Saturday, a day of work & partying

Today's blog may look a little strange. I'm going to try something new on days I work, and type sections on my PDA throughout the day...

So far work has been screwed up, which with only being open weekends isn't unusual for a saturday. The first thing I noticed when I came in was one of the plastic covers to the lights was on the ground broken and wet. Now last spring we had a problem with the ceiling leaking, after a few months it stopped, and they said the problem was fixed. Well here we are back to spring, and its leaking again. This time its into a light, and by our safe. And the safe area is almost in public view. If the leak moves much further, it will be dripping in the main serving area. So I made that known to maintenance, and they said they would look into it.

Then comes the register problems. I tried to sign into the register, and got an error message about the virus database being more the 90 days old. So it wouldn't let me log on to the register. So I had to call IT about it. Of course its a weekend so no one was in and I had to leave a message. Surprisingly they called me back in a matter of minutes. But, like usual, something had to go wrong. Every time the guy from IT would login remotely, it wouod kick him back out. Finally he was able to get in and fix it. So that problem was solved.

Then me Icee machine started blinking, which means the CO2 is out. I was lucky to find I had another full one, so I was able to switch it, but now I'm on my last tank. So I either need to get someone to order me more tanks, or get my bulk tank refilled. All of thatbwas before I opened this morning.

Since I've been open its been slow but steady. I've had a few big sales, but mostly small one item sales. I hope the day keeps up like this so I am able to preclean. Then when its time to close, I will be able to get out on time...

OK, the next part I'm going to type I know isn't "politically correct", and it may offend some readers, but I have to say it... If you are going to be living in America, learn to speak English. I just had two customers of a different nationality, I won't say which one. They spoke such broken Engligsh that I had to have them repeat what they were ordering five times before I realized they were ordering two cheese pizzas. Then once I figured oyt their order, I told them it would take five minutes for me to cook fresh ones. Well, they didn't understand this either, and I spent almost they whole time trying to explain to them why they were waiting. Now, I'll admit they could just be visiting, but I don't think they were.

The rest of work was pretty uneventfull. Then I headed home, and got changed and drove up for the surprise birthday party. It was for my mom. They used the excuse that it was for our wedding aniversary, since the one year mark in on Wednesday. My mom knew something was up though before she got there. Her one sister didn't send her a birthday card, which is unsual. Plus when she got there she noticed the decorations said "Happy Birthday" on them. So that kind of clued her in. But she liked it. It was pretty fun. But until we got cleaned up from it, and we got home it was getting late again. I'm really hoping the late nights soon end.