bocce man
well, i had this idea that danny could wear an orange vest and help people learn to play bocce and work the back area. i drew cool stuff on the vest, like the LSE logo and stuff, and i imagined it would get all faded and broken in and danny would be a local celebrity. but my wife told me that no one would want to wear that bright orange vest. and sure enough, he tried to like it, but ended up hating it. he even went to the trouble to send me this photo.
the court is up and running. currently it is free to play. we’re trying to get folks interested. but eventually we will charge $5 per game, to help recoup the cost of the landscaping out there, and pay for the extra employee. bocce is a simple and easy game to learn. it’s worth checking out.
so, good ol’ jim was always in the kitchen tonight, running food. jim, and some others were working doubles. i hate it when they do that, but they like to make a lot of money in a day. i know they are worn out though. satchel’s is usually busiest on saturdays so it’s a long day to see it through lunch and dinner. i said something about jim writing about work on his myspace and he mentioned that he reads the blog and likes it. then i got home to an email from someone who was asking that i keep it going… so these things make me want to figure out a way to continue it past january… i don’t know… i am so busy and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all my projects…
saturday night. it went good in the kitchen. we heard a rumor that there was a 2 hour wait and soon after we slowed to a trickle of tickets. we had 3 tickets up so i went to investigate and found about 10 open tables. seems that the wait had gotten so long that lots of people just left. so we are paging folks and no one is coming to claim the table. our phone paging system is a recording, so we don’t know if they have left or not. we just know we have 10 empty tables… so i tell div, just keep paging people, page about a million people and let’s fill up these empty seats… i checked back in the kitchen and still nothing happening there. i started paging everyone on the list and finally folks started showing up to claim tables. folks who were told an hour and 15 minutes were getting tables in 20 or 30 minutes. then things started finally moving again, but for 30 minutes or so we were frozen up.
it was a big relief to have a good night after last week. i was certainly glad there was no game and we could just have a normal saturday night where we know what to expect. velveeta underground played LSE and they are always fun.
“everybody take a couple days off,” that’s what i like to say on saturday nights. we’re closed sundays and mondays so the beauty of that is that people get a weekend. of course, some people work other jobs and don;t get 2 days off, but that’s their fault, not mine. mostly i think if you work at satchel’s and you want to get shifts, you should be able to make a living in gainesville off of this one job.
did i tell you what a great crew we have these days? it’s like a big happy family. i love these people i work with. they are funny and witty and smart and interesting. i’d tell you all about it but i want to write a new menu back and take a shower and relax….
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