Today was a long day. To give you an idea of what it was like, well, it started off with my having to take a detour to work because a tractor-trailer flipped on Route 7. It was actually a real pretty drive since you could see right into the hills, mountains and valleys, see the green down below, the yellow in the middle, and the white of snow line. It was like something out of Lord of the Rings. Luckily, I still got to work on time.

Luckier still, as Jeremy was all alone, holding down the fort, since John C. called in sick on him/us. We didn’t really need him though, since when we closed for the day the tracker only read 10 people. That is a slow ass day, let me tell you. Then we had to wait an extra hour as the carpet cleaners did their quarterly clean up job before we could leave.

I get home, open up my highly anticipated (and much delayed by Amazon) new Global Underground release, a Limited Edition 3 disk Steve Lawler mix, and put in disk one, only to find that after track 6 my CD player won’t read it anymore. Hell, I even tried to burn it onto a clean CD-R my CD player would recognize, but my CD burner wouldn’t recognize that I had even put anything in there.

On the plus side I did teach Jeremy everything I learned in college today. Poor Jeremy never went to college. So when it came to writing up this month’s Employee of the Month his single paragraph looked sad and pathetic on the page. I told him, “You can’t give it to him like that! We give him one little paragraph with all of that white on the page and he’ll feel bad. You’ve got to spice it up a little.” We, of course, had both exhausted what little material we actually had to work from the nominations. So I taught Jeremy the fine art of stretching one paragraph of pure information into one page of pure beautiful crap. By adding almost no new information to what he had written I had somehow managed to subtly bloat that sad little paragraph into one amazing piece of BS. Much like I’m doing right now…