B365V3.62 - The eve of........

A quick rundown of my New Year's Eve

5am   Wake up for some god forsaken reason.

5:15 am  Play some games on Facebook arcade and my tablet.

5:45 am  Download Spotify onto my laptop, another thing to get it closer to the functionality of my last laptop.

6am  Listen to some of "The Fellas" on Fox Sports Radio, which is becoming one of my favorite radio shows.

6:30 am Throw a quick blog entry onto my page.

7:00 am Get ready and head out the door to what should be a long New Years Eve.

7:30 am  Catch a 54 C to the Strip for my last breakfast out of 2016.  Next foray should be Sundae Saturday next week.

8:05 am  Already seated and order is in.  Went with the stuffed banana pepper omelet.  Yumm!!!!

9am  Finished breakfast though my eyes were bigger than my stomach.  The homemade sausage in the omelet was delicious though.

9:05 am  Arrive at Scratch N Dent to check out grocery specials.

9:20 am Finished shopping, decent amount of good deals today including Toaster Strudels, which i haven't had in years.

9:45 am  Arrive at work.

1:20 pm   Got most of my bullshit tasks out of the way, invoices broken down, eggs boiled for making egg salad Monday, pipe order checked in and priced, lottery settled and balanced and got my bus pass for the new year.  No need to thank me for the changes to the Port Authority kids, but recognizing my greatness never hurts either.

3 pm  Start working the shift i am scheduled for, 3 - 11, even though i have been here for 5 hours already.  Hoping i don't get stuck in the shit show downtown will invariably become.

 5 pm  Two hours in and i am bored out of my skull.  We are never busy on this day, all of the fun stuff happens in Market Square and the former porn district.  Just trying to stick it out because, well, Vancouver.

6 pm  Still way slow here, i will be lucky to ring $500 in sales for the entire night.   I am thinking back to breakfast, where i saw the proprietor, the famous Kelly O, in the store at 8 am.  I would never see my boss at 8 am, or on a Saturday for that matter.

7:12 pm  Still abysmally slow, just listening to my 2016 Spotify list ( see last blog for more details on that ) and intermittently sitting on a milk crate and smoking cigarettes.  Think Vancouver Matt.

7:50 pm  Wondering which will happen first, my playlist runs out of music or my shift ends.  Probably get close to closing time for the porn shop upstairs, so anyone with porn related needs best get cracking.

9:08 pm  Just texted Brian that I am leaving at 10pm, as i have yet to break $400 in sales (i am a manager, i can check such things), pointless for two of us to be standing here right now.

10:08 pm  At the bus stop, in a homeward bound direction I hope, my feet are killing me after being in new shoes for 12 +hours.

10:15  pm  Bus arrives, headed home, not as much fun with the Scratch N Dent groceries in tow, but it beats being downtown.

10:20 pm  Fuck, stuck in hockey traffic.  At least i am sitting now and not standing.   Just got one of those bus announcements about the changes coming on Sunday.  Again, no need to thank me Pittsburgh, though i am going to continue to take credit for it.

10:44 pm  I am home, just started making dinner.  My feet are happy to be free of the shoes, but at this rate i may be asleep before the New Year kicks in.

11:50. Okay my belly is full, time for bed i think.