We don't do personal days. We can carry over/acculmulate 10 vacation days every year, but five have to be used in the next fiscal. We get 18 sick days, but once you're sick for 5 days in a row, it becomes short term disability, and doesn't count as being out of those 18 days. There is also long-term disability, which can last for up to 2 years. But we don't get to cash out on any days.

while others are grousing about the fact that he's just another elitist schlub who would turn his nose up at the majority of commercial fiction that also allows publishing houses to take chances on five hundred page novels comprised of a single sentence and translated from the French. (True deal, btw.) because he mentioned Twain and Dostoevsky and Didion as his examples.

The idea of Mark Twain representing elitism makes me laugh and laugh.

Tribune Co. Files for Bankruptcy

This makes me so sad, yet I am considering canceling my weekend newspaper subscription because I end up reading most of my news online.

yet I am considering canceling my weekend newspaper subscription because I end up reading most of my news online.

Me too, except my reasoning is that the new format of the Sun sucks and the actual content dropped drastically. It's crap now.

About the only reason to get a paper is the ads that get stuck inside.

I like having the actual paper on weekends to curl up with on the couch. During the week, the online edition works just fine.

Me too, except my reasoning is that the new format of the Sun sucks and the actual content dropped drastically. It's crap now.

Seriously. I am not sad at all about the Tribune company. I feel bad for the people who work there but they treated their papers like shit and now they are shitty papers.

...although I do enjoy the traffic column that's in there now.

The idea of Mark Twain representing elitism makes me laugh and laugh.

Well, exactly. But the fact of that matter is that most people now don't realize that Twain was considered a hack in his day. The most commercial and pedestrian of writers. It's a matter of context I suppose, which is why I don't tend to jump on the "oh, that columnist's being an elitist shithead" bandwagon.

It looks like the Chicago company whose workers are on a sitdown strike due to no notice of the company shutting down are getting a boost not only from Obama, who's supporting them, but also the state of Illinois, who has shut down any business with Bank of America until they give the company a line of credit to pay severance to the workers.

Damn. The times they are a changin'.

Jesse, sadly, your reminder to work came after I had already fallen asleep.

I don't actually feel great. I hope I'm not getting sick. The timing would be very bad.