walked with mom for 45 min

Parents wanted to eat out after walking so went to Village Inn for dinner. Spent $8.50

Total spent so far this month = $102.10

I'm going on vacation next week. I'm staying here to vacation not traveling anywhere. I like to vacation in Colorado especially at this time of year. Always lots of great scenery. Anyways I consider that my vacation starts Friday night after work and ends Monday morning of the day I return to work. My team lead had the nerve to ask me if I would be available to work Saturday morning at 3:00 AM. We are applying our software to the field so we do it in the middle of the night to cause the least disruption.

He says he knows I'm going on vacation but he wondered if I'm traveling. I said I consider my vacation to be officailly started Friday evening and that I have plans for Saturday that will be ruined if I have to stay up all night.
I originally picked my vacation date so I would be available to work the software patch, but it was moved three times and ended up this weekend. He approved my vacation time more than a month ago.

I felt pressured to do this, but I decided that stinks. The company wants you to use all your vacation time by the end of the year or you lose it so then they want you to work during your vacation. They give you more work than you can complete for the deadline and then want you to take your vacation days. I don't know how many people work 40 hour weeks in 4 days and then take a vacation day on the fifth day. Anyways bottom line is I resisted and he's running my tests this weekend. Hope I don't regret it in the future, but I know I'm a good worker and I'm tired of all the little ways the company intrudes in my life. I work more than 40 hours most weeks and I don't get paid for it. I get compensation time occassionally but it's not a one-to-one ratio. It's wrong and the economy has picked up enough around here that I'm feeling rebellious

Finished reading the library book A Clean Kill by Leslie Glass. Mystery. Good Book

Also finished listening to The Wishsong of Shanarra by Terry Brooks. Sci Fi. Very good story.