Working Girl

We have been crunching at work to try to make a deadline on the 15th of this month. I've regularly been working 10 hour days plus and had to even come in for a spell over the holiday weekend! ARGH! Glad I get time & a half! Not long ago nobody got OT in my business and it was absolutely expected that the junior engineers work long hours until they proved themselves (or collapsed). I'm glad things have changed in the last few years and this is only temporary.

Mary came to visit this weekend and we canned tomatoes! Some vacation for her, huh? :-) Nah, it was a bit of work, but nice to hang out with her. We also took the excuse to go out to dinner a lot (do you hear the budget stretching) and make an excursion to the Lincoln Park Zoo. Lincoln Park Zoo is a great place to see the animals in and out of the cages. Since it's the free zoo in Chicago it gets an interesting slice of humanity in Chicago.

Gotta go - I hear little feet awake.