So My Work Day Started Off With a Man Hitting On Me...

Work was actually fun last night. Good thing, too, because I needed that sort of entertainment to keep me awake. I was up for more than 29 hours before I got any sleep at all. You know, these things happen when you work the grave shift. But you know, instead of giving you a play-by-play, I'd rather just give out some highlights.

The cage I was switched to was with friends. It's a rare thing for a cage to be all guys, and it turns out to be pretty entertaining when it happens. Our supervisor wasn't even around most of the night; I suspect that it was because of our collective silliness that she wouldn't stay at her post.

The first guest I helped was a man who was eyeing me. It was obvious what his intentions were with his "What's uuuup?" and half-smile. This has never bothered me; in fact, in a cage with guys, it made for some good jokes. As an aside, it must be much easier to tell what a guy is thinking, because I notice when a guy is flirting much easier than when a woman does. Maybe they're more forward, or maybe I just bring it out of gay guys. Whatever it is, it's not that uncommon for a guy to hit on me. Sorry, guys, that's just not me.

I had a computer fix job yesterday. This one was a doozy; a coworker of mine got this computer a month ago, and it wouldn't start up completely anymore. It would give a prompt for safe mode et al, and when any option was selected, it would show the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH (there's that "of death" again) for less than a second, then reboot in an endless loop. After fixing this, what I saw when I started up was not surprising: Limewire. While this program itself wouldn't cause any errors in the MBR (from what I know), I knew then that I had to kill some viruses.

So first things first, I got rid of Limewire and Norton (which can be a post on its own how much trash this is. Incidentally, I noticed that Norton comes preloaded in lots of computers nowadays. You know what they call a software company which can't sell their product to regular people? Microsoft), and set it up with some AVG action to get things moving. After about two and a half hours, the regular scan finished. The result: 915 trojans! Let me spell that out: nine hundred and fifteen trojan viruses! And these are the ones that were found and rid of; the second time through, the slow scan, showed a couple more whitelisted viruses.

The family I helped was very generous. They bought me food and paid me thirty dollars at their insistence. Then, they proceeded to tell me to charge more the next time they need me so that they don't make the same mistakes, and be more careful with how they handle their computer.

One of the cashiers is retiring on Sunday, and yesterday we had a retirement/birthday party for her at a mexican restaurant. Lots of people showed up, but just as many made bad excuses for not being there ("I'm doing laundry." Really? That's nice, Pat's retiring.). It was fun there, too, though I didn't have anything to eat (see computer job above), just a margarita. You know, it might not be a bad idea, but before work, by about an hour or two, have a margarita. It just might save your sanity in case you have bad company at work that day (I, by job description, am always in bad company. I have gambling addicts to handle). I guess what I want the message to be there is to not take so many small things seriously, not to become an alcoholic.

I need to work on my message.