Wednesday - 09-23-09, fall begins

Ok, for those who don't know today is the first full day of fall. I had listed that in the post I had typed for yesterday, but I had a problem with my PDA. I was typing everything at work, and it locked up. The only thing I could do to get it to work was a complete system reset, and that caused me to lose all my data that wasn't backed up yet. So I hope that doesn't happen today.
Today started out as a strange day from the start. Cathy left for work, and wasn't' gone all that long when the phone rang and it was her. I answered and she just wanted to remind me to pick up dinner tonight since she had her class. And also to tell me just to order the same thing for next week. So that wasn't all that bad.
So I got on the computer, and started working with my PDA, and got everything back to the latest back up, which was up to date as of yesterday morning. So that wasn't too bad. I only lost three files hat I typed while at work. I really should get in the habit of saving them on the memory card, then I wouldn't lose them. Anyway, the other thing it did which always happens when I have to do a restore, is it duplicated emails, contacts, appointments, and tasks. So now I have to go through everything and delete all the duplicates.
So I was on my way out the door to head to work, and I got a call on my cell phone. It was a Lebanon number, and since Cathy's work number comes up as different Lebanon numbers, I answered it. She was in tears on the other end, and I couldn't understand what she was saying. Finally she calmed down enough to ask me if we could take in a cat. I reminded her we aren't allowed to have pets, and she started crying again. I guess her supervisor's dad is moving somewhere that doesn't allow pets, and said that if he doesn’t find a good home for it he will just put it to sleep. So I told her I guess we could try taking it in, but in the landlord finds out we could be in trouble.
So all this was before I even got to work. I get in, and I see the keys on Harry's desk, and when I get to the stand I find the safe unlocked. Those were both good things, since it didn't slow me down any with setting up. But when I go to clock into the register, I see the DOB is wrong again. So I called IT. For some reason they couldn't get in remotely and the guy had to come out. He fixed the date, but I showed him the sales that were still combined from yesterday, and he said there was nothing he could do about that. There has to be something that can be done, but I'm sure this IT guy just doesn't know how to do it.
So once I got set up, I decided to work on one of the files I lost from yesterday. I was asked by Troy for ideas on how to increase the per cap, and overall revenue of the zoo. So one area I thought of almost immediately was by stopping theft. The file I had done was a list of who ran the cart, and how far they were off by each day. This way I can show potential theft.
Around 10:15 warehouse brought my stock order over. It definitely wasn't what I had ordered. I'm not sure who did up the order that was entered, but they didn't order the right stuff. Now I have to worry that on Friday I will get everything I ordered, and have double of some of the stock. I guess I'll have to wait and see.
By 11:00, I had only seen one family go by. That usually indicates another slow day. If this keeps up, I won't even get full time hours through the end of December like usual.
It was 11:45 before I got my first customer, and she only wanted a small drink. One good thing about the day going slow is I was able to get some things done I wanted to get done. I still had two of the files I Lost to retype. I'll get them done sometime today.
I got a little busier between noon and 1:00, but not much. It’s hard to tell really how busy I was though. The sales from everyday since last Friday are all combined each day and showing as that day's current sales. I did get a few bigger orders though, so that helps bring up the sales. I had one guest that read the sign about not having fries today, and then asked me if the chips in the kids meal were fries or potato chips. Well since we are in the US, and in the US we don't call fries chips, common sense should tell you what they are. But I can't say that to a guest, and had to tell her politely what it was.
I forgot to mention earlier about my fryer not working. When I set it up this morning, and turned it on, the hood kept arcing. After a few minutes of this, the hood alarm went off. I tried several times cleaning it, and putting it back together, but it keeps doing it, so I decided I wouldn't have fries for today. I really wasn’t busy enough to have to worry about it.
By 1:30 I was already starting to preclean. I usually don't start that until 2, but since I wasn't busy I figured it couldn't hurt. Since the fryer wasn't working, that was one less things to have to worry about precleaning. I figured that if sales stayed this slow, I could count the loan box early, and get finished with that too.
I was right, and the sales did stay slow. I was able to get out really quick, and get home on time. I had a lot to get done in a short amount of time. I had to go to the bank, and the post office. Then the library. Then I wanted to get the dishes done up, and some other cleaning done, like Scratch’s pen. While doing all this, I watched Heroes, which I had on tape. I wanted to get all that done before Ghost Hunters came on at 9:00….