Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Monday, March 30
We are so slow people at the hotel are actually looking for things to do…Yesterday I had told Tammy that I noticed we were running low on coffee packages in the back coffee room, used for morning coffee service, and that I would take care of bringing a new box in from front desk storage, located next to the ice machine and the ATM…Keeping the coffee box replenished is a reasonable night auditor function and I am always very good about attending to this duty…Tammy said OK but when I came in tonight a new box of coffee was in place!!!…I am not making that up…Usually, my judgment is trusted in these matters and I was sort of looking forward to me being able to kill the five minutes required to retrieve and stow the new coffee box and when I quizzed her about it she stated she had dispatched Garrett to take care of it.
Garrett is her husband and he’s been working maintenance here for a few weeks…Garrett’s a good guy and I was heading out he asked me if I had a prediction for the COVID illness…Crap, hell if I know…Maybe the heat will kill it but maybe not, I told him…Anything else is beyond me.
At the Veterans Service Office (VSO) there was an email from County Commissioner Beth to all department heads advising that the county will be putting out a five-minute video every day updating residents on the virus…I get department head emails even tho I’m not really a department head, altho I am because I head the VSO altho I am the only VSO employee…Still tho, I am attached to the Human Services Department and I’ll be honest, I generally ignore department head emails.
Anyway, I wrote Commissioner Beth back, asking if she could put a plug for the VSO, that we are still open and ready and willing to be of service, even tho everything has to be handled by phone and email for the foreseeable future.
I did get a phone call, today, my first in a week…It was about 1000 and I was so shocked I actually stared at the phone blankly for a couple of seconds…It was a gentleman who chose not to identify himself and he wanted a hearing test and the way he asked he made it sound like I was the appointment setter for hearing tests…I’m not, but I’ve been of so little service lately I all but offered to go out and give him an audiogram myself…As it was, I gave him the appropriate number at the VA hospital south of here and that was the only service I provided anyone today.
The Human Services Department is having a daily 1100 video conference so we can all stay in contact because most everyone is working from home now…I tried to join today’s meeting but I didn’t have a camera and my microphone wasn’t working, either…I wasn’t in the mood to troubleshoot it, either, so I called into the meeting and while that worked, there was a lot of background noise, too much to actually hear anything or be understood, so I hung up.
I had joined because I wanted to find out if we could sign up for call center shifts again…Recall last week the department got into a pissing match with call center organizers over this and that and we were told not to take any call center shifts…Well, more openings were released this week and I was curious…I didn’t get to ask the question tho, and no one favored me with a reply to my emails, so I guess the answer is still no.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1500 Monday until 2130 Monday…6.5 hours for the day and 11.0 hours for the week…The big news is I appear to be completely recovered from having eaten a whole box of macaroni and cheese last week because I wasn’t getting up every two hours to use the can.
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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