Thankfully, Black Friday wasn't too bad to us today. It wasn't overwhelmingly busy. It was still kind of a sucky today, mainly because I didn't sleep well last night. I didn't crack too many smiles until people kept pressing a button on a duck in our store. It's called the "Nutquacker". The duck's dressed like Santa and quacks the Nutcracker song. ( Read more... )

I understand women in upper middle-age/lower senior citzenry who are oveweight can have breathing problems. It happens to men, for that matter. So a doctor gives these people medicine, perhaps a breathing apparatus of some sort, and a handicap sign to hang from their mirrors. I saw one of these women standing outside her van at Target today. It ( Read more... )

Apparently we have a brilliant district manager. On this week's schedule, that was made and sent to the DM Thursday, my boss scheduled four people to work overnight last night so we could make a little progress on the backroom. We've been behind in getting truck done, so some of us worked last night. The DM called yesterday to ask what was going on ( Read more... )

Last night Sam and I had to pry something out of Chloe's mouth. It was a plastic cap thing that was part of something, but we don't know what. At first she was pretending like it was a cup that she was drinking out of, but then she shoved it in her mouth. One end of the rim got stuck between her gums and bottom lip. She resisted Sam, so I had to ( Read more... )

Sam and Justin bought a new computer today. It's a Toshiba laptop; one of the Satellites. It's nice. I'm happy with it. We'll put my computer in my room and wire in the Internet soon, but for now I'm happy with this ( Read more... )

I wasn't intending to update today, but that damn new movie has forced my hand.

I didn't read comic books growing up. I knew basically nil about the Punisher before the movie with Thomas Jane and John Travolta came out a few years ago. And I loved that movie. It's one of my favorites. I know some people didn't like what they did with it, but I loved ( Read more... )

So we're having our grand opening weekend. It finishes up tomorrow, and I'm glad I don't work tomorrow. Today was interesting, though. I went in on the assumption I'd be wearing a costume sometime during the day to help alert people to our new presence. We have a mouse costume and dog costume. Fortunately, my boss decided I'd be too tall for either ( Read more... )

So Sam's new dog is a small, white fuzzball. I think it's called a bichon. It's thirteen weeks old, and weighs less than some books I've picked up in the last week. It growled a little at me when I got home last night. I eventually just picked him up and set him on my lap. He trembled, but did okay. I told him I already named my parents' dog Frodo ( Read more... )

The bookstore opened yesterday. We had quite a bit of business, but I couldn't tell how good it was since I was doing magazines all day ( Read more... )

The weekend wasn't exactly what I wanted it to be. Justin's computer got virused, so Friday when my parents visited, they brought mine down. Saturday morning I tried playing Diablo 2, and it took a crap. Like, an elephant turd out of a poodle kind of crap. So I had to reinstall Windows XP on it. It's slow, but it's working. Before I ended up doing ( Read more... )