Work and Working Out
Home from work. I managed to bust out of there pretty quick after closing time, despite the fact that Tuesday nights are when I get to do the shittiest of sidework. Other nights side work is little things like sweep out the walk in or sweep the stairs. Tuesday night, though, is clean the grill plates night and somehow I'm always the one who gets to close when it's time for that most luxurious of chores.
It involves taking the pans under the grill...that are hot as fuck...and stripping them if their aluminum foil coating, then rewrapping them in foil which is a pain in the ass because they're hot and the aluminum foil wants to tear every wrong way while trying to shape it to the corners of the pans. Then taking the grill bars one by one and still hot to the sink to dump them in to soak overnight. Then doing the same thing with the grill shields, except that in addition to the oven mitts I have to hold them with tongs because they're so fucking hot they can set the gloves on fire (as Dark Dan discovered to his dismay one night). It is pretty cool to watch the water bubble when the things are dumped in it.
Speaking of Dan, he's not really Dark Dan anymore as he no longer works at Dark Horse. He called into work last Thursday saying he'd been in an accident. He called in Friday, not feeling well. He just didn't show up Saturday, and his roommate called to see if he was at work so we know he wasn't at home. He never called again, he never showed up again. I've not seen nor heard from him since talking to him briefly on IM Saturday, but I didn't know at that point that he'd no called, no showed to work. So, he's not employed there anymore. Which sucks, both because I enjoyed working with him, now I'm worried about him, and his absence means an increased work load for me. I'm back to five nights a week and all closing shifts. And today Dark Rob said they might not hire anyone to replace him, since Rob will be spending more time in the kitchen now that there's a new floor manager (Dark Ruth). This sucks, because I know damned well that Rob isn't going to give himself any closing shifts when he makes the schedule...so pretty much all closing will be done by Dark Mike and I.
Anyway, the only other notable thing about work was that it was fun working pretty much alone with Dark Allison as the only server. We get really playful during our downtime. Not flirty...just playful. I'm not remotely interested in her, but she's a cool chick and I enjoy being able to goof around with her when Mike, who is her boyfriend, isn't around. When he's working, I just let them do their boyfriend/girlfriend thing and just throw in the occasional quip. I goof around with all the server girls, but Allison's probably the most fun to work with. Not to mention the fact that she's the only server who goes out of her way to help me when she's not busy. Usually it's just doing a run of dishes, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
I managed to make it to the gym today. I foolishly stuffed myself with food and soda literally just before walking in the door, but at least I went. I pushed myself pretty hard on the treadmill, which I always start with to get warmed up, but after that I wasn't feeling so hot so I took the rest of my work out pretty lightly. It wasn't a bad work out. It just wasn't as thorough as I'd been last time. Next time I'll be a bit more sensible and actually eat breakfast in the morning instead of starving myself all morning because there wasn't anything I wanted to eat in the house so that I have to gorge myself in the afternoon on the way to the gym. I need to start watching my diet again anyway
Current Weight: 202lbs. A long ways to go before 180, which is my goal to reach by Dragon*Con. Hopefully with this gym membership and starting to watch my eating again I'll have no trouble dropping two pounds per week. Especially since I tried the new Coke Zero and found it tolerable enough that I will probably be switching to that which will take about 300-400 calories out of my diet right there.
Home from work. I managed to bust out of there pretty quick after closing time, despite the fact that Tuesday nights are when I get to do the shittiest of sidework. Other nights side work is little things like sweep out the walk in or sweep the stairs. Tuesday night, though, is clean the grill plates night and somehow I'm always the one who gets to close when it's time for that most luxurious of chores.
It involves taking the pans under the grill...that are hot as fuck...and stripping them if their aluminum foil coating, then rewrapping them in foil which is a pain in the ass because they're hot and the aluminum foil wants to tear every wrong way while trying to shape it to the corners of the pans. Then taking the grill bars one by one and still hot to the sink to dump them in to soak overnight. Then doing the same thing with the grill shields, except that in addition to the oven mitts I have to hold them with tongs because they're so fucking hot they can set the gloves on fire (as Dark Dan discovered to his dismay one night). It is pretty cool to watch the water bubble when the things are dumped in it.
Speaking of Dan, he's not really Dark Dan anymore as he no longer works at Dark Horse. He called into work last Thursday saying he'd been in an accident. He called in Friday, not feeling well. He just didn't show up Saturday, and his roommate called to see if he was at work so we know he wasn't at home. He never called again, he never showed up again. I've not seen nor heard from him since talking to him briefly on IM Saturday, but I didn't know at that point that he'd no called, no showed to work. So, he's not employed there anymore. Which sucks, both because I enjoyed working with him, now I'm worried about him, and his absence means an increased work load for me. I'm back to five nights a week and all closing shifts. And today Dark Rob said they might not hire anyone to replace him, since Rob will be spending more time in the kitchen now that there's a new floor manager (Dark Ruth). This sucks, because I know damned well that Rob isn't going to give himself any closing shifts when he makes the schedule...so pretty much all closing will be done by Dark Mike and I.
Anyway, the only other notable thing about work was that it was fun working pretty much alone with Dark Allison as the only server. We get really playful during our downtime. Not flirty...just playful. I'm not remotely interested in her, but she's a cool chick and I enjoy being able to goof around with her when Mike, who is her boyfriend, isn't around. When he's working, I just let them do their boyfriend/girlfriend thing and just throw in the occasional quip. I goof around with all the server girls, but Allison's probably the most fun to work with. Not to mention the fact that she's the only server who goes out of her way to help me when she's not busy. Usually it's just doing a run of dishes, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
I managed to make it to the gym today. I foolishly stuffed myself with food and soda literally just before walking in the door, but at least I went. I pushed myself pretty hard on the treadmill, which I always start with to get warmed up, but after that I wasn't feeling so hot so I took the rest of my work out pretty lightly. It wasn't a bad work out. It just wasn't as thorough as I'd been last time. Next time I'll be a bit more sensible and actually eat breakfast in the morning instead of starving myself all morning because there wasn't anything I wanted to eat in the house so that I have to gorge myself in the afternoon on the way to the gym. I need to start watching my diet again anyway
Current Weight: 202lbs. A long ways to go before 180, which is my goal to reach by Dragon*Con. Hopefully with this gym membership and starting to watch my eating again I'll have no trouble dropping two pounds per week. Especially since I tried the new Coke Zero and found it tolerable enough that I will probably be switching to that which will take about 300-400 calories out of my diet right there.