post #238
my new paintings will be up in december, along with some works by lenny kesl.
i’ve got a new schedule where i work a few lunch shifts. this is good news for me, especially if i can spend more time with the family at night.
training a few new people these days… seems that we’re growing a new skin of folks, interesting how even a stable restaurant sees so many people come and go. people are searching for their place in the world, and some people drift our way for a while. so many things carry them off… a new job, a new city, a different plan.
part of me is so tired that i just want to move the family to hawaii for 6 months and hope that they hold it all together while i’m gone. the other part of me keeps chugging along, thinking i’m just about ready to retire, while working harder than i’ve ever worked in my life every minute of every day.
i will say this: it’s pretty much out of my control in a lot of ways, i mean, the restaurant has more going on than i can keep up with and some things just fall through the cracks… BUT… i do spend probably too much time, every day, working on the beast. there’s a new prep guy, there’s new day kitchen people, there’s new pizza makers, there’s new servers and phone answerers… there’s even new actual phones. i spent my entire day off, 8am to 5 pm, finding, buying, and installing a new bank of phones. i went to best buy, office max, lowe’s, sam’s, wal-mart, home depot, circuit city, and finally office depot, trying to find a phone system that would work for my restaurant. yes, you may wish to read that last sentence again slower.
i gotta tell you, it gets to me. if i never stepped in best buy or office max or office depot again, i would be the luckiest man on the planet. and as much as i want to never go there, my business takes me there. one day i may find the perfect “personal assistant” and my life will get instantly longer, (while they would waste their life driving from corporate nightmare to corporate nightmare)
a guy was asking me today about why in the world we close on mondays. i wish he could walk in my shoes for 2 weeks. that man would probably end up just opening fridays.
satch says: it ain’t easy bein’ cheesy.
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