Another Day

Today was another good day at work! I got hanging file thingies for my desk file cabinet. They also gave me keys to my desk! So now I can lock up my stuff. Not that anything I have needs to be locked up, but having keys to my own desk makes me feel more important. Other people that might try to open a drawer will just have to wonder what is in there. And never find out. HA! Of course I will leave the drawers open most of the time, I would be paranoid of loosing them. It is just that I never had a job that came with a desk I can lock up. I either had to share a desk or I got none at all.

I also managed to win the schedule lottery, without even buying a ticket. Monday my day started at 8 AM, because I had to do the payroll thing. Today I started at 9 because I had to go downtown at 3:30 for a county ID card and my new boss did not want me "on the clock" more than 8 hours. Driving to and from downtown Miami counted as "on the clock". How cool is that?

Tomorrow my actual shift hours begin. 11:30 AM - 7:30 PM. My days off are Friday and Saturday. And I am the new guy. The one with 2 days senority. Somehow, I got the shift and days off that I would have picked out myself. How did this happen!?!? There has to be a catch. But there is no catch. I just won the shift lottery. I will have to work Labor Day, but I expected that. The new guy NEVER gets Labor Day off. I ain't going to complain. Not even a little bit. Not even a tiny itty-bitty hint of a fragment of a complaint. I like this position far too much for that.

So, what will I do with my Friday and Saturday off? Humm lets see. How about huddle in a closet? YEA! That sounds like a plan.

The Cone Of Death is back. Just in time for my weekend. But this will not be a very ugly storm. Just a lot of rain. It will be very weak, probably not much more than a tropical storm. There is a chance it could be a category 1 storm, but it will not be a strong cat 1. If anything, it will be a minimal cat 1. No problem. Real Floridians know how to handle that. Thursday could be a fun day at work. Bad weather = canceled flights = not as much work to do. But then again, assignments are kind of fun. Sitting at the desk all day might not be as much fun. Even if I can play with the locks.

But I am on the south side of the cone. If the thing shifts to the north when the 11 PM advisory comes out, I will be OK. Palm Beach will get it. If it shifts to the south....well lets just say I am glad that the new job has covered parking. No running through the rain to catch the shuttle bus.