Finall!y! Something Goes Right For...ME!

I used to work from home two days per week. That's when I was at my dream job where I made some really good friends. Also, if for any reason you really needed to work from home another day...no problem, no questions. You wake up and there's a little snow? Working from home. You need Thur and Fri as opposed to Tue, Thur...no problem. You need 4 days from home this week? Ok. It was easy to schedule things that required people at your house....contractors, deliveries, maintenance. When you have that for 4 years, you miss it about a month after it ends. I could still do it when I worked for HELL (yes, you remember) and I've done it once before for my new job, but there is no regular schedule for it. Well, my daughter's school has the craziest last week schedule that I've ever heard of. It consists of two half days, followed by a day off, followed by a half day, followed by a two hour day. Not sure what dual income families are supposed to do with that....but we manage. I asked to work from home today about a month ago when my "real" boss told me I needed to be here to cover one day. No problem. Being that I'm going to be here, I scheduled a few things. One was the hard wood floor installation which is going splendidly. As it turns out, the installer is a Yinz'er. When dude shows up wearing a Steelers shirt, all is going to go well. I hooked him up with a Bettis IC can. I'm sure I'm getting better attention than most. I also scheduled my switch over to FiOS tv. While I need Direct TV to get my Stiller games, the DTV techs were not able to secure the HD signal at my house which borders a park with very high trees. Easy solution. Keep 1 line of basic DTV for football season and then cancel it until next year. Bring on the WOW of FiOS to everything else. Just what the Sony Bravia-XBR4 ordered. Lastly, I have my furnace serviced on a contract and he comes in the spring and fall. I hooked that up for today as well. So, besides having all those people here, I still needed to work online and keep my daughter busy. At 7:00 AM my phone rang.....my boss. Turns out the power was out at the office due to a tree falling and it wasn't expected to be on anytime soon. They were sending people home. Jackpot! The office is 13 miles away and we have some pretty big tree limbs down in my yard. He called back around 9 and I cringed....I was dreading the "you can get on now" call. Nope. Was told to stay tuned for news about tomorrow that it still might not be fixed. There is a God in heaven. Is that the pool I hear calling? Oh yeah, the floor looks kickass....pics to follow at some point.