What do you know, I am #7 on the search for “Custom Hookahs“. Perhaps I should go into business for myself. Yesterday WAS 4/20 after all. That’s kind of what I figure all of the hullabaloo at the schools was about. Some stoner decided that he had enough and needed a bit of smoke so started some rumors to get school shut down for the day. It worked too, at least until the catch him.
April 2007
Jesus Bandaids
You know, when I have a serious boo-boo and the normal bandage just won’t stay on with all of the grease at work I always ask for Jesus Bandages. Just the thing when you get a hole in your hand or something like that.
* Photo courtesy of Archie McPhee toys, gifts and novelties.
They have some really cool stuff over there such as the Jesus action figure and the Last Supper lunchbox too. I want the Jesus action figure. I looked for Satan and couldn’t find him, but they do have the Pope Innocent III action figure, that’s almost as good as having Satan himself.
What NOT To Do When Putting References On Your Resume
1. Make sure that you let the person that you are using KNOW that you are using them as a reference.
2. Tell them whether they are a personal reference or professional reference.
3. Don’t give people’s phone numbers out without performing step #1.
4. If you don”t follow steps 1-3 expect to not get a good reference or none at all.
5. Don’t call and be rude to the person that didn’t give you the reference when you don’t get the job because you don’t have the common fucking courtesy to follow steps 1-3.
This is a fictional example. In no way is it meant to resemble the stupid horses ass that might have worked for me fifteen years ago (It’s been so long I can’t remember) and woke me up fifteen minutes into my nap wanting to know if I would call them back and give them a good reference. Yeah, I see that shit happening.
That Nastyl Ol’ Nap Monster is Grabbing Hold Again…
I had originally planned on coming home and working on some posts as well as a couple of other things that I have going on, but today just plain kicked my ass. The wife is picking up all of the kids today so I think I am going to snooze for awhile. Maybe I can post later when I am a bit more coherent.
I wanna go back to bed…
Even with going to bed early I still feel like stomped on dog poop and that’s a pretty bad feeling. I can’t be too mad at the guy. He is going to have to drive (or at least ride) immediately to Florida when I relieve him in an hour or so and I really appreciate the fact that he came in to work at all. I guess I might have had to call in myself, so that was pretty darn dependable of him.
I just hate having my schedule get screwy all of a sudden, particularly when my other cook has decided it is in his best interest to quit.
I can already tell it’s going to be a long day. I am pretty much just writing aimlessly now so it’s time to shower and get ready to go.
Getting Up at 2am Sucks…
…but I managed to get out of bed nevertheless. Now if I can just wake up a bit I will be alright. Coffee. check. smokes. check.
I awoke to several text messages this morning, for a minute I thought that maybe work had called and I missed it. Three of them were from youtube sending confirmation for videos I had uploaded from my phone. Crap, that was three weeks ago. They must have a serious backlog of video processing or something. When I check out my account though, nothing shows up. That’s pretty damned irritating.
The last one was from my cook that has the pending sexual harassment claims against him. He has decided to resign. Although that is a major pain in the ass right before race weekend it is for the best. They will still do the investigation though because if it is decided that he was doing that stuff, they will put him on a company-wide discretionary hire list. That doesn’t mean that someone couldn’t hire him, but his paycheck would tap the division manager directly if someone put him to work. It’s a quick retardant to keep people from working that shouldn’t be.
Video from My Phone (0402071816.3g2) for April 19, 2007, 08:35 PM
Video from My Phone (0313071807.3g2) for April 19, 2007, 07:37 PM
Nothing Else Today…
I’m feeling pretty blah tonight. Very tired. I ended up staying late last night when I went in for the shift change so didn’t go to bed until after midnight.
It still looks like I will be picking up the three stores at some point soon but I have no idea when. I am just sort of playing it by ear right now and doing my job.
Tomorrow is going to be a pretty long day. I am slightly shorthanded due to one of my cooks being accused of sexual harassment. I’ve pulled him off of his shift and the only time he is going to be able to work for awhile is if I am there at least until the investigation. Even after that he may need to go somewhere else, I just don’t think I have anyone on the night shift that will work with him should the company decide to keep him. That’s a decision I pretty much have no control over right now.
My other night shift cook had his Aunt pass away today. He was calling to let me know, and that he would still be at work tonight but has to leave for Florida at five AM. I told him I appreciated it and am getting ready to go to bed. It takes me awhile to wake up so if I have to be there by 4:30 I need to get up by 3 or so. I’m pretty tired and boring tonight anyway so sleeping shouldn’t be a problem.
Sorry about the lack of anything cool over the last two days. Maybe I will talk about the time I duct taped my children into a trash barrel and rolled them into traffic some other evening.
Another Book Meme
Valkyrie Angel brought this meme up in the comments to one of my other posts, I guess she is participating right now and is trying to get readers to participate at well, so I am recycling this post from March of this year since I am too lazy and it was so recent that nothing has changed.
Another book meme thanks to Jenn at Everyday Randomness. This one is even bigger than the sci-fi meme I did recently.
Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
I’m not going to italicize any of them because I am not adverse to reading just about anything that might cross my lap. Personally I think that the bible should not be in the list, but to each his own. I have read several different versions of it, so I did bold it.