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That too but I was mainly referring to yesterday. I ended up not getting home from work until Ten last night. The meeting at the convention center lasted more than two hours yesterday. I think we finally got out of there around Six Thirty last night. About ten of us stopped for supper at this place called Johnny Carino’s Country Italian. I’ve had better Italian but it was pretty good. The waiter was good and handled us very well. Most of the time that you get a large party together like that they have a hard time and end up doing a really good job or they just suck, particularly considering that all ten of us work in the restaurant industry and that makes us a pain in the ass to wait on.

Apparently my VP and another one from out toward Kennesaw were in one of my restaurants yesterday trying to talk one of my managers into moving to a store out that way. It’s my guy that I have such a hard time with. The problem is that I did some checking around and the girl they want to replace him with is worse. Crap. I asked both of my other managers to put a bug in his ear that he doesn’t want to leave. Lesser of two evils and all that stuff.

I picked up the minivan we have rented for the week yesterday afternoon. I will have to go pay them a visit again this morning. The email I got after reserving the damn thing gave me a quote of just under $300 for the week, but I ended up getting charged just over $400. I did choose the extra insurance this time for some reason but that only adds $8 a day so I don’t know how they pulled another $75 out of there ass on this one. Once I wake up a bit more I’ll check the contract and see what they charged me.

One of the teachers that my wife works with found out that her son was killed last night in Iraq. Our thoughts go out to her and her family. With my son graduating from Parris Island at the end of the week I can only imagine the horrible feeling she must have right now. The wife and I haven’t really discussed it but she was pretty distraught over the whole thing.

Our brave children are doing something that they believe in and deserve all of our support as do the families of those slain and those who are currently on active duty.

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This is also going to be posted on all of my sites this evening.

I am so going to hell for this but at least I will have company. I’ve got my gear for Helen, have you got yours?

I don’t know if I am still suffering the effects of the two benadryl I took last night or if it’s just sleep deprivation but I am beat. I have been sitting here trying to type and am nodding off. Just made a fresh pot of coffee so perhaps that will take the edge off. Let’s hope so otherwise I might start drooling into the keyboard and electrocute myself. That would not be a pretty site…

I managed to get out of work early enough to get home before anyone else today, thus having a few minutes to write. I did start a load of laundry and as I said before, a pot of coffee. We really need to have all of the laundry done tonight to make it easier to pack tomorrow. I have a ton of stuff to do and now I get to spend most of tomorrow afternoon and evening at a freaking town hall meeting at the Georgia International Meeting Center somewhere near the airport. Damn.

My boss was under the assumption that I was going to start my vacation on Wednesday rather than Thursday and I am really considering going ahead and doing just that. It would certainly make life easier here because the girls could ride the school bus home Wednesday afternoon and we could leave as soon as the wife got home rather than trying to shuffle everyone around and hoping I am staffed at the store I am running Wednesday.

Just after noon yesterday Tropical Storm Gabrielle hit North Carolina but it darn sure wasn’t enough to chase anyone off.

This is just sick. I stopped over at MyBlogLog to see what my traffic had been today according to them and ran across a link to a site called marryourdaughter.com

I am listing it here but I darn sure won’t actually deign to create a link to it. These chicks are 15-17 and basically being sold off. I understand that’s how it works in some cultures, but NOT HERE. Holy cow. I am a scumbag but I darn sure wouldn’t condone what amounts to child abuse and statutory rape.

Deal Locker is one of those coupon site where you can get Printable Coupons, Free Samples, & Deals. With the holiday season coming up I have started my Christmas shopping and I much prefer to get everything online that I can. I always try to get the best deal that I can and at Deal Locker I can get free online coupon codes for my favorite stores including coupons for Amazon, which is one of the places that I prefer to do as much shopping as possible.

Deal Locker is still in public beta testing but for all intents and purposes the site is fully functional. Everything that I need to use there is accessible and should be for most other people as well.