Rain, Rain, Go Away!
It's been raining for days here, and very steadily. Our dirt roads are a MESS because of it. You know how if you hum or talk while going over something bumpy it makes your voice do funny things? Like if someone pats your back while you're going 'ahhhhhhhhhh' (the 'open wide' ahhh, not the screaming ahhh). That's about the only perk of our road right now. I was in the truck with the kid that's working with the guys to help build the cabins and he now thinks I'm nuts because I showed him how fun the horrible roads are with my voice trick. Eh, at least I have fun.
One other horrible thing about this rain is that it's been screwing with our internet connection. Everyone has to reload a page 5-6 times to get it to load properly. I've reset the internet a bunch of times, which seems to help for a few minutes, but I can't keep doing that. The modem is actually in one of the guest cabins, which I'm not happy about. The reason it's stupid is because the main phone line goes to that cabin, which means there are three things I don't have access to:
1. The base phone. This is trouble, as one guest demonstrated when she unplugged the phone and plugged it into her computer thinking it would give her internet. Innocent enough mistake, but none of the other phones worked on the grounds because they're all portables that feed back to that one base phone and I couldn't fix it because it was an awkward time to be bothering a guest.
2. The internet. If it goes out, I run the risk of not being able to fix it so as not to bother a guest. There is also, once again, too much room for a guest to uplug something etc. This actually happened once, too. The power strip was unplugged to allow for something of theirs that needed to be plugged in, which meant both the phone and internet were out. This was great because I had ZERO contact with Frenchy that way. the landline and internet are our lifelines because I get no cell reception here.
3. The credit card machine. It has to be plugged into the phone jack. . . which is in a guest cabin. Stupid! I shouldn't have to bother a guest to use their cabin while I run other people's credit cards. That's just plain old ridiculous. The other day it kicked me in the butt a little bit, too, which I wasn't happy about.
I've asked that the line be run into my cabin so I have a jack, too. This wouldn't take much, either. I'm about 6 feet from the main cabin and where I'm closest to the cabin is actually where the phone line is in there! Outdoor wire seems to me to be the extent of the fix. We've also got an electrician here regularly for the wiring of the new cabin. So far I've been told No, it's not happening, because it's only an issue for a little over a month. I haven't presented my reasoning, as above, so hopefully I'll make some headway when I do. I'm a little frustrated by the executive decision-maker because I rarely get through when I do make my case. Okay, so now I'm just complaining, but I got really mad yesterday. She was down here and within 2 minutes I was already pissed because right away two things happened. 1. I was told not to refer to my shack as 'spider cabin' in front of guests. I wasn't told, but I was given the sly don't-do-that-again look when I said it with a guest present. Puhleeze, they can see it's practically a shed. Since when do sheds not have spiders? Since when does any dwelling not have a few spiders?! How do people know I'm not calling it Spider cabin because I have a spider fetish and keep them as pets and decided to name my own little cabin after them? The other cabins are Moose, Bear, and King Salmon. I'm following the theme of the woods, here! It's not like I'm saying the other cabins are full of spiders! Plus, We're in the woods. If you don't expect to see spiders in the woods, you've got issues. I mean, it's not okay to name my shack Spider cabin, but it's okay for me to expect guests to move to a new, smaller cabin for the last 2 nights of their stay and while I'm at it make THEM move an entire twin bed over there for themselves because there aren't enough beds over there for them, and all because of Scheduling issues (more on that later)?!?!?! Let's get our priorities straight, here! That Spider cabin thing was a minorly maddening event, because I can partially see why she might be paranoid of giving people the wrong idea, but that was just the start. The #2 reason I'm mad is because scheduling has been a big mess, which has caused several issues, but I'll just give one example here. Check-in time is 3pm, checkout is 11am. I don't think the guests are being told this when they make reservations, which makes my life hell, in addition to making even having check-in and checkout times utterly pointless. yesterday some guests arrived at 10am! That's TOO EARLY! It's not fun to have to tell someone they can't check in, and it's not good business, either! I told her how early they came and her response was that I "should always be ready for guests, no matter what." HOW CAN I POSSIBLY BE READY FOR THEM IF THE PREVIOUS GUESTS HAVEN'T CHECKED OUT?!?!?!?! Not gonna pin the blame on me for this one! Okay, I'm done ranting. I apologize, I'm witchy right now. I fell asleep at 12:30am and woke up at 3:30am with a horrible headache and that's all the sleep I got and I still have the headache (4 hours, 2 advil and 2 excedrine later. . .)
One final note. Because the internet is so stupid, navigating several pages to do a blog entry has become too much so I'm piloting emailed blog entries. It's possible to set it up to basically write an email to your blog and it'll automatically be published. This will be the first time and I probably won't be able to see if it publishes correctly because getting my email to function is work enough, nevermind getting to a blog page! If there are any problems, Sorry, and I'll fix it later!
It's been raining for days here, and very steadily. Our dirt roads are a MESS because of it. You know how if you hum or talk while going over something bumpy it makes your voice do funny things? Like if someone pats your back while you're going 'ahhhhhhhhhh' (the 'open wide' ahhh, not the screaming ahhh). That's about the only perk of our road right now. I was in the truck with the kid that's working with the guys to help build the cabins and he now thinks I'm nuts because I showed him how fun the horrible roads are with my voice trick. Eh, at least I have fun.
One other horrible thing about this rain is that it's been screwing with our internet connection. Everyone has to reload a page 5-6 times to get it to load properly. I've reset the internet a bunch of times, which seems to help for a few minutes, but I can't keep doing that. The modem is actually in one of the guest cabins, which I'm not happy about. The reason it's stupid is because the main phone line goes to that cabin, which means there are three things I don't have access to:
1. The base phone. This is trouble, as one guest demonstrated when she unplugged the phone and plugged it into her computer thinking it would give her internet. Innocent enough mistake, but none of the other phones worked on the grounds because they're all portables that feed back to that one base phone and I couldn't fix it because it was an awkward time to be bothering a guest.
2. The internet. If it goes out, I run the risk of not being able to fix it so as not to bother a guest. There is also, once again, too much room for a guest to uplug something etc. This actually happened once, too. The power strip was unplugged to allow for something of theirs that needed to be plugged in, which meant both the phone and internet were out. This was great because I had ZERO contact with Frenchy that way. the landline and internet are our lifelines because I get no cell reception here.
3. The credit card machine. It has to be plugged into the phone jack. . . which is in a guest cabin. Stupid! I shouldn't have to bother a guest to use their cabin while I run other people's credit cards. That's just plain old ridiculous. The other day it kicked me in the butt a little bit, too, which I wasn't happy about.
I've asked that the line be run into my cabin so I have a jack, too. This wouldn't take much, either. I'm about 6 feet from the main cabin and where I'm closest to the cabin is actually where the phone line is in there! Outdoor wire seems to me to be the extent of the fix. We've also got an electrician here regularly for the wiring of the new cabin. So far I've been told No, it's not happening, because it's only an issue for a little over a month. I haven't presented my reasoning, as above, so hopefully I'll make some headway when I do. I'm a little frustrated by the executive decision-maker because I rarely get through when I do make my case. Okay, so now I'm just complaining, but I got really mad yesterday. She was down here and within 2 minutes I was already pissed because right away two things happened. 1. I was told not to refer to my shack as 'spider cabin' in front of guests. I wasn't told, but I was given the sly don't-do-that-again look when I said it with a guest present. Puhleeze, they can see it's practically a shed. Since when do sheds not have spiders? Since when does any dwelling not have a few spiders?! How do people know I'm not calling it Spider cabin because I have a spider fetish and keep them as pets and decided to name my own little cabin after them? The other cabins are Moose, Bear, and King Salmon. I'm following the theme of the woods, here! It's not like I'm saying the other cabins are full of spiders! Plus, We're in the woods. If you don't expect to see spiders in the woods, you've got issues. I mean, it's not okay to name my shack Spider cabin, but it's okay for me to expect guests to move to a new, smaller cabin for the last 2 nights of their stay and while I'm at it make THEM move an entire twin bed over there for themselves because there aren't enough beds over there for them, and all because of Scheduling issues (more on that later)?!?!?! Let's get our priorities straight, here! That Spider cabin thing was a minorly maddening event, because I can partially see why she might be paranoid of giving people the wrong idea, but that was just the start. The #2 reason I'm mad is because scheduling has been a big mess, which has caused several issues, but I'll just give one example here. Check-in time is 3pm, checkout is 11am. I don't think the guests are being told this when they make reservations, which makes my life hell, in addition to making even having check-in and checkout times utterly pointless. yesterday some guests arrived at 10am! That's TOO EARLY! It's not fun to have to tell someone they can't check in, and it's not good business, either! I told her how early they came and her response was that I "should always be ready for guests, no matter what." HOW CAN I POSSIBLY BE READY FOR THEM IF THE PREVIOUS GUESTS HAVEN'T CHECKED OUT?!?!?!?! Not gonna pin the blame on me for this one! Okay, I'm done ranting. I apologize, I'm witchy right now. I fell asleep at 12:30am and woke up at 3:30am with a horrible headache and that's all the sleep I got and I still have the headache (4 hours, 2 advil and 2 excedrine later. . .)
One final note. Because the internet is so stupid, navigating several pages to do a blog entry has become too much so I'm piloting emailed blog entries. It's possible to set it up to basically write an email to your blog and it'll automatically be published. This will be the first time and I probably won't be able to see if it publishes correctly because getting my email to function is work enough, nevermind getting to a blog page! If there are any problems, Sorry, and I'll fix it later!
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It's rained with thunder storms all week here. Not constantly, but most of the time! Pretty crappy weather, but tomorrow is supposed to be nice.
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