The Bid, December 2012.

Here we are. The moment of truth. As I am writing this it is just 12 hours away from November 17th, 9:00am MDT.  I am anxiously anticipating the 18th to see if my bid has done as well as I hope. I am curious for a number of reasons. The focal point of my bid is to see if I can use my bidding knowledge to somehow hold Christmas Day off. Subsequently, I am just as curious to see how my layers end up working. This is the most complex bid I have ever done. I have put a lot of thought and effort into it (could you tell?). Usually, I preach "KISS" (Keep it simple, stupid) but in this case I am a wee bit desperate and my bid is anything but simple. Come the 18th, we will know if my mad-scientist bidding has paid off or shot me in the foot. Here is crossing my fingers that it works out well!

Clear Award/Partial Line. That is the ace up my sleeve for December (like I had one to begin with). If I have to work the Christmas Day, I want some good trips throughout the rest of the month, but I want to exhaust every option first and not have those options intermingle to make a hot mess. Because I have used the Clear Award/Partial Line property rather extensively for December, I have disabled the default of two days off between work blocks... in all layers. That is something I didn't want to do initially. As I mentioned in the last post the default property can be used as a trick to get a couple day off, strategically. Oh buddy, this could be awesome or terrible. Hopefully, I have covered all my bases.

And exhausted I am. This week has been a killer for me. I was sick at the beginning of the week and before I could come back to work my wife ate some bad food. Food poisoning ain't fun, y'all. When it rains, it pours. Even now I want to pour over my bid, check mark by check mark but, I am at the end of the line. I am worn-out to the point where I wonder if I would only harm what progress I have made in my bid. Either way, I suppose I need to give it a rest. Rest. Wherefore art thou, rest?

I suppose it is likely that I would wake up tomorrow at 3:00am and be as productive as I was yesterday... or today, whatever you want to call that void. I may just wake up with a clearness of mind and reason and make some changes to my bid. As it is now, this is what I have:

Good luck to you, and merry Christmas!