Having to be in at work at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday sucks enough when it's a one-time event ... when it's "business as usual," it makes me want to hurt people.

I'm getting ready to go in to work by 5:30 a.m. today. Laurie's parents are coming to visit this afternoon; they'll probably get here before I get home, or shortly thereafter. They are staying the night and going back tomorrow afternoon sometime.

Then I go to work Monday at 5:00 a.m., Tuesday at 5:00 a.m., Wednesday at 5:00 a.m., Thursday at 5:00 a.m., have Friday off, and go in Saturday at 5:30 a.m.

I don't know what the week after that will be like yet, because the schedule isn't up -- but it I know I won't be there that Saturday, or any other Saturday after that. I am jazzed about that ... I just wish it was sooner!

One minor tidbit ... had a big power outage last night, but it seems to be fixed now. But my cable is dead. Good thing I have an old Prodigy account hidden away...

-The Gneech