My work week depends on what in-person classes I have scheduled and when I receive lessons from my correspondence students. I'm down to only three or four part time jobs since retiring from the victim response unit the first of the month. Which brings me to my random thought du jour: I can now go to bed in the middle of a howling blizzard and know dispatch will not be calling me out for a suicide at 3 a.m.
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: To Catch Up On Today's News, Man Just Reads 2-Year-Old Posts On Conspiracy Blog
Oh, shit, don't get me started on Monday. I never skip a Monday. It just can't be done in my world. Monday is the most important day in the restaurant industry, for all the stores and the office. Tuesday will hit you like a freight train if you haven't settled all of last week's business on Monday. Clear the invoices, reconcile the sales, fire payroll, place your liquor orders, place your paper orders, check in with the managers, map out the weekend, give every department their marching orders, see where you're strong, see where you're weak, have a plan, man... seriously, it's all about having a plan. The Gods give no quarter come the weekend. Your ass better be ready for Saturday by the time Monday ends.
Monday is Monday. Tuesday is Monday. Wednesday is Monday, and sometimes even Thursday is Monday when you teach uni. At the start of the semester the faculty ask each other "So when's your last first class?" and at the end it's "When's your first last class?" The school has a fetish for starting on certain dates, none of this "first Monday in April" nonsense, unless it's a Sunday the first class will fall on April 4th, no matter what day of the week that is, hence that is the Monday of Mondays until a holiday comes along and throws the schedule in the blender again...
Appears it did. A few of us gathered at WF.com. here's the thread https://www.writingforums.com/threads/writingforums-org-hijacked.202371/
Back to the Titanic, the last movie about that ill-fated ship that I saw was The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds & Harv Presnell and partly filmed in Telluride.
And on the subject of getting redirected, my anti-virus kept blocking the link. Said it was some known replacement of the DNS routing to send to a fishing site.
I love February! Want to know why? Because with 28 days, every day in March matches up perfectly with its February equivalent. So when you have a hundred excel sheets that need to be flipped every month, Monday 2.6.2023 becomes Monday 3.6.2023. Saturday 2.18.2023 becomes Saturday 3.18.2023. Only one character to change instead of 15! Except for Leap Years. Those suck ass.
Apparently it’s bad luck to be married on one. But then you’d have to celebrate that anniversary every four years.
Back when I was a by-the-day-contractor, 29th Feb was always known as "work for free day" for the permanent staff, whose salaries were calculated on a 365 day year. We scum-bags just invoiced for the extra day
When I worked at 9-1-1 we were hourly workers but I was on midnight shift. If you worked the 23-0700 on the time change days you got paid for 8 hours (or 4 hours if you were on the 2300-0300 half-shift) whether or not the clock sprung ahead (seven hour shift) or fell back (nine hours at your radio). Absolute scumbags the management were.
I suppose if you worked for one whole clock-change cycle, what you lost on the swings you would gain on the roundabout, but if you're not doing both shifts then you're stuffed (or laughing all the way to the bar with a free hour's pay in your back pocket...) does seem a little scummy. My absolute favourite was working for a Japanese bank which had offices in Muslim countries over Christmas. Would I be "on call" on Christmas day? We'll pay time and a half (and I was on a bloody good daily rate). What did I have to do? Nothing - they don't actually do any work at Christmas, they just don't take the day off...
Joanne Woodward won the Best Actress Oscar in 1958 for The Three Faces of Eve. She made her own gown for the Academy Awards ceremony.
Bats can't take off and fly from the ground, as birds can. They have to climb something and drop to achieve flight.
I just got my database build-out back from my new software company and my six restaurants have 1,932 ingredients and purchase line items! That includes all food, beverage, paper, chemicals, small wares (forks, plates), kitchen wares, and supplies. Maybe half of those are unique if we exclude a half gallon of milk vs a gallon of milk and things like that, but that's a lot of shit. Now the fun part: coding each one individually to the restaurant that uses it! Each item requires 5 mouse clicks to do so, and the first 500 took me maybe 3 hours so... only 9 more hours to go!
It’s kind of weird revising poems about depression and isolation on a beautiful, sunny day when I feel good about myself and my life. Yay for progress and remembering where I started from, I guess.
Headline of the Day from The Babylon Bee: 8-Year-Old Going To Bed Asks For A Glass Of Water And Also How God Is Still Good When Terrible Things Happen In The World
