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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Sunday, May 09, 2004

 

It's been a strange and not entirely pleasant weekend. Jennifer left early Saturday morning to spend the weekend with her mother in Santa Barbara and I worked at the store both days. I know I used to do this five or six days a week, but two consecutive eight-hour retail days have really knocked me out.
When I got home last night, I found a rather rude letter from the unofficial gadfly of the complex which basically accused the board (of which I am a member) and management of improper actions regarding the upcoming election. I don't know how much of what this person says is true, but I do know that I'm starting to resent the amount of time and energy I'm spending on this with nothing but hard feelings and anger in return. It's now likely that I will not stand for re-election, but we'll see what Wednesday (the general meeting and election) will bring.
Somebody had missed the litter box and I stepped in it. In socks.
There was a brief power outage this morning, which of course reset all the clocks and other electronic gadgets. Luckily something about it actually woke me up--maybe the absence of the subaudible hum of the ceiling fan--or I might have overslept and been late to work.
Today at the store, I was given "numbers". This means that I can now approve returns & exchanges, sign cashiers on and off, take reports, do cash pick-ups, that sort of thing. I'm not a manager or lead, but according to the manager with whom I worked today, this has been in the works for a while and she'd decided to quit stalling. So now I'm sort of an unofficial head cashier. I don't know what the actual status is or if the store manager even knows about it--I'll have to get clarification on that.
The store now has DSL, in preparation for possibly installing a wireless hotspot. I brought the new notebook in and attempted to connect, but found that although I could get to the Cometa login page, the login function was not yet working.
When I got home (wiped out) and logged on, I found that Blogger has gone through a dramatic metamorphosis in both style and function. The posting and site management interface looks much more polished and professional, there are now over thirty available templates (though I don't think I'll be changing any time soon) and there are a bunch of new features.
I watched South Park (an episode I hadn't seen, "Good Times with Weapons") and the Simpsons and now am going to get something to eat.
Jennifer returns tomorrow morning. I'll be picking her up at the airport and then going to "real" work. I'll be at the store tomorrow and Tuesday night as well. The extra days compensate for next weekend, which I'm taking completely off for a a few days away with Jen.
Currently reading: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (Gotham Books/Penguin, New York. 1-592-50087-6).
|| Andrew, 9:15 PM || ||

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