And so it is Christmas...

Finished my business in Frankfurt and now have a few hours to kill before I fly back. It's started snowing which is a big worrying. Anyway, I have coffee, WiFi and power. Tomorrow is a customer workshop in Winchester, then Bath on Wednesday, Thursday afternoon I've a meeting with my line manager in Winchester.

Apparently he has good news for me. This is money related good news which I look forward to getting. It should be the final bit of cash to cover the flat purchase which, otherwise, would have ended up on a credit card. He admitted to me over the phone that I'm in a strong position to whinge loudly about my package at the moment. This I knew but it's nice to know that other people have recognised this.

Thursday night I will be at the Christmas Ton. Friday I have the day off, although a bunch of us are meeting up in the city for pre-Christmas drinking and merry making. Hopefully I will have shaken off my "Bah Humbug" feeling by then.

Anyway, it's a wind down week before things shift up a gear again in Jan.

Currently it looks like I'm going to be in Seattle in the first week of 06, then Japan and Korean in Wk2/3 - I must just sit back and think of the air miles.

On the Subject of Airmiles...

I've earned enough "Tier Points" to retain at least Silver Card status under the hugely unfair BA frequent flyer scheme. I've 9 months left to earn enough to keep Gold. At the rate I might be travelling, I'll probably have done this by April - the next kicker for me is to try and reach 2500 points - when you get there you get a free upgrade for yourself and a companion on the flight of your choice. We're still looking at the 07 worldcon, I've almost got enough miles to go Business Class.

Of course, I'm not in the league of some of the guys I know at MS who have a run rate around 750,000+ miles. That's several 1st class flights to pretty much anywhere on the planet.