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Not only has it been a long time since I posted last, but I'm technically doing this from "work". As I type this (one-handed), I'm in a conference call to kick off the implementation of the project I've been working on since September. This is the story of my life it seems.

I've booked a vacation day for Friday and made it clear that I'm not available this weekend. The first real weekend since my birthday. And right up until Monday of this week, I didn't know if they were going to freak out and say I couldn't have it.

To date, I've been lucky with this job. The kind of dicking around I'm seeing lately was relatively rare and doing my job in a conscientious way was enough. Now I don't know anymore what's enough. It's clear that the people involved at the higher levels here would gladly suck us all dry, discard us, and start over. This was an attitude I left Toronto to avoid. I'm wondering lately when it will happen (not if) that I speak my mind in a meeting in response to some piece of boardroom insanity and find myself on my ass and out the door.

Sorry. Feeling fatalistic.

On the other hand, my manager in Calgary apparently took some staff to see Spider-Man last week. Booked the time off as a "Web Development Meeting". Sounds apocryphal, but not unlike him. He's been good to work for and at least the stupidity hasn't reached down to his level, yet.

Well that's my work posting for the month. :-)

Maybe later tonight I'll do a personal-life related posting.