How can you use 40-hours of vacation time to give yourself an uninterrupted twelve day vacation? Carefully. In this case, making use of holidays the Office Job will be observing at the end of the year: December 25th, 26th, and January 1st.
Plans? At the moment, I’ve got none. I can’t imagine that Washington, D.C. is overly populated at that time of year, so it’d probably be a great time to be a “tourist in my own city.”