Monday - 11-02-09, the first 4:30 day.

Since I didn't post anything all weekend I'll recap that a little quick. Saturday I had to work. I got to work to find that no one was there to unlock the key cabinet for me to get my keys. Paul called around for me, and was able to get the code to unlock them for me. But if they know I'm scheduled to come in at 9:00 then there should be a fulltime employee in at 9:00 as well. Then I got to my stand, and the safe wasn't unlocked. I called twice, and no one ever came to unlock it. So I used the money in the loan bag to start the day, and ran the whole day with only the ones that guests gave me. I told Jorge to use the money from the A bag to make the B bag loan. I saw in the log book that they did eventually unlock the safe for him.
Saturday night was a pretty good night. We went to a Bears game, and they won. Although we ran into someone we knew there who was acting really strange. We don't know if he was trying to impress the girl that was with him, or what was up. I guess if he's mad about something he'll get over it.
Sunday we didn't do too much. Cathy went to her mom's, I went to my parents', and to church. Church was ok, but kind of boring. Other then that and some cleaning we didn't do much Sunday.
This morning I E-mailed about taking my General Class Amateur Radio test on November 21st. I'm just waiting to hear back from that.
When I got to work the key cabinet was unlocked ,and Harry said the safe was open. I wasn't the least bit surprised to get here and find a mess. And I really don't feel like cleaning it up. I cleaned up what I had to, and set up the stand. Then I went to studying again for a little. I figured I could clean later in the afternoon before I closed.
Speaking of closing, and the title suggest, today is the first day of the winter season that ZooAmerica closes at 4:30. That means I close at 3:30, and will be home by 4:00 most days. I'm really kind of looking forward to that.
By 11:00 the zoo was pretty busy, and I had a small line. It was only three people, but it was a line. That was enough sales to keep me open most likely until 3:30 today.
By noon I was starting to do the cleaning that wasn't done from Sunday. I figured that if I started it by noon, and it took me 2 hours then it would be time to start precleaning for closing, and then I could go right into that. Keeping busy like that should make the time go faster while here.
Around 1:45 Denise came in the back door of the stand. She had a new lady with her, Tanya. She wanted to introduce her to me, and show her where things were in the stand if she needed them, and I wasn't here.
By 2:00 I had everything I wanted to get done done. SO now I just had to wait until 2:30 or 3:00 to start my final cleaning, and closing things down. If I could do things like I normally do I would be ready to go home at 3:30 when I close.
I was home by 4:00, and got a few things done before Cathy got home. She was working locally today, so she was home within 5 minutes after getting off of work. We didn’t really do too much the rest of the night. Basically just watching some TV, and me on the internet….