As it happens, I worked a whole whack of overtime doing the Departmental Performance Report in September, thus racking up more than a week of "time in lieu of pay" as we so quaintly say in the Public Service of Canada. That extra holiday time will come in very handy for an insane dead-of-winter road trip to the Atlantic coast complete with mandolin, guitar and Edmund -- assuming Her Majesty doesn't have other plans for him.