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This has been one day from hell. I hate coming back from vacation and today just gives me that much more reason to hate it.

I arrived at one of my stores this morning shortly before 7 AM. On of my managers is off today so I was running his store. When I got there I found a note on his desk that basically told me I was going to be short a waitress on every shift today. Considering that is 1/3 of my day shift and 50% of my night shift that’s three too many waitresses. Not to mention the fact that he has known since Monday and did nothing to cover it. One of the two waitresses called a couple of minutes after her shift started to let me know she was going to be late (duh…) and the other one just never came in at all. Total goat fuck. I did manage to get it covered but had a pretty hard time with it because this store is so darned slow that it’s hard to get anyone to work there. People tend to go where the money is. My head has been pounding since about ten this morning and it just won’t let up.

In addition to leaving me with no help he also left me with no money. I mean NO money other than a hundred dollar bill. Normally we have two cash drawers, one out front and another in the safe to swap to for the next shift as well as having a little extra change and ones. Having ones, fives and quarters are a necessity in the restaurant business. I had none of the above and had to scramble around and buy change and bills out of my pocket from the waitresses just to start the day and get through until I could make it to the bank.

I managed to get the other shifts covered and actually got out of there shortly after two this afternoon, which was a pleasant surprise but things only got worse this evening. When I called to check on my staffing and sales at shift change (about 9 PM) the waitress that was there let me know that she had just gotten called and her grandchild was being born. At least in my eyes that is a bit more important than being at work. Although she said she would stay I told her to get the heck out of there. I think the only reason she told me she would stay is that she was just afraid I might fire her for leaving. I don’t do stupid crap like that. I think I finally got the shift covered about 9:40 or so and will be hitting the sack soon. I already have an extra coming in tomorrow morning, so whoever gets there last gets to go home, they just don’t know it yet. Damned waitresses can’t get to work on time anyway so one of them is bound to get sent home. If by some fluke they do show up the girl that didn’t call me today gets sent home.

Hopefully tomorrow will go a bit smoother than today did. I need to get out of there at a decent time tomorrow. I have a meeting at 3 and the funeral for Mike Hardegree is at 4 or 4:30 so I will have to leave the meeting early to pick up the girls.

One of the things that our friend in Bluffton has that I am really envious of is a huge projection television. Eventually I want to get a really nice projector but that will really only be good for movies and stuff. During normal day to day watching television I need to use a nice HDTV or projection television. I’ve been pricing some of the projection televisions on the market and over the last couple of years they’ve fallen in price quite a bit. At some point over the next year or two I will end up moving the TV we are currently using to the play room and replace it with something bigger.

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The Marine is the oldest in his generation. This is the lot of them. My three along with my niece and nephew after his graduation last Friday morning. My brother and his family drove down from Carey, NC for the graduation and he took several photos while there. It’s kind of fuzzy but that’s OK.

After graduation we all loaded up and went back to the hotel room to change before lunch.

They were only able to stay a little while before driving back home.

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Apparently my other girlfriend, Jessica Alba is house hunting in Venice.

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Now that I’ve had a few minutes to get over to CNN and see what all of the fuss is about I figured I would post about it. Apparently Las Vegas prosecutors have filed 11 charges against O.J. Simpson and his three buddies including two counts of first-degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon, two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. They are holding his scumbag self WITHOUT bail. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person, the asshat. I sincerely hope he doesn’t get to weasel his sorry ass out of this one.

At least Vegas isn’t like L.A. where the jury ended up acquitting Simpson because they were afraid of thousands of black people acting like fools and rioting through the streets (even though they did anyway).
One of the victims, Bruce Fromong has had a major heart attack and has been hospitalized since Monday night and is in the intensive care unit. I suppose if he doesn’t recover maybe they can finally get Simpson on a murder charge after all of these years.

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Just got a text message from CNN that prosecutors have filed formal charges against O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star as well as three others after an alleged armed robbery.

Once I get a bit of time I will head on over and post some more information.

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