Since I moved the Thursday Thong to another sight I always seem to forget to put it up, so I am hereby putting it back here. Be warned, the Thursday Thong can contain adult content, don't click the link if you are easily offended.
Tramp Stamp Tuesday will also return to the site next week due to a couple of folks emailing me and asking why I stopped.
I took the easy way out this week because I am feeling singularly uninspired this morning. These are the first thirteen songs on my party list. Without further ado...
So I haven't really had the time today to think of anything I wanted to write, much less actually write it down...
It was a pretty uneventful day at work, which is a good thing. RePete is still sick, although no longer running a fever, and I think I may be catching something from her. I felt under the weather all day, very hot and wanting to barf. Of course as far as I am concerned (and the other district managers) the new health rule don't apply for us and if I can get my ass out of bed I have to be at work. That will work until a health inspector catches one of us at work and then the shit will hit the fan.
I am still pretty much butting heads with my most experienced manager and it seems to get worse every week. He will make changes to the schedule but not actually change the damn thing on the wall itself so I have no clue he's made changes. He is scheduling people for shit like seventeen hour shifts on his day off and then acts surprised when they hang me.
He was going to leave me without a cook this afternoon and have his favorite guy cooking the day shift, expecting me to work a double shift in his store. I caught wind of it and called him yesterday to let him know he had to get it covered before he took his day off. He half-assed covered it. I still got hung and had to call someone else in. Then he leaves me two frigging bank deposits from Saturday and Sunday to make. If I stole the damn things they would take them out of HIS check. Yeah, I am sure they would do lie detector tests and I would end up in jail but the money would be his responsibility because we bank daily. Not only that but there are personal loans out of his safe that he's making to his employees and that's a no-no. I think that next week if there are any I will have to write him up and charge him for them. He is next in line for a promotion and that kind of crap is no way to get it done. See, I have a deal with the bank. I don't make loans, they don't make waffles. I guess he missed that class...
Enough ranting. It's late and I need to hit the sack.
Special edition...The 100% 100% Preventable show!
The burst is now available as a podcast! You can download it here.
This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you'd like to join find out how right here.
Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, deportation, invasion, mexico, Guatemala, murder, rape, vlog, podcast, border security, ms 13, gangs, drug cartels, suicide,
RecordNations offers a document scanning service as well as storage for your important documents. Their records storage lets you free up space on your servers and keep them in a secure off-site location.
Not keeping proper records cost business millions of dollars every year and sometimes entire companies go down because of lack of proper planning. Look at the woman just arrested in Florida last week. Her employer was looking to replace her and she found out and then erased 15 years of architectural records, costing the company something like $8.4 million. Had they used proper storage management and had their important records stored in a secure off-site location it never would have happened.
I used to do a bit of maintenance on a local attorney's network but he was too cheap to buy proper storage and ended up losing his server and quite a few records in the process. I was able to recover most of them for him as added cost to his office, but had he kept his records secure somewhere else, losing a server would not have been such a big deal. He did have to reproduce most of his payroll records by hand since that was one of the things I was not able to recover.
There are plenty of document scanning services out there, so make sure that you are using one such as RecordNations. Dependable and extensive data backup experience is what you need, in addition to through security procedures.
I really hate the fact that with some of the health codes that went into effect back on the first of December I can no longer wear a watch at work. It seems almost stupid but I am sure there are good reasons. I can understand not wearing jewelry on the hands because washing them might not get all of the bacteria out from under rings and such but my watch in no way comes in contact with any type of ready-to-eat food.
I like wearing watches and just got a brand new one last fall that I can no longer wear, at least while on the job. It's put up in me desk along with a couple of others that I have retired. I really like some of the newer luxury watches I have seen but have pretty much decided against spending any kind of money on them now.
Denny surprisingly posted an entry entitled Sunday Metal today and of course the band of choice is Priest. I don't know why it surprised me because these guys are truly good musicians and it takes one to really appreciate another.
I have probably even posted this video before and maybe the mp3 as well, but this has to be one of my all-time favorite Judas Priest songs. I have seen them in concert several times over the years and for some reason this just never got played until the late nineties on the painkiller tour. Not that they don't play it live in concert, it just wasn't part of the set list any of the times that I went to the darned show.
Beyond the Realms of Death is off of an album called Stained Class which in my opinion is one of their top three albums which include Sin After Sin and Sad Wings of Destiny.
This one was recorded a couple of years ago and although they are getting older, they still rock. Halford can't hit some of those higher notes anymore but rather than sounding crappy trying to hit them he's toned it down on the scale a bit.
Valentine's day is a darned joke.
Up until he late sixties the Catholic Church recognized almost a dozen different Valentine's Days, named so after Christian martyrs. Our current Valentine's Day comes from two of them named Valentine and is supposed to be a saints day commemorating Saint Valentine.
During the time of that dirty old man Geoffrey Chaucer the day became associated wit romantic love.
During the 1800s handwritten notes to our 'valentine' started giving way to mass produced greeting cards. The commercialization of Valentine's Day led the way to the further commercialization of holidays. It's the time to buy greeting cards, red lingerie such as bustiers and tons of flowers.
Not that I am a complete Scrooge about the holidays or anything, but personally I would prefer the wife to just write me a note or something rather than go out an buy junk that will just get stuck in a drawer somewhere.
This year is a bit different though. I start my vacation on Valentine's Day. Since I don't know what things are going to be like in June as far as extra money goes, or my work hours, we are celebrating our 20th anniversary a bit early and going to the Bahamas on the 15th. I would have gotten tickets a day earlier but it would have been much more difficult for her to take an extra day off work, not to mention the fact that we had to find childcare for the girls as well.
I got an email from a friend the other day. Seems that a few bloggers are getting together for dinner tonight in Atlanta. I lucked out on that one. One of my manager's is supposed to be off this weekend but he is wanting to go skiing the weekend prior to my vacation with some buddies and wanted to know if I would trade days off with him.
I thought that was a pretty good idea. My weekend off wasn't supposed to roll around until that weekend four days before I start my vacation and I am pretty sure I would have lost at least one of those days off once my boss looked at the schedules. This way I still go on vacation in three weeks AND get THIS weekend off. Sweet. We even found a babysitter for the girls for tonight, so the wife and I will both get to go. She's made it to a couple of blogmeets with me but not had the opportunity to just go hang out with them.
Today is the boy's birthday but I will post about that later today. It's kind of sad because this is the first time he has never been with us on his birthday. I think I will call him shortly and see if he's awake. He has a pretty bad cold in addition to being miserable because he has no clothing to speak of. Maybe I can send him some Sports Authority coupons :)
Actually he already has received his birthday present. He wanted the Orange Box version of Half-Life 2 and since he lost the password for one of my Steam accounts and can't seem to get it reset, that was perfect.
I started my browser up the other morning and realized that Flock had been updated again. I think I am currently running version 1.07. I am really starting to like Flock. I don't really use the Media bar but it does support all of the Firefox plugins, or the ones I use anyway. It also seems to use less memory than Firefox and while I realize that the memory leaks in Firefox are mostly caused by 3rd party plugins, Flock doesn't seem to have as many problems with it. It does use more and more memory than FF but I seem to be able to use it at least two or three times longer than Firefox. Pretty big difference, particularly when I am blogging.
I probably use about 10-15 different plugins on a regular basis including toolbars and a popup blocker, as well as a few others that just make it easier for me when I am surfing the web.
So I've booked the hotel for next month. I got one of those all-inclusive packages because, well, alcohol can get mighty expensive and it's included as well. Not that I am a lush or anything, that's only when I am on vacation.
Oh, wait, that is my vacation. I have permission to be a lush then.
The Breezes is on Cable Beach on the main island rather than Paradise Island but it is also several hundred bucks cheaper than Atlantis or Paradise Island Resorts. Except for the whiners most of the reviews I read have been pretty decent and there are even a couple of video reviews on youtube. It looks more like a resort where old people and middle class people that can't afford Atlantis stay, so I should fit in quite nicely.
Bon Voyage et al.
Well, the Marine caught the Greyhound yesterday morning. He was supposed to ride to Raleigh, NC to the airport and then was going to catch some Z's at the USO until his flight to Palm Springs, California left this morning. Long flight as he had a two hour layover in Chicago as well. He's supposed to check in at Twentynine Palms by midnight tonight. There's a glitch now. NO UNIFORMS, thanks to Greyhound Lines.
Apparently his bus broke down in Norcross (about 20 minutes after it left the station). When they got another one there the driver would not allow anyone to get their luggage, claiming that it was too dangerous. He said that Greyhound employees had to do it. When my son got to Raleigh he found that his luggage had not come along for the ride and stayed up all night trying to locate it.
He let us know this morning and my wife has spent something like twelve hours on the phone with no results. Some woman finally told her she would put a 'tracer' out for it, not that it does the boy any good. Upon checking in at Twentynine Palms he's going to have to buy new uniforms. He probably had over a thousand dollars in uniforms, knick knacks and irreplaceable stuff from his mom inside the things. It's a damn good thing that he decided to leave the X-Box 360 here for me to ship to him.
So far their customer service reps have called my wife "baby" "and honey" and some of them have been downright rude to her. As someone in the customer service industry, this is a no-no. If anyone knows the email address for the CEO for Greyhound, Dave Leach, please email or contact me. I have already tried the obvious ones so maybe one of those will work. Also, Digg and Fark this if you guys have accounts. Thanks!
Currently the wife is discussing with a woman on the phone about his luggage. She says that the best they can do is send his luggage to Palm Springs. They won't even send a courier to Twenty Nine Palms if/when they find the luggage. No refunds, no delivery. Fuck them. I have emailed about 40 Greyhound employees so far as well as folks from parent company Laidlaw, Inc and hopefully will get an answer tomorrow.
All I can tell you is unless you want to get ass-fucked, DON'T leave the driving to Greyhound.
Here's the body of the rude-ass email I am sending to everyone with any vested interest in Greyhound I can find.
"The party that was traveling was my son Marine Pvt Christopher Miles. His bus out of Atlanta broke down in Norcross, GA yesterday morning and when they transferred everyone to a new bus they were not allowed to get their luggage. It was shipped back to Atlanta and no one has seen it since. My wife (contact information above) has spoken with at least ten different people who were no help whatsoever including one that was entirely rude. I expect this to be dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. I can understand things being lost but your customer service is clueless, understaffed and filled with people that don't even have 'stock' answers, much less the real ones.
My son checks into the Marine base at Twentynine Palms, California tonight. If they let him check in at all without a uniform, since they are at an undisclosed location, maybe on a bus, he will be forced to purchase a new set of uniforms. which is quite expensive.
I've now been told by a gentleman named Jeff in your Raleigh, NC terminal that the next step is to file a claim. That certainly doesn't help my son who is going to have to purchase well over a thousand dollars in uniforms, a laptop, camera, various odds and ends and keepsakes from his mother. I do not have the time to drive to the nearest bus station which is 40 minutes away in Atlanta, just to help your employees do the job they should have been doing in the first place.
Please contact my wife or myself at the soonest time that you locate my son's two sea bags and his large clothing bag. I fully expect reimbursement for the expense incurred as a result of not having proper uniform upon showing up at the Marine camp, as well as a refund or an airline voucher, not a greyhound voucher, as we will not be using your service ever again.
Richard Miles
address and company information removed."
Apparently quite a few people have been having problems with Greyhound. Check out this article from ConsumerAffairs.com (in the extended entry because it is so long)
Actor Heath Ledger, famous for movies including Brokeback Mountain, has died in a Manhattan apartment according to New York Police. CNN is reporting that he died of a possible drug overdose. Ledger is 28. Police spokesman Paul Browne said that there were pills found in the vicinity of the bed.
In addition to Brokeback Mountain and several other forgettable movies, Ledger is also supposed to be starring as the Joker in the Dark Knight, the Batman sequel.
I am on the ninth day of the Chantix and yesterday was supposed to be the day that I quit smoking. I did OK I suppose. From the time I got up at 4:30 a.m. until I got home from work last night and went to bed 18 hours later I smoked maybe ten cigarettes. You may think that's a lot but considering that I generally smoke at least 2-2.5 packs a day just cutting down to ten is like quitting smoking for two of you. :)
Yeah, maybe my warped sense of logic is stupid but it is mine.
I feel like cutting the heads off of people and crapping down their throat right now.
Haven't had a smoke yet and I have been up for about 45 minutes. I made sure not to bring any home last night because I want to try and go as long as possible today. Undoubtedly I will end up smoking at some point but if I can improve or cut yesterday's in half I will consider that a win.
I think perhaps the Chantix isn't quite so good if you are/have to deal with depression. A friend of our's was taking it and had to stop and of course I am crazy as a shithouse rat myself but the last three or four days I have really been a bastard to everyone.
I've been trying to be quiet and keep to myself and when it's really bad I just nap but I don't have those options at work, which is where the real short bus fuckers reside. I am right on the edge and am really afraid I am going to snap on one of them. Luckily today and tomorrow I am at my best store and if I ask them to leave me alone they pretty much will.
Traded my off days with one of my manager's who wants to go skiing the weekend prior to my vacation. That puts me working eight days straight this week but I did manage to take this coming weekend off, which is cool. That means I can go meet up with some blogger types Saturday night and have a few beers. You know, like the Bar Social Butterfly does...
This really has nothing to do with demographics (maybe a wee bit) but I came across this blog quiz at Michelle's and dropped by to take it. Like you do.
The first question is the the group thing. Damn, I am now in an entirely different age grouping. 41-50. I fucking think not. I have almost an entire decade before you can group me with fifty year olds by GOD!
Anyway, here's the quiz.
| What type of partier are you? Your Result: Bar Social Butterfly Not quite as bad as the 'bar slut', you like to get a bit ripped and become everyone's new best friend. You talk to everyone and anyone, keep people laughing, and with enough liquor you become the professional comedian. You get into deep-thought topics with fellow drunks, get people crying on your shoulder when they vent to you, and end up with hundreds of phone numbers of people that you simply can't recall in your cell-phone all the time. | |
| The Socialite | |
| Bar Slut | |
| Hardcore drunk | |
| The rock-star party animal | |
| The Lurker | |
| The designated driver | |
| What type of partier are you? Make Your Own Quiz | |
WTF? Bar Social Butterfly? At least I'm not the Bar Slut.
The day that is...
It's sprinkling outside at the moment and the local news says that it's supposed to change over to snow later in the morning and we should get 1-3" of snow by this afternoon.
Darn, I am not particularly looking forward to that.
Snow always means quite a bit of the staff calls in because they are afraid to get out on the roads and I have to pick up the other half and bring them to work as well as find them a way home.
It's great for business if it's during the week but it actually hurts my weekend business because that is when we are normally busy anyway. People are in less of a hurry and it takes a crowbar to get them out of the booths, particularly if it's snowing hard.
The last time I think we really had any amount of snow at all was January 2005 or maybe even 2004. Although I drove back and forth from my house I ended up getting a hotel room across the street from the store for my employees. If the roads get ugly today I will do the same thing this year.
The bad part is that after it snows it's supposed to get really cold which means the stuff will stick around another day and also freeze anything left on the roads.
I arrived home this afternoon to find that my passport had arrived. That was quick. The check hasn't even cleared the bank yet!
I just applied for it like a week ago I believe. Maybe I am a dumbass and it's been two weeks but even so that was extremely fast. I paid for expedited service and the woman that processed it told me it would take three weeks. Hopefully the wife will get her's soon as well. She actually applied the day prior to me.
29 days 'til the Bahamas...
...prior to leaving office next January.
President George Bush has proposed a temporary tax package designed to spur the nation's slowing economy. During a White House press conference President Bush and his economic advisers said that the U.S. economy is at risk for a downturn and Congress must act to head off trouble.
By passing a growth package quickly, we can provide a shot in the arm to keep a fundamentally strong economy healthy, and it will help keep economic sectors that are going through adjustments, such as the housing market, from adversely affecting other parts of our economy.
The president did not offer any kind of specific details of the proposed package but did insist that it include tax incentives for business.
Two Democratic leadership aides made it clear that the growth package wouldn't win support from the Democrats unless it includes relief for low and middle income earners.
I am all for tax cuts and spurring the economy but personally think that we should all just suck it up right now and pitch in to do our share. Cutting taxes is a great thing, I would just as soon get rid of the federal income tax entirely but it has to be replaced by something else, preferably a sales tax.
The Wall Street Journal interviewed folks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco to see how people would spend their rebate. These are some of the interviews.
Technorati: Taxes,President Bush,Recession,Rebate,Tax Relief
Have to get back to work today. With the interruption of a bit of snow and having to go in for a couple of hours yesterday it sure seems like my days off were awful short.
My boss is on vacation this week so that means not quite as many meeting I hope. The talking heads are mumbling about more snow on Saturday but that doesn't particularly bother me as I already have to work anyway.
I really don't have a hell of a lot to say this morning. I'm still trying to drag my head out of the sleeping fog and having a hard time of it. A shower should cure that.
Have a wonderful day everyone...
I ended up having to go in to work this morning for a few hours to make sure that everyone was staffed. I managed to get out of there shortly before 9 and stopped to shoot a few pictures prior to going to the doctor for a flu shot. I know it's late in the season for it but better late than never.
After the flu shot I had to go get chest X-Rays. I am on my fourth day of the Chantix and the urge to smoke seems as if it's lessening. I have smoked for 28 years now, most of it around three packs a day and my doctor wanted to see what my chest looked like I guess. Four more days and then I quit.
It's been interesting trying to implement all of the changes at work to follow some of the new laws that the state of Georgia is requiring as far as the health code. It seems as if it wouldn't be that hard to make everyone do what they are told but the big problem in my company as well as the couple of other's that offer the same type of service is that we don't pay our hourly employees enough. Facts are facts but the majority of them make between $6.85/hr to $7.25/hr. It's not a lot and hardly enough to support a family without working two or three jobs.
I have my own opinions about the poor and how they keep themselves poor but the fact is that we don't pay very much and until we offer higher wages they pretty much have us over a barrel. I certainly can't fire everyone in my organization because I just physically can't work that many hours.
Some of the changes are stuff such as wearing gloves when preparing ready to eat foods, proper hand washing, having hair restrained, and no jewelry on the hands and arms, even including medical jewelry. I think all of the changes are great and will make for a much safer and healthier environment but actually executing the changes has been a challenge. Heck, I can't even get all of my managers to follow the rules, which makes it doubly hard to get the hourly employees to. I am going to end up having to give the managers written warnings I guess. If I can start wearing stupid gloves after doing it one way for 21 years, they can certainly make the change.
The president and COO of our company that has been with us for 35 years finally stepped down and bought his own franchise the other day. I was amazed that he still wanted to operate restaurants. He has enough money and time to just quietly retire if he wanted. Heck, even our chili recipe was named after him. I guess once it gets in your blood...
The thing about companies as they grow larger is that you have to have people to step into place when someone else retires or get's promoted. That's called succession planning and it's a real good idea to have a succession plan for your company whether you use a software product or just have a specific plan on paper. With software less chance of error is left because you can enter your requirements and track just about anything you want to track about the potential candidates that might be available for the job.
That's how much sleep I managed to get last night.
I can't remember the last time I was able to sleep in until quarter of nine in the morning.
It must have been back before the holidays at some point I suppose.
Each time I have had a day off I have always had some place to be or something to do that kept me from actually resting up from the previous week. Today I don't have anything to do until this evening. The engine light on the wife's car keeps going on and she called the dealership to make an appointment. As long as they have a loaner for her we'll be leaving her's there tonight. I have to pick up the Oldsmobile anyway and get it home. Rather than sell it to Carmax I decided to sell it cheaper to one of the guys that works for me. The guy is married with a new baby and has no car so he will get more use out of it. I cut what my asking price would be in half for him. He should be able to pay that off in about three to four weeks, although he does have to get insurance and tags so if it takes longer, no big deal.
Well, the Starbucks is finished making. I need to get a cup and try to wake up a bit.
Update 1-16-08 8:02 p.m. CBS had a report on the object over Stephenville.
Apparently several dozen people have reported seeing it now. Part of that may be that they actually saw something or it may just be people jumping on the bandwagon like we sometimes have a tendency to do. So what do you guys think? Did these nice folks actually see something from outer space, or perhaps something our government is working on but denying, or maybe they are all riding the short bus?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephenville Texas is a nice small town maybe a bit bigger than the one where I live. Their usually quiet little place is all abuzz with several UFO sightings. Apparently several different people have seen it including a pilot, county constable and business owners. Here's some video from the Associated Press (unfortunately not of the UFO)
There have even been reports of seeing fighter jets chasing it, although the Air Force says not. Federal Officials say that there is a logical explanation, most likely two commercial airplanes according to Major Karl Lewis from the 301st fighter wing based out of Fort Worth but people that have seen it say that it's much, much larger than that and the lights changed configuration, which is something planes don't do.
Ricky Sorrells claims to have seen it several times and even watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens. In this day and age of cell phone videos of every crime small and large, why is it that nobody has bothered to get a video capture or photograph? One guy has even offered a reward for a photo or video. Most likely because it just hasn't happened. If so many people have seen it at least one should have gotten the picture.
Browsing around over at the Mutual UFO Network I came across this UFO sighting report from Texas just a couple of days ago.
I saw a bright light in the daytime sky, apparently being tracked by a jet. I only noticed it for a few seconds before it blinked off. An aircraft giving off a contrail was headed for it. Five to ten seconds after the light went off, the jet quit emitting the contrail, and neither was seen again.
Interestingly, the contrail showed the jet had made 3-4 SHARP maneuvers in the sky. I have never before seen angular contrails, as if the jet changed course each time the "light" did. From my viewpoint, the contrail showed the jet had turned 60-75 degrees. The contrail length suggests that the jet was in pursuit for 10 minutes; starting from nothing, moving into an arc and finishing with the angular moves. The sun was low in the partly cloudy sky. Visibility was unlimited in the area of interest. The jet itself was never seen, suggesting a great distance. If the jet would have been visible as only a dot, the light would have been 10 times that size. It was extremely bright.
I was driving in northwest Houston, the scene was to the southwest.
So what's it all mean?
Hell if I really know, but maybe soon we'll be seeing Elvis...
In this weeks edition...
Open borders groups demand: Don't tell the truth about the invasion!
100% Preventable! More Americans sacrificed to open borders.
And civil rights: who gets'em?
And yes, that is one of our smoke detectors beeping in the background! Apologies if it's annoying.
This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.
Technorati Tags: illegal immigration, deportation, civil rights, rape, murder, mexico, invasion,
As a web site, Cellware is still in it's beta version but from what I have seen at the site, you couldn't tell. It seems to be in full release to me unless they are going to be adding more features.
Cellware is a free portal for mobile downloads such as ringtones, wallpapers, video, games and applications.
In addition to being a download site you can also set up a profile and it starts looking more like a mobile social networking sort of place. Pretty cool actually. When you first sign up for a free account through Cellware it lets you invite your friends from several different services to come check it out, including MySpace, Friendster and Facebook. You can also import contacts from your webmail services as well.
Aside from the content that they have (and lots of other web sites have as well) there are several things that seem unique to Cellware. You can create your own ringtones right on the sight by uploading a file. Any music or sound file that's on your hard drive can be uploaded and turned into a ringtone. Once it's uploaded you use their ringtone editor to select the 20 second portion of the file that you want to keep, enter some information so that you can identify it and then save it. Then you just download it to your phone or even share it with your friends.
I have used several different sound editors to create ringtones from mp3's in the past and it can be a pain. You have to get it the right bitrate and length and then use a program like Bitpim (which voids your warranty) to copy it over to the correct place in your phone's file system. Cellware makes it pretty easy.
You can also use their mashup editor to mashup two different ringtones. You can put them end to end to make one long ringtone, or you can actually overlay the two. Very cool, particularly if you have an instrumental and a bit of cool spoken text or verse you want to combine. Another pretty neat option is to use their text-to-speech editor to turn text into a ringtone. They also have ringtones that contain your name or that of your friends. Nametones. Personalize your friends ringtone to the max.
One thing I did notice while browsing the Name Tones is that there are quite a few of them on the site. It would be nice if they would add links to each letter. It does let you jump five or six pages at a time, but that's not exact. It also doesn't let you change the view to alphabetical. It seems to be listed in order of upload rather than anything else. Of course I may just be slow on the uptake too. Their IS a search function. Once I searched for my name I managed to find four ringtones that contained it. Vain, aren't I? Once I located the one I wanted and previewed it right there in my browser I then navigated to their WAP page from my cell phone browser, entered the download ID number and got it right on the phone.
Cellware has a pretty cool image editor as well to create and share your mobile wallpapers as well. It lets you add special effects, rotate and crop your images and then send it to your phone.
One thing you may want to check out is the fact that Cellware bases their business model on sharing their site revenue as well. As you create and upload content they share it with the content creators.
You can set up in your profile to view (or not view) certain content as well. Initially when you first sign up it only lets you see "G" rated content, which is a great thing if you have kids or teenagers that might access your account. You can choose from "G, PG,R and X" for your content viewing pleasure if you want to get a little racy with your downloads.
As more and more web sites are created as or convert to mobile sites for cell phone and smart phone use, the mobile content available will continue to improve as they have over the last couple of years. Go check out Cellware and see what I mean.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3772bb1f-701a-4748-a08e-3194e2110e04)
I received an email when I got home where someone used the "contact me" form on the site. I guess someone didn't like something I reported in the Maria Lauterbach. That's OK, I post plenty of things that are disagreeable. Here's the message they sent,
If you can't tell, I find it extremely irritating that this fool from Wisconsin doesn't have the guts to leave their name, email address or URL. Hell, I don't mind if you don't agree with me. I love a good argument as much as the next guy. The real problem here is that the email they sent me has nothing whatsofuckingever to do with anything that I wrote about Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach.
I guess that's about all of the steam I am going to use up on this. If you can figure out how to use the captcha you are more than welcome to join in the comments and try to say something intelligent.
Usually if I am going to do something stupid or clumsy to hurt myself it will happen within that first twenty or thirty minute period after I wake up.
Not that I am limited to doing clumsy stupid things to the first part of the day or anything. I've been seen in the emergency room countless times to get sheet metal pulled out of my eye, get my forehead seen up where I cut it open on my car door (no, really), jammed spikey things through the bottom of my shoe into my foot, jammed spikey things into the palm of my hand etc...The list goes on.
This morning I woke up as usual and stumbled into the kitchen to make coffee and greet the day, fixed a cup and went to have a seat at my desk and try to think up something wonderful to write before I went to work. My hand must have been pretty close to my desk as I sat down because I ended up with a 1/4 inch long splinter in my finger, right at the edge of my nail. Of course their was much gnashing of teeth but since everyone was still asleep we skipped the wailing and cursing.
Once I located the tweezers (woke the wife up and asked her where the hell they were) I managed to dig them up under the nail and pulled the damned thing out.
Damn, that was more fun than a barrel full of monkeys...
Time to go to work 
Like anything else having to do with health care providers have really made the leap into the information age over the last decade and now software is one of the biggest growing areas in the health care market. Assisted living software is no different, offering packages that make documentation and assessments as well as billing much easier than it used to be.
With a large portion of our country aging quickly I don't think that the growth in assisted living providers is going to slow down any time soon.
I mentioned however briefly last night something about fitness equipment. One of the cool things that a company I write occasionally for did recently was to give away three elliptical bikes for a review. I am not one of the folks that got that one but I just though it was the coolest thing.
Those things aren't cheap in the least and it's awful hard to write a review on something that you haven't tried or at least seen. It's one thing to write one on a web site or piece of software that you can download but it's quite another altogether to do it for something like that.
RePete is spending the day with me. She has her five-year-old checkup today and when they are that small I have always kept them home with me two or three days a year since my days off rarely coincide with theirs. My ten-year-old got bent out of shape about it this morning because she didn't get to stay home but I did the same thing with her as well as with her brother when they were that age.
Anyway, she is taking a quiet break from playing and I let her watch some TV. Damned Barney is on and there is a Christmas show on. Three elves (midgets) are on and one of the kids asks "Did you wrap all of those gifts?" and at that point they go into a rap song about wrapping Christmas presents...
?
WTF?
After having looked at a bunch of cars this week I have pretty much decided on a fairly low payment. I was originally looking at some of the BMWs and Audis but due to restrictions on my auto allowance through work in order for them to cover brakes, tires and stuff like that it has to be an American made car. Not only that but according to Consumer Reports the Audi is just average and the Mercedes and Audis recently have received lower marks. If I am going to pay 25k+ they are going to have to receive exemplary marks.
I don't particularly want to have an outrageous payment anyway as I like having extra money to spend on vacations and stuff. I have pretty much decided on the 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser Limited below...
It runs at about $18,900 which is about six grand less than the rest of the cars I was looking for, has all of the generic stuff I want, CD player, sunroof, leather seats, power everything and it's new. I will go through Carmax as I can get just about everything done online and over the phone prior to making the 75 mile drive. I did email them to see if they could deliver it to the Lithia Springs dealership since that's closer, and stick a GPS unit in it but even if they can't I think that's the one I want. I looked at the ragtop and it's just plain ugly.
At least someone at CNN has a sense of humor. It gets even better though.
"The witnesses saw the two pushing the chair with Cintron flopping from side to side and the two individuals propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side," Browne said.
The men left Cintron's body outside the store, went inside and tried to cash his $355 check, Browne said. The store's clerk, who knew Cintron, asked the men where he was, and O'Hare told the clerk they would go and get him, Browne said.
A police detective who was having lunch at a restaurant next to the check-cashing store noticed a crowd forming around Cintron's body, and "it's immediately apparent to him that Cintron is dead," Browne said.
I swear this sounds like something out of a movie. How darn stupid do you have to be to roll some dead guy through the city of New York in an office chair and then try to cash his check?
Then it gets really stupid...
Perhaps because the roommates were dead or in jail. Maybe CNN expected the guy's ghost to answer the telephone?
While Shadowscope the blog doesn't celebrate it's blogiversary until June some time, Shadowscope the web site his nine years back on Christmas Day. I started out running the site mainly for BBSing and Skinning news back sometime in '98 and installed my hit counter on Christmas Day, which is why I use that date as the official birthday.
I guess I was so busy working through the holidays and spending time with the family that I completely forgot about that.
There is another weird anniversary of sorts going on as well. I started getting paid to blog this time last year as well. Over all I think that it has improved my blogging as a whole. While there are some posts that I look at and say "?" and "why the heck did I write that?" I have been blogging more regularly, writing longer and more thoughtful posts (sometimes) and just had a good time doing it.
Up until this time last year most of what I did the first three years was post links and one-liners with an occasional rant thrown in to mix it up a bit. I really didn't write much and the thought of writing a post of several hundred words just would not have crossed my mind at all.
Now it's just not a big deal at all to whip out a post of several hundred words. Are they more entertaining? I guess that's all in the eye of the beholder but I am certainly more entertained, which is why I started this dog and pony show to begin with...
BTW, I got the weirdest text message the other day..
"HELLO HOW HAVE YOU BEEN? WE HAD A FABULOUS MEETING TODAY! WE SURE MISS YOU BEING THERE"
?
What fucking meeting? I left the name off but I know at least four ladies with that name. I suppose I could call the number on the text message and see what it's all about. I was afraid I had missed something that i was supposed to be at, so if you sent me this text message, send me a friggin' email or something.
...
Jut finished boiling some eggs. I think it's time for a nice little egg salad sandwich. Enjoy your lunch if you are eaiting.
I have spent the great majority of the morning going between reading news sites and fooling with paperwork. Since the wife and I are going to the Bahamas next month and I don't have a passport, while her's expire ten years ago, there is quite a bit of stuff to do.
It takes two or three weeks to get one if you are willing to pay out the nose, which we are having to do. The first thing we had to do is get online and order our birth certificates. We got hers this weekend but I didn't get mine until today because a signature is required and of course I am at work during the day. Fortunately I am off today and tomorrow. My first two days off in a row since December 8th. I feel it too.
I was supposed to go to the doctor today at 9:30 or so but they have moved the office and I misunderstood where the location was. Needless to say I missed my appointment. They were nice enough to reschedule it for tomorrow morning for me. That's cool because I have some writing to do today anyway. Tomorrow I am keeping RePete home with me as she also has a doctor's appointment tomorrow afternoon.
I have to go pick up another copy of my auto insurance policy as well. We have decided that the time has come to get new automobiles and as much as I am a fan of driving a car until the wheels fall off and hate car payments, it's not worth the inconvenience when one of them breaks down and that will be at some point in the near future. We both take good care of our cars and have over 200k on both of them, but with my job I can't be car-less. Since I donated the van a few months ago to the Alzheimer's Association I don't have an extra vehicle in case something happens with one of these.
I prefer to go through 99% of the car buying process online. Financing all the way up to finding the car. All I should have to do at the dealer is take a test drive and if I like it, drive it the hell out of there. The last car I bought was in 2000 and we ended up spending about 30 minutes in the dealership. The only reason it took that long is that I had not arranged to have it added to my insurance ahead of time. I won't make that mistake this time. I have to stop and fax my license, insurance and references to the financing company in the morning and then I can start looking at cars. I was hoping to have everything taken care of by yesterday morning so that I could pick the car up today but no such luck. That's OK, it will give me time for a bit of research. The wife can go get her car this weekend and I will go on my days off next week after researching a few. I still haven't decided what I want anyway.
Traffic has been pretty heavy (for me) at the site over the last 72 hours, mainly because of the Meredith Emerson posts I put up. Somehow I have landed fairly high at Google and Yahoo! (number 2 and 4, respectively) and I have had something like 16,000 visits on those two posts alone. Several comments as well, which is nice because it means that someone is actually reading it and not just breezing through. If I could just bottle that and figure out how Google picks the top stories I would retire my happy ass tomorrow.
That was the question I asked myself about mid-morning.
I had gone into the men's room to take a dump and lying there on the bathroom floor was a single solitary little turd all in a lump looking like a piece of chocolate someone had dropped to the floor on their way out. It was lying about halfway between the sink and the toilet.
What exactly were they doing that caused the turd to hit the floor three feet from the toilet? There might be a few explanations I suppose.
1. He had his head stuck in the toilet snacking and his ass pointed the other way.
2. He couldn't decide what was more important. Wash Hands. Shit. Wash Hands. Shit. Wash Hands. Shit. SHIT!
3. Something like an alligator or a turd burglar was hiding in the toilet lying in wait and bit him on the ass just as it was peeking out.
4. He ate jumping beans for breakfast and it hopped out of the toilet because he forgot to flush.
5. It was really the new millennium replacement for Pet Rocks and toys of that ilk, the Bile Ball!
Not that I go around crapping on other people's floors too often but I would think that if I let one slip out on to the floor I would feel the need to clean up my fecal matter just in case someone was in line right after me. How embarrassing would it be for the next guy to stick his head out the door as you were going back out into the dining area "Hey Buddy! You left your turd on the floor!"
Needless to say my immediate need to go went away rather quickly and after having cleaned the restrooms I had to go disinfect myself in fear that I might catch something nasty.
Updated 1-15-2008 - According to several news reports I have read last night and this morning including this one from the BBC, Britney Spears still can't see her children. Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon left in place a ruling that bars Britney Spears from visiting her two sons.
Britney showed up at the hearing and was photographed by the vultures but only her attorneys stayed. The story from the BBC:
He issued the original order after Ms Spears was involved in a stand-off with police when she refused to return the children to ex-husband Kevin Federline.
Ms Spears, 26, showed up at the hearing and was photographed by the paparazzi, but left before entering the courtroom.
Another hearing was scheduled for 19 February.
Mr Gordon heard a day of testimony from Mr Federline and witnesses to the three-hour police stand-off at the troubled pop star's home earlier this month.
Police were summoned on 3 January when Ms Spears became distraught and refused to return Sean Preston, two, and Jayden James, one, to her ex-husband's representatives after a monitored visit.
She was taken away on a stretcher and hospitalised for two days.
Mr Gordon ruled that an emergency order he issued on 4 January suspending her visitation rights and giving custody to Mr Federline would remain in effect.
"The word victory is not something Mr Federline or his counsel would ascribe to this. There is no joy. This is a grave situation for all," Mr Federline's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said outside the courthouse.
Although Mr Federline thought the ruling was correct, Mr Kaplan said, "his goal, his hope for the future is at some point he will be able to parent the children with the participation of their mother."
Neither Ms Spears nor Mr Federline were required to attend the hearing, but Mr Federline arrived early. Ms Spears did not arrive until early afternoon but left after being mobbed by photographers.
There is also some video from the Associated Press,
Updated 1-8-08
According to this article over at CNN mental health professionals around the country are somewhat frowning on Dr Phil McGraw's behavior and say that showing up in her room last week was going too far. According to McGraw, Britney Spears' family asked him too but that is kind of lame and seems like he is just looking for more ratings.
Dr. Jeffrey Sugar is Chief of child and adolescent psychiatry, crisis and emergency services for the University of Southern California and he says that having been asked by her family is not enough. Spears is an adult and has the right to decide who is let into her hospital room.
Also according to a statement on Dr. Phil's web site he had hoped to film a show this week that might help other families facing the same troubles as Spears.
Same troubles?
I don't know that anyone in America has the same troubles as Britney. Maybe on a smaller trailer trash scale I suppose.
Updated 1-7-08 Apparently Dr. Phil was planning on doing a show with Britney Spears but because the situation is 'too tense' has decided to cancel that.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I wrote a little blurb earlier in the week about Britney Spears being hospitalized and was pretty crass about the whole thing so I though I would write some of my thoughts about the whole deal. It doesn't mean I will be any less crass or less of an asshole, but I did want to post more than a paragraph or two on the subject.
I am torn when I think about Britney Spears and her troubles. On one hand I see an extremely irresponsible parent not taking care of her children and basically just screwing up her life and that of her offspring.
On the other hand I feel sorry for Britney. I see a girl who was thrust into the spotlight and got too famous too fast and just doesn't know how to deal with it. She has no real role models to speak of to give her advice.
After the episode Friday a court commissioner gave sole custody of their two children to ex-husband Kevin Federline and suspended the pop star's visitation rights.
Britney Spears was released from Cedars-Sinai hospital and spent most of the day Saturday with her father Jamie.
She was released on Saturday and left the L.A. medical facility via an underground tunnel, accompanied by that lying sack of dog turds Dr. Phil..
Dr. Phil released a statement saying:
My meeting with Britney and some family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention.
She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car.
Although Britney was committed Friday morning under California's 5150 Hold, which means that she was considered a danger to herself and could be held for 72 hours, they released her stating that she was not suicidal or homicidal, so she did not need to be hospitalized.
So here's what I see.
1. She can't get away from the paparazzi. EVER.
2. Her Aunt, supposedly like a second mother to her, died of Ovarian cancer.
3. Her career is failing because she has made some ugly mistakes.
4. Her marriage has failed.
5. She's told daily that she has failed as a mother, you just have to look in the papers to see that.
6. Her little sister is pregnant.
7. The list goes on. and on. and on.
Now all of these things are true, but seeing them on national TV and newspapers and tabloids every second of every day has got to mess you up pretty bad, particularly since it has only taken two years to get there.
Hell, even Britney's attorneys want to dump her. When a lawyer doesn't want your money, that's got to be pretty darned depressing.
...
You know, I'm not one to hit People or TMZ or Perez very often. I used to go to Perez Hilton a couple of years ago but I just don't get into all of that gossip crud very much so it was kind of a shock to look around People reading the stories about Britney. I mean there is stuff there like what she bought, not in general terms but stuff like "Britney bought grandma's cookies, cracker jacks and a humongous diaphragm". WTF is that all about anyway? Were she went, what she ate, exactly what she was wearing. No wonder she is going nucking futs. I woulda run over that photographer's foot as well I think. Besides, the assholes are in the way, they are lucky that more of them haven't been run over.
...
I had some other thoughts I wanted to put down but they are pretty much escaping me at the moment. Perhaps I will remember more tomorrow or Tuesday after I have had a bit of sleep.
It was a pretty tough day at work today. It shouldn't have been difficult but I have worked so many days over the last month that I am just mentally and physically exhausted. I had two cooks with me and this time of year it's very slow anyway but by the time I finished and got out of the door (five minutes after the first shift was over) I felt like I had worked twenty hours. Just dealing with people and not snapping on them has been a major feat. Some woman called me trying to sell small business phone systems and I ended up referring her to the corporate office. Not that we will use them in the stores but maybe it's something that can use at the office.
I can always tell when I've worked too much because my attitude sucks. Looking cheerful and like I want to be at work so that it rubs off on the employees is quite a challenge when I don't feel that way.
Updated - I stopped at the hated Wal-Mart and picked up a Dell widescreen 19". This is sweet. It actually has a much smaller footprint than the five year old LCD I was using. Now I can close the rolltop desk it sits on. Resolution on it is 1440x900. I feel the need for a bit of gaming. Maybe after I nap for a while. It was a long day and day number seven at work for me. I only have two more to go (if I don't kill someone in the meantime) until I get two off in a row. That will be the first two days off I have had together since December 8th and 9th. I have actually only had two off since then, not including a half-day that I took, but still had seven hours of meetings. No wonder I have been such a bastard lately.
Damned if my monitor hasn't crapped out on me this morning. I have known for a while that it was dying but I was hoping that it would last a little while longer. Back before Christmas I gave everyone instructions not to turn it off because I wouldn't be able to get it back on again and they have done pretty well.
I woke up this morning and have been messing with it for a while but it is completely dead. So much for that. I suppose a trip to the Wal Mart is called for this morning before I go to work. I keep a $0 balance on one card but had planned to keep it that way, so much for that.
Apparently police were called to Britney Spears house Thursday night to mediate a custody dispute and in the process she was taken to the hospital to have tests done and see if she was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Way to go Britney! Keep this up and you'll get mom of the year. I guess she's trying to gear up and be a responsible role model for her pregnant teenage sister.
The story at CNN says that their children were returned to Kevin Federline, who has primary custody, while the good doctors at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles get to decided whether to hold her for psychological evaluation for 72 hours.
Although it's listed as 'breaking news' the only reason this story isn't on top at CNN and Yahoo is the Iowa Caucuses last night. There aren't very many things going on in the world today that our limited minds want to know more than another Britney scandal.
Apparently the argument at Spears' home lasted about three hours last night before police turned the children over to Federline.
I'm jealous. Last time I got drunk nobody called the fire department to my house. 
What'd she do, threaten to burn herself down? And that would be a great loss because?...
Now that's a crowd. "Hey Joe, you got your camera phone?"
According to Google the incident 'involved a family dispute that police worked to resolve peacefully by court order'. Looks pretty peaceful to me. Six police cars, and ambulance and a fire truck were called to her house at 10:30 last night to help resolve it peacefully. Perhaps they were having a donut party afterward?...
Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, The Virtuous Republic, Rosemary's Thoughts, Adam's Blog, Right Truth, The Amboy Times, Big Dog's Weblog, Conservative Cat, Nuke's, Diary of the Mad Pigeon, Woman Honor Thyself, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, The World According to Carl, Pirate's Cove, Blue Star Chronicles, The Pink Flamingo, Celebrity Smack, Wolf Pangloss, and Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
I can think of several different things I would like to be doing today other than going to this meeting tonight. This is my long day and it's not likely that I will get to come home until around ten tonight. Personally I think I would rather have my nails ripped out than have to sit through this thing. My numbers are particularly ugly coming out of the holiday and I have about six days to get them right. The only saving grace is that most of the rest of the folks that will be there have just as ugly numbers as I do.
The meeting is in Oxford, Alabama this week. Why? Because that store has the best profits right now out of the 37 stores in the area. It should. I trained the manager. Now if I could just get the three that work under me to start doing their job the meetings will be on our side of town. In all fairness, one of my managers does actually listen and do what I ask, she just needs to tweak her payroll a bit. I am going to start working with her on the weekends whenever I get the chance to help bring down her numbers.
I have the feeling that we are going to see some changes in the area pretty soon. Not necessarily in my end but you never know. I believe that they are going to be realigning the districts and I may end up with a different store or two. That would be fine if they were to take the one store that I have so many problems with. I would make just as much money with a two-store district without that one as I do now. Maybe more since I have lost so much money out of that store over the last couple of months. Have to be careful what I wish for though, as with two stores I don't get a car allowance and that's a large chunk of my check as well.
Up until the last few weeks things have been looking up as far as my profits and I may still be able to pull things out over the next few days. I am still planning on putting in for promotion in the middle of February. We will see how it goes between now and then. Who know, this time next year I could be living near the Outer Banks with ten stores. Stranger things have happened. I think I will end up on a development plan though once I actually turn it in. That normally last for six months to a year, although a good friend of mine has been on one for about three years now and it doesn't look likely that she will ever get a division, although I think she would do a good job.
I am a horrible husband. I am so busy at work and then working at home that sometimes it's several days before I peruse Holder's blog. I see tonight that a few days ago she posted some wonderful pictures of the moon in response to a couple of other eloquent ladies who have written a bit of witty prose in honor of the lunacy that hangs over us all.
Not to be left out I figured I should post my favorite moon photo as well...clicketh if you will...
Thirteen New Years resolutions that I may or may not keep this year...you be the judge.
I've been thinking today about the vacation. Now that I have bought the plane tickets I am seriously looking forward to the trip to Nassau. It was a fairly stressful day so vacation even looks that much better. One of the bonuses that the store managers get is basically 'gimme' money. They have to get each days sales into the bank by 2PM two days later. Very simple and easy. They get a $200 a month bonus just for making it to the bank on time. Occasionally it can be difficult because on Wednesdays they get produce in and on holidays they have to buy a bunch of change because the banks are closed. Since there are occasional glitches like that the company gives them four mulligans. The have to make 24 out of 28 deposits on time in order to get the bonus. AND they get an extra day. Saturdays sales don't have to be in the bank until TUESDAY because Sunday is pay day. In 21 years I have never missed a banking bonus as a store manager or a district. See, I get a banking bonus as well. All of my managers have to get theirs. If one misses, I lose my bonus, which is $250.
Out of the last 21 days the guy that transferred in from another store has had 11 late bank deposits. In three short weeks he's lost me my employee retention bonus for the next two months and my banking bonus for this month. That's about $1200 all total that I won't be seeing over the next month or so. I am not particularly happy with him right now as a result.
He's a pretty nice guy but he has a hard time staying focused so I am going to have to stay on him over the next few weeks to get him in the habit of doing the things he needs to do. I think I can get him trained but he may not like it in the meantime.
I think that eventually I would love to go to Spain. Heck, I would love to just take a few months off and see all of Europe for that matter. I have always loved architecture, particularly old stuff and I am into history as well. I originally was a History Major in college and the two loves combine well. Europe is the perfect place to delve into those hobbies as well as combine them with my other hobby, photography. I would love to go visit some of the Spain attractions such as the Alhambra in Granada.
Photo Courtesy http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com
The Alhambra is a vast Moorish fortified palace. It's so big that it takes up a pretty big portion of the city center itself. At one point it was the residence of the Muslim kings of Granada and later a renaissance palace was inserted by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
I would also like to check out other areas such as Madrid attractions as well as get to Paris. A good friend of mine got to go to Paris somewhat recently and I am very jealous. Of course that would mean flying, which I hate. I need to take it baby steps at a time. The flight to Nassau next month is about two and a half hours and that's about all I want to fly any time soon.
Thanks to Becky over at Tall Cool Drink of Water I get the info I already knew...
| You Are 100% Burned Out |
 You work too hard, and you're not getting the results you deserve. It's time for a life change, as soon as you can manage it. You're giving away most of your energy to something you don't even enjoy. |
doh...
There is kind of an old wives' tale that says whatever you are doing at midnight on New Years Eve is what you will be doing for the rest of the year. If so then my year is going to suck because I was working all night. Damn.
I have always been proud of my associates as a store manager. I generally tried to make sure that my evening and overnight shifts were, if not as good as the day shift, then as close to it as possible. One of the biggest failings of my company is the lack of supervision on the evening and night shifts or any kind of follow-up after they have been told to do something. As a store manager I could directly affect their hours and paychecks and thus was able to get people to do what I wanted. Not only that but since I was there six days a week I could generally show them why doing a certain thing a certain way was to their benefit.
The biggest problem's with me NOT being a manager is that either the manager's under me feel like they have no control over their shifts. That may be because they are afraid to work the shift or that they just don't give a shit. I don't know. Either way all three of my second and third shifts pretty much suck balls. Some of the folks are better than others but for the most part they suck. It's entirely a training issue.
New Year's always hits funny in the restaurant business. On the third shift it comes in extremely late and drags over to around 7 am and the morning shift is dead until just before noon. When it does get busy you get hammered. Last night it hit about 2:30 and it hit hard. It didn't take long before it got ugly and then I started getting ugly. I had to kind of take a step back and shut my mouth several times but I know the words "you can't serve that nasty looking shit" must have come out of my mouth seven or eight times. The cook didn't walk out though, so he will be OK I guess. At least two of the three waitresses don't want to work with me again though. I don't have a problem with people that actually do their job but I can be a bit of an asshole to folks that refuse to do things the right way.
I hate working graveyards shifts, so that didn't help much. It always screws me up for several days with my sleep patterns. I got home around 9 or 9:30 this morning, went to bed by 10:15 and was up by 2PM. Hopefully I will be able to get to sleep tonight. I may fall back on the Benadryl just to make sure.
