Freitag (Friday).

  • Stopped at my credit union¹ on the way to work. I pulled into the ATM line behind a man in a truck. No worries. He wasn’t using the ATM, he was rooting around in his truck. And the line behind me grew. Turns out that he was making a deposit. Okay, that’s fine. Let me correct that: He was making three deposits. And he apparently didn’t have anything prepared when he drove up. So, I (and the people behind me) got to sit and wait and sit and wait and (you get the idea) …while he prepped and input all three deposits. *SIGH* He finished and drove off. I used the ATM, drove off… and caught up to him at the next traffic light.
  • Went to work. Worked a full day and almost six (6) hours of that was in flats processing. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong wit’ that!”
  • Came home.
  • Went to dinner with Jess and Angie. Angie and I both took our sketchbooks to the restaurant; after Jess left for work, we took them out and sat at the table half-eating/half-drawing. A couple of boys from the table across from us came over and watched us for a bit. One of them said,”You guys draw really good.” It was a very nice compliment; it was also good for me because I am getting less self-conscious about drawing in public (other than Borders).
  • Came home and haven’t done much since. I did discover that the problems that we’ve had with the network seems to be attributable to a burned-out power supply in our hub. Joy. Hopefully, Ye Shack of Radios carries a suitable replacement; I would have checked their site, but it is down for “scheduled maintenance.” And as for the Linksys site, makers of my hub: Their site seems to have entered the Bermuda Triangle. Can you say,”More than slightly irritating,” boys and girls? I can.

And on a lighter note: Sissy is sitting here, watching me enter this and looking up, as if to say,”You are free to pet me at any time while you’re sitting there.” Cats are funny.

I’m tapped (The Abyss: 1 black and 3 colorless mana), so that’s all for tonight.

Peace.

¹ Utah is rife with credit unions. There are a few large banks here (Bank One, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo), but none of them is my bank, Bank of America. I think that there was something passed in the state legislature many moons ago that makes it easier (or exclusive) for CUs to flourish here, but I can’t swear to that. All I know is that Nevada seems to have the closest BoA ATMs to here; thank Heaven for the Internet. But, it was funny to see all of the BoA ads and billboards here during the Olympics… with nothing else to show for it. No buildings. No banks. No ATMs. Go figure.