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I finally figure out what woke me up last night/this morning. It was the Boy hollering at the laptop on some game he was playing. I remember calling him and telling him to go to bed now, but by that time I was up and stayed that way for awhile.

I got to work a little after the usual time this morning, and had a cook come in because I knew I was going to be busy. It’s a good thing because one of my managers didn’t show up for work until 8:15 this morning. We are supposed the be in the stores by 6:30 every morning at the latest. He overslept. by. two. fucking. hours. I’m not particularly happy with that right now as it’s the second time this week and has been a constant thing since I picked up his store. I’m probably going to have to go a bit further than just talking to him this time.

Since this was paperwork and payroll closeout day I normally pick that stuff up on Wednesday mornings but I was way behind because of the late guy. I told my managers to bring me their paperwork by 3:30 this afternoon so that I could go through the books at home tonight. four fucking forty five rolls around and I left without that one guy’s stuff, called and told him to leave it at the store I would be at in the morning and I would go through it then.

I can understand being disorganized and being poor at time management. I resemble all of the above, so there are things that I do habitually to negate the fact that I get caught up doing other stuff. I’m still not sure if this is a case of time management or just lazy don’t give a shit instead. Either way I will give it my best shot at helping to fix the problem, but it lost me $1150 of income over the last four weeks and I won’t put up with that garbage very much longer before I become a real asshole. I could run better numbers with no manager than are being run right now. Just too much money on the line to put up with bullshit.

I’m finished ranting for the evening I suppose. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to fix the problem.

I just want to bang on the drums all day…

For some reason I woke up about two this morning and was up for an hour and a half before I could gt back to sleep again. That sucks. I had the hardest time when it really was time to get up. I have to get my rear end ready and get going in a couple of minutes but wanted to get online for a couple of minutes beforehand.

I still seem to be having problems with MT and FastCGI particularly in the evening when the site is busiest. I keep getting errors with it as well as with the MySQL server depending on what I am doing. Tech support for my provider keeps suggesting that it is a problem with my spam protection or the fact that I am getting a pretty hard hit with spam. I am thinking that it is somehow something wrong in the configuration.

It’s even to the point where I am having trouble posting entries or comments when it’s busy, which sucks. I don’t have any problems on my other two sites, but of course they have less than 10% of the entries or comments in the database that this one has.

I have stuck about an hour’s worth of errors from my site log in the extended entry if anyone familiar with MT and FastCGI has any idea what the problem may be please let me know.

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I don’t normally have much sympathy for a scumbag like this, but the fact that he owned his property and restaurant BEFORE the daycare centers opened make for an interesting case. I certainly wouldn’t want to take my kids in his damn restaurant though.

Technorati : Pedophiles, Sexual Predators

Apparently, at least according to their attorney, John Ramsey and Beth Twitty have become close friends. This really isn’t any kind of news at all, the only reason I am posting it at all is because I was extremely interested in the Natalee Holloway case and still occasionally post new links and news.

Technorati : Jon Benet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway

…in restaurant coolers.

About a year after I started working for my company, I worked for a manager that needed to get a bit mellow before work. I cooked on the graveyard shift and every morning before work she and the entire day shift would all go back out on the back porch and burn themselves one. She would leave the keys with me at night, and once I found her stash. She kept them rolled up in the freezer in her commissary. Very weird.

I occasionally will keep a six pack of Dr Pepper in the cooler as that is what I prefer to drink. Last week I finally got around to cleaning and organizing the food storage areas in my restaurants and in one of the really nasty ones I found three gallons of ice cream in the freezer. Since old dude spends way too much time sitting in the office and eating ice cream rather than doing things like his job, I got rid of it.

One of the others had a six pack of some kind of Energy Drink in her cooler. I left it alone. She is very driven and organized and even though I probably should have gotten rid of it as well, I decided that it was the least of my worries.

One of the unfortunate side effects of working so many hours is no meals at home. I have eaten at McDonald’s a couple of times this week, and a couple of PB&J sandwiches at 11pm as I crawled home, but mostly at work. I have developed the worst case of farts that I have had in quite some time. Deadly. Nasty farts. I will probably end up sleeping with the dog tonight they are so disgusting.

I finally got home a few minutes ago, another 17 hour day. I am thoroughly enjoying a Sam Adams Summer Ale. It is wonderful, and what is even neater is the fact that not only will I get to entertain everyone at the Ren Fest tomorrow with my deadly wind, but I will be adding beer to the mix as well.

Damn, this was a long day. I left the house about a quarter till five this morning and just got home a few minutes ago. I spent the greater part of the day cleaning that one store that I have been having the most problems with and doing a little bit of training.

One more day and it doesn’t look as if it is going to be any shorter. I am seriously looking forward to a bit of down time, although Sunday we will spend running around the Renaissance Festival. Come on down and hook up with us if you get a chance. It’s the last day of the fest so should be pretty cool.

I am pretty much physically exhausted right now. That has it’s ups and downs. It’s almost a good feeling sometimes though, because I know I have worked hard today.

I had scheduled myself to work a double tomorrow in order to save on payroll at my slowest store. I had a manager trainee work yesterday (he gets prorated between nine stores) and I am making the store manager work on on Saturday.

Today is my tenth day straight with two more to go. It looks very likely that I will be losing one of my two GOOD managers tomorrow afternoon to another district. Fuck that double stuff. I will end up staying anyway to clean up the shit-hole, but I am not going to cook a damn double as tired as I have been the last few days. I am starting to get very snappy with people as well, so I am having to watch what I say and force myself to keep my mouth shut.