Thursday. 2 days to go, then 3 weeks holiday. Well. "Holiday". During those 3 weeks I have to do a bunch of stuff related to picking up my entire life and moving 200km East.

Not a lot happened yesterday. Cleaned out my desk at the office, bringing home my collection of O'Reilly books, stuffed animals, nerf weaponry, and other random geek-office-crap. Left my company-purchased gadgetry in its place. I still have to sync and reset my palm, but I'll do that by the end of the week.

Read the warning labels on the wood stain and wood preparation cans last night. Got scared. Put them in tins outside on the porch before I went to bed last night. If they are half as scary as the warning labels indicate, it's a wonder they're allowed to be sold all willy-nilly to an otherwise unsuspecting public. According to the labels, wood stain is basically guaranteed to kill you, your family, all your pets and houseplants, and then burn your house down.

I think I'll see if I can find a less scary, more environmentally sane alternative. Time to visit the hippies at the environmentalists shop. Maybe something made with beeswax and squid ink or something. Anything, so long as it doesn't have to be "disposed of immediately in a sealed, water-filled, metal container" and "handled only wearing rubber gloves and properly rated respiratory gear". All I want to do is make my unfinished pine furniture not unfinished anymore. Geez.

I think it snowed again, but I have yummy coffee, so it's okay.

Today: more boxes, I think. I wish it weren't so damned cold out.