I hope you had a nice Christmas. I'm happy to be able to be able to report that I did. I worked my ass off at day job on Christmas Eve. I had to drive several hundred miles to my old hometown after I got off work at my night job. So of course the motherfuckers made me close. We shut it down at eight o'clock that night but since I work at the weediest restaurant in America, I didn't get out of there 'til after eleven. It was great to spend some quality time with family, extended family and friends old and new. Driving back here on the evening of the 26th wasn't all that rough; my car's got a good radio and the NBA is back!
I didn't request this or anything but, through some fortuitous quirks in the schedules, I was off both places on New Year's Day and the day after. I've been wanting to go on a road trip to a casino the next time I had some time off that didn't have to be spent getting things done. I'd like to get someone to go with me—the closest one's a pretty good hike—but I've got no problem going by myself. But I didn't go. Hell, I didn't even get on the computer and check out casinotop10.net or anything like that. I mostly caught up on sleep and just generally lazed around.
So on the third, it was back to bidniss as usual. I worked at my day job in the morning and at the weediest restaurant in America in the evening. I've been making OK money and things seem to be going allright for me I guess. Of course, that's subject to change without notice. I ended 2011 with a couple of fairly positive, upbeat posts here at These American Servers™ and I'm wanting to not start 2012 all negative on y'all. But don't worry: there's been plenty of fucked upppedness going on, if not with me, then with people I know and I expect to be serving it up pretty soon.
How was your Christmas and New Year's?
We continued a tradition I started last year. Instead of everyone stressing to get off by midnight on NYE, I had my second annual West Coast NY party. Everyone got off work and gathered at my place to watch the west coast replay of the ball drop at 2am our time. Once again a great time for restaurant folk.
ReplyDeletethat's a terrific idea, i think I'll suggest it to the crew next year, wherever I mite be working then. Anyway, great 2 hear from ya and Have a great 2012 and maybe the Royals will win a couple of games. Now I got's to learn how to put links into stuff, that'll probably take awhile!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a pretty great ending to your year Joe. Ours was great too! Now just gearing up for ll the fun in 2012. YAY
ReplyDeleteAnd I really like t4t idea too. Brilliant.
hey, glad ya like that. Thx and have a HNY 2 U & yours!
ReplyDeleteI am happy the holiday is over and everything is back to normal. Made decent money over the holiday and managed 4 in a row off after Christmas Eve. Happy New Year and good wishes for 2012.
ReplyDeleteSooooooooooo pumped the holidays are over. That means I can stop blacking out already and act like I actually need my job (which I DO...badly). Lookin forward to putting my head down and getting serious.
ReplyDeletemediocrity reigns: thanks for reading and commenting, I'll check out your page later it looks cool I love white girls with booty! I think everybody should quit drinking until drugs are legal! Steven: I'm glad they're over too, I've done OK financially 2 and I keep expecting a "January slump" PLUS I think that at least 2 of North America's favorite restaurant bloggers have b'days next month! Cheers, _______-Joe
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