Last Days Chronicles: Part 2

Didn't sleep last night... unbelievably tired when the alarm went off this morning. Cursing the day ahead of me.

Didn't even make it to the coffee shop for my breakfast. Got into work and made me an old sandwich out of the refrigerator in the breakroom that I ate while counting the cash drawers.

Vacuumed the whole store... took register duty for two hours. Mattress delivery. I had forgotten all about that - thought today was Wednesday. Co-worker says to me:

"Good thing you didn't go to lunch already. The mattresses are here."

"Yeah, we don't get mattresses today"

"Well, the truck is out there"

"Mattresses are delivered Thursday's. Today is Wednesday, so nice try. I'm going to lunch."

But, I was wrong. Today was Thursday, and a truckload of mattresses were waiting for me to unload them. That pushed lunch forward, which was ok - I like to have my lunch as late as possible, that way it doesn't feel like forever after lunch before I get to go home.

Took lunch with one of my co-workers today. That was nice. Because we are so few working these days, lunch is always a solitary business. We went to my favorite pizza joint where I often go for the daily special, or (would you guess?) a pizza. That was a little sad - I'll likely not eat at that place very often now that I won't be working. There are better pizzas around town, but I like the atmosphere at this place. And... a girl I've known for many years works there - so it's always nice to see her too.

Lunch was a little longer than it's supposed to be... but, who cares, right?

Today was unbelievably slow... business wise. Hardly any customers today, which made time pass extremely slowly as well. I told the Sales Manager to count down the extra cash registers and do most of the paperwork at 5:30, and told her she's free to go home after doing that.

Yes, you read that right, I was giving orders to the Sales Manager ;) Well, she'd been hoping to leave early today. She was scheduled to work til 7PM, but wanted to leave at 6. That's why I said those things... I'm not a bossy bastard by nature...

The last hour it was me and that same co-worker I lunched with... barely any customers, which suited us both fine right then. We wanted to get home quickly, so I said we'll prepare as much as possible so that we can go home as soon as we lock the doors.

I opened the drawer, and started counting the money. He was standing next to me.

"We're not allowed to count money out here", I told him.

"No, we're not supposed to do that", he says.

"There's a security camera up there." I pointed straight at the thing and offered my best smile. "If they catch me counting the money on that thing, I could be fired."

"Is that so?", he says. He honestly did not know that as a fact.

"Uh huh... do you think I'm worried about that?"

He laughed about that.

End result. We finished everything up only 10 minutes after locking the front doors and were out of there. The cold air outside was wonderful...

Only one more day to go!

Music today. Today I'm presenting some old stuff. I've decided to share Lizzy Borden with you - there's another guy who can really sing. This song "Rod of Iron" was the very first song I heard of this band - it played on a heavy metal radio show back in the early eighties. I remember back then I loaded up my tape recorder with a Sony or Maxwell 90 minute cassette tape every time that show was on, and I recorded the songs - it was all very high tech. If I didn't like the song, I quickly rewinded and recorded the next one over the bad one - that way I collected some good music for my listening pleasure. The best thing about this show was that they played a lot of obscure metal - not only Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, and what have you. When I heard this song for the first time, I quickly ran out to get their albums. I could only find the one - the right one though which had this song on it; the "Love You To Pieces" album. It took me another year - until I went back to the States to visit my father, before I could collect the other albums by Lizzy Borden. I'm still a big fan!

This song... what really hooked me is the wonderful slow start, and the build-up when it kicks into gear. I swear - those drums make me wanna jump up and down and throw my fist in the air every time. Listen to it real LOUD!

They have recently recorded a new album that I haven't listened to yet, and a few years ago they made another reunion cd that was really good. They still know how to make music!