Weekend Work - Saturday, Aug 9

After my debacle this morning at the local McDonald's, I arrived at the office at just about 9:00 am. When I opened the door, I noticed a hint of what smelled like a decomposing body.

I immediately tried to open the door and air the place out while I looked for the source of the odor. I found it just behind the printer on the sticky mat I laid out for him, a little mouse.

Cycle back about a year.

I came in one Saturday to find the lid on the mixed nuts can had been nibbled into by a mouse. I immediately placed glue traps out and hoped to snag him. I did. And his brother the next month.

I kept the traps out just in case his relatives sent out a search party. Well, they must have, cause I got another one sometime this week.

I disposed of the carcass and opened the front door.

No sooner had I done that than a customer walked him with his PC. I explained the situation and apologized. I was embarrassed that the mouse got in, despite trying to plug every possible entryway.

I started working on his PC when another one came in for repair. The customer felt compelled to stay and talk, preventing me from starting on either one as soon as I wanted to.

Soon after he left I started working on both of them and then hung the new OPEN sign we picked up at Home Depot this week.

Kathy came in and I had planned to meet a contractor to look at redoing my bathroom at the lake, so I called him and asked if he would come by and I would take him out there. He arrived within minutes and we left to go do that.

When I arrived back, there were two additional PCs on the bench to repair.

I ordered up a couple of personal pan pizzas from Pizza Hut after giving the assistant manager a good chewing out about the dining experience there a few weeks back. He apologized and took the order, giving me 10% off. I asked for delivery and it arrived hot and on time.

Jason came by and invited us out to see his new project in action. I hesitate to describe if here, I think he is keeping it under wraps for the Briar Creek Bash. They were also going to grill up some chicken and shrimp, so Kathy offered to make some dessert and a salad.

She left to go do that while I worked on the four PCs on the bench, finishing two of them up just as the customers arrived to pick them up.

I concentrated on the other two, removing some spyware and a few viruses. Despite having an anti-virus application and a spyware-removal tool installed, they were infected. It could be that they were infected first and the AV and anti-spyware client was an effort to get the machine back to a usable status.

At any rate, one of them was really bad while the other was only mildly annoying to resolve.

I left the office about 6:30 pm and headed to the Bryan's. I made sure to put some money aside, since I knew they would probably want to play some 31 and I intended on taking their money this time.

If only Shawn were here so I could take his too.