Long week.

This has been a murderously long week. . . so far.  67 hours crammed into 5 workdays. That's Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and tomorrow.  Today I'm actually off. 

We had tickets to a preview showing of "Unaccompanied Minors" on Tuesday.  Both myself and Scott were under the impression that I would be taking the boys to this movie.  Unbeknownst to us, our other two co-workers had planned that the one would come in at 6pm and take them to the movie. Now, both Scott and I knew that with these things we should have left at 5:30 to be at the theater at 6pm.  The movie was to start at 7pm, but you're not guaranteed a seat. I've seen plenty of people in the past turned away because they arrived later on. So I had the boys all ready to go at 5:30 when one of our co-workers stopped me and informed me that our other co-worker was coming in at 6 to take the boys.  I was pretty disappointed as I was looking forward to this all week.  I had worked from 6-8 in the morning, had four hours off, and come in at noon again in order to work until 11.  And this other co-worker is coming in for a couple hours to go have fun with the guys?  What is that?

Well, Scott had to leave at 8pm so someone had to relieve him as a few of the boys couldn't go to the movie.  That's what I figured the other co-worker was coming in for.  In all fairness, it was her day off so she was helping out.  But I'm the one working completely insane hours.  Don't I deserve some kind of break?  Am I just here to be the mean guy who gets the boys up each morning, insisting they actually get up instead of wasting their time lying in bed? When do I get to be the staff they have fun with?

Enough of my rant.  On more positive notes, I got to meet Ickey Woods Tuesday morning at our networking breakfast. It seems he's also interested in our business venture--I think he actually signed on after the meeting as well.  What's also interesting is that his Ickey Woods Foundation has a very similar mission to Boys Hope Girls Hope.  He could be a great contact both personally and for our organization. And Boys Hope Girls Hope could be a good contact for him and his organization as well.

For now, I'm going to enjoy my day off.  I'm meeting with my supervisor at St. Joe's (where I still work some hours occasionally) today at 2. Seems they neglected to do an evaluation on me since 2005, so I'll be due a retroactive raise.  Good times.

Going good

I'm really going to try to update this more.  Now that I have internet access in my room, it'll help.  Still working on getting connected to the wireless though.

I'm actually on duty today from 6a-6p, but I am able to take downtime as long as I don't overdo it.  The boys were a pain this morning.  They were allowed to stay up late last night.  I was off duty, and I try NOT to comment on how anyone runs their shift.  We're all adults and I trust that we all make decisions for a reason. However, I'm going to ask my co-workers to make sure that if they let the boys stay up late, it's a night where they are responsible for having to get them up in the morning.  I have a feeling it would only happen once. ;-)

In the meantime, I feel like my home business is about to start blowing up.  We're doing a lot of activity which seems to be proving productive.  I'll be working on that this evening too.

Well, better get back to the grind.  I still have to shower and change.