100 Business Days Out: Day 57- OOO

Tonight marks the beginning of two months of my "out of office" (OOO) time. Readying for being gone and moving your life to the other coast for two months is quite a task. Patti and I have been so looking forward to this time of respite that we have run ourselves ragged getting every detail worked out so the two months will be perfect. The new house is complete (minus some punch list items), the furniture has been chosen, bought and in the process of being delivered, our house sitter is all set and will take away all the stresses back home, enough things and stuff were shipped by FedEx that they should be able to redeem that last bad quarter, and Louie is ready for his first cross-country redeye airplane. We have poured everything into making sure that we can just transfer our life across the country and make it a very relaxing and sabbatical like time. When I put the OOO message on my email today, it felt good. Although it was ironic to call it out of office when what I wanted to say was out of the mainstream, out of the rat race, out of the grind, out of life....for just a bit. But Outlook doesn't give you that privilege so OOO it is...until mid-September. Look to hear from me from the other coast...soon.