It’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, March 25
The big question coming into tonite’s shift at the hotel was whether or not both boxes of coffee – French roast and European blend – would need to be replaced in the back coffee room…We actually started thinking not a whole hell of a lot about this Wednesday morning before we left for what we pass off as a weekend…Both boxes were getting toward the bottom and it was a close call as to whether or not we’d replace them…Ultimately, we decided no; there was plenty for the rest of the day and tomorrow and probably for the following day, too, and if Chris didn’t replace them, we’d be happy to…Besides, regular readers of this crap know we simply do not tolerate gratuitously changing out coffee boxes, merely so we can get the knife some use…We’re better than that…But we gotta be honest, if Chris doesn’t need to change the boxes out on his two nites, well, we’d be thrilled to get the knife some use tonite.
He didn’t…It was OK, too, because each box still had several sacks of coffee left and there was no reason for Chris to change the boxes and fend for himself without a knife for breaking down the old boxes and tearing the flaps off the new ones…The only fly in the ointment was there was only one box of French roast in the front desk storage room; we were out of European blend…Of course, with Chris now promulgating his Tuesday coke order list, we got to thinking exactly who in the hell is responsible for ordering coffee because it didn’t have to be Chris, it could very well be Assistant Front Desk Manager Q’s responsibility – or maybe even AGM Brandon still retained with awesome responsibility – but we don’t know really know tho, perhaps, we’ll ask Chris about it.
Noted tonite in the Restaurant Audit (RA) – where we sort the credit card receipts and other paperwork – is that everyone had their credit card receipts already sorted for me…This means that Visa receipts were all together, as well as MasterCard, American Express, and Discover and it is almost interesting to note the cards here are listed from most used to least used…This cannot be a coincidence; someone had to’ve mandated it because we haven’t seen this before…We’ll see if it sticks, tho…Recall a couple of weeks ago we reported that everyone had paper clipped their receipts a certain way and that lasted all of one day.
At about 0100 there was a call from a guy who asked if we had a room…We said sure and quoted him $250, plus tax…Then he asked how many rooms we had, an old trick we hadn’t heard in years…The idea is to get the hapless desk clerk to say “a lot” and then you offer a lot less, noting that with so much available inventory it’s best to get what you can…Well, we didn’t fall for this, of course…We said “we have some” which is a good answer because not only is it true, it lets the dolt know that the answer really isn’t any of his business…He paused – probably deciding if the chick he was with was worth $250, plus tax – before allowing that he would have to call us back…This is dumb, too, because the rate ain’t going to be any lower in 20 minutes.
Strength in the gym tonite was darn near the champion strength we had Friday morning…Not quite, but real close…Shoulder side lateral raises, bicep curls, and all leg work were the same, but we only got 180 on the bench press up eight times and only moved 110 on the tricep cable pulldowns nine times…We were running a tad late (see Sleep Log below) so sprints weren’t even attempted.
Portfolio II has had a rollercoaster fortnite…It is still showing a profit but gains are about half what they’ve been, tho they’re up over a week ago after banks started failing and it was actually pretty close to losing money…In other financial news, we are still striking out with our Lucky 4Ever lottery tickets.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1030 Saturday until 1930 Saturday…9.0 hours for the day and 43.5 hours for the week, a distressing total, but recall we missed Wednesday’s sleep session, so the total wasn’t the Upset of the Year.
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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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