Monthly Archives: April 2006

What A Day!

Well………….my day had an interesting beginning. Started with a rough day at work yesterday to crashing last night around 01:30 since I didn’t have to work today to waking up from a dead-sound sleep to my phone going off at 07:00. It was one of my managers, Kristy, she had a female medical emergency and she was freaking out. She was suppose to open this morning and had called me to see if I could.

She didn’t have the new guy (Jim’s) number (and personally I didn’t want him called since it was his 1st week and I didn’t want to freak him out), she didn’t call Sandee since she was coming in later that afternoon and would’ve made for an extremely long day.

The whole time she was freaking out I couldn’t understand why my phone was so god awful loud that it was hurting my ears. When I finally got out of the bedroom and moved to the office, so to give Harold some peace, I discovered that some how I had turned on my speaker! Holy cow! I was so confused and lost…….I just keep looking at the phone trying to figure it out. I thought I hit the right button so I could talk regularly and ended up hanging up on her…….doh! She called back, by that time I had gathered some of my wits together to let her know that I was going in.

Luckily, I had showered last night except for washing my hair (I hate going to bed with wet hair & do that in with my morning shower), so all I had to do was wash my face, brush my teeth, put my hair up (since it wasn’t going to do anything) & try to dress myself. How I got myself together enough to get out the door I have no idea.

I got to work, while eating two granola bars, surprising Jackie & Brooke that I was there. All things considering, with my brain not wanting to work correctly, I was able to get some stuff done. I was very proud of myself since I felt like a loopy dork all day.

I called the Sandee in the afternoon, because if I was here today I wanted tomorrow off. Which I knew would be no problem, I just wanted to make sure it was okay with her that the new guy opened tomorrow since we had certain projects we had to get done. She was cool about it. When she got there, I left shortly afterwards, even though the actual full shift had 3 more hours to go. I would’ve stayed with I was with it more. But I was so out of it.

While picking up the mail the UPS guy passed me…………I knew what that meant. =) That I was getting my VAIO and I was already feeling good since the mail had a couple of things that Harold had ordered.

We munched down some food and started to dig out our new toys. =) It is weird that VAIO doesn’t come with a back up CD. It has it own thing back up system, in fact it barely came with anything. It does provide a way to make back up cds. The only problem is unlike other back ups with individual cds, for individual programs…………you get stuck with all that crap that they put on at the factory. =( I hate all that excess shit that I don’t need and clutters up my files. But I went and made the back ups, cuz I don’t trust anything.

We decided to jump into the pool to relieve our frustrations with the doing a new set up. It was great! It was a little strong with the chemicals, but we were still able to enjoy it. I’m so looking forward to being able to spend more time in it tomorrow.

We then went and got the firewire stuff and we have been working with the setups ever since. I’m probably going to set up both my notebooks on the patio so I can get the exact settings I want and clean up the other one for day and jump in the pool whenever I’m sticky…………grin……..boy, does that sound like a plan to me.

I’m so looking forward to my day off!

HOT DIGGITY DAMN!!!

Very, very cool way to start the day!

Drum roll please……………..My POOL is BLUE!!! It is a little cloudy, but it is no longer green! That is so cool. I’m actually going to be able to use is tomorrow as long as it isn’t thundering……grin

All I need to make it better, is a good night at work. =) But it is still great start for my day.

There is Hope!

We are starting to see the bottom of the pool! It is still green, but no way as dark and pond like. Maybe I will be able to use Thrusday on my day off………grin……keep your fingers crossed.

Day Off Shot Down

The biggest dissappointment is, if you read Harold’s post, is the pool…..gggrrrr I was so looking forward to laying out, jumping in the pool when hot and sticky, setting up my laptop on that patio, again jumping in the pool while hot and sticky……..you get the picture.

I did figure out how to back up my emails so that is now uploading to the server. It shows only one or two files and, of course, didn’t click in my head that those one or two files are huge! They have been uploading since about 18:00-19:00hrs and they are only about 70% done.

I did set a reminder in my outlook to backup every 3 weeks. I rarely change much once I’m set, so it’ll mainly be for emails. The only thing left to set up in my site files for dreamweaver and my photoshop settings for resizing. Once I do that I have some pics I want to get done and up.

Speaking of which, emails are caught up! Thankfully. The virus and then the server moves really had put me behind.

Enough of my belly aching…..lol I got to be a bum all day and finally catch up on 2 weeks of Time magazines, so I guess I did ok today. =)

No pumping going on…

Crap!

Friday afternoon I go outside to take a break and I notice the pool pump is not making its normal sound, so I look it over and notice it is not pumping water and I shut it off and call the pool guy. Pool guy calls me 6 hours later and says he may stop by Saturday. About 6pm Saturday he shows up looking like this is a 1 min job so he won’t be bothered to bring his tools and of course, tells me he needs his tools.

Comes back Monday and spends 4 hours tearing it apart and tells me it needs a new gasket and he will be back tomorrow, Tuesday he is here 4 more hours and finally gets his saw and cuts the pump off the lines and tells me it had a leak and all needs replaced and he will be back Friday…. Maybe.

Today and Tomorrow Pauline has off and our plans were…. Yep, pool and laying in the sun all day. Now I have a nice green cement pond in the back yard that is just a few days away from having its own eco system complete with fish and alligators…

What bugs me the most, is when this all happen, I told him I saw what looked like a leak and he blew me off and guess what part he ends up cutting out? It also rubs me wrong that it has taken so much time, his main thing he tried was just turning the pump on/off a few dozen times, then after hours of this he started to take things apart. We also live less then 1 mile from no less then 3 pool supply stores so it rubs me wrong that he did not just go get what he needs and finish the job.

Why will people not go the extra mile anymore?