Unexpected day off

Or "Carpe Diem Off"? (Excuse my deplorable Latin)

I was in the act of punching in, when "Jake", the Frenchman's stand-in from the grocery department came up to me and asked me if I'd like to take the day off. At first I was surprised, then I realized the store was very empty. One of the two Cheryls who work the morning shift was puckishly singing that Moody Blues song "All By Myself".

Well, I accepted his offer: I could certainly use the extra five hours to get some housework done and work on some of these writing projects I'm looking at...

Giving up on GAFF

Arrggh...

First, after the board got changed, I had a hard time posting. Then, it wouldn't let me look at more than three to five pages in an *HOUR* without getting a lot of "Board Error" messages. Now, I can't seem to get the dumb thing to load at all. Anyone else having this problem? I've got some bad "Matrix" fic I want to spork, and I have no place to spork it.