It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Tuesday, January 28
Here is the Coke Order (CO) for the week:
Coke Order
01-28-25
1 Coke
1 Coke Zero
1 Core Power – VAN
1 Core Power – CHOC
2 Smartwaters
5 Dasani
Thanks and have an Excellent day!
The Front Desk Supervisor (FDS)
We don’t know what the deal is, either…We’ve established the minimum – the bare minimum – of Dasanis needed to stock the sundry stand satisfactorily is eight cases…That’s what was ordered two weeks ago and we had two cases left over, a nice fudge factor…Last week tho, we only got five and we more or less ran out yesterday and we’re expected to get thru another week in ski season with only five cases???…Someone is high.
Both cash drawers have been short most of the week…It’s only been a couple of bucks and management isn’t getting worked up about it so we’re not, but tonite the left drawer was short $69.50…I am not making that up, and this is an almost criminal amount…Our first thought was someone forgot to include a petty cash slip or a receipt, but it is unlikely a purchase came out to an even 50 cents…We have some zero clue, and the matter was referred to day shift for final disposition.
Dray the Dairy Delivery Driver (Dr Dre) was by at 0515…He said things with his wife are going better, tho chemo is still hard on both of them, but they have vacation coming up next week, which they are both looking forward.
We had some fun at his expense, too…Recall he wasn’t here last week because his truck went broke dick on him, and we kidded him that it must be nice to be able to pick and choose the days you work…We tapped ourselves on the chest as if we were the last word in work attendance, which we might be.
– We don’t have that option…We have to be here four nites a week and at the hospital two nites a week come hell or high water…But milk deliverers can show up whenever the hell they want…I guess…I don’t know…
Dr Dre then went on to explain what really happened…He was actually here in town when the hydraulic loading dock went tits up and the home office requested an immediate return…This meant everything had to be unloaded by hand at the plant, but that was better than unloading deliveries by hand at stores and restaurants.
We headed out to the next county after the hotel and we didn’t stop at The Shire first, either, because Bandit would demand cuddles and once we were in our jammies for cuddles there was no chance we’d get back up…Our first stop was the Mexican joint where the big news was a whole new crew was there…I am not making that up: we didn’t recognize either the kid at the counter or the cook, and we took this as a sign to dispense with our usual order and get our standard backup order.
Then we went and bought two pairs of gloves: a pair for the brutal cold (which it’s been for the past two weeks) and a regular winter pair, for when it’s above zero.
We needed a pair of brutal cold gloves because we lost our other pair last week when we were at Big O buying tires…We searched the waiting room a couple of times and while that dumb-looking ranch had could’ve taken them, it wasn’t worth confronting anyone over…Our regular winter pair gloves have needed replacement for a couple of years now because, after a dozen or so years of good service, the outer layer had started to come off.
(Now, it should be noted we do keep a utility pair of brutal cold gloves around for just this instance and they did good work when pressed into service this week…But they’re utility gloves, and they were put away until next time.)
The first stop was the Farm & Ranch Store, where the utility gloves were bought years ago…The only fly in the ointment was their selection wasn’t that great because they’ve stopped updating inventory but no matter: we were able to find exactly what we needed…We were hoping they’d have a regular winter pair, but no, those were all gone.
We found a suitable regular winter pair at the retailer…Now, regular readers of this crap know we have issues with buying clothing at the retailer, especially the house brand, because the quality usually isn’t all that high…But these will be warm once the brutal cold leaves, tho it’s folly to expect a dozen years of service from them.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1230 Tuesday until 2200 Tuesday…9.5 hours for the day and 23.5 hours for the week…As is our wont when we have all-you-can-get sleep, we took a shot of Zzz-Sleep to reinforce we were looking for a strong sleep session.
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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.
The Diary of a Nobody was inspired by the 19th-century British novel of the same name.
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