It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, July 3
BOTH OF AMY’S DRAWERS WERE SPOT ON!!!
I am making that up…I don’t know whether the drawers were hidden during the shift or whether there was some hot, new policy about not accepting cash or whether the drawers actually balanced, but both drawers were at $200…Usually, of course, they’re not, even when she advised she’d done her drop, like she did tonite, because regular readers of this crap know that doesn’t mean squat because history shows it is entirely possible – perhaps even likely – for Amy to do her drop and have her drawer still off because it happens multiple times a week.
We are not busy this weekend…We were only slightly more than half-booked tonite and are a bit less than three-quarters booked the rest of the weekend and we don’t have an exclusive on that, the whole town as availability.
You wouldn’t know that by looking online, tho, because one site was showing inventory was low all over town…Offhand, the thought was this was a technical glitch, but then it occurred to yours truly this could be a psychological ploy to get you to reserve, something that might well work because if you are needing a room in a tourist town on a holiday weekend and you are staring at a screen advising inventory is low, you are probably more likely to get your credit card out and take it in the shorts.
Maybe not…This could work against you because someone planning a last-minute getaway could, logically, interpret low availability and the attendant out-the-arse rates as the area being too busy to bother with and decide to stay home, where if the screen had shown some availability, you might well have moved some product.
The back office was a complete fiasco…For one, the Battle of 3-Hole Punch Location has been resumed, with someone – there are no suspects – moving it back to the top of the large filing cabinet…In its place on the back office desk (BOD) was a box of laminating sheets and the laminator itself…I don’t understand this at all…It’s hardly as if we’re in a state of constant lamination here why the laminating sheets and laminator need to be within arms reach isn’t immediately clear…As it was, ol’ Sparrow engaged the battle, pushing the laminating equipment farther back, against the side wall and triumphantly returning the 3-hole punch to its rightful place.
Not only that, the calculator was on top of the scratch paper…I am not making that up…This might well be an accident because the top of the scratch paper pile has always been sacrosanct, the top always left clear for ease of access to the scratch paper pile…(This is actually reasonable…The back office phone rings and its a room, you want to be in a position to write the room number down so you don’t forget it, in case you have to deliver something.)
The new guy is doing a bit better the two nites I’m gone…The shredder receptacle wasn’t completely jammed with shredded paper and fewer key packets needed to be made, but the sundry stand had been laid waste to and almost needed full replenishment.
There was also a new power bar for sale, some all-natural deal made by a local company…(Ol’ Sparrow would have field-tested it, but it had 15 grams of sugar and who needs that???)…Now, regular readers of the crap know yours truly tends not to get too worked over up the dry goods section – the frozen stuff is where the action is – but visitors lose their minds over other locally produced crap – like our honey – so perhaps this will sell pretty well.
And we won a hospitality award from the home office…There was a plaque hanging at the front desk and we all had pins waiting for us in our boxes…This is hardly a surprise because anytime you have a nite auditor who regularly requests that guests please tell him how he can best be of service, you’re bound to be in the running for these things.
40.019 MPG.
I’m debating whether or not to put more gas treatment in…On the one hand, you know, we’re regularly topping 40 MPG now so why bother, but on the other hand, you do want to be proactive and not slip under the 40 mark again.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0830 Saturday until 1800 Sunday…9.5 hours for the day and 48.0 hours for the week, a fine start to the sleep month (SM).
Boy, I’ll tell you what, the new Saturday morning sleep session (SMSS) is quickly turning into the highpoint of the sleep week…We might have to consider keeping it in the fall after yours truly returns to what we pass off as normal hours after Thursday umpiring ends.
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