This year seems to be flying by.

I've been incredibly busy with two jobs, three daughters and a new apartment. Couldn't afford the old house any more. Ha ha, what else is new.

Work is going... We were aquired by a large "corp" restaurant group and things have been changing dramatically. Half of our area managers are gone, laid off. Labor and cost budgets are getting smaller and smaller. I love the restuarant business but am sick of the two faced bullshit that come from the upper crust. We were told that a coupon drop produced over a million in sales. (we drop coupons to get new business) OK, first off, how many coupons were from "new" customers? Second, the coupons cost us a little over 500000.00. I might be wrong but the cost on the coupon items just jumped to over 50%. What the fuck???
I'm not sure where the reasoning is there, but, what do I know.

Second job is going well, I work between 2 and 4 days a week. I like to volunteer at my kids school and one of the other parents said she applied for a job as a playground aid. She suggested I do the same since I'm up there a lot anyway. Well, I did. So, now I'm the only male playgound aid. I get a whistle, star cards (for when the kids do good things) and green slips (for when the kids do bad things). It' really a lot of fun. I like to volunteer a lot because I only have my kids on Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday. As a volunteer, I get to see them on some of the days I don't have them. I'd like to think I'm a good dad, not a "deadbeat" dad.

So that's all for now,
See ya in the funny paper