Jamaica Trip Over *sigh*

We've gotten back from our last-minute Jamaica Trip. Had a bunch of last year's vacation time that expired on June 30th so took the last week off, Marina found out we could actually use some of the ungodly number of frequent flier miles and get free airfare.

Stayed at the Half Moon resort (halfmoon.com), and we had a great time. The fact that it was off season was, IMHO, a good thing in that the place was fairly empty. No worries about dining reservations, space at the pool, etc. Granted, it was June so hurricane season isn't as much of a worry as it would be in August.

Other than finding out the hard way that the American flight we were on has a historical record of being on time only 27% of the time that is... Turns out our 4pm flight ended up departing at close to 2am the next morning. But what's 10 hours between friends right ;-) Thankfully the hotel let us stay the extra hours in the room, otherwise we would have been stuck

Pics can be found here

Course going back to work on Monday is going to be painful. Our "real" vacation this summer is actually in a few weeks to Yellowstone, so the kids are excited we are traveling around

Power Outage

Lost power yesterday afternoon at home, still down as of now, some 18 hours later. Forget how much is tied to electricity these days, and how much we count on that to keep the kids busy.

First time in 2+ years that I actually spun up the generator for more than it's monthly power up. Found out that my reworking of the panels a few years back worked like a charm, but I missed too many lighting circuits. Guess it's good that it worked.

Would not have guessed this would have been in early summer and not the middle of winter, which is why I really have the generator in the first place.