OK, the wife just asked why the hell I have 100+ new posts showing up in Google Reader. oops. I have disabled Now Playing from sending tweets on everything that gets played. I will just have it update an xml file via ftp server and put it in a sidebar widget or something. I am surprised nobody has beaten the hell out of me for it yet.
This way the only ones that should start showing up are the actual tweets that I send from my cell phone or IM.
Of course they brought the mulch first…
Now I get to spend tomorrow afternoon loading fill dirt on a tarp and dragging the shit AROUND this pile of mulch to the pond area. I have it set up where the pond area is right at the end of the driveway where all of my humongous Elephant Ears are so all I would have needed was a shovel.
Stupid…
I would get to it tonight but with it being a holiday weekend all of the multi-unit managers are working supper supervision tonight which means I go work in one of my stores from six until ten, get home shortly thereafter, write some more, get back up at four thirty and drag my sorry ass in to work. One of the joys of getting promoted is actually working more hours and doing more work.
Boring is not a bad thing…
I have discovered another reason why I like those tweets so much. A lot of times I will be doing something or driving down the road and all of a sudden there is something I want to blog about, whether it’s the asshats at work or some SMF driving drunk down the road. Those little one liners remind me when I get home exactly what it is I wanted to write about at the time…
I worked in my slow store today, part of it anyway. As usual the damn place was filthy. No paperwork has been done since I was there last week, there were papers all over the office and back room floor. Three different waitresses approached me for the credit card tips they had not received from the manager this week, so I let them have their tips and now the manager gets to eat a shortage. I’ve already written him up over not giving them their tips as well as his lousy cash handling procedures and was hoping that would take care of the issue. Apparently not. I am pretty much at a loss as to my next step so I will call our People Director and make him come write the guy up this time so the ball is out of my court. I don’t give a shit either way as I can run the store better without a manager than it runs with. I would much prefer to have him stay and start doing his job but if he needs to go so be it. I am hoping he will at least make it through my vacation two weeks from now though. It certainly would be nice anyway.
I spent the great majority of the day going to each of my stores and gathering the weekly paperwork since I took yesterday off and didn’t attend the meeting. On my way to pick up one of my employees on one of these trips I got behind someone in a Jeep SUV looking thing and damn they were all over the place. Hopefully the drunk SOB made it wherever he/she was going without incident. Normally I will get behind them and call the tag in to 911 but for some reason I didn’t today.
There is a new teller at the bank with the most amazing breasts. Generally I watch pretty closely as they count my deposits and since she was holding the cash and counting it three inches in front of them I was mesmerized. dollar…boobs…dollar…boobs…My two favorite things…I almost started drooling and going into shock but then she finished. Sorry guys, no pics. That would have been too fucking weird “Hey, Hang on a second while I snap a shot”. bwahaha. You’ll just have to settle for whatever Saturday Boobage comes around tomorrow at Dennys place.
Truck stuck fuck
Originally uploaded by rmiles
On the way to another shop, had to get caught behind this guy.
OMFG, I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants when I saw this video.
Just stopped by to see the Grouchy Old Cripple and got to this short post about Larry Craig. Republicans all over the U.S. are urging him to step down and get the hell out of the limelight yet the Democrats are still supporting the bribe-taking scumbag William Jefferson. What’s up with that?
I just ran across this over at CNN as well as a couple of other news outlets. Apparently an explosion caused a fire that is burning at least two buildings in Miami. Four children and one fire fighter have been injured in the fire and all have been transported to the hospital for treatment.
Is it just me or is the site just dragging to load today, even worse than usual? I am doing several different things here on my end so I can’t be sure that it’s my site or not. Either way I have found a way to export my templates from this site with minimal effort and hopefully will be on the new MT installation within the week. If that doesn’t speed things up then I will start to look for alternatives to my host. I am tired of it taking forever to rebuild the blog when I post and it still takes forever to comment, to the point where most people end up hitting the post button two or three times duplicating comments. Having to clean them up is a PITA.
I think I am starting to really like the way that I have the twitters set up as one-liners in between the entries. With the Google News is really was a bit much but a lot of times even when I am at home I get a fleeting thought and it really isn’t something I want to waste the time to write an entire blog post about (although that has never stopped me before) but I do want to get it down and share it.
The wife and oldest daughter have dentists appointments today. I know how much fun that is. I haven’t had to worry about it in years since I have dentures. I have been seriously considering getting implants though, but I am not sure how much my insurance carrier will cover and the thought of someone jamming metal sticks into my gums and jawbone also lends a flavor of serious fear and loathing to the entire prospect. I’m not sure that is an ordeal that I really want to go to.
Obviously I managed to get today off as well since I am here writing. No scheduled posts, that’s the rest of the week. I haven’t had two days off in a row in four weeks and was getting pretty damned stressed out about stuff so I need the break. After today I have to go until Saturday the 8th before I get a day off, then I work four more days until my vacation. As I mentioned in the last post I just reserved a car, actually a mini-van for the trip. Since the boy and his gear will be coming home with us we needed to make sure we had plenty of room for him to stretch out. I’m not sure if he will want to spend the trip home eating or sleeping. Probably a combination of both.
…I don’t even remember what it was I was watching but there some action flick on last night before I went to bed and the location was down in the Caribbean, which of course got me to thinking about where I want to go on vacation in January or February. My September vacation is locked in already since the boy is graduating from boot camp we will be spending at least half the week in Beaufort, SC. As a matter of fact I just finished reserving a mini-van for the trip this morning and booked rooms last week.
Anyway, after Christmas it’s so dreary around here and that makes it the perfect time to go for a vacation in the Caribbean, perhaps in Trinidad. The weather that time of year is great. From what I understand, the temperature ranges from 70-85 degrees in January, neither too hot or too cold.
If you know your history you will know that Columbus discovered the island in 1498 and claimed it for Spain. Since there was no gold as there was in other parts of the Caribbean it wasn’t settled immediately. He also sited Tobago (naming it Assumption) but it was pretty much ignored until the 1600s. By the time a few years before the American Revolution there were only 800 inhabitants on the island and spain started offering incentives for people that were Catholic to immigrate there, whether spanish or not. By 1797 when the British took control of the island the population had grown to over 16,000 which included 2100 white Europeans and 4500 free Africans.
Since there were so many non-white land owners in Trinidad Britain granted the island Crown Colony status, which meant that the residents were denied the right to vote and kept them out of the political process. Trinidad finally gained independence from Britain in 1962 and Trinidad and Tobago together formed a republic in 1976. One cool fact about Trinidad is that it was the first country in the world to recognize emancipation from slavery.
Like most of the Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago are blessed with warm blue seas and beautiful sunsets. It is the home of Carnival. Even though it is located just off the tip of Venezuela it is not considered part of the South American continent.