Shadowscope

It was a bit of a longer day than I expected. I am just now starting to relax. I don’t normally drink on a work night but I arrived home wanting a drink today for some reason. I have that bottle of Maker’s Mark, but I wasn’t in the mood for bourbon or whiskey today. What I need is a Tequila Sunrise, or something close since all I have here is Sunny D. Working on my second one and developing a nice little buzz already. It’s a good thing that all of my managers are on deck today. Don’t have to be back in until tomorrow.

I have seriously hosed my system. I upgraded it but because of my default templates and most of the garbage that’s been her for a few years it’s pretty messy. I have it where it will reindex the main page now and at least a couple of the entries are up, I don’t know if the comments are working or not. They may work from the individual pages or may not. I will check it out. It may be a few days before I get things right here again because of work hours, be patient

It's kind of interesting that I found this today. I don't particularly know why I am paranoid about it, but
when I go back to the doctor on Tuesday to discuss the results of my cholesterol test I have to schedule a PSA.
That's something I've never had done. The PSA is the Prostate-Specific Antigen test. My insurance company
gives us a break if I get one every year, and from what I understand the FDA approved the use of the PSA test to help
detect prostate cancer in men over 50. No, I'm not 50 yet but it's an insurance thing. Apparently they also
use the PSA test to monitor patients with a history of prostate cancer to see if it has come back.

I did a bit of reading on prostate cancer earlier this evening in between dueling phone calls from one of my stores
and a waitress that walked out and it is pretty nasty (the cancer, the phone calls are an entirely different story.

Apparently it's normal to have low levels of PSA in your blood, but cancer and some benign conditions can
increase PSA levels, thus the test. I also did some reading on treatments as well. One prostate cancer treatment in particular that I found kind of interesting is
called HIFU. Apparently they are currently in phase three of clinical trials for HIFU treatment right now. HIFU is
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. It uses ultrasound to destroy deep-seated tissue with extremely good accuracy
without any kind of invasive surgery. That's way too cool. I don't even pretend to understand the technical
details, I just leave that part to my wife and try not to nod off during the explanation.

Holy cow. I haven’t read anything about this story before now, but her parents must be weeping with relief. Apparently the police located the hidden room when they showed up for a DNA swab of the alleged suspects that held her prisoner.

The Police believe that the girl they found is Danielle Cramer, 15, who has been missing since June of 2006.

The arrested parties were apparently business associates of Cramer’s family.

I hired a girl for one of my stores the other day and interviewed another one and left her app for the manager to look over. I sent the first girl to one particular store where I have my newest manager. It’s also the busiest store so it’s in my best interest to make sure it gets staffed first with quality people. The other manager I guess decided to claim that girl and told the other manager to call the one whose app I had left.

It ends up being that the first girl is all over BOTH schedules now and the other one isn’t working yet. My new manager is off today and of course I am hung because this girl is on the schedule for evening shift, but she worked graveyard at the other store last night and is working it again tonight.

I won’t normally call my managers on their off days as they are definitely sacred and I can handle any problems that arise, but I did call her today and let her know that she and the other manager were going to have to get this worked out as I was not going to get stuck waiting damn tables on their days off.

I finally figure out what woke me up last night/this morning. It was the Boy hollering at the laptop on some game he was playing. I remember calling him and telling him to go to bed now, but by that time I was up and stayed that way for awhile.

I got to work a little after the usual time this morning, and had a cook come in because I knew I was going to be busy. It’s a good thing because one of my managers didn’t show up for work until 8:15 this morning. We are supposed the be in the stores by 6:30 every morning at the latest. He overslept. by. two. fucking. hours. I’m not particularly happy with that right now as it’s the second time this week and has been a constant thing since I picked up his store. I’m probably going to have to go a bit further than just talking to him this time.

Since this was paperwork and payroll closeout day I normally pick that stuff up on Wednesday mornings but I was way behind because of the late guy. I told my managers to bring me their paperwork by 3:30 this afternoon so that I could go through the books at home tonight. four fucking forty five rolls around and I left without that one guy’s stuff, called and told him to leave it at the store I would be at in the morning and I would go through it then.

I can understand being disorganized and being poor at time management. I resemble all of the above, so there are things that I do habitually to negate the fact that I get caught up doing other stuff. I’m still not sure if this is a case of time management or just lazy don’t give a shit instead. Either way I will give it my best shot at helping to fix the problem, but it lost me $1150 of income over the last four weeks and I won’t put up with that garbage very much longer before I become a real asshole. I could run better numbers with no manager than are being run right now. Just too much money on the line to put up with bullshit.

I’m finished ranting for the evening I suppose. Tomorrow is another day and another chance to fix the problem.

I just want to bang on the drums all day…

For some reason I woke up about two this morning and was up for an hour and a half before I could gt back to sleep again. That sucks. I had the hardest time when it really was time to get up. I have to get my rear end ready and get going in a couple of minutes but wanted to get online for a couple of minutes beforehand.

I still seem to be having problems with MT and FastCGI particularly in the evening when the site is busiest. I keep getting errors with it as well as with the MySQL server depending on what I am doing. Tech support for my provider keeps suggesting that it is a problem with my spam protection or the fact that I am getting a pretty hard hit with spam. I am thinking that it is somehow something wrong in the configuration.

It’s even to the point where I am having trouble posting entries or comments when it’s busy, which sucks. I don’t have any problems on my other two sites, but of course they have less than 10% of the entries or comments in the database that this one has.

I have stuck about an hour’s worth of errors from my site log in the extended entry if anyone familiar with MT and FastCGI has any idea what the problem may be please let me know.

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