Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Sunday, April 19
Of course, I don’t like that the hotel is prevented from doing good business right now…Us clock punchers want our employers to do well as much as we need them to do well.
But this is one heck of a job right now…Not only did I get the usual project work done this morning, but I had lots of time for the bonus project work that’s always lying around and when I did a satisfactory amount of that I still had time to sanitize the front desk and lobby and I’m still getting in regular viewing of that Australian chick prisoner show Pa Sparrow and I used to watch growing up and that I’ve caught up with online…I’m up to episode 189 now with only about 500 more to go…I do this when I’m generating the morning housekeeping and credit card reports and the registration cards for the day’s arrivals…The only downside is that now takes, literally, five minutes, meaning I’ve been adapting to viewing without having any actual work to do.
The big news at the Veterans Service Office is nobody posted the notes from the morning Emergency Ops meeting over the weekend!!!…I am not making that up…The meeting is held seven days a week at 0830 but either notes were not taken or they were and haven’t been posted yet…The last notes uploaded were mine from the Friday morning meeting.
I have some zero clue what the problem is…This is not like an assembly line…The note taker is responsible for everything…It’s not as if you take the notes then ship it off to Proofreading for final editing and processing….No…You take the notes and then you post the notes and, as blabbed here from time to time, ol’ Sparrow has his notes posted within 45 seconds of meeting adjournment…It’s not that hard…But there were no meeting notes from the weekend’s meetings.
I took a couple of PTO hours from the VSO today…It’s very slow and I was tired and wanted to get to bed earlier than the usual 1400 for Mondays…The only fly in the ointment was deciding which PTO account to draw them from: personal hours, holiday hours, sick hours or vacation hours. And ol’ Sparrow is racking the hours up, too, my current total balance resting at, more or less, 50 hours…Good gravy, I’m a PTO dynamo and that’s with using my share over the past year and let’s not forget I’m a parttime employee, too…God, I love the public sector…As it was, I charged them to personal hours.
I gotta be honest, I did not go straight to bed when I got home, I took a few minutes to stroll around The Shire because Cody and his buddy did their work really well and I wanted to enjoy how nice the lawn looked…It’s a nice lush green right now and I am pleased to report there does not appear to be any damage from not having raked the leaves last fall…I spent all winter fretting about it because recall two years ago The Ex was off working at a retailer in the big city and while I got them raked I couldn’t be bothered to actually pick them up so they sat in piles all winter and when the snow melted there were dead spots…Not this year…Evidently the key is being too lazy to rake them up in the first place.
The gardens tho, aren’t going to look as good as they have in the past, what with The Ex gone…Long time readers of the crap know The Ex took great pride in and care with the gardens – and I offered somewhat useful help where I could – but I have neither interest in nor aptitude for gardening…Heck, I no longer have interest in mowing myself anymore, long gone is the glee that came from being a new homeowner with his own lawn to mow…Now, it is satisfying to be the Master of The Shire and I am pleased, no downright ecstatic, to note that Cody accepted my offer of $35 for regular mowings this summer.
I’ll still water the gardens tho, because there are perennials that will make it look somewhat decent…In fact, the first tulips are starting to make their appearance, always the first sign of spring…They’re in the
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 1200 Monday until 1930 Monday…7.5 hours for the day and 15.0 hours for the week, the highest Monday total of the month.
The big news is I haven’t woken up to use the can the past couple-three sleep sessions…I am not making that up…Key, I suppose, is I’ve adjusted the time I take a couple of supplements that are supposed to be good for this…I used to take them all at once, usually within a couple of hours of rising, but I now take a grape seed extract and a Korean ginseng capsule before retiring.
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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