I got your e-mail Ruby.  That was a bad week.  They had set my last day of work at Mar. 12th (my b-day, no less), but I was feeling something else was going down.  You know how you just get that vibe?  They came in my office on the 8th of Feb. and walked me out the door.  No notice, nothing.  I went to the HR guy and let them know exactly how foul I though they were.  The men in the office got to stay until their set last day even though they had no work to do.  I had work to do and they let me go.  They also screwed me royally.  They changed my title in December and took the word manager out of it.  They told me it was no big deal, just a title change.  I found out when I was laid off that they did that so they would only have to pay me two weeks severance as opposed to three months.  It was stuff like that all the time.  ANYWAY...I'm happy now and so glad I'm not there.

I won't be able to make it to Chicago.  That's about four hours away from here, so it's close enough, but I just started my new job and we are on tight deadlines.  I'm taking off a few days in June to go to Kansas City, but that will be it for awhile.  They give you four weeks paid vacation right from the start, but our product launch is coming up and I have to help write the books to get it out the door.  I wish I could go.  I was just talking to my cousin about how I would like to go to Chicago. 

I wish the music thing would change.  I would love to listen to internet radio, but that's not allowed.  I bought a really good MP3 player and listen to that.  I have a huge collection of CDs, so it's not that big of a deal, but I still miss FFR.