October 19, 2007

The Villa Rica vs Haralson County game was pretty good. The wife and kids did end up going, as a matter of fact we all rode together. I set up a table near the concession stand for the seniors to fill out a ticket and then I drew two names shortly before half time. It was kind of slow, I didn’t have a lot of names to draw from but it was enough. They announce the two kids and then during half time we collected them and went out on the field.

The both got to kick from the 10yd line and one of them made the kick, which was great. That means that he, along with the girl from the first home game and anyone that makes it next week get to do the kick off at the Villa Rica vs Carrollton game in two weeks.

Next week is Homecoming so I think I may just pack a sandwich and get there a couple of hours early so that I can get a parking space. It was packed tonight and even getting there an hour early it was hard to find a place to park.

The score when I left during half time was 28-14 visitors, which sucked but even before we left the wife said she thought that we would lose, Haralson County has a pretty good team this year.

I enjoyed the game and although I was in a pretty bad mood earlier I am looking forward to the next couple of Friday nights.

The wife and girls love to attend the High School Football games every year. I have to admit that they are pretty fun, but I am having to attend the home games this year in a work-related capacity.

Our company has gotten together with about five of the local schools and during the home games this year (only four for Villa Rica) we are having the seniors sign up for a drawing. Shortly before half time we draw a couple of names and then find the kids. After the bands play during half time and the clock is set at three minutes we go out out on the field with the folks whose names were drawn and they get to try and kick a field goal. During the first home game one of the girls in the band made it, which was pretty cool.

At the last game of the season everyone who has kicked a field goal is going to have a kick-off and the winner gets a $1000 scholarship to whatever college they are going to attend. It’s a pain in the ass to have to work on a Friday night, but this is a really nice thing to do and I won’t complain about working because of that.

Unfortunately I will end up in the paper tomorrow morning or Monday, which I don’t like, but that’s just part of it I guess.

It pains me to talk about getting air miles as much as I hate flying, but it’s inevitable that I will end up flying again in the next year on at least one of our vacations. Since I already know that the next vacation I book I will have to fly I have been trying to start saving airline miles so that I can go free. Free is always nice. To that end, with some of my Christmas shopping I have been visiting Shop4Miles.com for deals.

Shop4Miles lets you start earning airline miles just for signing up and with each purchase at the online mall you earn more. Buying the Garmin Nuvi is worth 800 miles by itself, while the StreetPilot is worth 1800 miles. They very quickly add up depending on what you are buying. I already get 90% of my gifts and stuff online anyway, so it’s as good a place as any, particularly when I am getting decent incentives back just for shopping with them.

Shop4Miles has everything from Books and Magazines to Computers, toys, BBQ Grills and movies. The prices are really good as well. The cool thing about using Shop4Miles as a comparison shopping site is that the way they make their money from advertisers is that the advertisers only have to pay a commission to them when a purchase is made, and part of that commission is sent back to the purchaser in the form of airline miles. They also transmit everything electronically, so you don’t have to wait months on end for snail mail to bring you a form letter.

I don’t know what it is but for some reason today has just seemed really rough. I got to work late, which didn’t help. I got stuck for 15 minutes at a railroad crossing and finally ended up going a mile down the road to a bridge because the darned train was just sitting there. I spent most of the day on the grill and finally got off in time to go pick up a cook for another store and then rushed back to get everything finished at mine.

My managers get a couple hundred bucks a month just for making their bank deposits on time. The can be late four times out of 28 and still get the bonus. One of the things that they are supposed to do is to make sure that they attend their 9PM shift change on the day before their day off. The store where I am at today and tomorrow, the manager elected not to come in last night. The problem with that is that he left the damn deposit from yesterday for me to make and since I was busy with other stuff it didn’t go in until after 2PM. Late. Had he come to work like he was supposed to he would have had enough to make the deposit so he just shot himself in the foot and me as well because I also earn a banking bonus, except that all three of my stores have to have their deposits in on time.

This is right on the heels of losing $1900 off of my next paycheck. I am extremely not impressed and have fired three people the past week because of it and if they don’t get their shit together they are only the first. That’s 2/3 of my check two weeks from now and my fucking Christmas money as well.

I think I will end up working a boatload of hours over the next month or so until the holidays anyway, so this just makes it worse.

Have I told you how much I hate my job today?