It is Mother’s Day, and it is a different one. This is the first one I haven’t been working in a restaurant or bar for probably more than 30 years. Big day in the restaurant industry, because who would make Mom cook on this day, and a lot of moms don’t want what a homemade …
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Full Moon Fever, or Just Another Day With The ‘Rona
My moon phase calendar tells me with plenty of forewarning of the Full Moons each month, but I always know. I was driving home last night from work, and the moon was shining brightly, just about full, but that is today it is actually full. And I knock Full Moons a lot, but on a …
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Looking For The Good
I scroll Facebook far more than I should, and far more than is good for me. It’s a mindless habit most of the time. But a lot of people I care about are there, and especially now they are posting about their activities, their worries, their success, and much more. It’s a way I can …
Live, Laugh, Love
Don’t let that title fool you. This isn’t that, really. My years of service industry work have given me all of these things, but usually not all at once. But what it has given me is a slightly jaded view of a certain type of person, and my fellow industry people have named her, and …
Papi
Twenty or so years ago, I met the one person who probably changed my life more than any other person. I have written about Marco, Papi, before. But he was a big personality, so he deserves another installment. Today would be his 48th birthday, if he hadn’t left us so abruptly a year and a …
Attention! Wait, that worked?
I like telling people I am attention starved. I mean, why else would I do something like this blog? But I am not really attention starved, I get plenty of interaction with people, even now, and I know how to pull the plug on it when I have reached that point. I get to that …
Balance
Since all of the Safe at Home orders and job changing and things, I have watched more TV, and movies, than I normally do. Don’t get me wrong, I watch plenty of TV, but usually re-runs of “The Big Bang Theory” or “Friends.” But my cable has graciously been rotating premium movie channels while this …
Where to Next
The conversation seems to be shifting from staying home, staying safe, to when and how we open this thing back up. While I do think it’s a conversation that needs to happen, hopefully soon, I wonder about the people pushing the topic. Are we there yet? I don’t really know. Because I have been working, …
Easter, Not Leaster
I have spent many Easters not exactly celebrating Easter. I used to have to work on Easter, a big family day in the restaurants. Not everyone can bust out a decent ham dinner for their family, so they would go out for brunch, family style dinners, etc. People all dressed up, whether they had been …
Quarantine-ish
Things have changed so much in 3 weeks, I kind of don’t even know what’s what here. I had a job, got “laid off” from that job, then found a “temporary” job and a few days later lost my regular job permanently. I started the temporary job, now I hope it can become a permanent …
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