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This reminds me of the time when I was in Wisconsin (yes, during that lovely time period) and I was heading back to the hotel after working second shift with grampaw.  We were looking for dinner.  The exit we had normally been taking (we took pretty much all of them that head to town in order to make our drive more interesting) didn’t lead to a lot of fast food places.  Why fast food?  Because it was late.  Grampaw and I really wanted to just go back to our rooms.  While I’m just fine not eating anything for hours or days on end, grampaw apparently can’t handle that.  Grampaw had McD’s several days in a row at that point and I thought maybe he should vary his diet a little.  We saw an Arby’s and decided to go there.

The interesting thing about that decision was that the Arby’s was on the left side of the road.  It meant that I had to make a left at the light.  Ok, so that’s not really that interesting.  What WAS interesting was/were the light/s.  There were two poles right next to each other facing the same way for the same lane, which was separated from the rest of the lanes with a largish island.  One pole had a light with a straight arrow and one had a light with a left arrow and they operated independently of each other.  The lane they were facing was for what I thought was a left turn only.  Why was there a straight arrow?   There was also a pole right next to the stop line of the left turn lane and it did…something I don’t remember.  The whole situation was weird.  Grampaw was of no help when various lights turned green but others stayed red and I had no idea what it was telling me to do.

I ended up running a red something while it was a green something else.  No clue.  (It might have been easier to figure out what it was telling me to do if it were daylight and if grampaw hadn’t worked two shifts and I hadn’t been jumping shifts all week.)

This first day might be the best EVAR

It occurs to me, as I sit here in the parking lot about 25min early, that I didn’t schedule a post for today like I had meant to yesterday. Oops. Well, I’ll just constructively use my time and schedule one now.

It’s my first day of work! I rather enjoyed being technically unemployed this past month. I finally caught up on sleep. I made ALL THE PROJECTS! I spent some time with my siblings who were around for summer. I forgot to take Yaris to the beach like I promised her I would. Oops.

Since writing the above section several things have happened. I went into the office building to find that everything was locked. Including the restrooms. Which was a bit of issue, since I needed to use them. I had to call ALL THE PEOPLE to see if there was someone in our office suite to let me in. Turns out, there wasn’t. I had to call the guy who recruited me up in the Bay Area for more info, since he’s been my main point of contact this whole time. I was told to go to a different office instead. With current traffic conditions, it would take over an hour to get there. It was a good thing that before I started out, I intercepted a call saying that I would need my company issued laptop…which I don’t have. Because it’s probably in the office I am locked out of. Nevertheless, I am told to head over to the other office anyway. The laptop will find me later.

And all this within the first hour of my report time.

I may die of laughter before finishing the day.