Yesterday was quite an eventful day at work. Not in a good way. Normally, that would be enough to convince me (not that much convincing is ever needed) to come straight home and nap. However, the first thing I noticed when I walked in the door is that our floors are in desperate need of [...]
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Nesting Is Exhausting–or–I Need a Magic Wand
Posted in Home Life, Work on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What a Weekend!
Posted in Church and God, Crafts, Food, Work on April 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend was a wonderful mixture of eventful and self-indulgent. It began with an incredibly busy day at work on Friday during which we spent the first half of the day playing catch-up from the previous busy days and and the second half trying to prepare for the weekend, which we knew would be crazy. [...]
Hit On or Get Hit
Posted in Work on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Guys, there are very few right ways to hit on women, but the list of wrong ways is never-ending. One very wrong way is to flirt with a woman who is a captive audience. That means anyone in any service industry–waitresses (of course), cashiers, hair stylists–anyone who is getting paid to be polite. Yet because [...]
What Odd Thomas Taught Me
Posted in Work on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite authors, Dean Koontz, has several books about a character named Odd Thomas. Though blessed (or cursed) with a supernatural gift, his favorite thing to do is provide people exceptional pancakes at his fry cook job. When he considers taking other jobs, they’re always simple service jobs to provide people with something [...]
Lucky Me
Posted in Work on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading the blog Waiter Rants and sympathizing with many of the posts. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. No, really. I still have t-shirts from a couple of the jobs I worked at. Oh, the frustrations of working for tips! Management that treats you as subhuman, customers that treat you as subliving [...]
Sweet and Salty
Posted in Work, Writing on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First of all, The Brink Online published an article of mine, “Be Salty.” Go read it, comment on it, and check out the site. It’s great. The “sweet” part is that I’m free from the cafeteria job. I’ve known several people who’ve worked two jobs. They’ve made it sound pretty easy. So I decided I’d [...]
Cha-Ching!
Posted in Work on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the coffeehouse today to do some work. First I worked on my book, then I “rewarded” myself by getting started on my paid freelance work. Just before I started, however, I got a call from my mother-in-law. I’ve done some freelance editing/grading for her before and she asked if I’d be interested [...]
Huddle House Hustlers
Posted in Work on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After my briefest stint with a company ever, including freelancing, I quit Huddle House. My optimism was not entirely ill-founded; I did, in fact, like the job. We had a couple annoying kooks, but mostly they were harmless and fun. And even the normal customers are a little more chatty and fun than they are [...]
Waitressing Woes and Standing on the Brink
Posted in Work, Writing on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Working at Huddle House is both better and worse than I thought it would be. The job itself is pretty cool. Business is slow during the week, but it’s still kind of fun. The management, however… Well, I expected to be treated as subhuman when I took this job, but you expect that from the [...]
Fries With That?
Posted in Work on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was difficult being unemployed and unable to find any kind of work. In an odd way, though, it’s even more discouraging beginning a new job when that job is waitressing. It seems like when I was unemployed there was at least the hope that I might find meaningful work somewhere, but now I’m just [...]
