Wild Card/Monday — 8/10/09

Commenter Howard Martinson mentioned over the weekend that he’d like to have a job like mine with beaucoup weeks of vacation. Actually, I get 5 weeks of vacation per year b/c I’ve worked at the SR for more than 20 years (25 as of Sept. 9, to be exact). I’ve taken three so far. But I still have three to burn b/c I’m facing at least one unpaid furlough week. Which I’ll probably take at the end of the month to enjoy one more week of good weather before we turn to fall. Cindy deserves monster kudos for the terrific job she did filling in here the last two weeks. I missed you guys. Now, we need to get things rolling again with the daily Wild Card …