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…but I swear ShadowBoy was with me.

When I was a young kid (I call it the bicycle age of my life), I ran with a wild bunch.  Sometimes at night, we’d sneak out for a mission.  We’d meet up in the “electric yard” at the predetermined time, and review our plans.  Then we’d head for someone’s back yard, which had both a swing set and a log pile.  Everyone had a log pile back then.

We’d move the swing set from the back yard to the middle of the road in front of the house, preferably in the apex of a curve.  Then we’d move and reconstruct the log pile between the supporting poles of the swing set.  We also barricaded the ditches on either side of the road with logs.  Then we’d cover the whole mess with freshly chopped branches.  We all had hatchets or machetes.

Now the road was impassable, they’d have to get out of their vehicle and move our creation to continue on.  This was part of the plan.

We’d lay low and wait for someone to slam on the brakes and stop.  Although many people slammed into it head on, there were no resulting injuries.  When they “exited the vehicle”, we’d pelt them with eggs and laugh like hell while running like wild horses and making our escape.

We called this “The Burma Blockade”

I remember many more “different” missions.

Posted by the K-Mart Shopper.

Today was a complete goat fuck. My relief manager ended up calling in. Apparently he tried to get in touch with me yesterday, so I won’t give him too hard a time. His doctor had called him back to let him know that he has skin cancer, so he has to go back and I guess get a biopsy. I don’t know if it’s malignant or not. That would just suck. He’s a pretty good guy and is just trying to get his shit together.

One of my manager apparently couldn’t get his car to start last night. Rather than calling and letting me know, I found out when I called him at 7:15 this morning when he was already 45 fucking minutes late. I ran to the store to make sure everyone there was OK, then went back to the one I was at where that manager was off. I ended up sending the manager trainee and gave him very specific instructions to come back as soon as the other guy got to work. He rolled back in the store at 11:15 after I had cooked 90% of the days business. The guy won’t shut the fuck up long enough to get anything done and has a shitty attitude. They are talking about giving him to me, god I hope not. I would rather have the late guy. His attitude and performance has been slowly improving since I took his store, and the evil I know is a damn site better than the one I don’t.

It makes it worse that this was my eighth day at work I am sure. One more day and I get to go on vacation. Hopefully I won’t kill anyone between now and then…

…ass is about all I am doing this morning. I fell asleep watching Eddie Izzard last night somewhere around ten and then didn’t wake up until almost five this morning. I guess it’s this week is starting to wear on me. It’s not like it’s my eighth day at work or something. Oh wait, it is my eighth day at work. No damn wonder I am dragging.

One of my managers is off today so this will be the only day this week where I may not get out early. For some reason the city of Villa Rica is having their fireworks display tonight rather than tomorrow, which is all screwed up. Still not sure why they are doing that. Tomorrow is the Fourth, that’s when they should have them.

As dry as it is I didn’t even bother to buy any fireworks this year. I’m too afraid I would set my yard on fire. That would not be a good thing for anyone concerned.

Tomorrow is also my last day prior to starting vacation as well. It’s only been three months since my last one, maybe a bit longer, but I feel like it’s been about twelve months already. I will definitely enjoy it even if I have to be somewhat cheap on this one.

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That was weird. My Internet connection went down for about three minutes or so. I was getting ready to get all pissed off at Charter again. I haven’t had any problems in the last 24 hours or more since that little rainstorm knocked out my connection on Sunday night but with Charter you never can tell. Shit, if I could afford it I would pick up DSL and keep cable just to have a backup connection. That’s just one of those unnecessary luxuries that I am not willing to pay for though.

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There goes the wife’s alarm on her cell phone. I managed to make it into the kitchen where it is this morning, without getting injured. Didn’t want a repeat of yesterday. My toe is fine, but damned if my knee still isn’t hurting where I ripped off several layers of skin on the carpet. Dumb-ass.

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I am having a hard time paying attention this morning. My mind keeps wandering. I think the wife found us a babysitter for Thursday night, so I know I am looking forward to going out for awhile. I’ve heard from a couple of people we may be meeting up with but I know this time of year is pretty busy for quite a few people.

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Everyone send out their best wishes for RSM, who is going to be offline for awhile in basic training. As he says, it’s not goodbye but merely a hiatus and a bit of change…Good luck buddy, although luck isn’t something you will need there, just the determination that you already carry with you.

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That’s about it for this morning. I have to get off my ass and start getting ready for work now matter how much I am hating it at 5:58 this morning…

Here I was sitting and drinking my coffee. I almost forgot what day it is…

We have apparently added more air marshals on overseas flights, particularly those between Britain and here.

This is something that I am certainly not opposed to, and we probably should have already done that. In the wake of the supposed London terrorists and their Rube Goldberg car bombs that wouldn’t have done anything anyway it looks kind of stupid if you ask me.

The dude may have a right to free speech according to the first amendment that he was reciting but I highly doubt the framers of the Constitution put anything in there about using a frigging bullhorn. It doesn’t say in the article but I am assuming that the NYPD arrested him for breaking a noise ordinance, which is something that they have been cracking down on recently.

Sometimes I just want to bash this one manager’s head in with a heavy blunt object. When I am in a restaurant or when I was a manager if someone was late and had not called I immediately tried to get them covered. CYA. Our folks have to be clocked in and on the floor at ten minutes prior to shift change time, i.e. 1:50PM, 8:50PM, and 6:50AM. It’s very simple. If they aren’t there by quarter till I am on the phone with THEM and if they still aren’t there five minutes later I start looking for replacements. I spoke with this particular manager at 2:25 and his cook wasn’t there. I asked who he had called. Nobody. He said he didn’t have anyone to call. He has plenty of people to call, but rather than paying a few hours of overtime he will leave the restaurant understaffed. I told him he was going to have to work it if he couldn’t get someone in there and gave him a couple of phone numbers.

He keeps all these people around that don’t have phones or cars and just doesn’t want to replace them or doesn’t have whatever it takes to get things done THEN, when it’s needed, rather than his leisure. Thus the blunt object.

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As much as I hate it, it’s time to get off my ass and get ready for work. I can always tell when I have hit my 5th or 6th day of work. I just have a really hard time getting myself moving at all…

The girls should be home thins afternoon. It will be nice to have them back home. I missed them all. The house has been pretty quiet and boring for the last few days with them out of town.