All the storm hoopla has passed. I did, however, sleep with my laptop on top of the ottoman next to my bed. Our local NBC affiliate has a special weather program that announces any special weather situation---the meteorologist voice actually comes out and says " This is Joe Smith with a First Warning Weather Alert....." . It woke me up about 5 times last night. I had to check it only because it could have been tornadic. Plus our freaking Dish network satellite doesn't work in the hard rain!!!! AND WE DON'T EVEN GET LOCAL ON THE 8's from the Weather Channel! Oh, this is not going to work. I am switching back to something that works as soon as my one year obligation is over.

Yesterday afternoon was aimless. I just read the weather stuff that came faxed over to us by our Accuweather people. Frankly, I gleaned more info from NOAA and the local NBC station. I took my laptop into the control room with me while I was on the air. We already have two computers in there, it looked like NASA Mission Control in there! Unfortunately, I cannot print from any of the computers in there so I have to copy whatever I need into an email and fwd it to our Administrative Assistant at the front desk, who in turn printed it for me and then ran it back to the control room to me. I did get a chance to catch up with alot of my friends from all over the USA yesterday. I let everyone know that it was all much ado about nothing regarding the storm. It did give me the opportunity to invite everyone  to hop onto our station website: kftx.com and click on the listen live button.

A bunch of businesses were closed yesterday, which is really bad for some people who depend on their weekly hours to survive, like the gals at the Subway Sandwich Shop across the street. That $40 missing from their paycheck really hurts them. At least the minimum wage is going up today. Listen to this, their boss told them he was giving them a raise! What an asshole! Raise my ass! He is mandated by the Federal Government to pay them the new minimum wage!

But what can you do? What can they do? They need their jobs. They aren't qualified to do much of any other kind of work. It gets better. The owner of the shop is closing down for about 5 days to remodel. So, is this a layoff? Hell, what are these gals gonna do?

Thank God, I have skills and a husband that supports our household.

OMG! I almost forgot, have you seen MAD MEN? More in another post!!!!