It’s Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Monday, January 2
The big news is – for the first time in the four years we’ve been here – we used the left cash drawer for a cash transaction…I am not making that up…Like some of History’s great moments, it was born out of necessity.
What happened was Assistant Front Desk Manager Q was hogging the right computer – and, hence, the right cash drawer – when ol’ Sparrow arrived at the front desk…This was curious because Q usually works the left computer, but for the past two nites he’s been at the right one…No explanation has been given and none has been asked for, tho I know you’ll be as curious as we are to see if this will end up being the new reality or not.
We asked Q if the ownership change was still a thing, noting there has been – in what is not the Upset of the Year here – zero communication about it and he said yeah, noting there was an email in our inbox from the new executive chef asking for our input on menu items – we wrote him requesting beef Wellington – adding that Wednesday the name will change to Mountain Side, which caused Q to make a face because he thinks the name is “dumb”.
Later, confirmation that the changeover is rolling along on schedule came in the form of reservations for a gal from the payroll company and several reservations – for four nites – for folks from the new management company.
The big news is my new manager’s key was made…I’d left a note – with the old, expired key taped to it – at the front desk requesting one, something we did last year which resulted in GM Andy taping the new key to the same note, a rather effective means of letting yours truly know the key was made…Front Desk Manager Brandon took matters to a whole ‘nother level, however, for this one:
The note was not where I’d left it which, of course, means someone had taken it…It was unlikely my request was disregarded, so we checked our box and it wasn’t there…So where was it???...We shrugged and figured either the matter would sort itself out or it wouldn’t and went and put our uniform shirt/vest on and BOOM there it was: Brandon had already attached it to my key ring, which is kept in a vest pocket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM NOT MAKING THAT UP!!!
It’s a new type of key, too, not the white card otherwise identical to our room key, but a red, plastic, oval deal…The new key was field tested tonite, too, and it opens everything: the housekeeping office, the laundry room, the gym, everything it’s supposed to.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1230 Monday until 2130 Monday…9.0 hours for the day and 18.0 hours for the week, a wondrous start to the sleep week.
There was a spell there where it wasn’t Sleep of the Year because the nose plugged up pretty good, despite wearing one of those nasal strips…We’ve been doing it for a couple of months now and we’ve concluded it makes about a one-third difference…Regular readers of this crap know how seriously we take sleep here, so it’s hardly the Upset of the Year we’ve embraced them…However, it cannot overcome a nose determined to plug up, so after fighting it for a half-hour or so, we got up and blew our nose…With some determination, too, because it took effort to clear it out properly.
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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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