Shadowscope

I did manage to get finished at a decent time yesterday, but I had a new manager today so I was able to shoot out the door before 3PM this afternoon and pick up the girls. That was pretty nice.

Tomorrow should be fairly uneventful. I have to get all of the paperwork together from the stores for my meeting on Thursday and I have a truck coming in with a delivery, but as long as everyone shows up all will be well.

My new manager is unfortunately off for the next three days, and I have another one off on Friday and Saturday but I will actually get two days off this week. W00t. If I can just make it through the next four days all will be well.

That’s all I have been doing this morning. I have to get ready for work in a few minutes. I get a new manager this morning, but unfortunately she is off for the next three days after today so they might as well wait until Saturday. I may be able to get a bit of stuff done today though, which will be nice.

I still have to run to Carrollton and sign to make those changes on my car insurance this afternoon, but other than that it will hopefully be a short day.

Tomorrow is Pete’s last softball game of the season. They won’t be in any tournaments this year so this is it. They were supposed to play tonight as well, but one of the girls is sick, and with only eight players (counting the sick one) that means that they had to forfeit the game. Lately she has been enjoying it, but I think she is getting tired of playing.

Since I got promoted I get a car allowance added to my check every two weeks. They pay for 100% of my gas, and I get something like $300 a month for an allowance. Not a bad deal. That works out to a $3900 a year raise not including the other bonuses that I get. Pretty sweet deal, huh? I had to call my insurance agent today to get a new car insurance quote since I had to add my company as an additional insured, make sure that I had at least 300,000/100,000 liability and 25k property and I also dropped the van off of the policy since I didn’t bother getting tags for it this year anyway. I will probably be putting it in the classifieds next month or sell it on an auction site. I figure if I can get about $2500 on it I will be doing OK.

I was hoping for at least a half day off today. I went in this morning to take care of paperworks and finally managed to get out of there at noon. Went back for the two o’clock shift change, did my banking for two stores, got home at three or so. I’ve been on the phone off and on the entire day trying to cover shifts and I have at least three hours of paperwork to do tonight as well. I guess it was a day off when you consider that eight hours of work will be the shortest day I’ve had all week.

I ended up having another sixteen hour day today. I am very quickly getting tired of that and am ready to start bashing heads in. One of my managers started whining around noon that his entire afternoon shift had called in and he didn’t know what to do. I helped him cover the shift but also suggested that it might be wise to not schedule them anymore. He knew when he made the schedule who was unreliable and who was not.

I am going in tomorrow morning, but it is my only chance for a partial day off between now and Sunday so I am going to try and get out of there by nine or ten and come home. I will just have to cross my fingers and hope everyone shows up.

I guess that they decided that no phone calls were warranted last night. Lucky me. I ended up staying and cleaning until about seven PM last night and came home. Everyone showed up for work on the graveyard shift, which is a good thing. I actually managed to get six hours of sleep for the first time this week. So far I figure I have worked 44 hours since I picked up the three stores. Since Thursday. I am trying to figure out a way to get tomorrow off right now and it just doesn’t look real likely. I may just arrange to get a cook in there and take care of the drawer changes but come home in between.

When I did get home last night the wife ran me a hot bath to soak in which was nice, and the four year old decided to come in an serenade me with songs on her electronic piano. She kept that up for quite awhile, which was very cute. Something about Santa and I love you…

I’ve been remiss the last couple of days in posting. I can always tell because since I only keep a few days on the main page my sidebar is getting longer than the actual content. Oh well, it’s not that I don’t love you or anything. It’s not you at all, it’s me…