Okay so it didn't blow up. But, I started it one day and I saw sparks fly out of the back and it smelled like burning computer guts in here. SO, I have been computer-less til my brother moved in. We should get ours back this week, turns out power supply fried. Not the first time, but it was the first time I saw sparks.
In good news, I got a table finally, so now I can host the home game I've been wanting to host. Which is good for my blog too, since I never talk poker anymore. I'll have some to talk about again! Other than that though, I've just been enjoying the newfound freedom having money in my pocket has given us. We get to go grocery shopping when they have bargains now and shop for value instead of the cheapest thing. We can spend 100$ without worrying about the bills not being paid. It's pretty sweat. We still haven't gotten the big check yet, but my wife's monthly checks have been a real help. She seems happier about being able to do these things as well. It'll be nice if it lasts for awhile. I'm sure at some point our bills will increase, especially if we ever have a baby.
Speaking of babies, I guess I never mentioned that I finally got "tested". Turns out a bigger than usual percentage of my sperm are deformed. Basically, everyone has a percent of sperm that are misshaped, headless, etc, and they aren't able to reproduce, but mine for some reason are an even higher percentage. The DR said my volume is good and the other ones are able to produce, its just that some are not moving forward when they need to. I dunno. My sperm is half special bus I guess. My wife was also tested and found that she was not producing an egg each month. More like every other month. So she has been put on meds to help that happen. Basically, both of us were only doing about half our job. My wife is really stressing out about all of this. I'm okay with it. I mean it's nothing I did to myself it's just the way it is. I mean it could be due to being overweight, and not having enough testosterone, but again, it's whatever... I'm not one of those guys that is all uptight and embarassed when they find stuff like this out. We'll get things going, I think.
At work things have been busy. This is our busy time of the year. I've been pretty fortunate though, because I haven't had to work on my days off in a long time, well I guess that's not true. I worked a double last week, cuz closing mgr couldn't come in. But other than that, my new 2nd in charge has been awesome. I also don't know if I mentioned it or not, but I got a 4 star on my OER audit. This is the audit that Domino's Pizza does 2 times a year and my first one was 9 days after I became a GM. We got a 1 star, but I got to blame that on the former gm, because it was his fault and i had only been there less than 2 weeks. But this one, was all me and I was staring to stress about it. It ranks you on service, image, operations, and just overall the way they want you to be running your store. Most of the points we lost was due to stuff out of my control and a few service points. The highest score we could've gotten with the things we knew we couldn't fix soon enough was a 91 out of 100. We ended up getting an 83, which is really good. A few months ago I wanted a 5 star, but I knew that probably wasn't going to happen when round 2 started. My boss was stoked and everyone else will be happy too. Next time though it's 5 star or bust in my book. I feel a little rededicated to my job lately.
I went through a rough stretch where upper management was getting me down. All the rules all the restrictions and then just the plain ignorance they seemed to show sometimes. But, lately, I've just come to the conclusion that I can't care more than they do. It just isn't going to work. So, if they are not allowing me to have amazing service, all I can do is my best and try to figure out the best I can do without their help. Also, I really want to get my bonuses. I feel like I work too hard for what my salary is. Last month I got my first labor bonus and it excited me. I hadn't even come close before. So, now I am pushing for that full bonus. It would be nice. It's a few extra hundred dollars as well, so that doesn't hurt either. Hopefully, I can maintain my zeal for my job. I can't believe it's been 18 months at Dominos. Time really flies.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
What's Going on?
If you've wondered, I'm still alive. Here's a recap of what's going on lately... no nothing bad, which is probably why I haven't written as much lately.
Been to the casino 3 times since last post. Well, 2 and a half. I went one day for 2 hours made $175. Then went later that night with my brother and lost everything I made but a buck, and that was like 6 hours of poker. It was lame, but I kept playing even though I was tired and knew I wasn't playing well. At one point I thought about leaving and I would've been up the full 175. I don't think you should leave just because you are up, don't get me wrong. But I knew I wasn't playing well. I started getting bored and playing every hand.. that's bad. That's why I should've left. The latest time, I went was a few days ago, I lost 150$. I was card dead for the first 30 minutes. Then I get AJ in late position. Raise a few limpers. Flop comes Axx. guy bets into me 3 times, I felt like I should've got all in on the turn and it may have even scared him off his hand. But, I just called and he ended up showing over AQ. There was a K on the board and the guy was older and I've seen a lot of people like him scared with AQ. Even if I didn't raise I probably should've realized I was beat, for him to be betting. I think I just wanted to have the best hand. next hand 88 loses to AA and TT, blam. Losing session.
So, the casino not so good to me lately.
Work life. It's been kind of frustrating lately. Sales are doing better than they have been, so that's good. But dealing with upper management is really frustrating. Yesterday for example, It's 6 pm on a saturday. We expect to be busy. Friday is our busiest night, saturday is number 2. Well, things are going well, we are rocking. I have 4 drivers and an insider because I want good service times. I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to improve my service, because the OER auditor is due in at any time to inspect and some of the biggest points you can get are service points. Well, my boss comes walking in and you can tell right away shes in a bad mood. Immediately she asks "why so dead?" meaning the store is dead. I'm like, what no where not we're pretty busy. Then she looks to see how many workers I have on the clock. Apparently her boss sent her some nasty messages about labor and "what doesn't she understand about getting some people off the clock?" Meanwhile, our goal labor is 18%. My store at that time is running labor at 10%. And with as busy as we are it's not going to go up much more than that, by the time I planned on letting people go.
But, immediately it's you need to let this guy go, and this guy go. I was so pissed. Dinner rush lasts til about 8pm. I had to get down to 2 drivers by 630 pm. This of course causes lates and terrible service. I'm visibly upset and shes asks me why, so I tell her. She doesn't like my answer and leaves the store without even saying good bye. I told her I don't blame her, I know shes under pressure from above her. She apologizes and explains she doesn't know what to do about it. It's freaking stupid and ridiculous that these people are in a position to run a company. At meetings they love to talk about shit that they don't even allow. "Great service can increase sales by themself" How can we run great service when we aren't allowed to have enough employees? The best was when Mark, the owner started bragging about a guy in another franchise who gave away free american legends pizzas as part of a promotion and ended up increasing his sales through that over the next few weeks. Well, guess what I did that too, 1 day only. I got in trouble for it! They don't like sampling cuz it raises food cost. The people who run this place are the most narrowminded and two faced people I have ever seen. If I wasn't just in this for the experience I doubt I'd stay very much longer after last nite.
Other than that things are okay. I'm doing well in my fantasy leagues, this week I am 1st place overall again. I spent like 8 weeks at number 1 last year and ended up in 6th, so hopefully i have a better finish this season.
Still haven't met up with Ryan. He's still looking for an apt in stL. Was gonna have my home game this monday, then I realized we don't even own a table. So, ya, gotta find a table first. Yes I mean a kitchen table, not even a card table.
My wife has diarrhea. That was for her asking if I was blogging about her diarrhea. She'll enjoy that. :)
Been to the casino 3 times since last post. Well, 2 and a half. I went one day for 2 hours made $175. Then went later that night with my brother and lost everything I made but a buck, and that was like 6 hours of poker. It was lame, but I kept playing even though I was tired and knew I wasn't playing well. At one point I thought about leaving and I would've been up the full 175. I don't think you should leave just because you are up, don't get me wrong. But I knew I wasn't playing well. I started getting bored and playing every hand.. that's bad. That's why I should've left. The latest time, I went was a few days ago, I lost 150$. I was card dead for the first 30 minutes. Then I get AJ in late position. Raise a few limpers. Flop comes Axx. guy bets into me 3 times, I felt like I should've got all in on the turn and it may have even scared him off his hand. But, I just called and he ended up showing over AQ. There was a K on the board and the guy was older and I've seen a lot of people like him scared with AQ. Even if I didn't raise I probably should've realized I was beat, for him to be betting. I think I just wanted to have the best hand. next hand 88 loses to AA and TT, blam. Losing session.
So, the casino not so good to me lately.
Work life. It's been kind of frustrating lately. Sales are doing better than they have been, so that's good. But dealing with upper management is really frustrating. Yesterday for example, It's 6 pm on a saturday. We expect to be busy. Friday is our busiest night, saturday is number 2. Well, things are going well, we are rocking. I have 4 drivers and an insider because I want good service times. I've spent the last 3 weeks trying to improve my service, because the OER auditor is due in at any time to inspect and some of the biggest points you can get are service points. Well, my boss comes walking in and you can tell right away shes in a bad mood. Immediately she asks "why so dead?" meaning the store is dead. I'm like, what no where not we're pretty busy. Then she looks to see how many workers I have on the clock. Apparently her boss sent her some nasty messages about labor and "what doesn't she understand about getting some people off the clock?" Meanwhile, our goal labor is 18%. My store at that time is running labor at 10%. And with as busy as we are it's not going to go up much more than that, by the time I planned on letting people go.
But, immediately it's you need to let this guy go, and this guy go. I was so pissed. Dinner rush lasts til about 8pm. I had to get down to 2 drivers by 630 pm. This of course causes lates and terrible service. I'm visibly upset and shes asks me why, so I tell her. She doesn't like my answer and leaves the store without even saying good bye. I told her I don't blame her, I know shes under pressure from above her. She apologizes and explains she doesn't know what to do about it. It's freaking stupid and ridiculous that these people are in a position to run a company. At meetings they love to talk about shit that they don't even allow. "Great service can increase sales by themself" How can we run great service when we aren't allowed to have enough employees? The best was when Mark, the owner started bragging about a guy in another franchise who gave away free american legends pizzas as part of a promotion and ended up increasing his sales through that over the next few weeks. Well, guess what I did that too, 1 day only. I got in trouble for it! They don't like sampling cuz it raises food cost. The people who run this place are the most narrowminded and two faced people I have ever seen. If I wasn't just in this for the experience I doubt I'd stay very much longer after last nite.
Other than that things are okay. I'm doing well in my fantasy leagues, this week I am 1st place overall again. I spent like 8 weeks at number 1 last year and ended up in 6th, so hopefully i have a better finish this season.
Still haven't met up with Ryan. He's still looking for an apt in stL. Was gonna have my home game this monday, then I realized we don't even own a table. So, ya, gotta find a table first. Yes I mean a kitchen table, not even a card table.
My wife has diarrhea. That was for her asking if I was blogging about her diarrhea. She'll enjoy that. :)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Some Live Poker
Played some live poker at the casino on Thursday night. The session started pretty rough with me losing half my stack and then getting down to about 50$ early on.
The first hand was ridiculous. It didn't involve me. It was the very first hand at the new table, they took the list and started a new table. The guy to my right, a foreign guy raises preflop, gets a few calls. Flop comes 346, he bets strong guy to my left calls everyone folds. Turn comes 6, foreign guy goes all in, overbet. LEft calls putting over 400$ into the pot, around 200 for each. River 5, for 34566. Guy on left who called down, showed TT. Guy on right looks at his cards in disgust, gets ready to muck then goes "oh, I have a straight" and shows over A7. He was bluffing the whole time and ended up hitting his straight. Guy on left is pissed and leaves immediately. Dealer has the nerve to ask if he's coming back. It was sick. Accidental slow rolls are bad.
So, anyways, live one on my right. Unfortunately, I play 3rd wheel in a hand and get c/r by this guy and cost myself 40 bucks a few hands later. I got quads early on with no action. ANother hand I called/called then had to fold when I couldn't find a reason for a guy to be bluffing and I just had a 6 kicker to my pair of aces on a dry board. So, I was down to 50$ and hating the session. Finally my luck turned around and I fought back to only end up losing 40$ instead of 230$. I was pretty happy with my play and to end up almost even was job well done. The main hand was one that I got all in with inside straight and flush draw and hit. I hit 2 other flushes after that and got paid on a set. Nothing to big but the players were regulars and they were paying off small value bets at least. There were some bad players at the table, but no real fish. I'm sure that's why I wasn't able to get a big pot and really get some profit. I started getting tired toward the end and lost 50$ playing K5 poorly... as opposed to K5 well. I should've folded. I hit 2 pair on the river, but with KJ on the flop I should've got out before it got there. It didn't cost me a lot at least. But that pot was the difference in winning and losing for the session. I forced myself to leave a few hands later.
I plan on going tonite as well. HOpefully, better luck from the get go will help me make some moneys. My youngest brother went to a different casino yesterday and as of 245 am (he was there for 12 hours at least) he was up 350$. At his peak he was up over 500, but ran into some bad luck he said. I haven't heard from him yet, for all I know he's still there. Hopefully he made some money for his time spent there.
I have a bunch of running around to do today, actually. I'm going clothes shopping, to the casino, new shoes or insoles from the new balance store, I need to get new glasses, but that will probably wait now. I need to get the car worked on, but I think I'm going to wait til wednesday, my next day off to do that, cuz I'm thinking I'll have to leave it in the shop for a few hours. Oh, and I need a haircut. I think that's all. Should be a fun day of crap.
Speaking of crap; We found out the other day that SSI, which goes by income to determine the level of help, (when you file for disability they automatically file you for SSI) is delaying our 19,800. They determined that since my wife has been declared disabled that for x amount of months they would pay her around a total of 7k. But, that 7k is actually not extra money, they are taking it from the 19,800. So, they are paying the lawyer themselves which is close to 5k, and they are paying us 7k, but it's over a 2 year span, 2k every 6 months. The remaining 7-8k we are still getting a big check from disability but, it could take another 3 months to get. THat's what the 2k check was the other day. It's from SSI and we wont see another one from them for 6 months. Instead of 19,800 at once. We get 2k now. 8k in 3 months and the rest over a 2 year span. We are still getting her monthly disability check, which the first one we got was yesterday. So, it's not terrible. But, it's aggravating, because we wanted to just pay everyone off at once and we thought the check was due any day now, and it's not gonna happen. So we feel a little screwed. In the grand scheme, yes it's all extra money and it helps us be more comfortable, so can't be too mad. But, whatever.
I told Ryan about the home game idea and he said he's in. So, now I just need to figure out if I want to have it at my apartment or not. I think the first one will be 2 mondays from now. Should be fun and the level of play should be pretty good. Hopefully we don't end up just paying Ryan's rent every month for him, lol.
The first hand was ridiculous. It didn't involve me. It was the very first hand at the new table, they took the list and started a new table. The guy to my right, a foreign guy raises preflop, gets a few calls. Flop comes 346, he bets strong guy to my left calls everyone folds. Turn comes 6, foreign guy goes all in, overbet. LEft calls putting over 400$ into the pot, around 200 for each. River 5, for 34566. Guy on left who called down, showed TT. Guy on right looks at his cards in disgust, gets ready to muck then goes "oh, I have a straight" and shows over A7. He was bluffing the whole time and ended up hitting his straight. Guy on left is pissed and leaves immediately. Dealer has the nerve to ask if he's coming back. It was sick. Accidental slow rolls are bad.
So, anyways, live one on my right. Unfortunately, I play 3rd wheel in a hand and get c/r by this guy and cost myself 40 bucks a few hands later. I got quads early on with no action. ANother hand I called/called then had to fold when I couldn't find a reason for a guy to be bluffing and I just had a 6 kicker to my pair of aces on a dry board. So, I was down to 50$ and hating the session. Finally my luck turned around and I fought back to only end up losing 40$ instead of 230$. I was pretty happy with my play and to end up almost even was job well done. The main hand was one that I got all in with inside straight and flush draw and hit. I hit 2 other flushes after that and got paid on a set. Nothing to big but the players were regulars and they were paying off small value bets at least. There were some bad players at the table, but no real fish. I'm sure that's why I wasn't able to get a big pot and really get some profit. I started getting tired toward the end and lost 50$ playing K5 poorly... as opposed to K5 well. I should've folded. I hit 2 pair on the river, but with KJ on the flop I should've got out before it got there. It didn't cost me a lot at least. But that pot was the difference in winning and losing for the session. I forced myself to leave a few hands later.
I plan on going tonite as well. HOpefully, better luck from the get go will help me make some moneys. My youngest brother went to a different casino yesterday and as of 245 am (he was there for 12 hours at least) he was up 350$. At his peak he was up over 500, but ran into some bad luck he said. I haven't heard from him yet, for all I know he's still there. Hopefully he made some money for his time spent there.
I have a bunch of running around to do today, actually. I'm going clothes shopping, to the casino, new shoes or insoles from the new balance store, I need to get new glasses, but that will probably wait now. I need to get the car worked on, but I think I'm going to wait til wednesday, my next day off to do that, cuz I'm thinking I'll have to leave it in the shop for a few hours. Oh, and I need a haircut. I think that's all. Should be a fun day of crap.
Speaking of crap; We found out the other day that SSI, which goes by income to determine the level of help, (when you file for disability they automatically file you for SSI) is delaying our 19,800. They determined that since my wife has been declared disabled that for x amount of months they would pay her around a total of 7k. But, that 7k is actually not extra money, they are taking it from the 19,800. So, they are paying the lawyer themselves which is close to 5k, and they are paying us 7k, but it's over a 2 year span, 2k every 6 months. The remaining 7-8k we are still getting a big check from disability but, it could take another 3 months to get. THat's what the 2k check was the other day. It's from SSI and we wont see another one from them for 6 months. Instead of 19,800 at once. We get 2k now. 8k in 3 months and the rest over a 2 year span. We are still getting her monthly disability check, which the first one we got was yesterday. So, it's not terrible. But, it's aggravating, because we wanted to just pay everyone off at once and we thought the check was due any day now, and it's not gonna happen. So we feel a little screwed. In the grand scheme, yes it's all extra money and it helps us be more comfortable, so can't be too mad. But, whatever.
I told Ryan about the home game idea and he said he's in. So, now I just need to figure out if I want to have it at my apartment or not. I think the first one will be 2 mondays from now. Should be fun and the level of play should be pretty good. Hopefully we don't end up just paying Ryan's rent every month for him, lol.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Got Some Money!
So, a check came today, but not all of it. Got a check for 2022$. WHich is an odd amount. This could be 2 different things. 1, when my wife called SSi they said they would be cutting her a check from their end, but it would be deducted from the 19,800. So, this might be from them. Or they are paying the 19,800 in increments. My wife is going to call tomorrow and hopefully find out. Either way we got some money and I can't wait to start spending it. It would be sweet if the big check comes by saturday, my day off so that we can do everything we planned on doing.
I really want to play some poker lately. I'm thinking of trying to get another home game going, maybe every other week. I'm sure we could get 6-8 guys regularly and we would just have to make sure we keep the blinds low, so that it doesn't get out of control like the last one did. It would be fun to play in a regular home game again. The really fun part would be if Ryan from poker dynasty played in it. You all know him by now, he should be in St. louis soon and I'm sure he would be down for it. Competition would definitely go up a notch with him there.
I really want to play some poker lately. I'm thinking of trying to get another home game going, maybe every other week. I'm sure we could get 6-8 guys regularly and we would just have to make sure we keep the blinds low, so that it doesn't get out of control like the last one did. It would be fun to play in a regular home game again. The really fun part would be if Ryan from poker dynasty played in it. You all know him by now, he should be in St. louis soon and I'm sure he would be down for it. Competition would definitely go up a notch with him there.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I don't get to blog enough
I think it's more because there's nothing going on rather than I don't have the time. I mean, I don't have much time and I'm never on my computer, but that's not a great excuse. I make time for what I want to do. More than time, my life is pretty damn boring. Which is good I guess, considering when I wrote the most was when my life was in turmoil or I was engrossed in the pokers.
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A pretty nice birthday
So, yesterday was my birthday. I'm now 27 years old. The prime physical time of my life. If I were a baseball player, this would most likely be my breakout year. lol. I actually have thought about that a few times and I honestly feel like it's my last chance to actually lose some weight. I really think if I don't do it before I'm 30, I'm destined to die young of heart disease, failure, attack.. whatever. So, time to go to work.
Anyways, on my actual birthday nothing real special happened. Spent a lot of time with my wife and we just enjoyed the day. I went to the doctor with her, where she had to explain to the doctor that although she doesn't do drugs and will never do them again, it probably wouldn't be best to take a urine drug screening at this moment. You see a friend of hers was in town and they decided to say hello to some mary jane. It's been a dozen years since my wife had gotten high and apparently one of the drugs she takes if combined with non-prescription drugs can induce a stroke. Well, my wife had the worst trip ever and telling the store to most people, the question becomes "was it laced with something?" The answer is no, that's just how f-ed up she was. Her friends being already in a state of serenity themselves decided that even though she was screaming for them to call 911 that she must be faking and they didn't want to get into trouble. My wife seriously could have died. But, she didn't and she somehow made it out of the spirit world.
So, she had to explain to her new doctor who had just told her that in order to consistently get her to write prescriptions for Vicodine to her she would have to oblige to random drug tests. Awkward and very bad timing. Luckily the doctor understood and she still gave her the drugs and warned her not to be selling them on the street.
After that we went and had lunch, then ran a few errands. It was a very long day and we actually got a lot done. I didn't have to work and that's always nice.
This saturday I'm going to get my ass kicked at work. We are having a customer appreciation day and Medium pizzas are only 3.99 apiece. I have gotten a lot of marketing out for it. I'm hoping for us to do between 2000 and 2400. I'm afraid any more and we will be turning people away and I'll be spending my sunday off trying to find more dough to make it through the weekend. I will be pretty disappointed if we do less. I have seriously gotten so much stuff out and people have spent hours doorhanging. If we don't have a blowout I think I'll lose my faith in marketing and myself. But, anyways, I don't wanna stress out about it. All I can do is what I think needs to be done. Hopefully, everyone ends up happy.
I think this sinus medicine is making me drowsy, so I'm going to bed.
Btw I'm really enjoying the WSOP on tv this year. Knowing who makes the final table has resparked my interest. I do miss poker.
Anyways, on my actual birthday nothing real special happened. Spent a lot of time with my wife and we just enjoyed the day. I went to the doctor with her, where she had to explain to the doctor that although she doesn't do drugs and will never do them again, it probably wouldn't be best to take a urine drug screening at this moment. You see a friend of hers was in town and they decided to say hello to some mary jane. It's been a dozen years since my wife had gotten high and apparently one of the drugs she takes if combined with non-prescription drugs can induce a stroke. Well, my wife had the worst trip ever and telling the store to most people, the question becomes "was it laced with something?" The answer is no, that's just how f-ed up she was. Her friends being already in a state of serenity themselves decided that even though she was screaming for them to call 911 that she must be faking and they didn't want to get into trouble. My wife seriously could have died. But, she didn't and she somehow made it out of the spirit world.
So, she had to explain to her new doctor who had just told her that in order to consistently get her to write prescriptions for Vicodine to her she would have to oblige to random drug tests. Awkward and very bad timing. Luckily the doctor understood and she still gave her the drugs and warned her not to be selling them on the street.
After that we went and had lunch, then ran a few errands. It was a very long day and we actually got a lot done. I didn't have to work and that's always nice.
This saturday I'm going to get my ass kicked at work. We are having a customer appreciation day and Medium pizzas are only 3.99 apiece. I have gotten a lot of marketing out for it. I'm hoping for us to do between 2000 and 2400. I'm afraid any more and we will be turning people away and I'll be spending my sunday off trying to find more dough to make it through the weekend. I will be pretty disappointed if we do less. I have seriously gotten so much stuff out and people have spent hours doorhanging. If we don't have a blowout I think I'll lose my faith in marketing and myself. But, anyways, I don't wanna stress out about it. All I can do is what I think needs to be done. Hopefully, everyone ends up happy.
I think this sinus medicine is making me drowsy, so I'm going to bed.
Btw I'm really enjoying the WSOP on tv this year. Knowing who makes the final table has resparked my interest. I do miss poker.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
So, how much can I use for my bankroll?
My wife didn't like this question. go figure, right?
I was half-joking. I wanted to put some money back onto online poker, but she is completely against it. She however, doesn't mind if I play live poker though. The bad thing about that though is I actually have to go somewhere to do it and a bankroll would be much higher for that. Would need less buy ins, but still higher. I guess it'll be more of a play as we have the money type thing at first. I think what I'll do is when I win, I'll keep the money to the side and build a bankroll through that. I really don't want to just play to play. I'd rather treat it like I treated online poker when I did it part time. Just keep building the bankroll up. I wont need the money so it shouldn't be a problem. It would be awesome to make enough to where I could use it to build a business. Honestly, that would be my goal. I just feel like yes, we are going to be comfortable and finally have enough money for everything we need, but how long is that going to last?
Even with my wife making almost 12k a year from disability, that only puts our income at 38k for the year. Yes, people live off that and they can live off of that their whole lives, but what's wrong with wanting more? Also, we want to have children, it would be nice to be in a state of comfortability when that starts happening. So, if I can build up a side income, then use it to invest in a business for myself that would make us more money in the future, that is ideal. I'm not sure what that business is. Also, there's no guarantee that I will be a GM for that long. They like to rotate GMs in this company like a ferris wheel. I know so many people who were former gms or became GMs at other stores. right now I don't feel like my job is in jeopardy, but all it takes is a young up and comer that they think can do a better job or a bad couple months in sales for me to be demoted or moved.
I have been a little down lately because of my job. I feel like there is a constantly decreasing allowances that we are being given and it's taking some of the joy out of it. There is constant pressure to perform and while that's not a bad thing, it is when you go to perform and they tell you NO, you can't do this or that. It's really taxing. I don't want to work for this company for more than a few years. I initially wanted to move up but, seeing what the District manager's actually do, I think I would hate that job. They don't do anything. They are middle men. They do paperwork, they answer to dumb questions from the higher ups, and they tell the GMs what they need to work on. They in my opinion seem quite useless. I think if I were in that position I would probably end up in trouble for doing too much and not following the procedures that the bosses would want. I don't like asking for permission, I pretty much just do it then apologize later. It can get me in trouble sometimes, but whatever, I feel like it's my biggest asset. I don't need to be baby sat or watched. I do everything my self.
Regardless of this job though, it's not what I want to do with my life anyways. So, if poker can down the line provide what I want to do then that would be sweet. Now, obviously, I wont be able to go that often. I was thinking 6-8 hours a week at most, probably mostly in 1 day or session. That could be a little tough mentally if I start losing or catch a string of bad luck. I have to make sure I keep good records and that I only go when I really feel like playing. Seems like I've been through all of this before.
I think this time I'm more prepared and even though I'm excited about being able to do it, I know I wont get as involved this time. It will still be only every once in a while and it'll still be a nice release from daily stuff. I feel like I need the breaks more now than ever.
I think I may have noticed a trend with myself the other day. I've been a little down lately, as I already said and I think I figured out why. I definitely go through these stretches in my life where I'm up then I'm down, hardly ever just content. I think it's my personality. Well, I think it has to do with obsessing over something or not being able to obsess over something. I think when I get to fully integrate myself into something I'm happier. Then when I'm just kind of la-de-da about stuff and I don't have that 1 thing, I'm down. I look back on when I was engrossed in poker. I was fully into it and I didn't think about anything else, I was pretty happy. Now my home life sucked and in reality it was very bad for my relationships, but in itself it made me happy. Then when poker became an afterthought and I had nothing to focus on, I was sad and a bit depressed. I think a month or two ago I was pretty happy because I was fully engrossed in my job where as lately I haven't felt like doing much with it and so that's what I'm down about now. i don't really have something to focus on right now.
I'm certainly not done with my job. I'm not at the point with my job where I was with poker when I quit. I was mentally done there. I think I've just accepted that I have to quit trying so hard and I can't do the things I want to at the workplace. I feel like I'm just a manager as opposed to in the beginning where I was like, it's my store. It's not my store. But, it is my JOB to run it correctly and do the things they ask me to do. which is fine. I have to be okay with that. I think I am. hopefully it helps me keep that hunger that I need to do my own thing someday. It reminds me how much better it would be to be on my own. I'm still not ready to be on my own though and I know that as well. There are a lot of things about business I really just DONT know about.
I guess that should really be my next goal is just getting educated about the things I'm lacking so far. Whether it's through self teaching or taking some classes I gotta learn these things. I figure the more prepared I am the better chance I have at success. I guarantee you if I started a business today, I would probably fail, simply because I don't know enough. I wouldn't have the money to hire people to fill that gap, so it would solely be on me and hard work just isn't enough to overcome those things.
I do look forward to the challenge though. Hopefully, the timing will work out to where as I'm building my business the economy gets its shit together it'll be a little easier time than a lot of small businesses are having now.
I can't wait to eat some live fish though and it'll be fun building up that live poker bankroll.
I was half-joking. I wanted to put some money back onto online poker, but she is completely against it. She however, doesn't mind if I play live poker though. The bad thing about that though is I actually have to go somewhere to do it and a bankroll would be much higher for that. Would need less buy ins, but still higher. I guess it'll be more of a play as we have the money type thing at first. I think what I'll do is when I win, I'll keep the money to the side and build a bankroll through that. I really don't want to just play to play. I'd rather treat it like I treated online poker when I did it part time. Just keep building the bankroll up. I wont need the money so it shouldn't be a problem. It would be awesome to make enough to where I could use it to build a business. Honestly, that would be my goal. I just feel like yes, we are going to be comfortable and finally have enough money for everything we need, but how long is that going to last?
Even with my wife making almost 12k a year from disability, that only puts our income at 38k for the year. Yes, people live off that and they can live off of that their whole lives, but what's wrong with wanting more? Also, we want to have children, it would be nice to be in a state of comfortability when that starts happening. So, if I can build up a side income, then use it to invest in a business for myself that would make us more money in the future, that is ideal. I'm not sure what that business is. Also, there's no guarantee that I will be a GM for that long. They like to rotate GMs in this company like a ferris wheel. I know so many people who were former gms or became GMs at other stores. right now I don't feel like my job is in jeopardy, but all it takes is a young up and comer that they think can do a better job or a bad couple months in sales for me to be demoted or moved.
I have been a little down lately because of my job. I feel like there is a constantly decreasing allowances that we are being given and it's taking some of the joy out of it. There is constant pressure to perform and while that's not a bad thing, it is when you go to perform and they tell you NO, you can't do this or that. It's really taxing. I don't want to work for this company for more than a few years. I initially wanted to move up but, seeing what the District manager's actually do, I think I would hate that job. They don't do anything. They are middle men. They do paperwork, they answer to dumb questions from the higher ups, and they tell the GMs what they need to work on. They in my opinion seem quite useless. I think if I were in that position I would probably end up in trouble for doing too much and not following the procedures that the bosses would want. I don't like asking for permission, I pretty much just do it then apologize later. It can get me in trouble sometimes, but whatever, I feel like it's my biggest asset. I don't need to be baby sat or watched. I do everything my self.
Regardless of this job though, it's not what I want to do with my life anyways. So, if poker can down the line provide what I want to do then that would be sweet. Now, obviously, I wont be able to go that often. I was thinking 6-8 hours a week at most, probably mostly in 1 day or session. That could be a little tough mentally if I start losing or catch a string of bad luck. I have to make sure I keep good records and that I only go when I really feel like playing. Seems like I've been through all of this before.
I think this time I'm more prepared and even though I'm excited about being able to do it, I know I wont get as involved this time. It will still be only every once in a while and it'll still be a nice release from daily stuff. I feel like I need the breaks more now than ever.
I think I may have noticed a trend with myself the other day. I've been a little down lately, as I already said and I think I figured out why. I definitely go through these stretches in my life where I'm up then I'm down, hardly ever just content. I think it's my personality. Well, I think it has to do with obsessing over something or not being able to obsess over something. I think when I get to fully integrate myself into something I'm happier. Then when I'm just kind of la-de-da about stuff and I don't have that 1 thing, I'm down. I look back on when I was engrossed in poker. I was fully into it and I didn't think about anything else, I was pretty happy. Now my home life sucked and in reality it was very bad for my relationships, but in itself it made me happy. Then when poker became an afterthought and I had nothing to focus on, I was sad and a bit depressed. I think a month or two ago I was pretty happy because I was fully engrossed in my job where as lately I haven't felt like doing much with it and so that's what I'm down about now. i don't really have something to focus on right now.
I'm certainly not done with my job. I'm not at the point with my job where I was with poker when I quit. I was mentally done there. I think I've just accepted that I have to quit trying so hard and I can't do the things I want to at the workplace. I feel like I'm just a manager as opposed to in the beginning where I was like, it's my store. It's not my store. But, it is my JOB to run it correctly and do the things they ask me to do. which is fine. I have to be okay with that. I think I am. hopefully it helps me keep that hunger that I need to do my own thing someday. It reminds me how much better it would be to be on my own. I'm still not ready to be on my own though and I know that as well. There are a lot of things about business I really just DONT know about.
I guess that should really be my next goal is just getting educated about the things I'm lacking so far. Whether it's through self teaching or taking some classes I gotta learn these things. I figure the more prepared I am the better chance I have at success. I guarantee you if I started a business today, I would probably fail, simply because I don't know enough. I wouldn't have the money to hire people to fill that gap, so it would solely be on me and hard work just isn't enough to overcome those things.
I do look forward to the challenge though. Hopefully, the timing will work out to where as I'm building my business the economy gets its shit together it'll be a little easier time than a lot of small businesses are having now.
I can't wait to eat some live fish though and it'll be fun building up that live poker bankroll.
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