Volume 2

Today was slow and painful. My allergies are acting up and causing me all kinds of problems. I ‘ll get over them quick though. I probably just need to spend a lot of time outside. It worked when I went to Six Flags once…my allergies or something was making me sick, but I stayed outside all day and got better.

Anyway, someone that is not getting better is Carol. (more…)

Some sad news today. Carol had a heart attack, and is in the hospital. I have no further details than that, although she is not dead.

I am sure this has re-arranged some things at DQ. We will probably be hiring two new people, one of which I have interviewed, and another that previously worked there. The one I interviewed, Andrea, will work the days, (if needed; they’ve been slow lately) and the other, Chris F., will work the weekends (Sunday mainly). If I can get Chris in tomorrow and start him Sunday, it should work out so that Steve might not have to come in to work and can get Teague’s DQ inspection preparation underway. We’ll see… (more…)

Well, after all that work at DQ, we got a 92.4 of 100, where 85 fails. We made an 86 last year. So, in general, we did pretty good. I got to speak with Reese and Walker some about things that we could do to see if they would approve, but none of it did. It was just to get answers that Steve couldn’t give me.

On another note, I am having to change my journal writing style because people are reading my journal without my knowledge and I am getting in trouble for the things I write. I only write what I think. that’s why there would be a disclaimer on my website that said: (more…)

Man, I nearly forgot about writing tonight…or I should say, this morning. It’s 12:30 am, and I just got off work. We have inspection tomorrow and we had to work our butts off cleaning. We still didn’t get everything done, but we still have a little bit of time tomorrow to do some things.

Now, I know how it felt for Benji, Jay, and Lil’ Ben to work on the site under me. I was a procrastinator…and when the boss is procrastinating, on a job that you require to be done to proceed, it gets rough. Steve was all up in my kitchen tonight, and I had the most difficult time concentrating on the task I needed to get done. I had an especially difficult time when (more…)

Ahh…the conclusion to another day. Bedtime fast approaching, and another day on the horizon. If time continues to fly by this fast for an extended period of time, I will be middle-aged before I know it.

At any rate, work was, in general, short-lived today. I spent most of the day scrubbing paper border off the men’s bathroom wall, with a chemical solution of my own that gives paint thinning companies a run for their money. I’ve been told that 2 of the 6 chemicals I used, when mixed, make a type of nerve gas. Curious… (more…)

“What a beautiful mess I’m in…” not really…I just thought of that song.

Anyway…today I didn’t work until 4:00. I finally go to “lounge” around the house. I got all dressed up and put on some house shoes, and watched TV. I had a late breakfast and contented myself with a can of biscuits and some cheesy-eggs. At that point, an unexpected thing happened. I got a letter. It was from Sarah in Bay City. So when Martha Stewart was finished, I decided that this letter “was a good thing…” 😉 and read it.

Ahh…the memories, and the insights. (more…)

Groundhog Day…I haven’t heard yet whether or not he saw his shadow. It’s not important though, he’s usually wrong.

Anyway…church…yeah. My parents wrote me a note “I expect you to pay attention instead of reading your Bible.” The nature of the “problem” is bizarre. They want me to listen to a guy, from whom I am not learning anything, instead of reading my bible, from what I am learning. It doesn’t make sense to me. (more…)

Man…today is a day to be put down in history. The space shuttle Columbia exploded on reentry this morning at 8:00. It was said that all over Texas it was heard when it happened. I didn’t hear it though. I was at DQ counting the store. (I got there early, at 7:30 to do it.) (more…)

This is bound to be a short journal entry. I’m pretty sleepy.

Today, I got to work at 8:00 like every Friday. Then I had to sift through the poorly done financial material from the day before when I wasn’t there. That took an hour. By that time I should have already started setting up the store. So I go ahead and do that, and it takes nearly 45 minutes because of Zadra being in the dining room waiting until 11:00 for her shift. It bothers me that she’s in there, even though she is just reading a book.

Anyway, I finish up and have to double check the grocery order. Everything on the list is there…except for one thing. (more…)