Well first up, I got a promotion yesterday at work. I have mixed feelings about this. I am happy I got the promotion because it means more money and hours. But the supervisor we had had to get demoted for it to happen. I feel bad about that. He had one bad day and had to pay for it. Apparently he had a few mistakes I didn’t know about. A supervisor in Miami got fired for mistakes, so I guess demotion is better. I need to be careful to not make those mistakes.

A couple weeks ago, my step-mom was murdered. Supposedly she was to retire in January and my dad and her were going to retire out here in Tucson. Now as soon as the life insurance goes through to cover the funeral and burial my dad will move down here were 2 out of the 3 of us kids are.

About the blog, I’m planning on posting more content on a more regular basis. I’m going to try to post something at least once a week. I have some ideas about revisiting the most popular post on the site. My post about the full moon causing strange behavior seems to get a huge spike of traffic every (Yep! You guessed it!) full moon.

Also, I’m currently working on a new blog theme that comes complete with a new look for both the about me page and the homepage. I based the homepage on the theme I did for the Gatecast Podcast site. That’s another project I need to get involved with again, the show was my idea and I was one of the original hosts.

Yesterday, when I went on break I decided I wanted Twinkies for breakfast. I wanted a 4 pack, but they only had the 10 pack box. I figured I’ll just share. So, I’m back there eating a twinkie and a co worker walks by. I ask him if he wants a twinkie and he says no and walks away real fast. A few minutes later he comes by and notices I’m eating a twinkie. He says to me, ‘I thought you asked if I wanted a quickie.’

Today I was talking with someone else and it hit me. I’m glad I wasn’t eating Ding-Dongs.

I didn’t get much else for Christmas. Another co worker got me a little Xmas bear figurine.

That actually made my day. I feel kinda warm and fuzzy inside.

10:30pm power went out on monday and I was without electricity for 14 hours. It happened from a big storm. Something called a microburst. It took out 15 telephone poles. It left my apartment complex for 14 hours with no electricity. Power went out at about 10:30 pm and went on at about 12:30pm the next day.

I had to be at work at 3am that night. There were a few of us waiting outside the store wth no power because we didn’t wanna be inside the store. When we were sitting there there was an accident on the street. Soon after the assistant manager got to the store and sent me inside to go get milk crates and other containers so we could save the parishable food items and put them into refrigeration trucks. I went back outside and someone told me a cop came by and asked if we saw a person running through with head trauma. He also said that some guy hit his head during the accident and left blood on the windshield. He was nowhere to be found, so he must have ran off.

Today was a very hectic day for me. I did manage to take some pictures of some of the damage caused by the storm. Lots of it was cleaned up by the time I got off work. I even crossed some police lines that were put up for public safety to take pictures of the damage.

• Tucson Citizen Article about the storm
• Pictures I took of the storm damage in my neighborhood.

On a semi-related note, I heard the bakery manager talking about trying to get me a raise. The thing is, I’m not done with my probation for another month. As I understand it, I get a raise when my probation’s over anyway.

Everyone thought I’d cry when I cut my hair. I didn’t, but I do feel naked. I hate short hair. I feel I look wierd.

UPDATE: I was hired as a stocker for $6.50 an hour.

Apparently the calls we make are routed through the server and through T1 lines. From what I overheard the server couldn’t connect with the T1 lines and Qwest couldn’t come out till tomorrow to fix it. They did what they could and couldn’t get the server working.

As much as I would have liked to stay the whole shift so my paycheck is as big as it can be, I’m happy we got sent home. I just hope the server is working Friday so I don’t have another day off.