I’ve had something like 800 hits in the 45 minutes since I put up that Youtube video of Saddam’s Execution. That’s OK, I watched the whole thing too. Guess there’s nothing on TV right now.
I think I will go fold laundry or something. Unfortunately I have to be back at work by 9pm.
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The girls just passed Macon. That gives me time for a wee little nap before they get here. The grease and heat at work did nothing good for how I am feeling today, so I have taken about a half dose of nyquil. That should be enough to clear my head and allow me to crash for awhile.
Some of the new folks at work are starting to get the picture. I had five people scheduled to work my second shift this afternoon. Sent two home. One was ten minutes late and the other one an hour. They are both consistently late and this “get there when you can” attitude is shit.
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…is what I am needing right now. I still feel like shit. Head cold or the flu or something. I think I will spend the rest of the night on the couch reading. There won’t be much in the way of blogging this evening, or probably the rest of the weekend since the girls get home tomorrow, and I have to work 6-2, then 6-9. It’s going to be a long damn day.
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…woo hoo. A small part of it anyway. Windows Vista allows you to do a full system backup, like you would get on a restore CD when you buy a computer, except this has all of your shit in it. My DVD burner is in the HTPC, so I save this one to it’s own hard drive, figuring that if my system goes down, at least one of the hard drives will continue to function. It doesn’t let you exclude stuff (like my 50 gigs of music) so it’s pretty damn big anyway. It would probably take about 25 DVDs to back up. I really need to get some of the 8 gig DVDs to start backing my system up to.
As often as I do something stupid to my system, it will be nice to just restore it without having to go through the reinstall of all of my apps.
Still feel like shit today. I have a nasty cough and my lungs burn. Damn I wish I could stay in bed, but no, I have to go to work where I can potentially infect several hundred people with the Creeping Crud.
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…I came out of my last 70+ hour work week tired but relatively unscathed. Until I woke up yesterday. I am coming down with the fucking creeping crud again. Sore throat, cough, gooey nastiness emerging from my nasal cavity, AND I have the shits to boot. Damn. Searched the house twice for Benadryl or Nyquil so that I can sleep tonight and found neither. Just as I was getting ready to pour an awful big shot of 1800 I came across Liquid Children’s Benadryl. As little medicine that I take, that should do the trick. That and the fact that I think I am going to get a shot of the 1800 anyway. It’s been awhile and I forgot how it tastes, or something like that.
Damn, that was good. Warmed up the cockles that needed warming. Time for nighty night (and yes, I did find the bear goddammit)
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Damn. Charter must be having DNS issues again. Almost every site I try to hit tonight, I have to refresh at least once before it will show up. I solved that problem with Mediaone (later AT&T) by running my own DNS server, but I don’t currently have the equipment. I may have to put together and old 486 if I have any left in the basement and put NT4 or Linux on it if I keep having problems.
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I’ve been in the restaurant industry for 20 years now, with the same company. When I first started working for them, it was because I just plain out needed a job. I was irresponsible, having had around 30 jobs from the time I was 16 until I turned 20. I couldn’t even stay in the military. I had to beg the guy who hired me for a job. I went back every day for about a week until he got tired of seeing me and finally just gave me the job.
I went in on a Thursday or Friday night to watch some videos and fill out all of the paperwork. My first day was to be the Following Thursday morning washing dishes. It happened to be New Years eve. I overslept. I was supposed to be there at 7am, but I woke up at 2 in the afternoon. Damn. I called up my boss and apologized. He told me that was OK, come in on New Years Day, but make sure to call when I woke up if it ever happened again. I responded by letting him know that I HAD called when I woke up. I was not the most responsible person at that point in time.
I managed to show up on time the next day. I was sleeping on the floor of a friend about fifteen miles away, and got up on time and caught the bus to work. It was OK, but just another damn job at the time.
I waited tables for about nine months. It was good money but I discovered that I hated it. Waiting tables has got to be one of the hardest jobs that there is in the hospitality industry, particularly considering that in the U.S. the customers are expected to pay your wages, not the company that you work for.
After that I started cooking. I had been cooking for awhile anyway. I was working the graveyard shift, and the guy that cooked while I waited tables would go lay down on the back table about Ten each night, and I would cook and wait tables until Five the next morning which is when I would wake him up. After he was eventually fired, they made me the cook. I did that for about nine more months until someone decided to put me in management.
I have managed 16 restaurants in one capacity or another. I was a multi-unit manager for awhile in ’99, that really sucked and I quit, but they ended up giving me a job at the corporate office to keep me around. I truly enjoyed that, but it was a 75 mile commute EACH way, and with the cost of gas and automotive repairs, I just couldn’t afford it anymore. In 2003 I made the conscious decision to go back into restaurant operations until I retire, unless some kick ass job comes along, but that is extremely unlikely. No matter how much I have my times that I hate my job, as long as I do it, I am pretty much guaranteed a job until I retire. We have never laid anyone off, and are continuously growing and getting better. Hell, if the right district came open I might even be persuaded to take another promotion. I turned one down about a month ago. As it is right now, I have no interest in moving anytime soon.
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…just like your mother told you.
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When I first saw the headline to this story I thought they were talking about one of my ex-girlfriends.
Head Banging Snakes Predict Earthquakes
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