The benefits of working for the government

I get 2 weeks off from work for the Eid holidays. I guess that makes up for the extremely long process I had to endure to get a net connection and a PC.
Despite that, not much else to report really. Hoping to be able to run the marathon in Dubai in January, need to register for it and get my training back on track. Should run for 80 minutes or so today but I need to go out and buy a new small mp3 player.