Monday, April 23, 2007

   All good things gotta come to an end...

And that means that in about 14 hours and 37 minutes, I'll be back at work. *sigh*

Saturday night was pure HELL. That's the best way to put it. It was a busy weekend at the motel and I was scheduled to work with the psycho as usual. Friday night, at least, a second desk person was called in and I was able to cope. Saturday night, no such luck. I had to put up with the little psycho all by myself all night. We had a full house again and there was a wedding reception in the back. The worst part about the reception was the handful of small girls with high, shrill voices screaming at each other in the hallway. I was sure my ears were going to start bleeding by the end of the night. I did end up with a headache by the time I left. It didn't help having the little psycho piss and moan about everything and then get defiant on me when I asked him to move out of my way so I could do the deposit. He likes to read the newspaper and sit in front of the cash drawer while doing that. I needed to get into the drawer so I could do the deposits. I asked him to move a couple times and he got smart-mouthed with me. One time he said, "Make me." I gave him a shove and almost pushed him off the stool and said, "Don't challenge me, little man." He started to laugh at me and I finally said, "Dammit, ####, move your ass!" Then he decided he had to sit in front of the one computer that I needed to use to run reports. I finally told him to go lean on the counter in the backroom so he'd be out of the way so I could get the deposits done. If he makes any noise about me shoving him to the manager, I'm going to tell her that I asked him nicely twice to move away from the cash drawer and he got smart-mouthed with me. I did have a bit of a rant in a note to her because a busy weekend with him got to me. This man would try the patience of Buddha himself! So now you know why I'm reluctant to return to work on Monday.

Sunday, however, was a good day. I didn't have to work. It was so weird. My brother & I went to SUX to do the stuff we usually do on Saturdays. One extra special thing we did was hit the public library book sale! I found some real treasures! As you may know, one of my hobbies is trying to learn Japanese. We were nosing around the foreign language table and came across a few books in Japanese. One was a travel guide for the US, Canada and Hawaii. I passed it up, but I do wonder why Hawaii was listed separately. Maybe it was published before it became a state. Anyhoo... I digress. The true treasures were the two books that are almost 70 years old. I found a year in one of them, and it was Showa 12, which is 1938. It's really hard to tell what that book is. It has no pictures aside from an assortment of mathematical graphs and technical drawings. It may be a textbook of some sort. There was also a postcard and what could possibly be a report card inside the front cover. I'll have to scan those in and see if I can start to decipher them. The other book appears to be a penmanship book. There's pictures of various kanji and how to write them. I spotted the year Showa 12 on a label inside the back cover on it, so it's from around 1938, too. That one also has an inscription written in the back saying where it was found and the person it was given to as a Christmas present in 1944. Both books have a stamp inside the front cover saying they've passed inspection in the field by Joint Intelligence. I'm thinking of scanning in the penmanship book. It's so cool!

Well, this sure turned into a long post. Sorry for the rant about Friday & Saturday. I just had to vent. I hope everyone has a good week.

Laters!

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