“Hey look, it’s that guy.”

“What guy?”

“You know…that guy. The one that used to show up here all the time.”

“Brad?”

“No, idiot…Ben. Remember him?”

“Was he the one with the goatee?”

“Still thinking Brad.”

“I swear he had a goatee!”

“He never had a…ugh. Listen that’s Ben. He used to post here fairly regularly. Remember that? He would tell us boring details of his sad little life or he would review movies that no one else would ever see. Ringing any bells?”

“Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaah. That loser. I remember him.

…

Didn’t he have a goatee?”

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So I’m back, folks! It’s been a while, huh? I know, I know, I should have kept up contact with you, but honestly I’ve been really busy. Since the last guy left at work it has pretty much been just the four of us trying to hold down the store, which means six day weeks and lots of overtime. A 49 hour week just sucks ass, and when you factor into that number the amount of time it takes me to get to work (about an hour) and lunch breaks, that about a 64 hours a week devoted to Bose. Perhaps now you can understand why I wasn’t rushing to sit down and write for you people. I’m not your little helper monkey, dancing on the table! Dance monkey, DANCE!

Eh hem. Anyway, we finally hired a new full timer, which will help us out a lot, but he kind of scared the crap out of us last week. He had almost completed his training when all the sudden he has all of these problems at home. Some crack ho beat up his disable mom, the state took away his niece and nephew that he has custody over, and now the niece is saying that they beat her for no apparent reason. He thinks he needs to work closer to home so that he can get custody of the kids back and quits. Watch as our hearts drop as the first week of pure 40-hour scheduling flushes down the toilet. It’s gotten so bad that at times I forget what even one day off is like, much less two in a freakin’ row.

Luckily we were able to convince him that working at Bose would be a lot better than working at Home Depot, because even though we’re 25 minutes away you’re still getting paid like 6-7 bucks more an hour here. So he found a way to get child services to look after the kids five days a week, and even though that means we always have to work late, that’s better than always having to work overtime. Believe you me.

Other than these weird personal problems the new guy seems like he’ll be a good edition to the team, since he already seems really comfortable working with customers and he seems to pick up product info pretty quick, which is a definite plus with this job.

So what’s been up with me lately? We mostly when I’m not working I’m messing around with my Lifestyle system or with my iPod, trying to get the most out of those pricey, yet awesome, pieces of electronics. When I’m not watching a movie you can usually find me in my room transfering my CD collection into MP3 form. I’ve been at this for a while, and only just recently passed the halfway point on the 40GB hard drive. Sweet.

On my days off I either try to catch a new movie in the theater or hang out with Harry from home. The other week we happened to go to the Hooters in Albany, which was a pretty interesting experience. First time for me. I have to say I was a little disappointed with the quality of girl they had there. They were for the most part attractive, yes, but more like “I wonder what happened to that girl in High School” attractive than, I don’t know, strip club/swimsuit model attractive. (I honestly don’t have any idea what exactly I was expecting.) Anyway, it was still an interesting experience. We had fun, checked out the girls, and each downed a pitcher of beer. Brian was way used to doing that, I was doing all right, but god, was Harry piss ant drunk. Like it was his first time drunk. It was pretty funny. Man, what an amateur.

That’s all for now. I’ll try to update this a little more often that it has been lately, now that I’m working some regular hours again. Until next time, folks!