Drea, thank God that you are all recovered...despite the $100! Oh well...FatCat will have to pay for his own one-day servings of DOTD now!
Maureen, I shipped my packages UPS ground on Monday and was so excited to see all my packages made it to their destination (Pop Century and the warehouse for the ship) yesterday! Again, it's just more validation that it's real! I leave for the airport in 25 hours, and it still doesn't feel real!
Okay,
Nette and Katie...we'll be pulling to get your men safe in your arms!! So many reminders this week that life is good in the darkness of Dublin, Ohio!
Speaking of....Your Final Power Update:
Outages Stats as of SOD Thursday, 9.18.2008:
Statewide: 930K
Franklin County: 400K
Outages Stats as of SOD Friday, 9.19.2008:
Statewide: 500K
Franklin County: 219K
Me?: In the minority
Thanks again everyone for trying to calm me down!

I'm really not very stressed about the vacation part. I was well organized and had things nearly all together last weekend. There are still a few small things to gather up, but no worries there.
My stress has been more work-related and the impact of having a now 6 day power outage on getting stuff taken care of at home and work with limited resources. You know...you need to leave if at all possible at 5:00 (which hasn't happened once this week) because the sun goes down by 8:00, traffic has been HORRIBLE this week going home (literally double and even once 3 times as long of a commute than normal, so now it's 7:00 by the time I reach home), and once it's too dark to be extremely productive at home, you can't log into work to get comfortable with that! UGH! Again....this week has simply been an inconvenience....it could be SOOOOO much worse. I just HATE leaving work crap behind for others to pick up after me! I will feel sooooo much better when I finally just let this all go later this afternoon!