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Days off are much too short. I have to return to work this morning and I think that this is going to be just as long a week as the last one. They are supposed to break ground on the new restaurant (in my town) within the next two weeks, so hopefully I will get to open it. It would be nice to be that close to home. It just really depends on if I end up taking a promotion before then. My friend that just gave her notice may not back down, and if she leaves they are going to offer her job, which I really don’t want, but they have changed the way that promotions are done recently. I am #1 on the promotion list, and if I turn it down, I go back to the bottom of the list. Right now there are probably four people locally deemed ready for promotion, so I would be after them. Not too big of a deal I suppose. I am just fighting with myself about what I want. The promotion would mean a 15%-40% increase in pay possibly, while just taking the store here in town would greatly benefit my lifestyle. Less spent on gas as well as driving time. Shit what a quandry.

Guess I will have to make up my mind here pretty soon. I am also looking at the fact that once Stephanie has been out of graduate school for two years the Hope scholarship will have been paid back, and we can move if something better comes along. Both of us have talked about moving so that she can teach in a new system, and I could always apply for a promotion elsewehere, or at least a lateral move.

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It’s been a hard day off today. I got up this morning to see the wife off to work, most of the teachers are starting to go back to work as school starts gain in two weeks. Drank some coffee and blogged for awhile. Had to watch Barbie Mermaidia with the girls which I recorded for them while they were in Bluffton. I took a nice nap on the couch while the girls played on Anna’s computer. Stephanie just got home and has run back out on errands. The positive cable on my car is broken and needs a replacement, but the nearest parts store is in the next town over, so she is driving over there to pick it up. I suppose I will help with replacing it, although I pretty much suck at doing anything on cars newer than 1967. The only one I ever felt halfway comfortable working on was my old ’67 Chevy Stepside pick-up. Damn, that was nice. Paid $100 for it, drove it for a couple of years, then ended up trading it for a bike which I later totalled. Bent the front rims, forks, bent the frame. Pretty much fucked it up.

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Hell, I could have told you that without having to pay for more research.

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Senator Biden shows the rest of the Democrats how to get more of the Indian-American vote. What a maroon.

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I just figured I would log on for a couple of minutes while I am out back having a much needed smoke.
The geeked-up cook that called me last weekend finally showed up for his paycheck toay. I let him have it as well as a seperation notice. He was not real pleased and questioned why I had checked “quit without notice”. I told him that he had no-showed three days in arow and that means he quit. He was hoping to get fired so that he could try and collect unemployment. Asswipe.

Damn, I don’t want to be at work. Calgon take me away.

Batman returns

Originally uploaded by rmiles.

We were digging in the basement a couple of weeks ago for the yardsale and Chris found this from about ten years ago. Batman was his hero.

My boss is out of town this week which means that I have to run the district. One of the other managers is also off today and tommorow, so somehow I have to run my store as well as hers, as well as cook all day. Once I can get a bit more coffee in me I will go ahead and head on in early to try to get my shit together. I’m just crossing my fingers today and hoping that everyone shows up. I still wanted to be able to check the news and read a couple of blogs, so it means that I have to get up long before the ass crack of dawn in order to do so.

I’ve cleaned up the blogroll a bit to get rid of the ones that aren’t around, as well as adding a few more that I have been reading.

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Not really, but damn it sure feels like it. I had planned on sleeping until about 5:30. Just now woke up. The fireworks in Carrollton are held at the football stadium which is directly behind my restaurant, about 100 yards away. There are only three exits and I am right in front of one of them. Needless to say, after the 4th, it is a real goatfuck in there, so I have to go in and cook for a few hours. I’m taking tommorow off, so not too big of a deal I guess. I will just have to watch the firewoks from there, which is actually nice becuase it is so close, and I don’t have to deal with the traffic in and out of the football field.

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For the most part, I try to vote libertarian. During the last election, I voted mostly republican, mainly because of what ended up being empty support for the Fairtax Act. I generally just have to laugh at most of the lies that Republicans and Democrats tell as they are trying to run the other side out of office. They are pretty much a bunch of lying sacks of shit. I think that this is going a bit far though. A whole bunch of fucking sheep just believing what they are told to believe.

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