Sundae Sunday

Thanks Aunt Sharon, for giving me a nudge to post. I have been meaning to, really!

Well the snow did not last, nor did the below freezing temperatures. It is actually 81 degrees here today. Yes, that's in Fahrenheit! We had a beautiful almost-double rainbow here the other day, which I surreptitiously took pictures of. Hey, I wasn't the only one!

I spent the last week covering for the girl who does reservations. Definitely a challenge. I was taken aback a bit, when I actually felt some stress. It's been a long time since I've had stress at work :) It's been a nice, busy change though. I will be spending one of my three weeks at it going forward.

Funny questions this week...there are two doors to enter/exit the main building. One is directly in the center, which is where most people enter when arriving to check in, and one set of doors about maybe 50 feet to the right (from the outside) which enters into the boot room, where workers enter when they arrive back from work so they can remove their boots before walking in the main camp. (This camp is boot-free. Along with being alcohol, drugs and weapon free). (Hey, it's in the new hire welcome talk!). This week, maintenance was working on painting the wooden walkways with a type of traction paint, and they blocked off one entry at a time and painted the walkway surrounding it. So...when the bootroom area was blocked off, everyone had to come in the main entryway. Without their boots. Maintenance rigged up a big wooden sign with an arrow that pointed to the "Boot Room" as a reminder not to walk through with their boots on, and in case anyone forgot how to get there (that's sarcasm there.) Then, when the main walkway was blocked off, it was reversed. Well I'm not sure how many asked this question, but I had one guy come to the desk when the main doors were closed off and asked how he was supposed to get out. I guess he overlooked the sign pointing to the boot room, and also the door that he came in everyday after work. :) Another guy came to the desk to ask if the wind was that strong that we had to lock the main doors. Yes, I'm still questioning myself over that one. Um, no, man. They are working on the walkway and you can't go out that way right now. Oh.

A big upset this week was the loss of the wifi for one night. Horror of horrors!! Yes, I was just as upset as the rest of them. No wifi anywhere in the building. Our main computers still worked, because they are connected to the company network via cables, but nothing else. And just when we were recovering from that the next day, the main computers and telephones went down. Yikes! Luckily, the wifi was repaired by then and I was working off a laptop in the back office, and it functions with wifi so that saved check outs for that day.

I have one more split shift after today, then I'm back to afternoons for the remainder of my rotation. Then off to see the new baby in Calgary....still isn't born yet!