Weather Changes

The biggest news since yesterday is in the weather change. It has warmed up a bit but the winds have picked up. We had gusts up to 23 MPH yesterday and already this morning we hit 27 MPH. The clouds are low and moving fast so it looks like an interesting day.

Today is our fourth day of ten plus hours on the job. So far, we've balanced the cash and credit cards to the penny each day which is rather rare. Sometimes, when it gets busy in the store, we'll wait to record a transaction so that we can give faster service to people. This can result in not recording transactions at all if you get behind too many and omit one or two. This usually happens when we have a lot of dump business mixed in with other store transactions. While waiting on customers at the counter, we sometimes take the $8 dumping fee from a walk-in and put it in the register while finishing with the store customer and forget to record it.

We discovered that the phone message we thought was from Friday was actually from Tuesday, and from a different location than Grover Beach. We are so sick of the poor service we are getting from our Alltel prepaid phone. You may remember we stopped into the Alltel store in Flagstaff to report that our phone messages were not getting to us for several days. Well, the problem has returned. The place we received the message from had hired someone else since we didn't get back to them in a timely manner. The message was from a place we were lukewarm about anyway. Good thing. The Grover Beach opportunity is still alive though. We haven't heard anything from them as yet. We will just have to carry the phone everywhere since we cannot afford to miss any more calls.

That's about it for now. I had to interrupt this post to take "Mystique" out for a walk. Now I know why we don't have a dog...