Lots of stuff to unload

Since Thursday I have eaten out or ordered out three separate times. All of them have been remarkable in the fact that they were terrible in one way or the other. I must be running bad in foodaments lately.

First, Thursday night Melissa and I order Pizza from Pizza Hut. We have ordered from there multiple times without issue. The operator tells me that it will be 50 minutes to one hour, an hour and 20 minutes later I get a phone call from the driver. He apparently can't find the apartment. I give him directions and he finally gets here and doesn't have my wings. When I ask him about it he tells me that he will be back in 15 minutes.

I get a knock about 20 minutes later, I open the door and he is just standing there holding them out to me. No apology or anything, just holding them out at arms length like we are old buddies or something. Then the wings were terrible, barely enough sauce to cover them, so they are very crunchy and hard to eat. I will never get those wings again and might be boycotting Pizza Hut all together.

The next night we go to Black Eyed Pea and our waitress started out so good, then it turned horrible so fast. The food was good but the service was terrible, she had this stupid half smile on her face like she was simple minded. People say that some people are just not cut out to wait tables, this girl was the poster child. She didn't work to build any kind of conversation or anything, then she spilled drinks on another table. That is forgivable, I have done that before, but she just acted like 'oh no big deal.'

The good from that meal is that they have deep friend guacamole and it was really good, I know it sounds gross. They take avocado halves and shuck them, batter them lightly, and then fry it up. They put some sour cream and chopped tomatoes and there you go; Heart attack appetizer for two.

Today for lunch I had Subway, now before I bash this meal let me explain that I am a bit of a sandwich connoisseur. I try all kinds of different places and really like Subway. My co-worker went and got them and brought them back to the office. The bread was so stale that literally half of it flaked off. It was like eating dust, seriously how old does bread have to be to flake like that? It was so bad that I didn't even eat it all.

I wore shorts to work today thinking that it would no be a big deal since it was the weekend, also I had seen other people wear them. What could be the big deal? The lead for my team instant messaged me and said that I shouldn't be wearing them. This is the same woman who calls me out about everything, and its really irritating. I looked at the dress code policy and sure enough it said no shorts. Interestingly enough it also says that half of my department is out of compliance most of the time. Funny how no one says anything to them. I mean come on, it is SUNDAY, is the CEO going to come into the building and see me in shorts and have a seizure? Are the customers really going to know that I am wearing shorts just from hearing my voice? The answer to both of these questions is hell no.

Later on in the afternoon this same woman is on the phone taking a personal phone call and the rest of us are working, but the system is moving slow because its fucking worthless and the calls are starting to back up. She gets off her personal call and stands up and looks at us and says, "We have calls holding guys." She says it like I am sitting there, doing nothing at all. You were not too worried about it during your 10 minute personal phone call. I decided right then that I am tired of getting singled out. I was talking to someone else about it and they feel that I am also being singled out. I emailed the call center supervisor because we have an open door policy and I am going to take all of this to her. She is very cool and easy to speak with so hopefully changes will be made.

I got my new monitor yesterday. Best buy emailed me and let me know that I can pick it up at a store and believe me I went straight after work. I am now the proud owner of a 22" wide screen flat panel monitor. It is a huge upgrade and everything looks so much better on it. I can open 9 tables with minimal overlap and Counter-strike looks good on it as well. My only complaint is that I wish it wasn't wide screen so it would be a little taller, but I can't complain I got it for $100 off the regular price.

Today is mother's day and I had to work, so I called Mom and Kate and told them happy Mother's day. I also called Pops and spoke with him a little bit, we don't talk often and I wanted to call him today. One year ago today Melissa lost her dad and it was very hard on her and her family. He had a stroke and passed away much too young, he was a very good man and it really sucks that he is gone. I am not nearly as close to my dad as she was with hers, and I would be pretty upset if I lost mine. It was good to speak with Pops today though. We go through long phases of not talking or being on bad terms, but I think that our relationship is finally in a place to where that won't happen anymore.

Poker is going well, I am not really in the mood to get into all of that right now, but I will post again later in the week with some more specific updates. I am very much in the green for this month and I am going to keep it that way though, you can count on that. Insert downswing here.

That is really all for now, going to play a little Counter-strike.

Until later.