It took me a minute of clicking around and wondering what I had done wrong before I remembered that I had the Admin Menu Dropdown plugin installed.  Basically, it hid the normal WordPress menu and displayed a pretty, compact, dropdown version.  Well, it still his the menu after the upgrade, which is why I couldn’t find anything.  I disabled it, since the new default menu is much more functional than the 2.6 version.

Of course, I’ve been working at Lexmark as a “contract-to-hire contingent worker” for around five years now, so the whole thing is a bit anticlimactic.  After a few hours of orientation videos and paperwork, I’ll go back to my same desk, performing my same duties with the same co-workers and reporting to the same manager.

Yes, it’s all a bit ridiculous, but at this point I’m not complaining.  Now I just have to figure out what to do for the next hour since my start time today is a full hour after my usual time.

To make things worse one branch of a store might carry three brands of a product, while another branch 3 miles away carries a completely different set of brands.  My feeble human brain cannot comprehend this.  If I can buy, say, Ole brand tortillas at one store, why can I not get that same brand at another store.

I’ve even begun to consider keeping a personal database of items and brands listed by available locations.  This way I could easily manage my list of common items.  A quick script could optimize my shopping, not only telling me the store, but placing the items in the proper order on the list so I don’t have to walk back and forth around the over-crowded, under-stocked maze of doom and despair once a week.

Yes, grocery stores must be part of some evil plot to control the human race.  They just have to be.  Nothing that purely evil, sinister, and unholy could come about on its own.

I’m still debating on the theme.  At one point I was going to roll my own, but then I realized I was too lazy.  I started searching, and then realized that there are a lot of crappy WP themes out there.  So we’ll see…

The WP back-end is much improved, and much easier to use effectively.  So hopefully I’ll remember to post ocassioanlly.  Keep an eye out to see if that’s true.