I haven’t had much of an opportunity lately to work on any of my home automation projects, but the next thing I want to do is start looking at Chandeliers for the dining room. I already have a bit of the kitchen/dining are wired up and right now I have a ceiling fan in there, but I am seriously considering replacing it with something I can control with my HA software. It may just have to wait until we get a new house, since the kitchen area and dining room are one big room and it gets pretty hot in there occasionally when we cook so I really need the fan some evenings.
Strange Things You Find…
…in restaurant coolers.
About a year after I started working for my company, I worked for a manager that needed to get a bit mellow before work. I cooked on the graveyard shift and every morning before work she and the entire day shift would all go back out on the back porch and burn themselves one. She would leave the keys with me at night, and once I found her stash. She kept them rolled up in the freezer in her commissary. Very weird.
I occasionally will keep a six pack of Dr Pepper in the cooler as that is what I prefer to drink. Last week I finally got around to cleaning and organizing the food storage areas in my restaurants and in one of the really nasty ones I found three gallons of ice cream in the freezer. Since old dude spends way too much time sitting in the office and eating ice cream rather than doing things like his job, I got rid of it.
One of the others had a six pack of some kind of Energy Drink in her cooler. I left it alone. She is very driven and organized and even though I probably should have gotten rid of it as well, I decided that it was the least of my worries.
Monday Manboobs
This one scared me…
At the ren fest…
Amy Winehouse…
A friend of mine, whom I am not allowed to link to had a post up recently with an Amy Winehouse video. It was pretty good, so I thought “Hey, that was pretty good” 🙂
I found several more videos over at Youtube and I really like her stuff. I don’t know anything else about her music or if it’s available on iTunes yet, but I will certainly check it out. Here’s my favorite so far…
Why am I still awake anyway?
Damn, that was Nasty,,,
One of the unfortunate side effects of working so many hours is no meals at home. I have eaten at McDonald’s a couple of times this week, and a couple of PB&J sandwiches at 11pm as I crawled home, but mostly at work. I have developed the worst case of farts that I have had in quite some time. Deadly. Nasty farts. I will probably end up sleeping with the dog tonight they are so disgusting.
I finally got home a few minutes ago, another 17 hour day. I am thoroughly enjoying a Sam Adams Summer Ale. It is wonderful, and what is even neater is the fact that not only will I get to entertain everyone at the Ren Fest tomorrow with my deadly wind, but I will be adding beer to the mix as well.
Would You Like Some Cheese With That Whine?…
Damn, this was a long day. I left the house about a quarter till five this morning and just got home a few minutes ago. I spent the greater part of the day cleaning that one store that I have been having the most problems with and doing a little bit of training.
One more day and it doesn’t look as if it is going to be any shorter. I am seriously looking forward to a bit of down time, although Sunday we will spend running around the Renaissance Festival. Come on down and hook up with us if you get a chance. It’s the last day of the fest so should be pretty cool.
I am pretty much physically exhausted right now. That has it’s ups and downs. It’s almost a good feeling sometimes though, because I know I have worked hard today.
Hawaiian Vacations…
I’ve been writing a lot about vacations lately and posting pictures of some neat places as well as the exotic. I have some vacation time coming up in July and am very much looking forward to it. It probably won’t be this year, but with my son leaving for boot camp and my daughter starting school this fall, I will be able to come up with some extra money over the next twelve months and would like to fly to Hawaii for my vacation. Just the wife and I. The hard part will be in finding someplace for the girls to stay for a week.
One of the things I would like to do is to stay away from the big hotel chains and rent a kihei maui condo or villa. Hotels are nice, most of the time, but just don’t provide the niceties and privacy that I would prefer. Check out some of these pics from around the Kauai vacation rentals.
Some of the areas in Hawaii are just plain beautiful and exotic. I generally only get a week of vacation, but I also get one ten day vacation each year and would love to spend it on a Hawaiian vacation.
One of the really cool things is that the EPA has really been making an effort to help clean up Hawaii. With the amount of people from the mainland U.S. as well as the rest of the world that come to visit Hawaii each year, the help is much needed and appreciated.
A Rose By Any Other Name…
Screw that Double Noise…
I had scheduled myself to work a double tomorrow in order to save on payroll at my slowest store. I had a manager trainee work yesterday (he gets prorated between nine stores) and I am making the store manager work on on Saturday.
Today is my tenth day straight with two more to go. It looks very likely that I will be losing one of my two GOOD managers tomorrow afternoon to another district. Fuck that double stuff. I will end up staying anyway to clean up the shit-hole, but I am not going to cook a damn double as tired as I have been the last few days. I am starting to get very snappy with people as well, so I am having to watch what I say and force myself to keep my mouth shut.