Well, lost a friend from here because she decided that it was okay for my previous boss to attempt to jerk me around and call me a fat ass, but it was not all right for me to call him an asshole here.  he was an asshole and it was just plain trivial for a company doing millions of dollars a year to try and screw me outta 800 bucks.  The big boss at the company agreed with me that I had a written acgreement that granted me that vacation and they paid it to me.  That did not matter to her, she just decided that I was not being very nice and it upset her,   I was nothing but nice to her, and had even planned to continue my pledge to go see her with my girlfriend on the weekends to help around the house.      On a different note, I got me a new keyboard and it is QUIET.  Got it cause I type pretty hard and it keeps my girlfriend up :)  It is kinda weird and the home key is where my old backspace key was so I am having fun typing this.  I make frequent mistakes that require a backspace.   Whenever I hit the home key instead, it sends the cursor to the beginning of the line instead of backspacing ") I start a new job Monday making good money, much more than the old company paid me.  I always wanted to do IT work anyway, and they just sped things up for me by laying me off. aThe world is smiling, things are good, and I fin