the vortex is getting worse

not sure if I've ever mentioned our vortex. basically, there is a big black void where air waves and sound waves and all sorts of frequencies and signals come to die. it starts at our community mailbox, approx 100 yards away. not sure where it ends but most of the time if i'm on my cell phone and I'm driving home past the mailbox I can almost pin point the exact moment where my call will drop. when we moved in we discovered that the ceiling fan in the living room would turn on by itself at usually the same time each weekend or in the middle of the night. Either the lights or the fan or both at random dimness and fan speeds. nothing completely out of the ordinary but now I'm noticing other things that seem to be associated, or at least unexplained and therefore related until explained! the TV in the living room skips out audio every few minutes for a second to five seconds sometimes. I told Chad to ask the TV repairman about it when he came out a few months ago and the idiot (not Chad, the repairman) told us to call the cable company. I think he thought that we didn't know the diference in censorship from the networks and poor audio output. oh well i guess. now the garage door has stopped responding to both Chad's and my clickers and also the pin pad on the outside of the house. It still opens from the inside of the garage. Besides the fact that my cordless phones only ring every 10 calls or so (I miss a lot of calls) now one of them drops calls at random, usualy when I check voicemail. I have never heard of a land line dropping calls. Even back in the 80's when we had some of the primitive cordless phones with the metal antenna's that everyone would eventually break did they ever drop a call. Very very very annoying! Several light bulbs have gone out and when I replace them they still don't work. And as if that wasn't weird enough my computer (and I think Chad's) drops the internet connection. Today it's (oh there it goes again "local area network cable unplugged") been happening a lot. Last night I plugged my camera in to charge for 2 hours before I went out and not only did it not charge but wouldn't work again until this morning. The battery was so dead. Deader than a door nail. The guy who lived here before us was an electrician and did a lot of his own work on the house so that could have a lot to do with it but I still say it's the vortex. It's getting much worse. If it's not a vortex than we're sitting on top of some indian barial ground. Anyone know a good witch doctor?

kids say the darndest things

Did some shopping today. nothing fancy, just groceries. while walking through the produce section I witnessed a kid, maybe 6 years old, put his butt on some potatoes and fart. His mother didn't seem to notice (or worse, didn't care) and he was quite pleased with himself. Then later in the bread aisle I heard a little girl, maybe 4 or 5 years old, tell her mother "I know where daddy hides cigarettes!" I was turning out of that aisle and didn't get to hear mom's reaction. But I bet it was good. Earlier in the week I had this mother and her brat of son in my store. I don't know what she did to piss him off but he threw one of the ugliest tantrums I've ever seen. He was crying and carrying on and then proceeded to hit his mother repeatedly and yell at her "you make me angry!" over and over again at the top of his lungs. All little reminders of why I am glad I don't have children.
Got through rush last week. The week prior my assistant manager quit. long story short some customer called her a bitch and she got mad when I didn't reprimand the customer. There's a lot more to it than that but basically that was her last straw and she quit. So Corina and I handled rush without her. It was our best rush ever. I hired some phenomenal temps and we kicked some serious butt together. Everyone was in sync with everyone else. Customers got what they needed when they needed it and in the end, my 63 hour work wee was very fulfilling. Now, I have to train a new assistant and I have this great candidate that is a temp. He can do it all and also with a big smile on his face. He even caught a shop lifter on Wednesday. The only problem is that he has a parole officer he has to see every Tuesday night for the next 10 weeks. That means if I want him to work for me I have to quit working for Weight Watchers on Tuesdays (which I am sad about) so I can close the store. But I think he may be worth it. I don't know what he went to jail for and really, as long as it's not theft, I don't care. I mean if he was some crazy killer or something he wouldn't be out so whatever. I am not allowed to ask him. I'll have Corina do it for me.

Oh and just a last note. I got a $65 check from the county because the judge dismissed my ticket. Pretty sweet.