A Day In The Life - Tuesday June 15th, 2004

Once again, I'm not entirely certain when I woke up. I think I woke up later than most days, because I was up late reading. Probably around 7:00 a.m. I finally gave in to the cats and got up. I don't think I even ate breakfast at home. I think I woke up, fed the cats, futzed around on City of Heroes without really doing anything, got a shower, got dressed, and headed in to work. I ate breakfast at work, punched in, and went about my day.

Tuesdays normally involve a staff meeting. It got cancelled, and the work day in general wasn't very memorable. We have this tradition of Tuesday being the "Day of Rampant Stupidity", but amazingly it did not happen yesterday. It was a little distressing.

The only real excitement that was remotely to do with work was the near-worldwide DNS outage that briefly affected some popular sites (google, yahoo). We didn't notice it's impact at all in terms of calls coming in from stores, but we did have some slowness in browsing.

I did a lot of reading of City of Heroes forums in between catching up with my cases and taking calls. I have pretty much at this point decided that if I see the phrase "nerf blasters" in a post that I am automatically one-starring the poster, unless they are telling the nerf-happy masses that they are morons.

The drive home was kind of long. There were a few traffic snarls on 94 due to morons who can't pay attention to the pending construction lane shifts. And apparently 14 was getting heavily backed up for some reason, but I wasn't on it long enough to find out what it was.

I got home, changed the cat litter boxes finally, and cooked dinner. satyr_mi had just gotten home from his sister's with something resembling good news (a check! finally... whew!), and I decided to make manicotti, since we had it. In an act of sheer stupidity I managed to shatter the glass lid to the dish I used to bake it in (note to self, aluminum foil is your friend), but the food was fine and we cleaned up the mess with no issues to speak of.

Played some City of Heroes. Learned that the new update patch is in testing, so I made a directory for the test client, but the server was down. So I played my blaster some, got him almost done with level 8 and with three pending missions before opting to log off, finish my book, and go to bed.

Overall, it was a fairly dull day. There were some livejournal posts that kept me entertained, but in general the day wasn't particularly memorable.

Well, okay, it was a Very Good Day™ due to the good news satyr_mi walked in the door with, but the rest of it was just sorta blah.

I did sorta freak out satyr_mi when he showed me the mail. :-p But it was because I was soooo relieved and he wasn't really aware of exactly how stressed out I've been. I am the master of hiding my stressyness. Seriously, folks.

Our lovely cafeteria...

...is full of morons.

I have not had Tator Tots as part of a lunch since I was in middle school. Okay, technically I have. I used to work at a private country club and sometimes we would have buffets with tator tots in them. Do you want to know what those buffets were for? JUNIOR GOLF! Hell, at least they fully cooked the damn things before serving them.

If you are at a grill with one employee cooking and one employee boxing up orders, you the supervisor do not take 7 orders and try to be all cheery and get even more orders going at once. You know what you do? Get the hell out of the way of the people putting the food together because chances are you are just creating more chaos by trying to get all those orders moving at once. Your customers will appreciate fully cooked and well prepared food more than you grinning and talking to us like we're in elementary school.

If you are that employee grilling up orders, please stop sticking your latex-gloved hand into the container holding the cooked hamburgers and the container holding the cooked chicken so it can be re-heated on the grill prior to serving. Tongs are your friend. Especially since I don't see you changing or washing those gloves before then shoving them on fries/whatever that are just sitting out or on the lettuce/tomato/onions that are sitting in a bed of ice. Also, please stop spreading scrambled eggs onto a hot grill with a plastic fork. Also, take 10 seconds to put some water on the grill to loosen up all that burnt-on meat and cheese and scrape it off with that nice huge metal spatula you have there. I mean, heck, you have like four of the things there. I'd prefer my food to be cooked on a grill that doesn't look like someone just ran over a racoon on the side of the road, thanks.

Seriously, folks, some common sense is much appreciated.