08:19 - Friday, Dec. 05, 2008
my lil corner of life as i know it today
todays snivel de drivel is brought to you by hot lunch tuesday, in association with day off tuesday, a who did it and ran production!
yesterday morning i was at usual, at the employment office, creating a masterpiece of an entree for all you fine folk to read when, with 8 minutes left on the timer, my left pinky hit the Esc keym and next instant i know, *POOF* !!!! it was all gone!! and my retention rate, as we all know, is in the shitter, as i suffer from CRS (Cant Remember Shit!) so there went yesterdays entree, kablooey, and no time to create more, as i had to prepare for work!
so thats what happened to yesterdays entree! and now, i type mindful of the left pinky, keeping it AWAY from that pesky Esc key!
if yew dont know where the Esc key is located, its right there next to the Any key! haw haw haw!!
so, let me tell ya about frank!
Frank, he is older than dirt itself, and he has a ford F-150, one of the older ones, and its on its last legs, and so is frank, as he has the cancer, in the colon even, and its terminal, he wont be around much more past the winter. and he is a nice guy, as everyone, including yours truly, has they bag in his truck, and, on occasion, frank likes to go out on an arm bending mission, and get a lil glow on, and last week, he called from chinatown, the truck was up there, broke down! way up in chinatown, on some business parking lot, and we had to run up there to get the owner to let him keep the truck there overnight, and he let frank do that and told him that he had till noon the next day to get his truck out! turns out, it was the fuel filter this time, so we punched a hole innit, and off we went! and we admonished frank that when he wanted to get his glow on, to LEAVE the truck parked! and take the bus!! but does frank do that?? NOOOOO!!!
sunday, during the seahawks game, he sold his parking spot to some sucker for $20 and this time, he ended up on capitol hill, parked on the street, and when he went to start up the truck, key in the ignition, and *POOF* !! key went round and round!! good thing frank has a permanent handicap parking placard, so he can park ANYWHERE in the city, and not get tagged! so he calls and sez his truck is broken down on capitol hill!! and he didnt say where when he got back! so he sez to me, hey art, how can i get this started, the ignition broke! it wont start! so, and he was a lil tosted when i told him, and im surprised he remembered it, but i sez that all ya gotta do is put a screwdriver on the solenoid and the truck will start! (shhh! its how we used to steal cars back in the late 70's early 80's!) for the mechanically uninformed, the solenoid switch consists of 2 posts, one of which the positive end of the battery is connected to, and in the old cars/trucks, all ya have to do to start the vehicle, is apply a screwdriver to the 2 posts, and vroooom! off ya go! as long as your steering wheel dont lock, ya good to go!
apply one end of the screwdriver to ign2 and the other end of the screwdriver to bat. vroom! no key needed!!
so, yesterday morning, he went up to capitol hill, and got the truck started, and now its back home! whew!!
i told jon the other night, ya know, he didnt tell us WHERE in capitol hill the truck is, with ALL OUR STUFF! if frank croaks in his sleep, we are all screwed! whos gonna croak first, frank, or franks truck! and we all got a big laugh outta that!
me and jon switched our morning starbux coffee drinking to another starbux as the one we all been going into, all the knuckleheads from the other mission been going in there and creating havoc, and just being in general rude crude and highly obnoxious, so we moved, and in OUR starbux, no tramps go in there, and they have the nice cushy chairs and we can sit and relax, but, our store dont open til 7AM on sat and sun! so we have to go back to the hobo starbux on the weekends, they open at 5:30 AM 7 days a week!
so, sunday morning, we go in and this nutjob comes in, and the place is packed, and he grabs a french press off the counter display, and tryed to waltz out the door with it! well, we put the ky-bosh on that! we go and grb him outside and carry him back in, and told the nice baristas about this numb-skull, and they thanked us and gave him the heave ho! we just wont tolerate rude behaviour there!
then the starbux mooch comes in, and he will go from table to table, mooching whatever; and when he dont get what he wants, he will go up to the counter, and order a coffee and breakfast sandwich and whip out a $20 bill!!!
and idiots go in the mens room, and make a general mess outta it! so, me and jon are tired of this aggravation, so thats why we switched starbux! and its nice in our starbux, no tramps, just nice cushy seats and coffee, and we are out by 7:30!
so, thats a lil taste of what i put up with on the street here!
work is going swimmingly swell, keeping the mens furnishings up and stocked well, and yesterday was a nice 4 hours, steady, but not chaos like the weekend was!! i am doing my job well, and keeping up the smiles and good feelings at work, in hopes to impress for the best! as the goal is to get put on regular after the 2nd week of january!! that will be so sweet!
welp, its hot lunch tuesday! at the mission! every tuesday, they serve a hot lunch, and its usually good!
hava swell tuesday!! i have today and tomorrow off!!! wheeee!
