So, after bringing the computer home on Friday after work, we spent all day Saturday re-arranging furniture and figuring out exactly what's going to go where to give me some "office space" at home. The water bed was drained and has been put away, the regular queen size bed has been moved back into the master bedroom, but instead of using its frame we simply took the lets off the waterbed box spring, set the regular box spring on top, and the mattress on top of that. We lose a little bit of storage from under the bed, but the cats can't hide under the beds any more (although THEY don't think that's a good thing!), and while the bed's just a bit higher, most of the dogs can get on it just fine. Hobgoblin and Elf just run over and jump up, Imp can jump up if he forgets that it's higher, or if he's really eager to get up ... or if he makes a good "try" jump he can grab on with those spindly wee front legs and haul himself up onto the bed (was really funny to watch last night). Angel, however, although she IS able to get up onto the bed (she did this morning with no assistance), has a lack of confidence in her ability to jump that high and comes over then gerbles and burbles and asks to be lifted up. I've got Shep's old dog bed at the foot of the bed again, between it and the high-boy dresser, so she does have a step to use again, but she hasn't tried to use it yet, so we'll see how things go tonight!
Tonight is Maxx's first night on graveyards, which he'll be on for two months. Good timing, really, that I won't be going into work except for once every two weeks, at least during our 90 day trial period for the at home agents. Hopefully I can make an ever better impression on my supervisors while working at home! While we lost our ten-hour splits (should be just the one week left), we can still keep the eight-hour splits. So, I'll be back to two-day weekends, but I'll actually HAVE four hours off on my lunch break, instead of sometimes getting home at almost 2pm and having to leave shortly after 4pm to go back to work.
Since we'd been working so hard and still had lots of stuff piled on the kitchen table waiting for the work-station to be moved so we could set up the computers and shift my old kid's desk into place with the items which go on top of it, we decided to run out to Subway for dinner. It was fairly cold out at the time, about 3 or 4 degrees, and it was starting to rain ... but just a little. By the time I was turning in about midnight, it was REALLY raining. We are talking a complete deluge. As I said to Maxx this morning, it's a good thing it warmed up enough during the night that it didn't fall as snow or we'd have received quite a dump!
Anyhow, need to plug in and turn on the work computer, make sure that all is working smoothly and I can get all my tools loaded up and ready for work first thing Tuesday morning ... although I guess I could do that tomorrow as well. I just want everything to be smooth as silk for my "first" day!
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