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Hello Friends! Once again, I do apologize for my absence... but sometimes, at the end of the night... one is too tired from the fun and the work to sit down and blog...

Ok... so to catch you all up.

I am now an assignor at work. The assignor is the guy who decides which tables are going to be sat and in which servers section they will be sitting. It's kind of like playing 'restaurant tetris' it's fun, it's challenging, and it's not in the slightest bit like the seater position with a lot of hurry up and wait... as a side note, the servers all seem to think I'm pretty good at it. Guess I fooled them! No, but honestly... it's something I'm looking forward to doing until I can get into service myself.

Speaking of which... yesterday I went to the restaurant on my day off to spiel for my manager Linda. In order to get into service, one must spiel to two different managers to show that you not only know what's on the menu, but also know how to talk to guests. Those of you who know me personally will find it of no great shock that yes, I know how to talk to people... So I went in and did my spiel for Linda... and while I was doing that, another of our managers (Yelitza) also happened to be in the room and she signed off on me as well... Spiel one... check. Spiel two... check. Now all I have to do is wait for a position as food runner to open up and I'm golden... for after food runner comes server... and after all, that is what I came here to do.

Shameless plug alert! I just finished reading this very good book and I would like to recommend it to anyone that knows how to read... is in the slightest bit non religious... has ideas about eastern philosophy... or just loves good satire. It is called Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. In a nut shell it fills in the thirty years of Jesus' life that we don't know about. Creating, at most times, a plausible accounting of what went on between The Birth and The Miracles. Pick it up, give it a read and then thank me... I know you'll want to. It's funny, it's sad, it's compelling... it's good.

Speaking of good... last night I went t a place called Howl at the Moon. What a fun place! There are two pianos on the stage, and a crowd full of people ready to rock. The players rock out all night long with dueling pianos, while taking requests from the crowd that is nice and lubricated... possibly because of the whole buy one drink get two free situation... but you don't need to be drunk to enjoy. I know because I wasn't. I had two drinks and still had a good time. The reason for my lack of drinking had to do with the fact that I was driving... and why was I driving? Well that's a great question friends. Let me tell you!

The previous night I attended the regular Saturday night outting for a lot of Canadians by going to a bar called Cowboys. Nice place... country bar where you pay your cover and then drink as much beer as you can before 1 am... (if you were wondering I had six between 12 and 1) but a shit show of epic proportions. In Florida, there are a lot of unlicensed cab companies in operation. Guys that own large vans that will drive you from A to B and charge you money for it. Not a big deal, so long as the driver knows what he's doing. We used one of the 'big van' drivers to take us there.

While on the way, not only did he miss the exit on I-4 but rather than drive on to the next exit, our "driver" pulled over onto the shoulder, and then reversed... yes REVERSED on the interstate to get back to the exit. Upon getting to the bar I tore a strip off him. His excuse was "he was trying to save us time." Nay nay my friends, that didn't fly with me. "Save us time?," I said... "Save us TIME? Just imagine how much later we would have been had you killed the fifteen people sitting in the back of your van!" Reluctantly, we paid him for a round trip, laboring under the assumption that he was going to come back and get us at the end of the night. Big assumption. He never showed. Fifteen people sat in the parking lot of this bar until 3:30 in the morning waiting for this "driver" to show up. And he never showed. We were able to get a legit cab company to come pick us up... and finally got home. Just a little after 4 am... two whole hours AFTER the bar had closed.

The moral of that story is... go legit, or don't go. Period.

I think that's gonna do for now friends. I'm sitting here racking my brain trying to come up with anything else that could be considered interesting... and I can't... but I'll leave you with this... it won't be nearly as long until my next blog... I hope. However, once it does arrive...

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TheCanadian

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On This Day in Disney History:
January 25th, 1961:
Disney's 17th animated feature film 101 Dalmatians - featuring the voice of Rod Taylor - premieres. It is the first Disney feature to solely use the Xerox process for transferring the animators' drawings to cels. Prior to this, each one of the animators' drawings had to be hand-traced in ink onto a cel. Just imagine having to draw all of those spots by hand... talk about murg!