  Yes today was nice out. It got up to 81 degrees F. I went to the park in Canton again & walked. According to the GPSr I walked 2 miles. Then I got my backpack & found a place on the grass, & laid down & read for awhile. I'd gone to the library in Westland & borrowed the first 3 I, Robot books by Isaac Asimov . The movie is currently scheduled for release in theaters July 16.
I know I never got far in the books, so I figured I'd try to get as far as I could. The movie is supposed to be based on all 9 books. I know I'm not going to get that far. Before I went to the library, I went to the school to pay for the class I signed up for that starts next week. On my way I remembered I had a receipt from the last time I went to the bank. It said I had less money than I thought.
I did some figuring & realized I never deducted from my Money program a check I wrote a week or so ago. I don't know why, but I thought I had. Which meant I don't have as much money as I thought. I went ahead & paid for the class anyway, but it's going to be a tighter squeeze than I thought. Hmmph. On top of all that, I couldn't sleep last night.
I'd had some baked beans yesterday, earlier in the afternoon, & they were still with me. At 3:00 this morning, I finally got up & took my last Pepcid AC. The burning finally lessened. It had occured to me that happened the last few times I had baked beans. I'm never eating them again if I can help it. The pain was unbearable.
I sat up & watched a previously recorded C-Span session that took place earlier yesterday in either the Senate or the House of Representatives on a discussion of the "new, improved rules of who no longer gets overtime pay beyond 40 hours/week. " Police, firefighters, & all first response emergency personnel will get paid. Everyone else who is non-union making between $26,xxx (I forget the exact amount) to 100,000 is screwed. They are "trying to strengthen the 40 hour work week. " Except some businesses depend on being open for many more hours than that each week. And can't afford to hire people to cover the extra time.
Like where I work. They even gave some examples. A daycare worker who has to take care of even 1 child beyond the 40th hour is not entitled to overtime pay--unless he/she spends the time teaching the child something. If he/she is only caring for the child for the parent/guardian--no overtime pay. If you're a Manager & spend at least 20% of each week doing managerial stuff, your salary better compensate for the overtime your excluded from getting. If your job is a specialty one, such as fixing things, computer installer, electrition, etc.
ditto. They even demonstrated by pure accident. Each member had 5 minutes to ask/discuss whatever they wanted concerning the "new rules v. old rules," or clarify something. At the start of one's session, his microphone wouldn't work. He moved to another, meanwhile another fixed the microphone. Afterwards, the one who fixed it said "the good news is I fixed the microphone, the bad news is I won't be getting paid any overtime because it was a specialty job.
" Ok, maybe to an extent they are trying to get people to do they're jobs within a reasonable amount of time. Here's more. They also said Funeral directors & specialty chefs who have 4 years of post high school education are excluded from overtime pay. Someone said it sounded like they are trying to penalize people for wanting a higher education. The secretary of Economics said all this stuff has been in the rule book all along, just not as specific. That's about all I remember at this point.
I sorta quit listening, b/c it wasn't helping me get to sleep. The new rules are slated to begin in August. 
