Night of the Raging Winds

Got a quick start to the day with breakfast and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse short "Building a Building." Mickey and Pete are working on a new building, but Micky keeps accidentally dumping dirt on Pete. Pete steals Mickey's lunch, making a good thing Minnie and Pluto are selling box lunches. When Pete decides to steal Minnie too, the chase is on in the steel girders. Pete manages to catch up with the two, until he's undone by his own riveter.

Though it was sunny, the wind blew something fierce today, and my right knee is still sore. I called for Uber. No problems here at all. The morning driver didn't even take two minutes. I did have to wait twelve minutes for the evening driver, but they were coming during the tail end of rush hour.

Spent the rest of my second eight and a half hour shift sweeping and pushing carts, this time with no trouble whatsoever. It was sunny and relatively warm, in the upper 40's when you could get out of the wind, and we're now between holidays. It did pick up a little around 11 AM-noon, and I did have to rush to get some cold items put away at the end of the day. Otherwise, we were dead almost the entire afternoon. I even got a bonus from the floral department manager for doing so well helping her with the arrangements the week of Valentine's Day. 

My schedule next week is a bit closer to normal, though I still have more than I had last week. Early work all week, one long day next Saturday when the head bagger took the day off again. Four days off and an early and short shift on Wednesday will give me plenty of time for the three interviews that contacted me and to get together with Jessa.

Went into Match Game Syndicated when I got home. Poor Eva Gabor wasn't happy that the Star Wheel kept landing on her during the week with her, Fred Grandy, Gary Burghoff, and Marcia Wallace, including three times in a row. At one point, the contestant's answer to "__ Lost" was "Toenail Lost," referring to how poor Eva lost her toenail when a contestant accidentally stepped on her foot. She didn't get it, but Gene did relate the entire story, including how Eva put ice on her toe and kept playing.

Finished the night with a far spookier episode of The Wild Wild West. Artemis Gordon's imagination gets pretty wild too when he dreams that he, James West, a Texas sheriff, and the prisoner they're transporting end up in a dusty, cobwebby old house. They don't think anything of the sobbing noises they keep hearing, until they realize it's "The Night of the Man-Eating House," and this house comes with a ghost. In Artemis' nightmare, the prisoner turns out to be a madman who turns back time so he can infect all of Texas with a plague and return it to the Mexicans.