The Daily Dose/Monday, March 22, 2021
The Daily Dose/March 22, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: The Daily Dose is on hiatus while Gaylon works on yet another reader-depleting project. Assorted elements – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – may run occasionally. It will return in toto in the spring.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow encounters what he suspects is a fraudulent military ID. Today’s Diary.
I didn’t press the matter, tho…While I’m sure impersonating a serviceman, even one claiming to be in the lowest enlisted grade, is a crime I am under no obligation to catch violators of federal law – tho, like you, I applaud their vigorous enforcement – and I didn’t want to cause problems for the kid…Because experience also teaches he may very well have merely been in the possession of a military ID and demented enuff to want to pretend he was in the Army.
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The Diary of a Nobody/Sunday, March 21
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Sunday, March 21
Assistant Front Desk Manager Q was all over the new policy of not delivering folios to departing rooms anymore…He had the Departure Report printed out and had intricate verbal instructions for me, too.
The Daily Dose/Sunday, March 21, 2021
The Daily Dose/March 21, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: The Daily Dose is on hiatus while Gaylon works on yet another reader-depleting project. Assorted elements – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – may run occasionally. It will return in toto in the spring.
The Sunday Bottom 5
A ranking of some things.
1. USA! USA! – Can we not make fun of people when they stumble???…While Sunday Bottom 5 pollsters remain “pretty sure” it’s tough to trip up stairs, insults for anyone doing this is mean.
2. Major League Baseball – STOP FARTING AROUND WITH THE RULES!!!…Making the bases larger and limiting the number of pickoffs join putting runner on second base in extra innings as merely one more step towards putting the circus tent up.
3. Lauren Daigle – The 3-hole staple…Singer’s single You Say extends all-time Billboard chart record with 121st non-consecutive week at #1 on Hot Christian Singles chart…With Easter coming up, envious Morman Tabernacle Choir’s album of salsa versions of sacred Ressurection faves almost ready.
4. Major League Baseball II – As long as we’re whining, nothing is going to change until the players change the game themselves…As long as batters try to hit home runs exclusively defenses will adjust and the game will continue to be a bore…Some well placed bunts will change this immediately, but good luck with that.
5. Fake News – Fact-checkers given week off as President Biden stubbornly sticks to facts, but click here to see examples of what some who live amongst us were believing this week…From the Associated Press.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
Of course, it’s Read Free Sunday at The Diary.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow concludes a lousy week in the sack. Today’s Dairy.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1400 Saturday until 2130 Saturday…7.5 hours for the day and 42.5 hours for the week, a paltry and depressing total those in a gulag would scoff at, but a fresh sleep week starts Sunday and we’re going in with a good attitude…God bless all of you.
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The Diary of a Nobody/March 20
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, March 19
There was a note from Tammy at the right computer monitor at the front desk when I reported for duty…Front Desk Manager Brandon actually pointed it out, after noting that Assistant Front Desk Manager Q and New Guy Gene hadn’t done a whole hell of a lot when they did the night audit the night before.
The Daily Dose/Saturday, March 20, 2021
The Daily Dose/March 20, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Friends, The Daily Dose is on hiatus while we work on a project, though assorted elements – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – may run occasionally. It will return in toto in the spring.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow forgets to pack his belt. Today’s Diary.
Forgetting my belt got me thinking about getting a new one…My belt – and I think I’ve noted this here before – is a Red Wing, which is world-class gear…It’s 18 or 19 years old and is, finally, starting to show some wear…I’ll be in Red Wing, Minnesota, on next month’s road trip and I plan on buying a pair of shoes at the home office store there and I might get a new belt, too.
Here’s the problem, tho: I get 20 years out of the new belt I’m in my mid-70s when it’s time to get a new one…Now, that’s admirable quality, of course, but Christ, I don’t want to face being in my mid-70s right now.
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The Daily Dose/Friday, March 19, 2021
The Daily Dose/March 19, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Friends, The Daily Dose is on hiatus while we work on a project, though assorted elements – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – may run occasionally. It will return in toto in the spring.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – Sparrow’s back in the gym. Today’s Diary.
The big news is there was a Sunday Yapper sighting at the gym, the first since the cancer/chemo reveal a few weeks back…In the Upset of the Year tho, he was actually having a conversation and not merely yapping…He and another guy were plainly old friends and they were talking about their shared interest in motorcycles, a previously introduced talking point with the Sunday Yapper…Frankly, yours truly was hoping for a cancer/chemo update – yappers generally have this information on loop – but cancer was only mentioned once, in passing…(By the by, the Sunday Yapper still has all his hair, an enviable gray shock he keeps rather long, so it’s unclear if he’s actually started chemo.)
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The Daily Dose/Thursday, March 18, 2021
The Daily Dose/March 18, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Friends, The Daily Dose is on hiatus while we work on a project, though assorted elements – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – may run occasionally. It will return in toto later in the spring.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, some whiners annoy Sparrow. Today’s Diary.
The second whiner was a snotty younger pilot who charmed me by summoning me from the back office with a “hey”…It was 0601 and the van wasn’t here yet and he noted the hotel van parked out front “doesn’t appear to be running”…I wanted to smack him because he made it sound like this was all my fault.
Here is a Sparrow ProTip from me to you: if you are desirous of continuing your career serving others, do not follow thru on this urge and, as it was, I didn’t, merely informing him ground transportation was a deal between the airline and the local taxi company…He nodded significantly, tho it was plain he still suspected I had something to do with it.
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