The next big thing around here will be the redesign of this Web site. I know. I’ve been talking about that for years, but you didn’t think I’d ever get around to the T shirts, either, did you? Actually, some work already has begun on a new site, but it’s very preliminary at this point. I don’t know how it will look or even what it will contain exactly, but we’ll keep doing what we do now. There’ll simply be more. Anyway, it’s something for the new year.
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Completely off topic, but I must relay yesterday’s wild turn of events.
I got an email from my boss Wednesday night about using my vaction time (2 weeks). My dumb luck, I had stopped by the store, saw and responded to it (Wasn’t planning in it, everyone is too short-staffed. I lose vaction time every year.) Off on Thursday, and come back Friday morning to discover I was going on vacation starting Sunday. My boss told EVERYONE but me. And MY boss took a vacation day on Friday, so here I was, told I was to be off in two days, with no clue who was covering for me. She is trying to wedge everyone’s vaction into three weeks, during the holidays AND a training week. So, I finally get a response from my boss, and immediately go I to scramble mode. I now have to figure out three weeks worth of scheduling – coordinating with three other stores; get keys and instructions to two people who have never even set foot in my store so they can run the joint for almost two weeks!; figure out where and how one of my employees got shorted 11.73 hours of pay; put together the written “strike two” reprimand for my useless third shift girl,
AND
The main guy who will be covering came over for a quick and dirty overview and to help with scheduling. We are just making decent headway when my clerk starts yelling for me. Someone has just handed her four counterfeit $20 bills mixed in with real money for a transaction. Ack! We call the local leos, wait a half hour, and then the REAL fun began. The lady claimed she was innocent, but very quickly became argumentative and secretive when the officer tried to work out a time line of events. (Who forgets where they broke a $100 bill?) She apparently slammed the officer’s *cheesed off button* real hard, because suddenly there was another cruiser, more officers, and the most epic recitation of the Miranda rights I have ever heard. (And the first time I’ve ever heard them read in person.) Ultimately, they let her go – after getting all her vitals – but holy cow, for a minute there I was looking for the COPS camera crew. And now, more paperwork. Finally got everything as done as I can tonight.
However, I am fully anticipating my boss’s call, telling me the whole, wobbling house of cards came crashing down around her, and she needs me to come in. Stay tuned. 🙂
Both shirts arrived in this morning’s post, and they were in same shipping package.
However, I can’t wear them until Christmas because my wife promptly confiscated them for boxing, wrapping, and placing under our tree.
Mindy from Indy, good luck and put the boss’s number on call block Saturday night!
Gee, Lady Mindy, it sounds as though the organization for which you work runs like a finely tuned Swiss train wreck.
Got home from the big D tonight. Found our package from Iuka. It will nestle beneath the tree until Xmas eve.
Coming year website changes:
1) an edit comment option,
2) emoji support
Got back from Lowe’s with some of my money. You know you are special when their best salesman walks you around and finds what you need. I got shutters to fake windows on the dog house, artificial poly something lumber looks like shelving that is stronger than wood and special screws to attach my metal stars and compass roses on fencing like Mark suggested, around $400 of new high intensity LED automatic motion lights for yard and some exercise mat padded carpeting that clicks together for dogs in case they want to work out in their dog house.
Dog house has 10 foot ceilings, a fan in ceiling, lights, gas and electric heat and beds that look like cots off floor with their mattresses on top of that. The shelves are for them. We recycled the metal kitchen door which has mullein windows. Pit new door on kichen. Lined with that industrial stuff they use in beer coolers and insulated, walls cinder block covered in board and batten.
They have to go pee in yard but we could have put running water, this used to be my pump house a long time ago and water is next to it.
I am expecting to feel better soon and get stuff done like gardening and yard work. Good exercise
Dear Jackie, your energy and imagination seem to have no limits, and are awesome! You have plenty of help with all this, we assume. The Villagers are cheering you on. Better get some sleep now — that’s what I’m going to do.
Jimmy does your wife know about your relationship with the walrus mustached Lowes employee or is just into “Don’t ask Don’t Tell”?
emb:
Here is a coincidence. George Eliot is the pen name for Mary Ann Evans. My wife had a signing today at a bookstore and uses her real name: Marianne Evans.
Need an edit button. The Marianne had a face that could stop a Locomotive. Literally. I am a proud Purdue Boilermaker and 34 years ago last December 5th. I turned off a Purdue basketball game to attend a Christmas party. She stopped me dead in my tracks. We were married the following July.
Jackie, with all that in the dog house, you are going to make them go out to pee instead of giving them an indoor toilet? Shame, shame. Wonder if the cats will take over?
Steve, congratulations to your wife on a new book. I haven’t read any of them, but always glad to see new work come along when the author is good. Just finished reading Sword of the South by David Weber. It’s a high fantasy novel, with about 5 preceding it in the series. I think it tops the previous books in twists and turns, and descriptive writing.
Here is a link to some of her books
http://pelicanbookgroup.com/ec/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=marianne%20evans&inc_subcat=0&sort=20a&page=1
Last post. Her latest book:
http://pelicanbookgroup.com/ec/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=68_41&products_id=708
Jackie, your dogs’ house sounds very much like my barracks room in basic training. Except without the ceiling fan.
I waiting for a 25,000 lumen security light that not only illuminates intruders but melts them if they don’t run away fast enough.
Ghost, like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y94NebXT6s
Well, I decided the first dog house was really too fancy, it has a porch and real windows plus the other stuff including a/c so it got designated something else. The pump house was sitting next to it so we gutted it and remodeled.
It has a dog door through wall and an opening front door with window. We hope cats will go through dog door and sleep with dogs. That is vague hope. Right now I’d have to count noses but I think most of them went outside. They think the sheer drapes on my canopy bed that look like mosquito bars are the most fun thing ever offered. A cat gets on one side and another on other side.
You can imagine how this ends.
I would tear the machine apart to get out: http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2015/12/07
Ah yes, the amphibious landing boarding ladder practice, kitty style. Better get something more substantial than sheers.
Jackie, the knee surgery could be worse: http://www.gocomics.com/closetohome/2015/12/06
Yes, Mark, just like in that scene from back in the days when the British had armed Air Raid Wardens.
“You can imagine how this ends.” Not well?
Question of the Day: Will my artificial plants die if I forget to pretend to water them?
Debbe 😉 I really wouldn’t mind, if it was with you. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q
A different Christmas song, but I like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjggWxGYLdo
I have been dutifully hanging ornaments, using exact same methodology I used in creating showroom theme trees to get people to buy the ornaments and take them back to their retail stores to sell them to you, the retail Christmas trim buyer. Old habits don’t die so hopefully I won’t either.
It is interesting, stores like Hobby Lobby, Walmart, Garden Ridge, Michaels, John Ann’s (who are the mass market box stores) have no trees decorated in themes, leaving the customer to flounder on their own.
Where did the big Christmas stores and nurseries go that used to set up dozens of theme trees and everyone would go to tour them and try to duplicate their looks? Those were my customers.
Does anyone here have stores like that still in their area?
Good morning Villagers….
Indy Mindy…..your yesterday was almost as bad as mine. Went to hen house to help clean. Worked with Skittles, Cowboy wannnabe, and a couple of other teens…..all hung over from the night before. Cowboy wannabe, even did a semi strip dance for me coming down the aisle….I just looked at him and said to put that energy into wire brush and start scraping. I was not in the mood…..
Then, a ice chest showed up full of Seagrams flavored drinks…..then the Boss shows up….lucky for Andrew the blower was running and all he could do was see the Boss’s lips move…..
So today I am staying away, going to the hen house and pack eggs…..but then I’ll end up back there….so much to get ready, and Andrew is at his wit’s end.
Jackie, my friend and her husband own a Ben Franklin in Jasper….they have all kinds of decorated theme trees…I was in there Friday….so much stuff there I could buy. She asked how I was doing, and that was all it took…..she had to hand me a kleenex.
Gotta go…..
Have a blessed Lord’s day..
Oh, I really like today’s real time strip…..
GR 😉 you would too, so I’m sending you some reflection time……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HHJVPxvqI
GR 😉 heeerrre’s Chrissie….my theme song this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radFwHzD-PM
…and another favorite of mine from them…..love the instrumental ending, Bad Company’s ‘Running with the Pack;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SAG65M82A