Time to go watch some football..
Q: ARE YOU MARRIED?
PAB:Yes. I got married in May 2004.
Q: IS IT TRUE THAT YOU HAVE A TWIN?
PAB: Yes, I have two wonderful sisters: an identical twin and a sister who is a year younger. I don’t have any brothers, but I have three great brothers-in-law and a terrific sister-in-law.
Oh, well, 3 BIL's? Sigh...
We use a phone clock-in system for our employees. The company that manages it is in MS and lost power the morning that Katrina hit. We have about 55 employees and they each call in and out of each job ... and several of them are 'rovers' and work in several buildings each day. That's well over a hundred phone calls that we (mostly me) had to deal with each day of that week ... and manually record and then transfer to my accounting software ... before we got switched to another system.
And in the middle of that, we were in the process of switching back to our regular phone company for both telephone and DSL service after trying unsuccessfully to change to another, cheaper company. I will NEVER do that again. We spent hours and hours over several weeks dealing with the problems the new company said we wouldn't have. It's still not all straightened out. The really bad thing is that our email is affected and many of our customers use email to communicate needs and concerns to us.
And all that was happening the week that we had invoices and payroll to do ... and payroll had to be done in just 2 days instead of the normal 5 because of the Labor Day holiday.
And we had something like 6 employees quit that week and 2 more give notice. We also hired 5 new ones which involves a lot of training.
And something is wrong with my computer at the office and I can't figure out what. Think we're going to have to call in someone who knows what they are doing to straighten it out. My assistant, who excells at some things, is totally clueless about computers, except as fancy typewriters. She told me one day that before I got there a message popped up saying that I needed to uninstall and re-install something but she had no idea what. *sigh*
And then there have been the problems that daughter-child is dealing with and have us quite concerned. Things look ever so slightly better on that front but are quite tenuous.
And that was just one week ... while we were trying to handle the normal details of running a business.
Last week was only slightly better. But hubby and I keep reminding ourselves that at least our business is not under water or blown away, we have a roof over our heads, and a bed that we occasionally find a little time to rest in. I'm very concerned about the toll this is taking on hubby ... it's all put him under an extraordinary amount of stress.
And now I'm keeping a close eye on Ophelia who, at last report, is making a bee-line for my brother's house. He's come through much worse hurricances so we feel ok about this one. Still can't help but be distracted somewhat by that, though.
I'll bet you're sorry you asked ... LOL!
Hope you're feeling better.
lysie ~~~ it may take your m-i-l a while to start feeling the effects of losing her friend. I would keep a close eye on her for signs that she's brooding about the loss for quite some time. *hugs*