i tried the new place out on 34th and 53rd, peisano’s stone fired pizza… i took the kids last week. i think they had been open for 1 week. the place was crowded. nice looking place with artistic painting on the walls and stones stacked up. i got a 12″ pie with pepperoni and italian sausage. the pepperoni’s were big and perfect, the sausage was thinly sliced from the link and mmm…
a bit heavy on the cheese for my taste, and the crust was not as crispy as i expected, but a nice place for sure. the folks that live out that way will be happy to have an italian restaurant.
i also ate at the new blue highway out in town of tioga recently with my mom. i had eggplant, pepperoni, carmelized onions on a sicilian pie. boy, was it good. frank has a snazzy place out there and i’m sure folks out there are pleased as punch. i know i would be. i always wonder what it’d be like to be a guy living near my pizzeria and just getting to be a regular customer once or twice a week. would i stop in for a cheese slice to go ? would i order large pies for the family every friday night and get a movie? would i wait an hour for a table and check out the music and play bocce? honestly, i don’t know what it would be like. sometimes wish i was that guy, just coming in for a stress free slice…

taken a few years ago but nice flower growing up the side of satchel’s pizza… i’ve been wanting to print a book from the blog posts for some time but haven’t been able to figure out how. lots of sites do this sort of thing but my blog was hosted at the wrong place which prevented me from “slurping” it, as it is called. brent came through again and figured out how to make it happen. and my good ol’ mom has agreed to do the time consuming job of organizing the text and images for book form. i like printed media. i still don’t trust digital media like i probably should. will my kids be more likely to go back and read my archived blogs, or pick up a coffee table book and thumb through it? you may think they would go on the computer and you may be right, but my gut says the printed book is still more powerful and meaty.
have you ever got a pizza someplace, anyplace, and the slices weren’t cut all the way through so you had to pull them apart or maybe you try and use your butter knife to separate them? this drives me nuts. we have sharp pizza cutters in the kitchen, when we cut a pizza we should cut it all the way through. press firmly and cut slowly. but often times the person cutting is hurrying and the job doesn’t get done properly.
which makes me think about the fact that we don’t cut our pizzas after 5pm, because we assume people will take them home and can cut them there. this simple non cutting will make for a crispier pizza. when it’s cut the juices flow down and sog out the crust, especially since the pizza box is a steamy hot place. this is maybe the smartest and the dumbest thing we do all wrapped into one policy. can you imagine how mad people are when they get someplace without a knife and the pies aren’t cut? i know our pies have been ripped apart many times. it’s a decision i constantly struggle with. to cut or not to cut take out pies. we have really mad customers sometimes so i should probably just cut them all, but then, i know the product is better for the folks who cut out what they want at home, or who cut slices as big or little as they want. anyway. i’m a bit insane. these things make my mind flutter.

i don’t have anything juicy like i promised you. the trouble is, i don’t intend to write about my home life, too personal, and work is work, probably not all that exciting and well, it’s work. i go in, i solve problems, i troubleshoot, i get overloaded, i run errands, and i talk on the phone. sure, sometimes i make pizzas… but there’s a lot of boring stuff going on.
tonight it was raining hard and our parking lot was full. i was very happy to see that even the terrible weather could not keep folks away. kathleen taylor played LSE, very nice, and i got a new 20 amp fuse for our breaker that kept tripping with 15 amps. one customer promised to bring tebow in for some pizza, and there was a couple eating a millet and flax pizza and they were very happy about it. see, not juicy. i should quit writing the blog really. i don’t have anything to say anymore. but it’s like anything, it has ups and downs…
if you’re reading this then i assume you have been to LSE. look closely at this old photo. this is looking out LSE to the lounge area. may 17th 2005. later gator

it’s slow this week at work. on a bright note though, a guy called from the lonely planet guidebook and he’s writing a story that may run on the ESPN website to give people some ideas of things to do in gainesville if they come to the UF / Tennessee game next week. i would guess a mention on the espn site would be good for business. i’ll link to it here if it happens.
there seems to be some fall weather in the air, at least in the mornings. that’s nice. i’m extra tired today. i’ll get some juicy info for you for next time. out.

this blog site changed their whole look on me and i am having a pretty hard time adjusting actually. blogs now take me three times as long which is a deterrent. maybe i will learn it. anyway, i should try another gator logo but i’m too busy to think about that now, but i will show you the not so great one i did draw.

newsletter went out. changed the tone a bit. less formal, more conversational i guess. don’t know if it was a good idea…
we lost a new employee now, on top of all the old employees we lost. geez. makes me feel defeated, like it’s our fault, we’re doing something wrong… and sometimes the fit is just wrong, like putting on a size 9 shoe and you actually wear an 11… i just always feel guilty like i must be a bad boss or my place is not right.
i should take it easy on the band peeps… i respect following music, it just hurts to pour so much love and attention into people and see them take off. it’s like i thought they would stay forever or something. but then they come back and you know they know what to do, but you have a new crew, a new attitude, and a new machine by then. tonight i railed on about “don’t hire people in bands” and i’m staring straight at daniel the whole time. i’m glad to have daniel. i think he’s a good worker and pleasant to have around and adds to the conversation… but he did just return from a long tour, we need him to work some shifts now that he is back… i don’t know. i don’t want to give people a hard time for liking music a lot. i like music too. i think i just want employees who know all the details about how the place is supposed to run. the restaurant. it’s hard when they leave. sometimes i wonder if they know how hard it can be to adjust.

satch and dog??

i’ve told you before, i have to write a newsletter as part of my job. besides a blog, which you can choose to bookmark and follow, i’ve started a “newsletter” which you have to sign up for and it gets emailed to you about every month or more… i guess it’s kindof for people who are too busy to follow blogs weekly, and check their email enough to think that they will follow a newsletter…. i don’t care. i’m glad to collect the email addresses and send out emails about specific news stories… and that’s what is happening with the newsletter. it’s about to go out and if you are somebody then you better have gone to our website and signed up… if you follow the blog you might as well get the newsletter…. it’s bound to tell you something you don’t know.

my blog host has changed the layout of and design of the place i go and write blogs. i can’t be certain my photo is above or if i will ever even figure out how to post this… man, it’s hard to keep up in this digital age…