Hump Day

I almost forgot how to get into my blog to post. I'm on a different computer during the week and didn't have the web address. I also use different browsers to access the internet. I typed in www.eblogger.com and got another service and couldn't figure out why my sign-in didn't work. Duh. The weekdays are pretty busy and I probably won't get to post much. It's football season and this weekend is the team's homecoming. There's always something to do and there's always reading. If you saw my office, I will never run out of reading materials. I just finished two books by Richard Brautigan - A Confederate General From Big Sur and In Watermelon Sugar. He's pretty out there. I wonder if he was doing drugs when he wrote them. I just started another book by Anne Tyler - The Clock Winder. I'm always amazed at some of the things that get published. This blogging will probably only be a weekend thing. I'm bummed the Chicago Cubs blew another game. I turned it on on the radio driving home from work and I think I jinxed them. They were winning 2 to 1 and gave up the tying run in the top of the ninth. Then I turned on the t.V. to watch the end and they blew it in the 12th. They're running out of time. I did want to ramble about work. I went to ask for some vacation days in November and December and they're all booked. I asked my supervisor to see the calendar. I did. So now what. I guess I'll have to call in and take personal days. The new unannounced policy since September is that only one person in our department can be off on any given work day. It used to be two. They fired one excellent employee and another one left because they got tired of all the b.s. They keep piling on the work and they have taken away all of our incentive. It is really tempting to join them and seek other employment. I enjoy the work but the bosses are morons. Anybody who works for morons knows how that goes. The hours are good 7:00 a.m to 3:30 with an hour for lunch and I'm only five minutes from home. That's what's making it hard to seek other employment.We do have a lottery pool at work with about half of the remaining employees and the next Mega Millions drawing is for Friday, October 1st, 2004 is $101,000,000. Split between 20 people that's $5,050,000 each. The odds are only 135,000,000 to one. I collect the money for the pool so I'm always figuring the amount each of us would get. We're dreaming. Time to go do some other dreaming - sleep. Until next time...