March 2006 Archives

...just damn
. That is the only thing that I could think as I read the story.

What really struck me about really had nothing to do with the crime itself. Early in the article, there is a section that reads:

Emily Kurtz, who lives below the house the three men rented at 541 Peace Mountain Road off Allens Creek Road, said she noticed men in cars with out-of-state plates visiting the home off and on since she moved to the neighborhood in January.

Kurtz said the men kept to themselves, rarely waved and never spoke.

Ok, so this was enough for you to call the police? What the fuck happened to privacy? I understand that there are lots of arguments, such as that they could have been making or dealing drugs, etc..., but if they weren't actually caught in a criminal act in public, who really gives a fuck. I don't know. It just strikes me as wrong, even though the end result was probably right.

*WARNING* - Don't click if you are hysterically afraid of being sexually harrassed. In other words, this is a guy link.

I was shopping for a nice new workout bike and came across this one.

...if they were dead, KISS would be rolling over in their graves. Anyway, back to the subject at hand. My mom always wanted me to be a doctor. Hell, just think of the fun I could be having right now.

I am not particularly rleigious, but I feel like everyone should be able to worship, or NOT worship, however they choose, and leave everyone else alone. After having read the article linked to below, I think that Tom DeLay just needs to go fuck himself.

Chron.com | DeLay sees war on Christianity in U.S.

I missed the VH1 showing, was happy to find this.

It's spring break again for the kids, as well as Stephanie. This will be the first one in a while that I was not able to take my vacation when they do. She and the girls are going down to Hilton Head this weekend. I am keeping Chris here, have to drag him to work with me this weekend. He is going to have to start saving some money to help pay for car insurance, as well as a car, if I don't get the van fixed first. I don't think that he realizes just how much money it actually takes. Gonna find out though. I guess I will stop in at my insurance agent and see how much my policy is going to cost to add him. That is just going to suck.

I mentioned that I might post about my cook, and why he is on probation. I think that I shall do so today.

I inherited most of my associates from the previous manager when I tookthe store in '93. I probably would not have hired most of them myself, but you do with what you have sometimes.

I used to have this college girl that worked my 2nd shift. She was pretty and personable on the outside, but like most women, her head was full of fucking snakes. She fucked anything that moved. I know that she pretty blatantly offered on several occasions, but I learned a long time ago to just act like I don't even notice, and eventually they go away.

It took about a year or so, but after having slept with most of my other cooks, and probably some of the customers, she and my 1st shift cook hooked up and started dating. Of course she was still sleeping around, but that didn't seem to bother him much, that or he is just fucking stupid. Maybe a combination of both.

A little over a year ago I got a new manager trainee (for some strange reason they keep sticking me with the job of training new managers). He is a pretty nice guy. He was there for maybe a month or so before he nailed this waitress that my cook was dating. Needless to say, this made for a coupple of interesting encounters. Eventually it got to the point where she was with the manager more than her boyfriend, so he shows up at the trainees house one night, probably geeked up on something, and proceeds to beat the crap out of the guy. Broke several ribs, even broke his own hand. Should have used a baseball bat.

He gets to spend a couple of days in jail, the trainee spends the day at the hospital. Another day in fucking paradise. In a perfect world, I would have fired the waitress, and the manager trainee. The cook didn't really do anything wrong as far as his job was concerned since all of this happened off site. We do have fraternization rules which had been explained at length to the trainee, so he was perfectly aware that just by seeing the waitress, he was violating company policy.

I ended up letting the waitress transfer to another store so she could find some new guys to fuck. She moved in with the manager trainee (and works for him now that he has his own store). I kept my cook, but of course he ended up on probation due to all of this. Now he is spending some quality time with the rest of the crack-heads in Carroll County jail on a probation hold.

I will probably suck it up and just cook his shifts for a month or so, which is when he goes back to court. If they don't let him out in April, it will be June, and I am going to replace his ass long before then. It's not that I mind cooking his shifts, but I am basically lazy and don't feel like I should have to work that damn hard after 19 years.

More about the snake lady

My animal loving waitress also happens to have a house full of snakes. Not garden snakes and the like, but fucking poisonous snakes. Cobras, Rattle Snakes, and shit like that. Her "old man" known as Snake Man. No shit. They raise snakes and handle snakes. Sell them to the whacked out Baptists and shit. Today her complaint is with our insurance and the fact that they won't pay for Ambien or soemthing like that, so she can't sleep. Hell, with a bunch of fucking snakes in the house and dogs that kill each other I couldn't sleep either, especially thinking about that upcoming patchouli smell in the next couple of months. They are both actually pretty nice people, but damn. I just don't know some days. I though that I was pretty fucked up growing up, but nowadays I think that my folks did a pretty good job.

Due to the fact that one of my morning shift cooks is spending at least the next month in the iron-bar motel, I am having to get up at 3:30am to go in and get my prep and inventory finished early. It's either that or be stuck there until 5 or 6 in the evening. I think maybe I will be hitting the sack soon.

The dumb sonofabitch lives (lived) in one of those rent by the week motels. He left his most recent visit to his probation officer to go home, was walking up the stairs to his room, looks over and says to his neighbor, "Hey, those cops over there are watching you". Big fucking mistake. He is now sitting in the county jail until next month on a probation hold. The pain killers he had in his pocket didn't help.

Just remember, you can't cure stupid.

Back when I opened our store in the big city of Tallapoosa GA in '98, I hired this old hippy chick. She is probably only a few years older than me, but like all of Jerry's kids (Garcia, that is), she looks a lot older than she actually is. She did ok for a while, then started coming to work either stoned or drunk. Which it was didn't really matter to me, so I shit-canned her hippy ass.

So who do I see working in my current shop when I leave the office and decide to go back into management? Same damn lady. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, and let her continue working. She is one of those extremely dependable people. She always shows up for work when she is supposed to, generally on time or a couple of minutes later. I consider on time to mean that you show up for your shift at least 10-15 minutes before it starts. I start worrying after that, and start calling in replacements. She tells me that she has gotten clean as well. She is, if you consider massive amounts of pain killers, and anti-depressants being clean.

There is always some kind of drama going on in her life. This is the same lady that I think I posted about awhile back, that called in because her dog died. I guess she got the message, because she showed up for work today. She told me, and anyone else that would listen, all about having to bury her dog yesterday. I guess I am just getting cranky in my old age, or her shit is just wearing thin, because all I could think was "damn, why don't you shut the fuck up, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK".

It's not that I don't have empathy for her. Hell, I cry at sappy cartoons. It doesn't take much for me. If I run over something that happens along onto my road at the same time, I am truly sorry. Sometimes the same old shit just gets old.

Currently (besides one of her dogs dying) she is trying to get the ACLU to sue the county where she lives in Alabama. It actually sounds like she might have a valid complaint, but that's not important in the hippy scheme of things. I guess her county has a contract with a garbage service. You are required by law to use them. They don't pick up very regularly, lots of garbage just sitting at the street. She finally decided that she was not going to pay her bill anymore, that she would just bring her trash to work and dump it there. Do they stop her irregular trash service? Nope. They arrested her ass. Hahaha. She knew it was coming, has been talking about it for months. I guess she just decided that it was going to be her form of protest. The only sticking point here is that her trash service is under an assumed name. That is because she registered her car under an assumed name. Why? Always something.

Once summer hits she always goes down to part time so that she can live down on the river with the rainbow people, not bath, and generally smell like that nasty patchouli shit. Maybe she can hang out with Dax's employee out in the fucking woods.

Why spend so much time dwelling upon some hippy? I don't have a clue. Guess I just needed to find something to write and venting makes me feel so much better. If I can't take this garbage out on you guys, who can I take it out on. They arrest you for beating your children.

Part of my job is dealing with a big old bunch of diverse people and making them all get along, so I guess it is better for me to complain about them here. A bunch of people that were all like me would suck anyway.

I finally set up the second monitor today, and I must say, this kicks ass. About the only way that this could be nicer would be better multi-monitor support in Windows XP instead of having to use Nview. Also a second flat screen instead of this huge ass CRT on my desk. Still cool though.

Some of my apps don't seem to play nice with it though. Gonna have to start filing bug reports with Stardock I suppose.

Thanks to the infinite wisdom of higher ups who are afraid to do a bit of work, my manager trainee was pulled from my store to help another new manager that is having problems in her store, and instead of getting in 38 productive hours over the weekend, we managed to get in 14, because I had to work 1st shift and run my store. About $250 in wasted payroll. Just don't complain to me about the high payroll this week buddy.

For some stupid reason I have scheduled myself to cook 3rd shift Friday and Saturday night. I am already regretting it, but the break will be kind of nice. It will give one of my trainees an opportunity to run the store while I snooze anyway. Save a good chunk of payroll as well. Unfortunately one of my day cooks is now in the damn pokey, so my staffing this weekend is going to be kind of iffy. I've already re-scheduled myself to work 7pm to 7am Friday and Saturday. Get to hang out with all the drunk college chicks anyway. Until they puke. Then it's time to throw their fucking asses out (after they clean up the mess).

Wow, it's been almost two weeks since I last posted. I've had a lot of stuff going on both at work and at home (not to mention that my PC was still offline for awhile. Anna is playing softball this season, so we have been pretty busy four nights a week. She is having a good time with it, which is the important thing. I have been putting 90% of my energy into work, and work-related issues. Had to get up at 4am today to finish a report that I should have done several days ago.

As much as I have said that I want to stay in a single unit until I retire, over the last few months my thinking has changed on that and I am trying to get promoted. I will be 55 or so when my youngest finally finishes High School, and I don't particularly want to wait until then to start saving for retirement. Not to mention the fact that I would like to be able to do things, like going to Disney last fall, without it breaking the fucking bank. In short, I need the money. I am currently on the promoteable list, but I am basically going to have to wait until one of the three district managers in my immediate area either get fired, or promoted. Either is entirely possible, but it could be 6 days, or six months. Since I am not willing to move at the current time, that kind of limits my options. Once Chris graduates in May '07, that may change. I asked Stephanie for a list of places she does not want to live, and I will turn in another application for promotion (whether I am in a store or district) at that time, and let them know where I am willing to go.

I haven't even taken the time to read anyone else's blog the last couple of weeks, and since I only have a few minutes left this morning, I may ready one, or two. Perhaps tonight I will have time. I have to finish working on someone's laptop that I should have finished last night though. I may take it to work and see if I can get it done there today if it is slow.

Everyone is still looking for someone to pin the blame on. I can understand some of this, but if you want to help, put your energy into helping the people of the gulf coast, whether that be to going down for a few days to help out, or sending money to the red cross. Whatever.

Expose the Left � Blanco Says Levees Are Safe (VIDEO)

It makes me wonder. Just the fact that she actually knows who Stryper is made me laugh for a second or two. I grew up a metal head in the late seventies, all the way through the early 90's, and I even listened to them for a day or two until I realized just how bad they fucking sucked.

Tiny Voices In My Head

Just be happy that he didn't jack off on the painting. Hehehe.

BTW, I particularly like "Ghost Riders in the Sky"

In High Cotton���A sticky situation