New And Improved...soonish

Yes, I am taking the advice of Moe and am going to do a "real" webpage. About time I think.

Give me a little time though...tomorrow I've got a meeting to discuss my financial future.

Interesting things are afoot. Yes'm

Pump me up!

"Kickstart My Heart" by Motely Crue totally pumps me up...no matter how old and cheesy it is.

www.realultimatepower.net pumps me up a lot too.

I want to break up for really strange reasons

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine today...which created the need for me to post this on www.craigslist.org

I'll post all my replies (if I get any).

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Thinking back to the reasons why I've broken up with girlfriends...I can only come up with one that was mildly odd.

I had met this girl in San Diego and we were hanging out at my place for the first time. She was pretty, friendly and laughed a lot. This was like date #2 so it wasn't like I was thinking "oh she could be the ONE!"...I was just hanging out. Make sense?

Anyway the TV was on and ended up on the Discovery Channel...it was either talking about monkeys or evolution or both...perhaps neither.

She started laughing really hard...so I asked her what was so funny.

She said how funny it is to think that people actually evolved from monkeys. I paused. I thought. I asked, "so you believe that the bible is totally correct?"

She said, "of course!!".

And that was the end of that relationship.

This post is a result of a conversation I had with a friend of mine today about that Seinfeld episode (wow, how many posts start with a conversation about a sitcom? Interesting...). Anyway...it was the one where Jerry had to choose between a girl and saying "HELLLLOOOOOOO" in a funky voice.

He choose the voice.

So...

I want to date and brake up with a variety of women for really strange reasons. I'm thinking along the lines of stuff like them always wearing socks, or not thinking that the word "donkey" is funny, or because they set their clock in their bedroom 10 minutes fast.

You know, insane and stupid reasons.

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This should be interesting.

The Daytime Manager

Don't tell anyone, but I'm posting this from work. It's 20 to 10 and I'm getting the place set up for the day shift.

For those of you that don't know what the deal is...allow me to explain. No, it's too complex...allow me to summarize.

-Neil returns from Europe.
-Neil needs job.
-Neil contacts the restaurant he used to work at, Blackhawk Grille (www.blackhawkgrille.com).
-Laurie, the GM, hires Neil as a "supervisor" with his main duty to be getting the hosting staff in shape and better trained.
-Neil ends up having to take over the banquet/event department until new person is hired.
-Neil finds out Laurie and Jeff (the other full time manager) are leaving for another restaurant, leaving Meghan (a junior manager) to run the place...along with corporate's help.
-The other restaurant, Forbes Mill, approaches Neil and wants to hire him away from Blackhawk. Neil is unsure.
-Blackhawk isn't providing Neil with what he wants, the exposure he'd like, and the respect he deserves. Meghan is nice, but isn't willing to share much of anything with Neil beyond "do this".
-Neil is meeting with Forbes Mill today (3/2/06) to deeply discuss what Neil can do for them...looks like they want Neil to be a full time lunch manager.

So that is that! Exciting eh?

The restaurant business is very different than...say...accounting. Accounting you can easily say "Thursday is enter invoice day, Friday is run checks day, Saturday you don't work, etc". In the restaurant business it's more like "Thursday ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, Friday ANYTHING MIGHT HAPPEN, Saturday ANYTHING MIGHT..." and so on. So it can be a struggle sometimes for me...for someone who is used to a bit more structure in his working life. But you know what?

It's fun.

It's really fun.

It's really tiring, unpredictable, and fun.

So I'm going to open the safe and count the money now. Good times, good times.

So, where was I?

Last time I did this whole blog thing I was in Switzerland. That seems like ages ago...and in some ways seems like it didn't even happen. I see those pictures and go, like, "whoa"...

*cough*

Anyway...I had a good time doing it. And although that was wacky and wild experience that really needed to be written down and shared I've come to the realization that...well...LIFE is wacky and wild and needs to be shared. My life has been pretty interesting stuff so why not share more?

I'd like to say I've thought long and hard about what I wanted to put down here but the reality is it just popped back. Perhaps it was in the background the whole time...whatever.

So I feel like donkeys are coolish. I feel that life is more interesting when you tell people about it. And I've got some great friends that I really ought to be in touch with more...in a lot of ways.

So here goes...something.

This is just my first post and I'll be updating all my info soon enough.

Oh yeah...looks like I'll be a full bore restaurant manager in Danville at a pretty bad ass new place...and that requires a lot of explaining.