jobs and life

jon and i did the mom/son team up today at *waffle house in murfreesboro, they have him training as cook and i'm training the waitress stuff. don't know how long they will let us work together though. possibly until we are trained than move one of us out to a different location. was a pleasure working with such nice people. the manager mike is 22 years old and he is proud of where he is in his job. he started with the company when he was 17 and says he now makes 40k a year. not bad for his age - in this area. he has a valid reason to be proud. he is also very polite and pleasant, always nice to work with people like mike.

the system they train is geared for a 20 minute turn around on tables. so ideally they are looking at up to $1600 till a day, so mike says. he also said the girls make from $70 to $120 a day in tips. i'm doubtful on that, since most of the people i see in there are regulars and if you have ever been a waitress tables where regulars congregate ( it's a religion dun u know ) you know the tips are sucky. the company takes 4 bucks a day out for meals - bah - 2 meals a shift. i can see i'm going to gain some of this weight back i've lost .. grrrrrr boo hiss on that. profit sharing after 1 year service, very nice. the health insurance is blue shield .. and that blows. but it's a neat little restaurant and clean.

don't know how long jon will last as he is taking a big cut in pay, but until his back is healed .. he needs to take it easy. oh yea and after 6 months you get a paid vacation. i'll give it a whirl but i'm such a homebody sustained by the nite. maybe if i can work 2nd or 3rd shift but this 6 a.m. wake up call is a bit much. always gotta bitch about something.
two of the girls were all up in jon's face trying to get him to notice them. was cute. you could see the gears burning -- fresh meat oh boy. he asked me if i had a ring he could borrow. /shrug ... i had already dug one out for myself as i've been down this road before.

computer woes

i'm having problems with working out why the widths on my site are so unpredictable. yesterday it fit all nice and neat and today i have to use the scroll bar thingy at the bottom to read it. .. . dang it - j - why u gotta be all the way in colorado where it's harder to pick your brain. i'll get it figured out. it's mostly terminology messing with me.

reads

picked up Stephen King's new book of short stories. "Everything's Eventual" now normally i don't like his work but i keep reading it hoping his style will change. he is just to descriptive for me and i get bored. but short stories . hmmmm ..

movies

we watched "Elizabeth" with cate blancett, all i got to say is "wow" cate blancett is hot hot hot ... the story line was choppy and i had a hard time following the sequence of events but that could be due to my not being able to hear the dialogue clearly. regardless - i'm a sucker for those period films and anything Shakespearian anyway.