So yesterday I was informed that one of my jobs, job #2, will be changing it's hours of operation. The restaurant has been slow for lunch shifts, and so we are closing our doors for lunch. Right now it is not cost effective to stay open for lunch to do the minimal business we are receiving.
This is not good news for your truly who works on average 4 lunch shifts a week, combined with 2 dinner shifts. My pocket is going to take a big hit. My nights aren't free right now due to my rehearsal schedule and my other job doesn't really pay well enough for me to pick up more shifts at the store.
Bottom line is that I appear to be back in the hunt for gainful employment! I hope 2010 holds a few pleasant surprises for me.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
45-12
Jason Campbell attributed this latest Redskins loss to either 'loss of focus' or 'loss of concentration'! ???? What's the difference?
Anyway, Reb came through with some great tickets! Redskins vs Giants! Monday Night Football! (Nevermind the Skins haven't won a Monday Night Game since 1997. Nevermind the snow. Nevermind the holiday traffic.) We parked at a discount lot several miles from the stadium. We snubbed the shuttle bus and decided to walk to the stadium. We cut across several snow covered fields, wandered around an industrial park lot before scaling a chain link fence, sliding down an embankment and then walked the remaining 2 miles to the stadium.
By the time we found our seats the Giants were up by a touchdown. The game went downhill from there. We were in the second row, 50 yard line - right behind the Skins' bench. We were so close we could see the steam rising from their heads. So close I could count Albert Haynesworth's F-bombs during his tantrums. We were so close to the action I had a running conversation going with Quinton Ganther, and a few other players. I even made eye contact with Antwaan Randle El and received a nod when he noticed I was wearing his jersey!
Amazing seats! God-Awful Game!
When it's all said and done, and done and said I got to see an NFL game from an amazing perspective, and helped boost my older brother over a fence while standing knee-deep in a snowdrift! Getting to the game was half the fun!
Anyway, Reb came through with some great tickets! Redskins vs Giants! Monday Night Football! (Nevermind the Skins haven't won a Monday Night Game since 1997. Nevermind the snow. Nevermind the holiday traffic.) We parked at a discount lot several miles from the stadium. We snubbed the shuttle bus and decided to walk to the stadium. We cut across several snow covered fields, wandered around an industrial park lot before scaling a chain link fence, sliding down an embankment and then walked the remaining 2 miles to the stadium.
By the time we found our seats the Giants were up by a touchdown. The game went downhill from there. We were in the second row, 50 yard line - right behind the Skins' bench. We were so close we could see the steam rising from their heads. So close I could count Albert Haynesworth's F-bombs during his tantrums. We were so close to the action I had a running conversation going with Quinton Ganther, and a few other players. I even made eye contact with Antwaan Randle El and received a nod when he noticed I was wearing his jersey!
Amazing seats! God-Awful Game!
When it's all said and done, and done and said I got to see an NFL game from an amazing perspective, and helped boost my older brother over a fence while standing knee-deep in a snowdrift! Getting to the game was half the fun!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Digging Out!
The driveway blanketed with snow! Sara and I valiantly shoveled several different times just to get it clear (ish).
Sunday morning before I broke the snowblower. I don't think it was meant to handle soo much snow!
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Blizzard '09!
Twice this morning Sara and I got up to shovel the driveway so that we could go to our jobs, which we believed to be completely asinine for making us come out in this blizzard. Twice our bosses let us know after the fact that we do not have to go into work today! (I actually still might have to go in since I was scheduled for a double and right now we're technically only closed for lunch!)
The snow is really pretty, and it's not supposed to stop anytime soon. In fact, after it's all and done we're supposed to end up with possibly 2 feet.
The snow is really pretty, and it's not supposed to stop anytime soon. In fact, after it's all and done we're supposed to end up with possibly 2 feet.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tracer's Revisited!
Here is a link to the Baltimore Sun's review of 'Tracers'! It came out after the show closed and was supposed to talk up Standing O's next season. It's just a little something to fan the flames of my ego.
* I hope to attach some production photos to this post shortly.
* I hope to attach some production photos to this post shortly.
Monday, December 07, 2009
4 O'CLOCK DOT COM
I want to design a website.
The website will be there to inform the public, and uneducated masses that most restaurants that are open for lunch switch over to dinner at 4PM. If you come in before 4PM you have a lunch server. If you come in after 4PM you will get a dinner server. If you come in at 3 and stay until almost 7 you have kept the lunch server there 3 additional hours past the end of their shift!
Not cool! Not cool at all.
The website will contain information for people who go out to eat and have never had to serve a day in their lives. The 4PM rule. Don't call people to join your table 2 1/2 hours into your meal. Don't assume a verbal compliment is as valuable as a cash gratuity. Don't walk into a restaurant at 5 minutes to close and act like everyone's best friend - no one likes you at that point! ETC! You get the point!
The website will be there to inform the public, and uneducated masses that most restaurants that are open for lunch switch over to dinner at 4PM. If you come in before 4PM you have a lunch server. If you come in after 4PM you will get a dinner server. If you come in at 3 and stay until almost 7 you have kept the lunch server there 3 additional hours past the end of their shift!
Not cool! Not cool at all.
The website will contain information for people who go out to eat and have never had to serve a day in their lives. The 4PM rule. Don't call people to join your table 2 1/2 hours into your meal. Don't assume a verbal compliment is as valuable as a cash gratuity. Don't walk into a restaurant at 5 minutes to close and act like everyone's best friend - no one likes you at that point! ETC! You get the point!
Sunday, December 06, 2009
A Good Day Off!
Today was my first day off all week. I've arranged it so between rehearsals, and both jobs I should get a Sunday off occasionally. Today was jam-packed!
Sara woke me up early this morning with concern over a friend/acquaintance of ours. His Facebook status claimed he died in a car accident overnight. Too early for a mystery. Sara left for work and I tried to go back to sleep.
As I awoke I was perturbed by the possible death of this Facebook friend of mine so I signed online and started to peruse the internet for confirmation or denial of his death. (Turns out it was a hoax. The perpetrator is still unknown.) I receive an IM - instant message - from another friend of mine informing me that his marriage is over after almost a decade and a half! I was still on my first cup of coffee!
Redskins lost a close game to the undefeated Saints. I cook collard greens & sausage soup for dinner, and watched George C. Scott in 'The Christmas Carol'. Sara got home from work and we set up the Xmas tree and watched 'Gremlins' - a highly overlooked holiday movie!
Decorating the tree was difficult. I would hang an ornament that my mother created years before, bought for me recently, or sent me for a present. It would remind me of her passing. I feel I will have a particularly hard time of it this holiday season since everything reminds me of her & her love of this special time of year.
She loved Xmas music. She got me into theatre by encouraging me into local productions of 'The Christmas Carol'. Our tree is an artificial number we had growing up and Mom later gave it to me for the holidays. Over half of our ornaments have sentimental value to me because of my mother. The holidays will forever remind me of my Mom. This one, being the first since her death, will be especially hard for all of us.
Sara woke me up early this morning with concern over a friend/acquaintance of ours. His Facebook status claimed he died in a car accident overnight. Too early for a mystery. Sara left for work and I tried to go back to sleep.
As I awoke I was perturbed by the possible death of this Facebook friend of mine so I signed online and started to peruse the internet for confirmation or denial of his death. (Turns out it was a hoax. The perpetrator is still unknown.) I receive an IM - instant message - from another friend of mine informing me that his marriage is over after almost a decade and a half! I was still on my first cup of coffee!
Redskins lost a close game to the undefeated Saints. I cook collard greens & sausage soup for dinner, and watched George C. Scott in 'The Christmas Carol'. Sara got home from work and we set up the Xmas tree and watched 'Gremlins' - a highly overlooked holiday movie!
Decorating the tree was difficult. I would hang an ornament that my mother created years before, bought for me recently, or sent me for a present. It would remind me of her passing. I feel I will have a particularly hard time of it this holiday season since everything reminds me of her & her love of this special time of year.
She loved Xmas music. She got me into theatre by encouraging me into local productions of 'The Christmas Carol'. Our tree is an artificial number we had growing up and Mom later gave it to me for the holidays. Over half of our ornaments have sentimental value to me because of my mother. The holidays will forever remind me of my Mom. This one, being the first since her death, will be especially hard for all of us.
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