Domestic Geek

I should've known. I actually remembered to say aloud Rabbit Rabbit today (at 12:00:10 AM, freaking out Marcus as he was drifting off to sleep, mind you, but I said it!) and no luck. Booooo rabbit.

I dragged my warm, cozy body out of bed at 4:30, cleared the 6-8 inches of frozen snow off my car (after realizing I no longer have a snow brush and had to snag the one from Marcus' truck), and drove all the way across town to work through several dark intersections.

Something seemed amiss as I pulled up in front of the building. The outside looked wrong and yet every light inside the store was on. Hmm, weird. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the recessed lighting along the sidewalk wasn't on. That's why it seemed darker than normal. I go in and hear the beep of a the computer's battery backup and find a note from the manager--power outage last night (could've called my cell and left a message, but no). Well, that explains all the lights being on. Of course, the circuit that the computer system and the dough mixer are on is still out. Damn it--I can't do any work.

So, I wait. And wait. And wait.

The manager arrives and is pissed that only half of the power is back on. He leaves and then comes back in with an extention cord to run the computer from another plug so he can do the work he couldn't finish last night. An extension cord wouldn't help me because dough mixer is 220V. I finally decide to prep a bunch of stuff that isn't my responsibility, do the dishes they couldn't do because of the dark, etc. He thinks everything is hunky dory because each oven is on a different circuit and they can still do the school orders. Big surprise as he finds that the blowers for both ovens are on the same circuit that is out. He calls Excel and they promise power will be back by 6 PM. Manager calls owner to arrange to do school orders from the other store, finds out other store has no power, either. By this time, I've been there three hours. I decided I'm not waitng around anymore, so I head for home.

It was nice not to have to make dough, but I lost the money from the cancelled school orders, I'm pretty sure they won't make any dough today once the power is back on, so I'll have to work twice as hard tomorrow. That totally sucks.

Happy Halloween!

So, as par for the course, the first snowfall in Denver in on Halloween. Big, fat, fluffy, wet flakes are falling out there. Ick. I hate snow. I take that back, I hate snow when I have to drive somewhere, as in work tomorrow morning. I'm really wishing I had made myself get up earlier and get two days done so I wouldn't have to go in. Oh, well.

At least I made myself go out about an hour ago to put gas in the vehicle since I drove home on fumes (being unwilling to stop for gas). I was feeling sick this morning. I think it's because of an allergic reaction I'm having to bites on my ankles that I've had for about a week. They're either from spiders or fleas, not sure which. All I know is, they're bad. I slept most of the afternoon. I woke up when I heard trick-or-treaters knocking on our door about 4:15. I had totally forgot today was Halloween. Marcus had to turn them away--we had no candy this year. I didn't even get pumpkins or decorate at all. Maybe next year I'll be in a position where I can afford things like candy and pumpkins.

I'm working on switching over to Expression Engine this week. I am so sick of comment spam. I wasted an hour trying to log in to my expression engine, only to realize later that it was the wrong installation in the wrong directory. Doh! That's what I get for having so many test installations installed all over the place. I think I've also got 3 different word press installations that I was toying with. Must clean up web server.

I can't wait until Wednesday morning. Then all the election nonsense will be over. At least, I hope it will be over. Please don't let there be a repeat of 2000. I won't be overjoyed if Kerry comes out the winer, but I'd rather have that than the drawn out nonsense that we had last time. I'm also looking forward to not reading politics on people's blogs. I'm just so sick of all the rhetoric. One election is not going to clean up the state of government in this country. It's totally screwed up and out of control. It's going to take a major attitude shift of Americans before anything is going to get fixed.

Dang, the door is open at J.K. Rowling's site, but I can't seem to grab the right key! I can't go to bed until I accomplish this!

Current mood: annoyed
So, I just wanted to say "THANKS A LOT" to all the sportscasters and newspeople in this town who felt the need to utter the "S WORD" (superbowl) before Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Haven't you learned anything about the psyche of the Denver Broncos? They do fine until you utter that word and then everything goes to hell. You're caused them to lose not only to the Bengals (23-10), but now the Atlanta Falcons (41-28). What should now be a 7-1 team is now 5-3. Hope you're proud of yourselves. Next time, keep your S words to yourself.

While perusing Adam Curry's site today, I found this link for the new Ashlee Simpson Karaoke Edition iPod.

Since I'm rather poor right now, there will be no pumpkin massacre for me, so I'm going to have to make due with the next best thing: Virtual pumpkin carving.