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8 hour days suck

Just a note in case you wonder where I went, I'm probably not going to be blogging much this week, or next for that matter, because I'm working extra days while Pat is on vacation. I'm working 8 hour days Monday through Saturday this week, then I'll have Sunday off and go back to 12 hour days next Monday through Wednesday. As I've always said, I'm just as beat after an 8 hour day as I am after a 12 hour day. I get NOTHING done in those 4 hours off at the end of the day, I may as well have stayed at work. Then I don't get the days off, and nothing gets done, 8 hour days suck big time, I need the extra days off! Even though I work the same number of hours for the week I feel like I've been drained of energy by working more (even though they are shorter) days. Plus it costs me money to work more days, I pay $10.50 each day for a round trip to San Francisco on BART, so working 4 extra days costs me $42.00, sort of, I get 8 hours of OT for Saturday so I get it back but it still FEELS like I had to pay extra to work this week. Anyway, for the next week I'm liable to ignore blogging.

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