What true significance does a new year have but what we give it?

none. There is no true disruption in time, it is more like a flowing stream which has a beginning and an end but to the eye cannot be broken up into droplets without separating parts of it from the whole; and time cannot be separated from the whole. Time cannot be handled at all.

Still, [...]

Drudgery

Apparently there is such a thing as a post-Christmas lull. That’s what we’re going through at the store right now. It makes the time I spend there seem longer since more and more I’m left standing around doing nothing instead of frantically trying to get the person in line checked out so the next one [...]

Christmas Comes but Once a Year… and thank god *that’s* over!

I keep putting off blogging about Christmas, and I’m not sure why. I followed through with my plans and visited Gran on Christmas Eve. It was obvious, though, that when I got there she expected me to be staying and eventually she talked me into it. It was nice to sleep in a house that’s [...]

Oh, Right…

Dec 19-25
Sun 10-6
Mon OFF
Tue 9-5
Wed 3-11
Thu 3-11
Fri 9-5
Sat Christmas!

As you can see I only get two days off and one is actually a holiday. Oh joy. Betcha I work the day after Christmas, too. Life just gets better and better all the time…

Stealing Time

Consumers kept a closer eye on their wallets as they moved into the holiday shopping season, boosting their spending a modest 0.2% in November.

Hm, guess I haven’t helped much to raise that figure. Of course that’s for November, not December. I still have a few presents to buy. It’s funny how they’re for the two [...]

Schedules, Smedules…

I forgot to post one last week. What does it matter anyway? Yes, I am goign to post it. Yes, after I said it didn’t matter. No, it doesn’t make sense.

Dec 12-18
Sun 11-7pm
Mon OFF
Tue 3-11pm
Wed 3-11pm
Thu 3-11pm
Fri OFF
Sat 4-11pm

I’m happy about Saturday. I worked this morning, meaning I missed some cartoons, but most of them [...]

Work, Work, Work…

Work is all I seem to do lately. That and sleep, so I suppose it’s not a surprise that I’m about to talk about–what else?–work. I got short changed the other day and I am now allowed to tell customers that I do not have to give change. For small requests like a dollar in [...]

Biggest Mistake

From Slate’s Today’s Papers:

The Post’s Mike Allen has a fascinating piece on the White House press corps’ frequently futile efforts to knock the president off his talking points. The acknowledged master of the trade is Time’s John Dickerson. He’s the one who froze Bush with, “After 9/11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you [...]

Huh? *Yawn* What?

Today was an off day. I think I want to stick to evening shifts. I seem to be more awake during them. Then again maybe it was just the coke on Monday. When I got there I made sure to look for the little presents I’d left at the front desk. Miracle of miracles they [...]