A little more rain, please...

I slept lousy overnight, restless and in pain. Maybe it was the humidity or the warmth of the bedroom. I don’t know. I only know I woke up feeling tired.

It was raining on the way into work on Thursday, but I didn’t mind a bit! Come on rain!

It did rain hard a couple of brief times through the morning, but when I left at lunchtime, it was only drizzling. I went to Target for a change, instead of Home Depot or Lowe’s. I had planned on just heading back to work and picking up a sandwich but after a long wait at the checkout, I needed a restroom. So, I drove home (its just a mile down the road), treated the cats, dropped off my purchases, used the facilities and headed back to work.

My plan to “zip” into Jimmy John’s went awry when I discovered that half of the way from I-96 to Plymouth Road (south on Farmington Road) was full of orange barrels and down to one lane!

So, I got back to work a few minutes late, but I made it up later.

I checked every now and then but never saw it really raining again all afternoon.

About 20 minutes to 5:00 PM, a woman came in the office. She introduced herself as a new team member of Facilities and asked why a copier hadn’t been moved yet. Vicky was across the street assisting Paul, one of our programmers, Fred had already left and neither Michelle, Matt or myself had any idea what she was talking about.

It turned out that Facilities had a vendor coming in at 8:00 AM to our Building 16 to tear out some old wall paper and replace it in the room the printer/copier was in. She said it could just go out in the hallway, but it had to be working and it had to be moved tonight. I told her I could probably get a long network cable but IT didn’t have extension cords. She said she had checked with Maintenance and they didn’t have any to spare, either.

So, I went in the back where the techs are and got a 25-foot patch cable. Then I went out and asked the mechanics in the back garage if they had any extension cords. It turned out they did, so once I called the admin at Building 15 and got the code for Building 16 (there’s no receptionist there and its locked down), I raced over there.

I was doing okay until (a) I realized it was a multifunction printer/fax/copier and also would need a longer telephone cord and (b) just how heavy (even to roll) a multifunction printer/fax/copier was! Mumbling something under my breath I won’t repeat here, I did finally get it out the door and into the hallway.

The extension cord and the patch cable were fine. I asked a woman down the hall to try and print something, so she did and it worked! I asked her if faxing was a necessity and she said it was. So, I got back in the car and went back to my office. Thank God everyone hadn’t left yet! I asked Doug for a long telephone cable and he gave me one, saying, “This is the longest one we have.”

I went back to Building 16 and tried it. Damn! It “just” reached (and I mean, stretched out a foot off the floor). I sent myself a fax (I just grabbed a piece of paper) and headed back to my building. There was no one left in back to ask about a longer phone cord, but I checked my computer and I had received the emailed fax.

So, I sent an email to Renee (at Building 15) and Bryn (the new Facilities person) letting them know the multifunction printer/fax/copier was in the hallway and I had tested it. I told them I would try and get a longer phone cord in the morning.

I was just leaving the parking lot at 5:20 PM when Vicky came walking across the street. I rolled down the window and told her I left the door unlocked for her (Michelle had warned me before she left that Vicky’s purse and her keys were still in the office). She thanked me and I drove home.

I’ll try tomorrow morning to find out how we dropped the ball on this and to get a longer phone cord before somebody trips on it.

When I got home, I checked the rain gauge (it was misty out, but not enough to use the wipers, except every now and then) and I only had about 1/4 inch of rain. But, maybe it will rain more overnight (it might).

I had a couple of cups of coffee, but still didn’t feel good or awake. I did take a level and draw a line on the tile over the middle of each dowel I’d put in each hole. That way I can tell if the dowel moves when I drill it out.

My plan is to drill a hole in the dowel just a tad bigger than the screw and exactly as deep as the dowel. Then I can screw into the stud and (hopefully) not pull out the dowel.

But, it was already late, I was tired and I decided that could wait.

I heated up some individual-sized Marie Callender’s lasagna (and no, Carl, I didn’t take a picture of it or its paper tray I served it in, lol!) and ate that for dinner.

I watched TV after looking at a magazine I got in the mail. I went to bed at 11:00 PM.