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Another story by an unnamed nine-year-old girl that lives here 🙂

Once there was an unlucky troll. He had a hard time communicating with others. He had a lot of stress bottled up. He had to rewrite all of the stories that he wrote, because they were burned in a fire. He had some friendship rings for all the friends he made but he lost them all. Every time he tied his shoes they came untied. One day, he lost his voice so he had to communicate by using hand signs. He never started smiling until one day one lady troll walked by and she was unlucky too. She wanted a friend so they went to play. Everybody laughed at them and thought they were ugly except for one person, the loneliest person ever, he doesn’t even have a house of belongings. So the unlucky troll and the pretty troll gave half of their stuff away in a garage sale to earn some money to buy the lonely troll some things. They ended up with so much more all of them bought a house and millions more belongings.

If you can’t tell, we have been watching Shrek lately (the four-year-old has to watch everything 42 times).

Here are a few answers to some of the creationist nonsense that goes right along with my post on evolution earlier.

I am still flabbergasted after reading that article. The fact is that scientific theory generally are proven facts. A Hypothesis is something that hasn’t been proven yet, and most of the fundies basically are referring to it as the Hypothesis of Evolution, which it is not. Just because it has not yet been named a natural law doesn’t make it any less true.

Once I get my expense reimbursement this week I need to go by the office supply place. I have three stores and the last District Manager was so damn cheap there are no tape dispensers on the office desks, cheap staplers, two of the stores are using $1 calculators rather than decent desktops, and no coin sorter or change rollers whatsoever. The change rollers and calculators have to be the worse though. There’s nothing more exciting than having to count out $32.67 in loose change.

…to stay out of my old restaurant for awhile.

I hired a new girls for one of my stores, but rather than training her there I sent her to MY old store in Temple. I am trying to replace some of the shit that I have working and my the girls that are doing the training in my old store will insure that she gets trained properly.

I stopped in for a visit this morning after I had blood drawn and I thought that two of them were going to kick my ass before I left. Either that or tie me down before I could get out the door…although that might not be such a bad thing.

Anyway, apparently they don’t particularly like the new manager, but I knew that would be the case when I heard who it was going to be. Sometimes being a good manager and being a person that everyone wants to work for are not mutually inclusive. This guy will run great numbers. Better numbers than I ever have in that store, but he will also lose a lot of people, and his standards for everything are a lot different than mine.

They can’t all be as good as me I suppose 🙂

I didn’t have to work quite as late as I thought I might. My body has just about had it though. I am aching all over so it’s telling me I need a couple of days rest. I almost thought that my boss was going to try and tell me that I couldn’t be off Sunday when I spoke with him earlier this evening. Apparently he is taking the weekend off and we aren’t supposed to overlap. I hate it for him, but he’s had at least one day off in the time that I have worked over the last ten days, possibly more. There is no way that I am working past tomorrow. My attitude has started sucking and another day like today I will be lucky to wake up on time. I told the third shift crew where I am spending the day tomorrow that if they don’t see me by 6:30 someone had best call me and make sure I am up.

My eyes hurt and my head hurts and my legs are killing me. This is my ninth day of work after having only one day off the week before. I suppose I should just quit whining about it and deal with it, but this is a nice outlet. Tomorrow is my last day for the week and I only have one store to run thank goodness.

Tonight I have to go back in for drawer change and we (the division and district managers) are working part of third shift. My boss says he will let us go by ten, I certainly hope so as I have to get back up around 4:30 tomorrow morning. We have to have the Boy at the recruiting station for a mandatory training exercise. They are busing the boys out to Dobbins AFB where some Drill Instructors are going to have a bit of fun with them for the day.

I think I would rather be at work myself…

…all this work stuff sure can get in the way of blogging…

…or a social life with the wife and kids.

Two more days until I get a couple of days off.

Maybe this promotion won’t be so bad after all. I need to get the hang of delegating duties and kicking their asses when stuff doesn’t get done though. That is one thing that was a bit easier as a single store operator.

I don’t really have a whole hell of a lot to post about tonight, I think I am going to hit the sack early. I have a couple of hours of meetings at the end of the day tomorrow.

I did manage to get my water back on though (thank goodness). A friend of mine is a supervisor for the water department, actually he got promoted the same day that I did and he is over public works now. I left him a voice mail earlier and he came back out and is going to try and see what happened in the morning. I figure that Monday I can take in a printout from my online bank statement just so that they can at least see that I’m not full of shit.

I have to shower in the morning in order to get my day started. I could take one now and go to bed and I would still have to shower in the morning. That is one of my morning wake-up rituals I suppose and without that shower I always feel pretty crappy and everyone around me generally has a lousy day.

This is my seventh straight day of work and I still have three more until I get my next days off. It was pretty hard to crawl my rear end out of the bed this morning. I had fully planned on going to be early last night but I got sucked in to a movie on one of the stupid cable channels.

I haven’t had the chance to watch the last X-Men movie yet until last night. It was OK I suppose, but not nearly as good as the first two were. The special effects were OK, but it was like they tried to jam way to much X-Men history into too short of a film.

I did manage to get finished at a decent time yesterday, but I had a new manager today so I was able to shoot out the door before 3PM this afternoon and pick up the girls. That was pretty nice.

Tomorrow should be fairly uneventful. I have to get all of the paperwork together from the stores for my meeting on Thursday and I have a truck coming in with a delivery, but as long as everyone shows up all will be well.

My new manager is unfortunately off for the next three days, and I have another one off on Friday and Saturday but I will actually get two days off this week. W00t. If I can just make it through the next four days all will be well.