The Blankety Blank Full Moon

 Im worked on for jours of sleep her.   And my fingers don't work all that good.  I knew it was coming, but never did I EVER expect it to end like this.  I've told you about Bingo on a full moon, well this night was epic.  So epic in fact that I'll warn you when I get to the bad part.

It started off quite nicely ... I said goodbye to my company and worked on the puzzle a bit.  We got the table set up for the infamous one, but I'd like to finish this one up first, just to say I did it.  Progress!

I spent 30 minutes scrounging through every drawer in my house looking for the birthday cards I bought 7 years ago.  I'm due at a birthday party for one of my favorite Elks gals.  There's cake, so you know I'm not missing out on that!  It was fun and we had a great time laughing.  

Little did I know what was to come.  Once organized, we opened the doors and went to work.  We whipped through 108 folks in 60 minutes.  I think that's a record.  All the while in the back of my mind, I was thinking about the full moon.  

And then it happened.  At my usual time of 8:30, I closed out the debit card machine and unplugged it.  When I turned back around and hit the enter key on the infernal machine, nothing happened.  No wait ... it's just operator error.  I turned the power strip on and off.  Nothing.  Soon I was frantically plugging in, unplugging, hitting keys and freaking out.  NOTHING.

I notified the King that I was dead in the water.  Full Moon I'm telling you!!  We got an extension cord and tried it in another outlet.  NOTHING.  No no no no ... it can't be!!  I took it apart and looked for the battery compartment.  The batteries, only a year old, were corroded beyond recognition.  The whole thing is dead as a doornail.

We did CPR by unplugging the extension cord and plugging it back in three times  WAIT ... there's life ... a heartbeat!!  YAY WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS.  

NOOOOO that's the wrong code in the display!  The infernal machine completely lost its mind ... and all of its programming!!  I was instantly irritated!!!  I can get the box open to get the cash out, but all of the data I need is gone with the wind.  To make it even worse, try as we might to find another one on the internet, they don't make them any more.

The only alternative at this point is to try and reprogram it.  Do you have any idea how long that will take me?  INSTANT MIGRAINE!!  Yup .. the full moon did a REAL BIG one on me this night.

So let's make it even better.  Here is the part where if you are squeamish, you can quit reading.  

I did not see the homeless lady walk in pushing a cart with a dog in it.  She went straight to the bathroom.  You know what's coming, and I don't want you to loose your lunch.

She refused to leave.  One of the Knights saw her go in and knocked on the door.  She refused to answer.  He tried several times to get her out of the bathroom, but she refused.  He finally threatened to call the cops.  At long last, she came out, saying she was waiting for her husband to finish playing bingo.  Well we knew that was a lie.

Ten seconds later people started complaining.  This lady let her dog poop on the floor, whereupon she wiped it all over.  She apparently used the toilet, but missed it completely.  To make it even more disgusting, there were sanitary napkin products smeared all over the floor and walls.  WHAT THE HELL?????  WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!!

I'm sorry, I can handle anything horse or cow, but I'm NOT going in there!!  I am NOT cleaning that up.  OMG I feel so bad for the morning cleaning crew.  People can be absolutely DISGUSTING!!!

And so ended the night, or so I thought.  I was ready to head out the door, except everyone forgot to count the PIG money ... the donations from winners.  I can do it in 30 seconds, but NOOOO ... the guys insisted.    I sat down and waited 20 minutes for them to sort and count it out.  I was just SO frustrated.

I got home 90 minutes late, which means no sleep for me.  It means I'll be too tired and headachy to head to the store.  Nancy is a grumpy grump today.  Luckily there's no one here to take it out on.

And so I look forward to at least four hours of reprogramming machine number one and another four hours on machine number two because someone left it unplugged and all its memory disappeared.  I'm hoping beyond hope that it holds and the machine will still work.  No one wants to learn a new touchscreen machine, me included.  

Thank you does NOT go out to the blankety blank Moon Gods on THIS day!!!  Maybe a morning Bloody Mary will help!!