bill), and there were only three draws a day instead of four.  FTW.
  
• I have got some more v. nice comments on my fic.
  
• A lovely person has gone and kept my streak alive.  [confidential smooches, and also, *snortgiggle*.]
  
• My original plan was to leave Utica early tomorrow morning to make it to the airport  by 4:30 to check in for a flight at 5:45.  Instead, I left Utica this afternoon at 4:45, and made it to Harrisburg by 10:45 pm -- when, had there been no weather and no traffic, I should have been more or less coming around the beltway and heading toward the Dulles toll road.  In short:  it's a smart idea not to stay in central New York any longer than necessary, because central Pennsylvania? will kick your ass.