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.
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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 |
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