Friday, February 16, 2007

sooo tired...

ok, i have been so damn tired that i haven't blogged for a few days so here's a recap.
Monday night didn't really bring much snow, enough to dust the cars and stick to the grass but the roads were just wet. Tuesday however was horrid. The federal government let all employees in the area out at 2pm which just made rush hour last longer than the norm for here. Tuesday night brought about 6 inches of ice. not solid stuff, this was more like the little beads of ice that you get in a slush puppie when you drink all the stuff. My car didn't have an ice scraper in it so i had to heat up the car and do it all by hand. About an hour before, a plow had come through the parking lot and left a nice mound of snow for me and everyone else to try and work our way over.
I had to be at a Food Lion grand opening at 8am in Manassas so that meant getting up at 5am, and leaving at 6 to get there in time. Why they need an NCR tech at a Food Lion opening is beyond me. It wasn't even a new store opening. it was just a remodel. Walmart grand openings i can understand, they usually have 30 lanes along the front plus all the department registers. This store had 9 lanes total. 9, and three of those were IBM self checkouts that we don't even cover. i was so damn bored, stuck there for four hours. and COLD!!! they could have turned the heat up a little in my mind and i was wearing several layers of clothing. From what the cashiers said, the back of the store was even colder (dock doors open) good god! What a waste of time. Didn't do much throughout the rest of the day ran some calls here and there but nothing exciting, just more food lions.
Last night i fell asleep about 8pm with the TV on so naturally i kept waking up throughout the night. got up at 5:30 again to be on the road at 6 for a 7am breakfast meeting which was pointless for us out of towners but the food was good. It was in the hotel restaraunt which was on the 17th floor of a holiday inn, overlooking the frozen Potomac. I wish i had my camera on me.
Hopefully i'll remember and write more tonight. if anything exciting goes on.

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