Meet Sparrow, an average man passing an average life…
Saturday, September 5
Though we were sold out, it was a fairly routine night…When I reported for duty not only was every room already booked, but everybody was in, too, meaning ol’ Sparrow wasn’t pestered by having to check-in pesky guests.
Not only we’re we sold out for tonight, but we were also actually overbooked for Saturday night, three over, in fact, tho some research showed one of those was a hold the hotel reserved for itself, so we were only really overbooked by two rooms and Q said we had some reserved at another hotel in case we ended up having to walk some people, as it’s known in the trade.
However, this meant I couldn’t extend anyone and we got two of those requests and one guy didn’t take it well.
– I’m sorry, sir we’re sold out for tonight. I’m unable to extend your stay.
– I’m already here. You have to take me.
Well, no we don’t…This reminded me of the dolt in Sin City who wanted to “prepone” his reservation when he showed up a day early and we were sold out. In both cases there is nothing to do but say no because, as we’ve noted here, you can’t crap available rooms…Either you have rooms or you don’t.
I like Amy, but she does less than me on graveyards…I had to put stickers with the wifie code in a lot of key packets this morning because none had been done since the last day I’d worked…The sundry stand had been laid waste to, as well…Everything needed to be restocked: water, soda, ice cream, everything…This is a reasonable night audit function because it’s not reasonable to expect day and swing shifts to do these things at all, much less on a sold-out holiday weekend. ..Remember the first rule of being a night auditor: we don’t want to work too hard, but we don’t want managers wondering what the hell we’re doing all night.
I also filled out two vacation forms this morning…I’ve already talked it over with Front Desk Manager Brandon and both were OK, but Brandon has a lot on his mind and I don’t want anybody to sneak one in in the meantime.
One is for the week after Thanksgiving, for the trip to Louisville to see Uncle Rudy and Aunt Susy and the other is for the last two weeks in April next year for the Crossing.
This might not go…The cruise company, Cunard, has suspended cruises twice in the Virus Era, once until the fall and recently they up and canceled all cruises through April 18…My Crossing is scheduled to leave England on April 19, service to New York City…We’ll see…My hope is it gets underway as planned and there’s international news coverage and footage of yours truly, in my freshly trimmed beard and purple blazer and holding a snifter of brandy hits the air and ol’ Sparrow will become internationally known as The Ambassador, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
It will be easier to arrange vacation time at the Veterans Service Office (VSO), tho, because I decide when I do and do not work…Literally…So I’ll simply email Jen my plans and that will be that.
The big news in the gym is I upped some more weights…To start, I upped the first set weight for a couple of exercises: the cable shoulder press and the z-bar bicep curl…You don’t really worry too much about the first set weights because they’re supposed to be light, but you don’t want something you can move all day, you want something that would be failure on the 18th rep or so…That’s enuff to send a shout out to the muscle, letting it know hey, there’s some work coming up, but not enuff to exhaust it…The second set you up the weight a bit to complete the warm-up and the third set BOOM, max weights, ten reps, let’s see what you got today.
I also upped the weight on the final set of the cable leg extension…It was upped one plate, ten pounds, tho don’t ask what the total weight is, the numbers are all worn out…This was moved ten times, which means I upped it too late because ideally, you want to move freshly upped weights six to eight times and work your way up to ten.
The walk was wonderful…I took the Fairgrounds Route and it was so pleasant I turned around at the halfway point – the new school that’s still under construction – and took it back to The Shire instead of turning right and heading back towards Main Street…In a technical note, yours truly was out walking about ten minutes later than was probably prudent without emanating light…This was at about 2000 and sunset was at 1930, so there is actually sufficient daylight for 30 minutes after sunset instead of the 15 originally thought.
Sparrow’s Sleep Log: 0900 Saturday until 18730 Saturday…8.5 hours for the day and 46 hours for the week.
Regular readers of the crap know the Saturday Sleep Session (SSS) has been a mixed bag lately: some normal sessions like today, but also some late-afternoon sessions plus some that ended at 1300 or so…So I cheated and took a melatonin…Yours truly was actually up at 1530 and I was open to both getting up and going to back sleep so, while I didn’t execute one of my patented rollovers, I was committed to seeing how much sleep was left for me, which turned out to be two more hours.
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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