Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, Jan. There is some digital paperwork in my field but mostly it's not quite that easy. Since I can remote into my work system it's as if I'm there except for my phone that is inter-connected to everyone within the company we deal with (from the US, to Spain to London) but even that I can work around. As for the infrastructure the one thing that is of concern is if they need some 'boots on the ground' for something with one of the various components. (I won't bore with all the various component names - just suffice it to say I provide various levels of support for the 60+ desktops on down to 5 servers - and everything in between) and a large portion of that is not accessible by my backup.

I have a feeling how soon I can return will depend on how soon I can drive myself there/back. I don't see part-time as an option if I'm car-pooling. My beloved works in the opposite direction of where I work and our home is about in the middle. Starting to think I just need to take 2 weeks off and be done with it...maybe by then I can drive myself for a part-time return.