The Daily Dose/Friday, June 11, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 11, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow cleans the cabin, tries a new route for his walk and shaves the dome.
Today’s Diary.
This is a new route and my guts – call it the instincts all the great ones have if you must – said this was about two miles and I checked it later on that website that tracks distances down to inch and sure enuff it was…A bit more actually.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
…Clevenger, the corporal, and Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
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The Diary of a Nobody/June 10
Yay for Read Free Fortnight (RFF) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Thursday, June 10
Busy day…Yours truly was on the go from 0230 (see Sleep Log below) until it was time to go beddy-bye.
The Daily Dose/Thursday, June 10, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 10, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Fortnight at The Diary. See what’s shaking with Sparrow with his compliments.
The Diary of a Nobody – Mark takes the bait, Sparrow makes yet another change to using touch screens at the hotel and there is some scratch paper drivel, too.
Today’s Diary.
For the second consecutive night, I‘ve modified my Touch Screen Usage (TSU) policy…Before, use at the back office computer was deemed too tedious, then last night it was modified to occasional use but tonight it was used as often as possible, simply because it’s shiny and new and I could…Sometimes you fat-finger the wrong button, but if you’re careful you can generally avoid this.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Embracing a revolutionary viewpoint is something few can do.
John Ferling
Setting The World Ablaze: Washington, Adams and Jefferson and the American Revolution
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The Diary of a Nobody/June 9
Read Free Fortnight at The Diary is still a thing.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Wednesday, June 9
Mark took the bait.
Regular readers of this crap know Mark has, for a couple of months now, been accenting his cash drawer spreadsheets (CDSS) by highlighting the day, date, totals and even his name…Regular readers of this crap also know Mark has been using the same blue ink and red highlighter the past couple of weeks now.
And recall yesterday, in an effort to tempt him to use other colors, I put every color of pen and highlighter in easy reach of his preferred left front desk computer.
The Daily Dose/Wednesday, June 9, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 9, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow has already revised his one-day-old Touch Screen Usage policy. Today’s Diary.
The problem tho, is it is a hassle to go from touch screen to mouse and back…It’s easier to keep using the mouse – or my treasured keyboard shortcuts – so while touch screen usage is now authorized in the back office, it won’t be used a whole lot.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
He must not lose the game with any card unplayed.
Benjamin Thomas
Abraham Lincoln
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The Diary of a Nobody/June 8
Yay for Read Free Fortnight (RFF) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Tuesday, June 8
Twice today people tried to pass blame off on me when nothing was my fault…Both were rather subtle about it, too.
The Daily Dose/Tuesday, June 8, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 8, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow frets over the new back office chair at the hotel. Today’s Diary.
I don’t know why they got rid of the old chair…It was still in good shape and as near as I can tell earned wide acclaim and drew no complaints and regular readers of this crap know a change of this magnitude has the potential to cause yours truly all kinds of angst because few are as big a creature of habit as moi…The old chair was comfortable and while the seat of the new chair is hardly laced with thumbtacks, the arms are not adjustable!!!…I am not making that up…
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
Oh, what low joke was Fortuna playing on him now? Arrest, accident, job! Where would this dreadful cycle ever end?
John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunce
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The Diary of a Nobody/June 7
Read Free Fortnight at The Diary continues.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Monday, June 7
There is a new chair at the desk in the hotel’s back office…This almost immediately following the tech refresh, which is a bit more change than any of us are looking for, frankly, but humans in general, if not night auditors specifically, are pretty flexible.
The Daily Dose/Monday, June 7, 2021
The Daily Dose/June 7, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
It’s Read Free Fortnight (RFF) at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow is intent on making the lawn at The Shire a lush green again. Today’s Diary.
I could’ve gotten even more watering done, but I stopped once I started nodding off because even tho the lawn needs soaking, we don’t need to fall asleep and leave it on in one spot while yours truly sleeps.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
But his time is not now, and so the legend dies.
Charles Kuralt
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