Domestic Geek

I swear, just when you think you've seen it all, they do something even more stupid and unbelievable. The dork I ran into yesterday that was making my dough managed to crash the computers last night. In trying to restore from backups, he lost three days of data. He didn't print the daily summary on Saturday night, either, so there is no record of Saturday's sales. So, have they been doing the nightly backups wrong? Did he do the restore wrong? Did he use the wrong backup disk? Who knows? All this while the head manager is on vacation. He'll be thrilled when he gets back on Sunday ( and yes, I know how to read a calendar and know he's back on Sunday).

At the other store, the head manager came in just as I was finishing up. As I don't normally make dough on Mondays, he was surprised to see me. He shouldn't have been. Since he had to downstack the dough made yesterday, he should've been able to tell that the normal Sundy amount of dough hadn't been made.

I swear that nobody in management at either store has any amount of common sense.

1. Where are you right now?
In my family/computer room using my Sony Vaio laptop, totally sore and hardly able to type from the work I did this afternoon.

2. What have you lost recently?
My mind, LOL. Oh, and my cool. The morons at work totally pissed me off today (see today's earlier post). I can't remember having lost anything physicial lately (oops, that mind thing again).

3. What was the first CD you ever purchased? Does that embarrass you now?
I have absolutely no idea. It was probably jazz like Spyro Gyra or something, but it wouldn't embarrass me as I love the CD's that I have. I choose very carefully before I buy.

4. What is your favorite kind of writing pen?
Anything with a smooth, clean, fine point. I hate writing with medium ball-point pens. They're clumsy.

5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Haagen-Dazs Coffee Ice Cream -- Mmmmm, Yummy.

Marcus visited the Apple Computer Dallas Headquarters building today. He says his company's training facility is located in the same building.

I went back to work today, kindof. I got to work at 2:30 a.m., but couldn't get started until after 3 because even though sales were sucky, the managers were still at both stores and I had to wait until one of them left. So I did the dough at one store and when I went to the other, the manager was STILL there (7 a.m.). I go inside, he's doing dough, and he says, "What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be back until Tuesday." I say, "According to what I wrote on the calendar, I'm supposed to be back today." Morons. That better not affect my paycheck or I'm gonna be pissed.

The only good thing about it is I was so riled up when I got home today that I actually got a lot of stuff done.

Marcus spent his first night in Dallas. He sent me this picture that he took in his hotel while we were on ICQ. Man, can you tell he's a techie? Look at all that paraphernalia in the background.