So setting up the pool hit a little bit of a snag Thursday. It's one of those above ground pools that holds itself up with an inflatable ring, but after filling the first foot or so it stopped rising and the water started spilling over the top. My dad thinks that the base wasn't level enough, but I don't think it was off by enough to make a ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to have a little talk with the new cashier and try to set him straight before he ends up getting fired, but most of his problems can't really be corrected by me. I tried giving him a few more pointers today but you can see him immediately tune out, just staring back blankly with his mouth open. But I guess I tried. I won't really ( Read more... )

There's a garage next door to our store. It was foreclosed upon a couple months ago and, rumor has it, our company is going to buy it. On the one hand, this is kinda exciting since it would mean a newer, nicer store with more room and parking… However, if our location closes down at all, I'm not sure I'd want to stick around for the downtime. I ( Read more... )

So I dug up my old Dead Journal ( Artreus.deadjournal.com ) And it's made me sort of miss this site. I got it about 10 years ago back when I was a regular on the Ecco fan site Arkonviox.com. It was interesting to read some of the highlights of my high school life... But it started to get depressing at the end. I stopped updating it in 2006, when I ( Read more... )