Kevin's Watch

aliantha wrote:Anyway, after the banquet, I went down to Old Town San Diego and bought souvenirs and had chicken in mole for dinner. I need to learn how to make that stuff. Mmmmmm.

Hasten to the Galley and Share What You Learned!!!

When I figure it out, I will, SD. Not to worry. I did find a recipe for mole poblano in my old Better Homes & Gardens Mexican Cookbook, but I expect there is a more authentic one on teh intarwebz. I just need to remember to look.

And I'm pretty fried right now. The extra day off for jetlag/convention recovery helped a little, but I was still pretty exhausted by the end of the day yesterday -- and I still had to go grocery shopping last night. And it's NaNo, too. I didn't really intend to write anything last night, but then I opened Word and suddenly it was 1am. Good thing it's a short week. And the Commissioner will be gone after tomorrow, and Travelin' Guy will be on the road all next week (I booked his reservations yesterday afternoon). So things will calm down in my world shortly. I just need to get through today and tomorrow.

'Travelin' Guy' sounds like a Stephen King villain.

Another manifestation of the Walkin Dude, perhaps?

He's a really nice guy. He's just on the road a lot.

Sounds like my hubby. He's on the road several days a month. I slept alone last night. But it was a sweet and lovely morning. The power went out (a daily occurrence) so I did my Bible reading outside on the veranda as the sun came up. Aaaahh.

A bit more focused than yesterday. Yesterday I felt completely lost...nothing heavy duty, simply and utterly lost. Today I can, at least, put one foot in front of the other...

I finally got my washer and dryer fixed! It only took an entire month! I did about 5 loads of laundry yesterday. Yussssssssssssssssss.

Today I have two training seminars for work, and my husband is working from home. My son's fever went down from 104.1 last night to 101.3 today. It is gorgeous out, the snow has mostly melted, and I no longer have a shift with a difficult client so I am PUMPED TODAY! SO CRAZY!

Well, I was doing OK until JazFusion jumped into my path!

So throw a basket of laundry her way and keep going!!

deer of the dawn wrote:So throw a basket of laundry her way and keep going!!

I think he missed and threw the laundry to me. I'm about to go and do muchos laundries.

I've gotta do laundry today, too. Too bad we can't all meet at Jaz's place.

The Commissioner is gone -- and as I should have expected, he threw me his half-done departure checklist on his way out the door. Yesterday afternoon was...interesting. I will need to spend a major chunk of next week filing the 7500 e-mails he left in his inbox. All that and the Big, Scary Bill landed on my desk Thursday, and I haven't even touched it yet.

And NaNo too...

How's the writing project?

Took Ariel to the vet for her shots this morning. Unfortunately, I didn't look at my phone before I left. If I had I would have seen that the vet was called away on a call and we'd have to reschedule the appointment.

Getting ready to make a pot of chili today for a chili cookoff tomorrow. Have all the secret spices ready.

Pissed off. After waiting a month and a half my college ring came in but had the wrong graduation year (2012 instead of 2008). Will have to get them to fix it. Otherwise a gorgeous ring.

LF: Bummer.

Damelon: I'm doing astonishingly well, thanks. I'm at 14,588, which is about 8,000 words over the minimum for today. Either my outline is spectacular at keeping me on task, or I'm doing a lot of blathering. And btw, send some of that chili this way -- thanks!

danlo wrote:A bit more focused than yesterday. Yesterday I felt completely lost...nothing heavy duty, simply and utterly lost. Today I can, at least, put one foot in front of the other...

Lucky man Danlo. I've got a 'spur' (like a spike of bone that shouldn't be there) in my heel and boy is it giving me stick at the moment. Spending 8 hours a day standing on it in the shop aint helping one bit neither! Every step is like standing on a nail - and people wonder why I'm grumpy

seems my captain wishes i were not working for her and gave me to disciplinaries. which will guarantee i stay working for her another 6 months to a year.

Sorry, Sarge. That's about the same length of time I have left in this Kindergarten year, so we are probably going through about the same kind of thing. No, seriously. If you want some behavior management tips-- they work just as well on adults as 5-year olds.

two incidents i got written up for...

1) had to prep th enext days lunch, because first shift is excused from much work. (they do not hav eto get the soap, clean the back dock, have the kitchen clean.) so i trusted 3 c/o's to clean the kitchen. with explicit instructions. two new boots and one veteran. they did not and i should have checked. one dirty kitchen in a year and half? write-up.

2) i went sick as a dog and forgot one thing that day - a temp check. yes i should have done it.

basically the captain wants all her people in the kitchen. i am not one of them. and instead of being an adult she is having me work six days a week and then writing me up for whatever she can find.

no excuses - but - there is so much to do and so much extra that will not be done that i have let the basics slide. damned if i do and damned if i don't.

friday the dishwasher went down, i made sure we were washing by hand and wrote the machine up. informed my captain. well monday the plates from first shift are not clean enough. who gets yelled at? the first shift that left them that way? no - me. and she yelled at me for not contacting maintainance... that is her effing job. i did everything i was supposed to. i even boiled the trays in a steampot to kill anything on them.

so now i will get punished, could be another probation. i could lose rank down to fsm II, (that means loss of money) or they could up and fire me.

if i were fired i go through mediation and 99 percent chance of getting job back.

but probation means i stay there for however many months they give me. so she defeats her own purpose.

sgt.null wrote:1) had to prep th enext days lunch, because first shift is excused from much work. (they do not hav eto get the soap, clean the back dock, have the kitchen clean.) so i trusted 3 c/o's to clean the kitchen. with explicit instructions. two new boots and one veteran. they did not and i should have checked. one dirty kitchen in a year and half? write-up.

Getting in trouble because other people have screwed up/been lazy is one of my pet peeves these days. That sucks, sorry.