IMPORTANT for those of you who might want us to come visit you in the next year...

[derien]

(...or would like to visit us.):  I'm required to bid on two weeks that I want for vacation, and I should probably have my bid choices ready by December First, so right now is your opportunity to speak if you'd like us to add you in to the long list of potential ways we might use our two weeks.  (I don't have to schedule both the weeks together.) 

(Eor has probably said this much more clearly.)