Allow me to bore you

Last week I started to blog that I didn't feel like blogging the week before.  But I decided you didn't care.  I guess that's never stopped me before.  On 8/30/13, when I didn't blog, I had taken the day off for a funeral.  I've reached the age where funerals start me thinking.  That night I started to think about writing a blog and started thinking about the two funerals I blogged about earlier in the year.  Specifically, I began to wonder why it was just occurring to me that I might blog about this one.  I think I felt the need to talk about the earlier funerals because I had been unable to attend them.  I guess I'm still sort of thinking out loud.

I'm not on the clock right now, but I am at my desk.  It's Friday the 13th.  My last day of work will also be Friday the 13th (of February, 2015.) 74 weeks from right now I will be down on 3rd Street having a drink.  

I was a little puzzled by Blogger last week, but I think I figured it out.  When I checked my blog stats right after I posted a blog, I saw that it said I had 124 page views in April of 2011.  I posted my first blog in April of 2012.  Also, that was my only post that month, and it has only 64 page views.  Then I moused over the graph and saw see that September 2011 was immediately followed by October 2012.  That should answer my question.  I meant to show that little quirk to my boss, but he's gone for the weekend.  I'll check Monday to see if it's still like that.

According to the website I use (http://www.timeanddate.com) I have 355 work days left.  That comes to 2840 work hours.  My available sick leave balance is 2,561.93000 hrs.  (I also have 526.93000 hrs of annual leave, for a total availble leave of 3088.86 hrs, but I'll ignore that for now.)  That means I'm short 278.07 hours of sick leave before it equals my remaining work time.  I earn leave at a rate of 7.3840 hours per pay period (2 weeks) so I will earn that in 18.8 weeks.  In other words, because I earn leave while on paid leave, if I got sick today, I would easily earn that in the 74 weeks before I retire.  Just sayin'.

And since my last day of work will be Friday the 13th, as is today, I have exactly 74 weeks (or 1 year, 5 months) left to work (even though it's 520 days until I actually retire.)  

So get off my lawn.