Tonight marks my final night standing Bowling Watch at TRACEN Petaluma! Even though the Bowling Watch is usually cake and not too stressful, I never enjoyed it at all. I mean... Come on, really? I join the Coast Guard to save lives and I'm spraying Lysol into people's ratty bowling shoes? I just always felt that I was being underutilized here, I ( Read more... )

Got the Bowling Watch tonight, and I had a realization of something odd that I have noticed tons of customers do. The bowling alley is small, only six lanes, and there is a room next to the watchstander's desk where we keep the adult bowling shoes. Our toddler bowling shoes, however, are located directly behind the desk ( Read more... )

I was holding off on posting because I WANTED to be posting about the triumphant return of the cockatiels, but that hasn't happened yet. Hopefully by the end of this week. *crosses fingers* I haven't really been checking up on LJ either... I hope that my friends are doing well, and I may try to do some back journal checking, but I'm sorry if I  ( Read more... )

Ah, drunken ramblings can be so great. I just overheard this gem while on watch at the Bowling Alley tonight ( Read more... )

I am currently on watch at the bowling alley on base. Here are tidbits of what I hear from time to time.

PART ONE

(I have Mamma Mia! playing on one of the TVs on HBO.)

(Co-worker already working on a couple of beers comes up.)

HIM: "Hey, I don't want this to sound gay or anything, but I really like this movie."

ME: "I didn't know you had to be gay to ( Read more... )

Okay, minor crisis averted. I was able to swap teaching duties with someone, so now I'm teaching from 12 to 5, then Bowling Watch from 5:30 until 11:00.

I guess I shouldn't have been so worried, but damn, at 10:30 at night is NOT the time you want to suddenly remember that you screwed yourself over the next day. Plus I'm already on thin ice when it ( Read more... )

So here I am on my Bowling Watch. It's dull as all get out due to a chief's spaghetti dinner at the club next door. Since I came on watch at 1400 (six hours ago) I've had a total of four patrons. Currently the bowling alley is empty.

Fortunately I brought along my PSP and DSi to keep me company. And yet... I'm not playing them. Why? It's the ( Read more... )

First, last night was long and tiring, but ultimately fullfilling. I spent $243 and picked up a crap ton of food for my students. Then Kyn helped out with prepping some of the meats and veggies for kebabs and fajitas.

With the weather being as it is, however, it doesn't look like the picnic party will happen until Saturday, when the rain here ( Read more... )

I'm on duty at the Bowling Alley today, so I've had a lot of time to just think about and contemplate things.

One of those things is the oddity that three different big families would arrive within 15 minutes of each other and ask for two lanes for two hours. There is some real weirdness in that. Seeing as how this is only a six lane alley, this ( Read more... )

I really didn't know how tonight's watch was going to be. I mean, it's Black Friday, but it's also essentially a 4 day weekend for us, so I didn't know if the place was going to be hopping or dead.

I've only been here for 30 minutes and I can safely say that this place is going to be deader than Pauly Shore's career.

Oh and it looks like selasphorus has ( Read more... )