F-O-J is close, welcome ruth
this is the week for the fountain, i think. i have a few hours of work left and i have every intention of turning it on before friday this week. i can’t guarantee that but i can, like obama, hope.
this weekend was super busy and even with our new to-go system, we still got backed up on in-house orders. it was just so busy and so many tables order 2 or 3 pizzas. both nights went pretty well, but friday night i was having some allergy issues and not quite as composed as i would have liked to be. i put the wrong toppings on a deep dish and that is frustrating. somehow i was able to make it up to the people although they had somewhere to be and had to take the corrected deep dish home.
saturday night would have been much better if it hadn’t been for the backed up toilets. this is the 4th time in less than 2 months. it seems that we either have roots in the sewage lines or people like to flush brown towels down the toilets. either way, our system is delicate and it seems to back up on busy friday or saturday nights. all 3 toilets are on the same line, so once one goes, they all go and we have a lot of antsy people around. fortunately, the plumber came quick and we were down only for an hour. the plumber is there for 20 minutes and charges $171. ouch. dealing with this crisis, and also with the onslaught of tickets coming in, was hard. this happened at the peak of business so i had to walk away from the oven several times to talk to the plumber and find out the status of our toilets. now i will spend my monday off meeting with a couple plumbers to see if we can figure out whether we need hand dryers in the bathrooms (to stop the towels getting flushed) or maybe we need new sewage lines… in any event it will be expensive. if i get too caught up in the issue it may push the fountain back a week. hopefully, the pipes can get fixed and i can finish the fountain, we’ll see.
welcome to ruth, the new face at lightnin’ salvage. she’ll be working on the weekends and hopefully filling in some other shifts here and there. that place gets pretty busy as christmas comes around.
tonight i’ll be attempting to make some homemade ice cream. i’ll let you know how it turns out, maybe even get a picture.
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