Shadowscope

That’s exactly what my computer has done. Crashed and burned. It rebooted in the middle of posting earlier, thus the entry without a title. I am in the process of moving about 80 GB of music onto a secondary hard drive right now prior to ghosting my main partition so that’s pretty much it for tonight unless I get it done quicker than I think I will.

Need to go find that Ghost floppy, I know it’s around here somewhere…

Normally Friday is Pizza Day here at the house. It’s usually a pretty busy day for me at work and leads into the weekend which is always extremely busy for me. The wife is tired from working all week and neither of us wants to cook. We used to order from Domino’s but for some reason they quit delivering on this side of town and now we get our pizza from Papa John’s. It’s still pretty good but definitely different. One thing about getting pizza is that it’s a bit expensive to have delivered. The nice thing is that I can order online and not having to deal with the phone at all. The only thing missing that I like about Domino’s is coupons. Looking around I found a place to get free online coupons that I can use with Papa John’s. Sweet. Just go to the Papa John’s Coupons page and find the coupon code you need and when you check out from the website enter the code. That’s about as easy as you can get and as lazy as I am some days easy is where it’s at!

They also have coupons for plenty of other places as well, everything from consumer electronics and software to clothing and furniture.

Another weekend has come to a close. For me it means heading into the slow part of the week and a chance to get some cleaning done at work and catch up my paperwork. I am sort of winding down a bit. Although I was off this past Friday, since I have only had one day off the last two weeks straight I think I am going to try and take Wednesday and Thursday off if I can get the store covered. After that I don’t have myself scheduled off until September 9th so i could use a couple of days off in a row. Besides, I really need to get the area for the second pond finished and one day has just not been enough rest lately. I am exhausted.

One thing I do need to try and get done on my off day is to see if I have an extra hard drive in the basement. I believe one of mine is getting ready to crap out and I need to ghost everything over onto a new one before losing all of my data.. That would not be a good thing.

I have to go ahead and start getting ready for work this morning but just wanted to write for a few minutes before I go in. Unfortunately there is no chance of an early day as we have a meeting this afternoon and with me running the thing it would be slightly difficult to get out of.

No letters from the boy today but hopefully today or tomorrow…

The weather is amazing sometimes. All three of my restaurants are within 12 miles of the house. Today I worked at the one that is farthest away and when I finally finished with my paperwork this evening or at least the stuff that I didn’t put off until tomorrow, it was pouring the proverbial cats and dogs. The wind was blowing so hard that the rain was coming down sideway, thunder was crashing and the lightning just kept on doing it’s thing.

I waited awhile for the storm to abate before driving home and when I did, rather than going the back way up Hwy 78 like I normally do I went the expressway. About halfway home there was an accident off to the side that looked like it had involved a tractor trailer and at least one car. Several fire trucks were there as well as an ambulance and police.

By the time I was within two miles of the house everything was bone dry. Not a drop had fallen on my poor dying vegetables today. If the sky was going to open up the least it could have done is dumped a bit of moisture at my place.

Work itself was kind of a drag today. it certainly wasn’t my worst day but it wasn’t my best either. Speaking of my worst day there are several to choose from.

The first year I was working for the company I actually waited tables most of the time. It was eight or nine months before I ever started cooking. Basically the manager had fired his night shift cook and I decided that I was tired of dealing with assholes and told him I wanted the job. He gives me this training manual and say “OK, you are the cook, read that and be here to cook the shift tomorrow night”. It was interesting at first because I had to train myself. I think I did a damn good job of it.

Anyway, I had been cooking for a couple of weeks and Halloween rolled around. Being the Heavy Metal babe magnet that I am (or thought I was 20 years ago) I along with my girlfriend at the time (she worked with me as well) decided to dress up for Halloween even though we had to work that night. In my infinite wisdom (that all 20 year olds have) I dressed up as Alice Cooper, heavy duty make-up and all. Damn, I kicked ass. That costume looked great. Unfortunately for me it is extremely hot cooking in a restaurant for some reason and it was busy that night. It didn’t take long before all of that makeup started rolling down my face, along with the rest of my body. It was nasty, and I spent several hours in the weeds just trying to keep up. It certainly wasn’t my worst day ever either but it’s damn sure one of the funniest I can remember.

So what was your worst day at work?

Actually I don’t have that problem and if I did I would invent some sort of extension to grab ahold such as a girlfriend or a wife. Oh, wait. That’s right, I am married. See, even if both of my arms get chopped off in a freakish waffle iron incident I am good to go.

The wife sent me a link to this earlier, over at Nataliedee.

I have just recently started to use a plugin called Visitor Stats for Movabletype 4.0. The javascript sits right in the header of the site and loads before anything else and seems to be doing a pretty good job of tracking everything here. It matches AWStats almost perfectly and has been giving me a pretty good idea of who is coming and when. The problem is that right now it isn’t compatible with dynamic publishing so the last blog that I will move over to the new installation of MT will be this one.

There is supposed to be a version coming out that will be compatible, hopefully soon. At that point I will move the site. I may go ahead next week and prepare everything for the move though so that when I do switch it will be that much easier. I am looking forward to having this site speed up even if it’s just the tiniest bit.

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