February 2008

Killing Time?

Killing Time

Killing Time…

KILLING Time…

I’ve spent most of the day on edge and that almost came to a fruition around two this afternoon when I thought I would be forced to rip a customer’s fucking windpipe out of his throat. Then someone else would get to blog about me being on trial. How’s that for a laugh?

I wonder if the nicotine withdrawal defense has ever been used…

Anyway, my store that is closest to the house is the one I opened back in October of 2006. Man, time flies.

I took it back, along with another one close by, two weeks ago and I have inherited a few folks that probably should not be working there. Pieces of crap in other words. The day shift is the same on I picked and hired back when we opened but there are some new faces on the evening shift. One of them is this gentleman that runs his mouth so much that if he shut the hell up and moved his arms and legs a bit he might be able to get something done.

From two until four we only have one waitress on the floor because it’s generally slow. Today I was closing out my paperwork so that I could leave and I look up out the office window. She’s trying to wait on customers and cook at the same time. Where’s the cook? Sitting at the fucking high counter jacking his jaws with a customer.

It’s not the first time I’ve gotten onto the kid about doing his work so I just leaned out the door and hollered his name, and told him that the unnamed waitress had customers to wait on so he needed to cook. I left it at that but it was pretty fucking clear what I wanted. I might have been a bit nicer about it but she had already called for his help once while he just blithely ignored her.

A couple of minutes later the asked me to come out front. The customer wanted to speak with me. I was behind one of the booths and he was on the other side. He says to me in a low tone of voice “Maybe you weren’t aware of the fact but he was discussing something very serious with me. Perhaps you need to learn not to publicly chastise people. I can make a world of shit for you. You just don’t know how much. I used to be a district manager with [your company]”.

I was fucking flabbergasted. I let the dude know in no uncertain terms that this wasn’t the first time it’s happened and that they needed to take care of their pressing business off my clock. I think once he realized that I didn’t give a flying fuck about his unshaven scrawny out of work ex-district manager self he decided to get polite with me and shut the fuck up. That or maybe it was the look that came over me like I was getting ready to jump over the booth and cold-cock the bastard. This just would not be the week to fuck with me.

Anyway, I was nice and polite with the guy, so let his ass complain. I’ve been with them for 21 years and been investigated for embezzlement, racism, favoritism, fucking my waitresses, firing people with undue cause. I’ve been robbed, threatened by people with knives, broken up fights and cleaned up shit from places you wouldn’t believe. Bring it on you stupid fucker.

What really flew all over me was his criticizing the fact that I hollered for the dude to get back on the grill. What the fuck does he know about managing people since he obviously doesn’t do it anymore. Of course you don’t normally say negative things to people in front of other people, but instructing them as to where they need to be IS one of them, particularly when they haven’t been listening to any other way. I hate public embarrassment but that’s all some people will react to, particularly if they are self-aggrandizing lying sacks of shit in the first place.

Did I tell you I want a cigarette?

Would a nice big stogie count?

I had two today. Best day yet. I smoked one at eight or nine and then another one around eleven and that’s it. I even refrained from bumming a smoke from one of them when I had to go back to shift change a little while ago, but I did make my trip as short as possible.

This has got to be the hardest fucking thing I have ever done in my life. I am eating so much candy I will need to go to lard watchers by the time all is said and done. If given a choice between dying because I’m fat and dying because I smoke, I would rather be skinny.

What do you do with your hands when you don’t smoke?

I can only jerk off to Internet porn so much before the damn thing starts hurting. I suppose that’s why they have fluff girls at the porn movies. Maybe I need to get one to hide under my desk…

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We all gotta dream right?

I’ll tell you one thing. This Chantix shit really works. I’ve tried the patch, gum, lozenges, wellbutrin, all that crap and smoked right along with all of it. I’ve tried to cut down to the point where I could quit and always ended up lying and smoking more than I said.

I’ve smoked two to three packs a day for 28 years. Used to smoke Pall Malls, then Winstons, finally switched to Winston Lights a few years ago. That’s 408,800 cigarettes at just two packs a day. I don’t care what anyone says, it’s not something you can just give up if you smoke as much as I do. This stuff has really helped. I had two day and tomorrow if I smoke at all it will only be one and then I’m done.

Unless of course I get convicted of ripping someone’s head off and then who gives a fuck if I’m smoking or not.

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Late Sixties

I’m back to scanning some photos. You can’t find cartridges for the printer I use locally anymore. I’m sure that I can probably order them online but I find that the more and more I use it for work I have been wanting a printer anyway.

Since I got a gift cart for Wal-Mart at the awards banquet tonight I decided to use it to buy an HP scanner/copier/printer combo. The prices on these things has dropped immensely. The last time I checked was five or six years ago and they were about three or four times the cost.

Since I now have a scanner that will work with Windows Vista I can start copying all these old pictures. Here’s one from the late sixties. That’s my great-aunt and myself.

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This is about the only thing I am going to post today. As I mentioned, I had a meeting tonight and being as how it’s been a long day on top of feeling like shit I am going to bed as soon as my managers call me with their sales and staffing.

I bummed a smoke around 7am, another around 11am and then got one from one of the managers after supper tonight, around 6. Not too bad. I had a pretty hard time with it today and have been in an extremely foul mood but I think I may have forgotten to take the Chantix this morning. I’ve caught up tonight and maybe tomorrow won’t be such a hard day. If it’s any worse than today I may end up cussing someone out at work.

Wish me luck as I am going to try and go without having a cigarette at all tomorrow.

Thursday Thongs – NSFW

Here’s another redhead for you guys!

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Rest in Peace, William F. Buckley

William F. Buckley was 82 years old and has been suffering from Emphysema for a few years, although right now the cause of death isn’t known. He was found dead in his house today, Wednesday February 27th.


William F. Buckley founded the National Review in 1955 and is widely credited for the modern conservative movement. He was a very prominent voice in politics and wrote over 50 books in his life.
Katie Couric with CBS News also had some comments on Buckley.


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Bobby Cutts Gets Life in Prison

After a tearful speech to the jury, they handed down a recommendation of life in prison for the murder of Jesse Marie Davis and her unborn child.

The jury recommended life and the judge added to that, sentencing him to the maximum of 57 years to life in prison. He’ll be 87 before he is even eligible for parole.


What a waste of taxpayer’s money. Put the bastard out of our misery and expense and fry the asshole now.

 

Warren Jeffs in Arizona

Warren Jeffs has been handed over to the Arizona police to face charges that came out of arranging marriages of two teenage girls to older relatives. The so-called prophet of polygamy has already been convicted in Utah in connection with one of those cases involving a fourteen year old girl.

The Arizona Attorney General is rightfully looking at this as a case of child abuse and there should not be exceptions under the law against this, even for religious reasons.

If Jeffs is convicted in Arizona he will have to finish his two sentences of five years to life in Utah prior to doing his time in Arizona.

 

Off Time

It’s been a pretty uneventful day here at the Miles Casa. I have a ton of things on my to-do list and haven’t managed to get very many of them done today. I need to pay some bills and start working on my 2007 taxes but somehow just don’t want to.

I did manage to get about ten hours of sleep. Maybe a bit too much but damn I am behind. I need to find a way to balance my sleep/job/stuff at home so that I can get enough rest and spend some time with the family as well. It’s pretty difficult at times.

I am doing so-so quitting smoking. I managed to get down to a pack every couple of days and then quit Monday night when I went to bed. I didn’t smoke at all at work yesterday. Ended up going about 16 hours, which is quite a long time. What I didn’t realize is that I apparently had a pack in my car that I found on the way home from work yesterday afternoon. So much for that. I had thought the wife was going to take them with her this morning but apparently she forgot. It’s almost gone and once it is I will quit once again. I feel like such a darned lightweight.

I have a nice dinner planned. The wife thawed a couple of pork loins so I marinated them in olive oil and rubbed them with a some different spices. They are sitting in the refrigerator now just waiting to go in the oven. I figure around four I will pop them in and decided what else to have with them.

I have mentioned a few times that I really hate the Samsung i760 that I picked up. In theory I like the idea of a pocket PC phone, but in practice I don’t like the implementation. I guess it’s all about what you like. Apparently it’s still pretty popular as far as PDA/phones go. I got a blackberry last week instead and will put the Samsung up on eBay later this afternoon. I have a few reviews I need to get written first.

We are still talking about redoing our bedroom later this spring. I think the wife and I both have different ideas about what we want so I am just going to stay out of it now. Doesn’t really matter anyway as long as the bed is comfortable. I am going to end up putting a TV on the wall and make it into a small home theater. The wife seems to prefer the idea of having it in the room. That’s fine, I can put on in the bedroom and another in the living room. Eventually it would be kind of cool to put some home theater seating down in the basement and set up an HTPC down there, but that may be a while. It’s more of a wish list thing that is down near the bottom.

Wordless Wednesday

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Tramp Stamp Tuesday

Just something I ran across on the web a few weeks back.

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