My current job is inspecting the replacement of old ( 1897 to 1903) gas mains in part of Baltimore. Because of the new Grand Prix race in Baltimore over Labor Day weekend, the City has "requested" that we do not work on city streets from 3 PM today until 9am Sept 6. The crews will be kept busy moving their staging area, but they do not need an inspector to do that. My supervisor said that if I wanted the hours he'd "find" something for me to do.

I have 233+ hours of leave already earned. I can only carry over 120 into next year. I told him, if there was something important that actually helped the job, or if there was some training classes I needed to attend, I would certainly work as much as needed. However, if he was simply making work available, I could better use the time at my house.

Woo woo I got the week off--except for a few hours Monday morning.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags