Commentary: The normal weekly routine for running the Fish Fry is: Make coleslaw & prep potatos on Thursday afternoon, put out signage on Thursday evening to catch the Friday morning commuters, hold the fry on Friday, fetch the fish for the next Friday's fry on Saturday. Last Sunday (30 March), the entire Holy Redeemer campus lost electrical power due to a severe windstorm; power was not restored until Wednesday (3 April); power went out again for a while on Thursday. Due to the need to clean the building after the power outage, coleslaw & baked potato prep was moved from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. No one was able to access the parish hall to check on the temperature of the thawing fish in the locked cooler (the building is accessed through electronic keycards, which obviously do not work absent electricity); so, I had to procure a whole new stock of fish, which began thawing at the fishmonger's market, because there was no point in acquiring new stock if I had no place to store it. With power finally restored & the hall cleaned, I picked up & put in the cooler the already thawing replacement fish (my Saturday job); then, I helped make the coleslaw & prep the potatoes (my Thursday job); then, the usual Friday Fish Fry. What a cartoonishly frenetic day!
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