So I just buried one Grandmother, now it seems my last one isn’t doing so good. The cousins from Florida were closer to my Grandma we buried on Monday. This Grandma means the world to me. The cousins up north are not really that close. Different set of cousins by the way. The Grandma that died is my moms mother. The Grandma that’s sick is my dads mother.

I took off work for the funeral on Sunday and then took Monday off when I found out about my Grandma. Sunday the guy who does the Audit with me filled in for me. Which was cool for me and him. For me it let me get some sleep for the tiring two days that dealt with the funeral. On Tuesday the Front Desk Manager worked because the guy wouldn’t come in.

When I heard this I had to laugh. I had been wanting to put the hotel in this kind of situation to see what “they” would do. I heard from a few people something along the lines of “the poor Front Desk Manager.” The FDM had to pull the third shift on Monday night and then had to attend the Manager staff meeting at one on Tuesday.

Yeah I don’t feel sorry for the lady. Bad me. But this is the person who cut me a hour each day. This is a person who has cut a friend of mine twice now. So you will have to forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for the FDM. Anyway last time I checked that’s what the FDM does. It’s her job.

Well it’s been a while again. A few things going on that has kept me from my site. Real life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. On the 6th of December my Grandma passed away. It wasn’t something anyone would thought would happen. At least happen any time soon. But it did.

Me and Betty were not close. We didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. She could be really mean and at the same time be really funny. She was 79 and she didn’t act her age. This is the greatest compliment I can give her.

Because she didn’t act like an old person. She went out and did things and didn’t wait around for death to take her. I saw her last on the 4th and me and my Mom and her had a few beers after an ABWA meeting she was a part of. The next day she went in for some procedures.

The rest is, as they say history. I’ve talked about death before. And as in the past here is how the Bard put it:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.

To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

My man Bill makes more sense to me than any bible quote. The “To be or not to be” passage explains how I feel about the subject of death.

So how is everyone doing? Me I’m good. I haven’t been getting much play time in with DAoC. I just have been playing to much of the games I talked about on the 24th of November. And yeah if you think like Hunt I’m a loser. So I’m going to try to get some more time in with DAoC in the next couple of days.

I got a Poll over on the right. It’s another one of those things I don’t need but have. It’s kind of like the Forum.

I’ve got a bunch of hits from Blue’s News. I don’t know what that means, if it means anything. I think it’s cool that someone from over there has checked the my site out. I wouldn’t want a mention on Blue’s though. That would kill me. Hit wise it would be through the roof.

Well that’s it for now. December is a slow time for me. It’s dead at the hotel also. Go vote in the Poll.

Well it doesn’t seem like it’s already December. But here it is the first of the month. Time flies when your having fun? Two thousand and two is just around the corner.

There are a few things I’m looking forward to in 2002. January 31st is the day my site turns four. That’s kind of cool. I think it’s amazing that this site has lasted four years.

The Star Wars Geek in me is looking forward to May 2002. It opens May 15th? I’m going with that faith stuff that the religious people always have that Episode II will be good. Better than Episode One at least. Asking for Jar Jar to be cut into little bite size pieces is asking for to much?

Three years. So here it is, that day that has significance to probably just me. Seeing as it is my day that I have set aside to do my “year in review”. The first order of business would be to read the last two years worth. The Year In Review 1999 and The Year In Review 2000.

This year has been the same. Every year is just about the same for me. I have a well knit group of friends. Friends I wouldn’t trade for anything. And I am the same every year (besides that one summer I couldn’t listen to Billy Joel in my car, that is). The 1999 bit I wrote is a definite list of people I couldn’t do without. The 1999 bit I just can’t top. It really does sum it up.

This post is a departure from the last two years. The last two years were written and posted by 10:30pm. 10:30pm being the time the post I wrote when I had just got fired. This one had to be done in advance. As I stated last time, I’m going out for a beer at the Bop.

Okay on this Wednesday I’m going out for a drink to celebrate the third anniversary of me getting fired from the Holiday Inn. I may or may not have mentioned something about me getting a keg. Well times are tough at the hotel formally known as the Holiday Inn. So it’s a buy your own kind of deal.

So if your out and about on the 28th around nine pm, I will be down at the Bop having a cold one. Everyone is welcome. Friends, Enemies, and anyone in between. This is a good chance for you peoples I haven’t seen in a while to get back in touch with me.

Drop me a line in my e-mail or throw in your two cents in the comments to let me know if you can come down to the Bop.

Here’s Hunt who had this to say in the GuestBook:

Name: hunt

Comment:
you really need to get a life

Fuck cunt.. I mean Hunt. Can’t you do better than that. Geez man I’ve been insulted a lot better than that in the past. Why don’t you expand your witty banter and come back later and try this again Jackass.

Anyway here’s Hunt’s ip address 172.146.63.234 and he/she is an Aol user who found my site looking up the phrase “hotel management company”. You use Lycos and you tell me to get a life?