Once again, I have a computer up and running. I ended up being able to get one of my media PCs running again, it just had a couple of bad sticks om RAM in it, so now I have a PC again, and it’s faster than the one I was using. Sweet. Does that mean I will post more? Probably not.
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It’s Friday…
…and I actually have a couple of days off thank god…and not a fucking thing to post :>
I have to take the smallest one for an ear re-check in a few minutes, so she gets to spend my day off with me, which is a treat for both of us. She is currently watching Dora as I listen to the Pixies (Wave of Mutilation).
Perhaps I am the one who needs to go back to the doctor. I have been on antibiotics for about eight days now and can’t seem to shake this crap. My ears feel as if I just got off a plane and nasty stuff flows from all of my orifices. I DO feel better than I did this time last week, but really would like this to go away.
Looks like a few folks are getting together at the Vinings Inn for supper tomorrow night. Since I am off until Sunday morning I am going to have to head in to Atlanta (traffic and all) and have a bit of fun. Unfortunately I have to be up early Sunday, so won’t have too many libations while there. Yabu is coming, so I will bring my get-out-of-jail free card just in case.
Computers and Grades
Damn, I have hardly posted at all this week. Another long one. I just got home a few minutes ago. Early enough to kiss the girls good night, but that’s about it. I will have to take a much needed shower and hit the sack soon. 4:30 AM comes too damn early.
The kids got their grades today. They both did very well, That is a very good thing. Chris got at least all Bs. Great. Except the part where he gets his computer back. Damn. Since Anna’s milk went in the laptop, I am computer-less. I guess it could be worse, I could be dick-less. And a zombie. That would definitely be worse.
As much as I love home automation, and the homemade PVR and such, I may be retiring the fucker and putting it back under my desk for awhile, since it used to be my PC anyway. Damn, just can’t decide.
Meetings
I was informed the other day that I have to be at a meeting in Anniston, Alabama at 5pm on Tuesday after work. On election day. What the fuck is up with that? I feel the need to protest. That or leave my boss by herself mid morning while I go vote. That may just be the ticket.
Finally seem to be getting over whatever crap I have had the last week. I am taking an entire drugstore every day in the attempt to rid myself of this shit and it seems to be working. Hell, I even had a breathing treatment last night and am currently working on coughing up the other half of my lung. Perhaps another smoke will do the trick.
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Fall festival
Bronchitis
My days off have finally rolled around, and none too soon. I was off last Sunday of course, I think I have worked 48+ hours in the last three days though. Business is really exceeding my expectations so far, and I hired extra people just in case, but they are so fucking weak I am having to stay there anyway. I left shortly before 11pm last night.
My lovely wife made me a doctor’s appointment for this morning and apparently I have severe bronchitis. I ended up spending most of the entire day in a non-moving position on the couch. Hell, I didn’t even get up to go smoke. I did manage to go get the girls this afternoon, because I though that we were going to be late getting my son to work. He just got dropped off on the way home, so that worked out well.
Happy Halloween
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. I really haven’t gotten into it much this year, I have been so busy with work, and opening the restaurant. That actually went pretty smoothly. I ended up getting out of there at 10pm last night, and turned around and went back at 6am this morning. I have managed to get out of there long enough for the kids to go trick-or-treating tonight, although I may end up sleeping on the couch. With the kids and my wife all having mostly gotten over the creeping crud, I figured that I had dodged that particular bullet, but such is not to be the case. The last couple of days I have felt a bit under the weather, but I chalked that up to the hours I’ve been working. That is probably part of it, but now I am hacking up my lungs, and have never ending snot running from my nose, and to top it off, I have a fever of 100. At least I only have one more day to go before I get two off. As long as I can make it through tomorrow without passing out I will be OK. The only problem that I can foresee is that I am short a cook tomorrow night, so I may end up working third shift.
Opening Day
I don’t know what time I will get home tonight, so this may be my only post for today. We are going to officially open for business at 2pm, but we will actually start serving at 10am or so. All of the city muckety-mucks have been invited to eat for free, along with the fire department, police department, and everyone where I bank. Limited menu of course. A few of us are going in at 7am to get the last bit of prep done that I couldn’t do Saturday. Some of that stuff just doesn’t sit well for two days.
I get to drop Ruth off at daycare as well. That will be kind of cool. Her school is about 150-200 yards from my new store, so I will start dropping her off every day, which should save my wife a bit of time in the morning.
Light posting
I told myself last week I would make sure to post at least once every day. I guess I lied (only missed it by about four hours though). I ended up working until about 10pm last night. I spent most of the evening fixing little nit-picky things that are just the kinds of things that senior vice presidents notice when they are in. I’m not particularly interested in kissing their asses, but good visits are also short which is always nice.
I have to go up about 10 and let the window washer in, but other than that we are ready to go.
Although I missed posting yesterday, I will try not to be remiss later today, since some of my help is lacking brains and the rest have no sense, I feel that I am going to be spending a LOT of time at work the next two weeks.
Daylight
It’s funny. I don’t really appreciate the daytime until I have been stuck inside from dark to dark for awhile. Not that it’s going to get any easier for me for awhile. I do get to see the outside occasionally, while driving from one store to the other, but that is about it.
I think that I am going to have the new manager do the drawer change in my old store for the next couple of nights though, so that I can spend some time at home before the store opens. My boss is off today and tomorrow thank god, so even though I will be running the district, I won’t have to deal with that. The last couple of weeks as I have spent more time in the new store, she has been pretty pissy about it. I know she understands what I have to do, I think she is just pissed off that she is losing me and getting a new manager in return. That will give her two brand new managers out of three, which is pretty difficult, and we are getting ready to go into the holiday season.
One thing I thought was pretty fucking hilarious that Dax will understand, maybe some others will, has to do with my P&L. We have certain target overalls that we have to hit each operating period They consist of food cost, operating (asswipe and stuff), payroll, and management payroll. Due to various reasons including my extremely high sales (low targets) and the number of people I had to have because I had more seats, I NEVER hit my overall target in my old store. Not in the 42 operating periods that I was there. The closest I ever came was being out about .3 which is somewhere around $150. The new Guy that has been there decided that HE could “hit” so has been working all kinds of doubles, sending people home early, working 3rd shifts and basically doing the shit that I absolutely avoid like the plague, because I hate doubles. We got our P&Ls in yesterday, and he was out .5
Damn, he was pissed. I had been trying to tell him for weeks that he needed to concentrate on getting the hell out of there, and beefing up his staff. The more sales he does there, the more money he will make in other bonuses. You make your money in that store from sheer sales volume, not from great profits. He acted like I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about. I think he gets the point now, or at least I hope he does. I work a lot of hours when necessary, but working 80 hours a week just to cut payroll is suicide in the long run because it runs off your people, and then you are left burnt out.