It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Sunday, January 1
We got off easy, tonite…End-of-month falling on a holiday weekend in ski season could’ve have meant big trouble for ol’ Sparrow, but the Lodging Gods looked upon us with favor tonite, blessing us with an evening about as routine as you could expect under the circumstances…The hotel was quiet, the lobby deserted, and no one bothered us.
It was also end-of-year, of course, which led to Assistant Front Desk Manager Q mocking his sort of loyal subject ol’ Sparrow because we informed Q that, what with the extra end-of-year procedures and all, it was sure to be a very long nite…Q laffed rather mockingly at me – because he knows there are no extra end-of-year procedures – and in a high-pitched voice noted all the dusty files from earlier in the year we’d be digging out later, which was not completely unfunny.
The last airline crew was checking in right as we reported for duty and later a pilot came up to buy some sundry stand stuff and he paid with a debit card that tended to indicate prior naval service, so we asked if he flew Navy and he said yeah, and we noted we rode submarines…This guy was pretty smart for an officer, knowing that the Blueback was a diesel boat and not a f*cking nuke…He even knew the term “smoke boat” which you never hear from anyone except someone who actually rode smoke boats, like we did.
Both the month-to-month and year-to-year numbers were good…For December revenue was up $60K from last December on two percent fewer rooms which, as we’ve noted before, means guests were really taking it in the shorts ratewise, producing an average daily rate (ADR; room revenue/rooms rented) of $193, $25 more than last December.
The yearly figures show it’s time to ask for a raise…Revenue was up $1.6 million from last year, on 81% occupancy vs 69% in 2022.
The last we heard is the changeover to the new ownership is scheduled for Tuesday, but if so it is really happening on the down low because no one from the new ownership group is in-house to prepare for it…Now, we’ve already filled in the required paperwork, but we’ve received no instructions on anything whatsoever…There is a new time clock in the back office (it’s been there for a couple of weeks, actually) but there’s been no instruction on using it or on anything else and it’s now known if the restaurant is closing or staying open under another name.
We were refreshingly open to a workout tonite…Actually, we wouldn’t have completely dismissed out of hand working out this morning, but we knew in advance the gym wasn’t opening until noon, so we didn’t even bother bringing our stuff in…However, we are in a complete leisure mode (CLM) right now and we slept right thru it…The forecast for Monday is to sleep right thru an evening workout, too so, offhand, we’re thinking the next workout might be Tuesday morning, when the gym is back to normal hours.
For the first time in a while, the holiday season passed without a Holiday Prime Rib (HPR)…We thought about getting one before Christmas but never got around to it but that wouldn’t have been a big deal save for the fact the New Year’s prime rib (NYPR) never took hold, either…(What we actually did – but may not’ve reported here – was defrost the hunk of remaining prime rib (RPR) from last year’s feast…It wasn’t as good as one fresh from the oven, but it wasn’t completely without merit, either.)…We strongly suspect the matter will be deferred until next December, tho the prospect of an MLK or an Easter prime rib cannot be ruled out.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1130 Sunday until 2030 Sunday…9.0 hours for the day, a strong start to both a new sleep week (SW) and sleep year (SY).
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The Diary of a Nobody is a novel. All elements are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Anything else is a coincidence.
It was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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