Travel

Reserved a room for a couple of nights next week, and an SUV. My damn car has 160k+ miles on it, don’t need the extra mileage. Plus it will be a hell of a lot more confortable than squeezing all five of us into my little stinky car. Hopefully no damn storms will blow that way while I am there :>

Will try to post some pictures while I am there if I can find someplace with Wi-fi access close to the hotel. We are staying at the Days Inn on the beach, so that will be cool. It’s been 20 years or so since I have been, and I have heard that it has changed alot. Looking forward to taking the kids.

   I am about a month overdue for my vacation and I can tell. As my wife would say, I am so stressed that I want to bite the heads off of little children. That would count about 90% of my damn employees because they are children in maturity if not fact.

   Don’t know if I am going to be going anywhere or not. I wanted to at least go to Savannah for a day or two, and maybe Jacksonville. Originally it was the Redneck Riviera, but I figure if I go down to the gulf a Hurricane would come along for sure. I had to put my car in the shop last month and paid for it on my Amex, and now the $1800 bill is due. I should have enough to pay it from my check this friday, but that means no damn money for two weeks. I think that Amex lets you roll purchases over $250 to the next month if you have to, so maybe I will pay half of it and go out of town for a day or two. Need the R&R.

   The really cool thing is that the way my days off go (6 on 2 off) this is my weekend off, I return Monday, and start my vacation on Tuesday. W00t!! I thought about trying to skate by with an 11 day vacation, but my boss won’t get a day off while I am gone, so I told her I would work for her Monday. Will still be like a vacation even working that day.

   Someone left an iPaq at work a couple of weeks ago. I have had it sitting in my safe since, waiting for someone to pick it up. Pretty soon and the damn thing will come home with me. It is a pretty sweet upgrade considering I have been using a Palm V forever. I’llo sell that bastard on eBay and use the ipaq. Very cool. Wifi, headphones, MMC card, etc.

I was considering taking the kids to the redneck riviera (Panama City) during my vacation at the end of next month, but maybe fucking not.

Don’t know where I am going to go, but I won a contest (tied actually with one of the guys I trained recently) at work for a gift certificate on Expedia. Since it looks like we are going to be splitting the prize, that means somewhere around $750. Maybe I will take the kids to Disney World. Have to check prices for tickets, but I know that camping in the park is somewhere around $35 a night, and I can rent a damn SUV for the trip from Armada Vans for about $300 for the week. Will have to start looking I guess.

Stephanie and the kids left for Hilton Head this morning, to return on Tuesday afternoon. Don’t have to wait for the kids to be in bed to surf for porn and mp3’s. :p

Actually it just means that I will spend more time at work this week. That is a good thing because they just doubled me up, opening a new store 1.8 miles from mine. It’s hitting me for about 20% of my sales right now. My paycheck is going to suck for a couple of months until they have chased their business back to me. That is one of the benefits of having been in this job for 18+ years, I actually know what I am doing and can pretty much keep a good, stable staff, where this new store has a brand new manager, with mostly brand new employees, rather than someone with experience.

Maybe it was just me, but it seemed to be more than a little difficult to find a cup of coffee there. There were several cafes but had to hunt for them. Had a hard time getting any in the hotel. I can’t live without coffee.