Wow.  What a craptastic day.

Once again I found myself working a nine-hour day, with no time for lunch.  And, as usual, I’ll only get paid for eight hours.  The extra hour, along with all the other extra hours, supposedly goes into “comp time.”

The problem is that “comp time” never happens.

My parents originally planned on coming up to visit us after Labor Day.  They were going to arrive sometime on Monday the 3rd and head back home around the 8th.  This plan was made several months ago, and I immediately put in for some vacation time.

I have been marked on the schedule as having all of next week off for quite some time now.  I don’t know exactly when it was put on the schedule, but it’s been there for several weeks.  I’ve also mentioned my time off to my boss and several co-workers on more than one occasion.  It really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.

However…  Today I was speaking with a co-worker within earshot of my boss, and mentioned that I had next week off.  My boss acted very surprised.  He didn’t know if I’d actually be able to have that time off since things are so busy, and we’re backed up at work, and the new guy can only work half days…

So now, in addition to putting in nine-hour days and only getting paid for eight, I cannot use the vacation time that I am supposedly entitled to.

MythBusters had a SuperHero Myths special last night…  And while it was very entertaining to watch them scaling buildings and punching skulls, I really have to wonder what exactly the myth was.

Is it a myth that the Phantom can punch someone hard enough to leave a ring mark in their skin?  Sure, it doesn’t work in the real world…but the Phantom is fiction.  It isn’t supposed to be real.

Is it a myth that Batman has a grappling hook type thing that can stick into any material at all?  Again, it doesn’t work in the real world…but Batman is fiction.

It really seems that MythBusters is straying from it’s roots busting myths.

Just stumbled (literally) across this site, and I am curious to say the least.

Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem

The trailer looks pretty decent…  Hopefully it’ll be better than the last Aliens vs. Predator movie they did.

My parents were originally planning on coming up for a visit after Labor Day, but all our plans have been derailed a bit.  So, instead of coming up after Labor Day, they are going to hang around for a few more days right now.

That means that while my mother is still up in Maine, my father is going to spend the next few days painting our house.  We picked a slightly unusual color…  Somewhere between a sage green and a light grey.  It looks great on another house we saw, but I’m not sure how it’ll look on our house.  I’m thinking it’ll look good…but we’ll see.

Unfortunately, I had already put in for vacation time for the week after Labor Day.  And right now I’m scheduled fairly tightly at work.  So it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to get much time off to spend with my parents this week.

We spent today driving back home.  Again, eight or so hours in the car.  That’s really entirely too long for me to be cooped up in a car…

I’m exhausted after the last four days.  It’s all been a blur.  Far more activity and people that I’m used to.

I am not in any way ready to go back in to work tomorrow.  I feel like I could sleep for a day or two.