Yes, the "... or we'll shoot this dog" banner is finally gone. That was getting annoying, and I wonder how many dogs were harmed in the time I had that up ^^; (I also found out, despite giving at least 2 referrals, I didn't get a red cent from the affiliate program. I need to bitch about that more actively.)

Removed the "Recent Entries" section from the sidebar since all the entries it listed are viewable on the front page, and without individual entry page generation the entire section linked to the same thing (and without using the anchors, even). Also took the opportunity to -finally- add a few link buttons. I'll figure out what else to add later. AnimeJUNGLE's button is far too long, though.

I -almost- finished mowing the lawn today, except at the tail end of the job, I was making a turn around a tree when instead the lawnmower decided to slip into the ditch that we dump all the grass clippings in. (Remember that I've done grass clipping collection at least two or three times? I ended up stuck in a month's worth of decomposing grass.)

Yes, I was, more or less, stuck in a compost heap.

We actually had to call our neighbor to help push me out, and by that time, it had begun to rain - heavily. We've been getting short but torrential downpours for the past several months, and it's getting really annoying - I think I've seen more rain this past month than I have since the turn of the millenium. It makes it impossible to mow lawn on a regular schedule, too, since lawn has to be dry when you mow it.

Well, at least the rain washed off all the decomposing crap that got on me.

Immediately showered then headed off to work. Once again, left early, and once again, hit ridiculously slow traffic, and the obligatory people-who-have-no-business-owning-a-license idiots all over the place as well. I wasn't late, but for leaving early, I sure came close. Yes, it's fucking impossible to get to the mall with any sort of time to spare.

Calvin left when I got there, leaving me with Dan, the new assistant manager. Jason, our old assistant manager, was promoted and given management of the store in Frederick Towne. (At least, that's what I think it's called - it's only a few minutes away from Francis Scott Key.) Dan had transferred from that very store, and this was my first time meeting him.

I have to say... he reminds me of an older, white version of one of my friends at MC. He's not a bad guy, but gets a little carried away when talking about things. He's even worse on the fullscreen vs. widescreen thing than I am - he won't stop even when the customer has already gotten the point. x_x Working with him went relatively smoothly, since he's been with the company for a long time - I only had to tell him some of our store-specific nuances.

Well, smoothly, if we had a working communication system for the registers.

I spent the entire day asking people to pay via cash if they possibly could, because all credit card purchases had to be authorized via phone - the registers were not able to communicate to the outside world. Checks were an even bigger pain as those have to be authorized vocally to a live operator. Gift cards were next to impossible to process. So, yeah, we ended up with long lines of people as transactions were taking ridiculously long with us having to wait for the other to be done with the phone so we could authorize credit card charges.

And, if we were both occupied at the register, guess what was going on at the back of the store? -_-

Some product was stolen and not very well hidden, but the real kicker - someone had managed to urinate in one of the Care Bears wastebuckets we sell.

That HAS to be a new one.

We also didn't get out of the store until 10:45. Vacuuming took forever, as usual, but usually when I vacuum, most of the work at the counter is done by the time I'm finished, and all I have to do is count the money. Not so this time.

And, that was pretty much the day. My days are getting progressively worse from the looks of it. I'm not liking this trend.

If I don't hear anything from Adorama about my digicam by Tuesday, I'm calling them. It should have shipped by now, or at least they should have told me if there was a problem. I want my new $460 toy already =P