Of course, it’s Read Free Sunday (RFS) at The Diary.
It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, January 14
There’s a new copier in the back office…Gone is the one that had its display panel broken by Assistant Front Desk Manager Q when he dropped a basket of towels on it last week and it is a really nice one, that appears to be identical to the one I use at the veterans service office (VSO)…It also serves as a printer, the first printer we’ve had in the back office since before the remodeling of the lobby started and we moved to temporary quarters in the ski/bike storage room.
The big news about the new printer- and it’s pretty big – is that it prints in color!!!…I am not making that up…Making this tidbit even more exciting, if that’s possible, is that it prints color on the cash drawer spreadsheets (CDSSs)…You heard that right, as several boxes on the CDSS are shaded in a nice lime green: the date and time, all the currency, rolled coin, and loose coin totals, assorted amounts, and some other boxes we don’t use
Now, I know a lot of you are wondering exactly how this will affect Mark and the ink/highlighter combination(s) he uses to accent his CDSSs with, and while that is a tempting thought, it probably won’t mean anything at all because Mark counts his drawer up front, where the printer is black and white, so he won’t be using the hot, new, color printer.
There were, finally, directions for me regarding the new restaurant audit the new managers want us to do now…Recall last week Chris had provided verbal instructions on the matter – which were promptly forgotten – so we didn’t do it the first nite…Chris’s written instructions were pretty good, tho, and the restaurant audit really isn’t all that hard, tho ol’ Sparrow being ol’ Sparrow, he’s probably going to whine about it left and right for a while…It ended up taking 45 minutes or so, but that time will come down with practice and familiarity.
What you do is sort out all the receipts the servers turn in by credit card, room charges, those half-off coupons and whatnot…Then there are some accounts – I forget what they are, frankly, and we’re not going to look them up, that need to have their day’s totals adjusted off and no, we don’t know why, either…Ol’ Sparrow is a nite auditor and not an accountant, so why these totals need to be adjusted off isn’t clear…While we will whine about having to do it, it is important to note that nite auditors fussing with restaurant stuff is a time-honored tradition and, now that we think about it, it is entirely possible yours truly was surprised he didn’t have to do it when we started here four years ago.
We’ve had a break from the snow the past couple of days, tho it is scheduled to return tomorrow…Our heroic small-town snow plowers have been hard at it tho, plainly fussing with snow they’ve piled up around town, to include the area tha borders The Shire on Maple Street and, especially, the corner of The Shire that borders both the alley and Maple Street…There was a tower on that corner was higher than it’s ever been…Usually, at the end of winter, a fair-sized mound will have been built up, but there’s been so much snow to move this season the tower – there is no other word for it – is higher than ever, easily 15 feet high and perhaps even higher…Now it’s down to a few feet and exactly what they did with the moved snow isn’t clear tho if we had to hazard a guess – and we don’t – it was probably taken to the fairgrounds.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log:
0900 Sunday until 1330 Sunday
1630 Sunday until 2130 Sunday
9.5 hours for the day and 52.5 hours for the week, a fairly ho-hum total nowadays.
Exactly why there was a Sunday split-sleep session (SSSS) isn’t immediately clear, but regular readers of this crap know they happen from time to time…The time up was actually rather enjoyable, tho…We got some reading and project work it and because were taking the week off from the gym we didn’t have to worry about getting a Saturday nite workout in or, failing that, if there would be sufficient rest for a Sunday morning workout.
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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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