DDX_2002's Journal: RL beckons

It looks like I'll actually get some time off for the holidays. I have to somehow do two or three days of work in the next twelve hours, but if I pull that off, I'm out of the office for two weeks.

I also hear through the grapevine I might actually get a hireback decision before the new year. Only a few more weeks of paranoid obsession!

Shopping wise, Starbucks has completely sold out of gingerbread syrup... for retail, anyhow. This has been like the quest for the holy grail, I tell you. I've been to almost every SB location on the west side of Vancouver (and that's saying something) and I'm in one store staring at a half dozen big bottles of the stuff , and they're saying they can't sell me one. Hey, if they need them to make coffees for people, fair enough, but you know why they can't sell the big bottles? They're food items and not labelled in french and english, so they can't be retailed. Welcome to Canada.

I found out who makes the stuff, but it looks like a private label deal, since they don't even seem to wholesale the stuff. I swear, I find a connection and I'm going to buy a bloody case of the stuff so I don't go through this next year. Maybe I can bribe a barista...