Last Sunday, we had a training exercise for REACT at the OZ Safe Rooms office. We learned more about how to read radars during severe storms. It was rather interesting, even though many of the ones that attended were pretty knowledgeable about radars anyway. I had my laptop with me, trying to keep up with what they were teaching, but I ran into a little problem. One of the other REACT members was walking behind me and got tangled up in my laptop power cord. I grabbed my laptop before he could jerk it off onto the floor, but in the process, I broke the hinge that holds the lid up when the laptop is open. For the rest of the class time, I had to prop something up behind my laptop to keep the lid from falling backwards. I was so upset. I talked to a few of the guys that were in the class and they informed me I would probably need a new laptop.
When they told me that, an idea popped in my head. Gayla’s computer is a Dell and so is mine. Her motherboard went bad on her laptop, so I could possibly see if I could install the mother board off my laptop onto hers and then just use her laptop. I don’t know if that will work or not, so I have sent an email to a friend of mine to see if the two mother boards are compatible. Needless to say, my laptop is sitting at home on the kitchen table. I can’t carry it with me anymore since the lid is broken, so I have just left it plugged in at the kitchen table and use it when I get home from work.
Speaking of the house…..we had a little problem with the garage door sensor last weekend, so Karla disconnected it temporarily. The problem is, she doesn’t remember how to reconnect it back. Because of that, we can’t use our remotes to get the garage door open, so we are having to go through our front door now to get into the house. To top it all off, somehow or another, a stray cat has made its way into our garage. I have no idea how it got there because we have not had our garage door open for several days. I could hear it last night, but when I opened the back door, it took off and hid. I finally decided to open the back door of the garage (that leads to the backyard) in hopes it would leave the garage during the night last night. When I got up this morning, I noticed somebody had shut the back door, so I bet the cat is still in the garage.
Yesterday, I had to change shifts with my co-worker and work 11 am – 8 pm. I did this because our City Hall Carolers were going to sing Christmas carols before the City Council meeting Tuesday morning and we were so shorthanded at work, the only way I could go was to find someone to cover my shift. So, we sang at City Council (which was televised live on Cox Channel 20) and then sang at the 420 W. Main building, the 100 building and then the credit union. We were done by 9:30 am, so I had an hour and a half to kill before I had to be at work. I drove home, changed shoes and shirts and then headed back to work. I worked until 12:45 pm and then myself, my supervisor and another co-worker, headed to a church on the south side of OKC to attend the funeral of a lady that worked here at Line Maintenance. Her daughter works in dispatch with us, so we attended to give her moral support.
City Hall Carolers
Afterwards, I came back to the office, went to lunch and then worked the rest of my shift until 8 pm. It was not an easy shift because we were rather busy.
This evening is our youth Christmas party at church. We are suppose to play dirty Santa and eat pizza. I will be very busy after work, buying some extra gifts and picking up the pizza.
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