Thats another thing I’ve been meaning to comment on. Its not often a guy can talk Shakespeare with someone who works at the hotel. But it happened last night. And I have been meaning to mention these two any way. I think its been long enough that one can comment on these two and not know. Ericka and Scott.

Ericka and Scott are two very interesting people. And I am honoured to call them friends, beer makes me sentimental. When I say this I don’t mean there are not others that do also. Lets start with Scott. This is a guy who with out a doubt proves chivalry is not dead. At first I just thought of Scott as just an okay guy. But later when his courting of Ericka came out in the open I saw him in a whole new light.

This is what made me change my opinion on him. Ericka has had a few problems with the men in her life, that is the ones I know are assholes. She had gone out with this ignorant brute named Wade. Wade as in wade through the grass, wade through the snow, etc. etc. etc. Well this guy has found out what a good thing he’s lost so he keeps on harassing her. Kinda of a big guy, too. So this one time Scott had called Ericka up on the phone and he could tell that she was having a hard time with Wade. So what does this guy do? Did I mention Wade had another Cro-Magnon there with him? Scott decides he’s driving over there to see if Ericka’s okay. Scott gets there and is greeted by these two fucks. they basically tell him to butt out and to leave. Well Scott is ready to take both of these goons on because he sees that their putting Ericka through some shit. Did I mention Scott is a small guy? Wade and the other fucko end up throwing Scott out of Ericka’s place. Literally throw him down the stairs. So Scott left and did the only natural thing, he went and got reinforcements. Scott is a hell of a guy. And he knows his Shakespeare.

What can I say about Ericka without sounding a little jealous of Scott? She is a great person. She’s smart and Downright cool. And if there was any specific type of women I was attracted to it would be women like Ericka. I think thats all I need to say. That And I shouldn’t update the site while drinking.

Fuck, look out world the Sobos are on the net. That is a scary thought. Bradley a nice kid I know because of Troy had come over and was telling about the Sobos on the net. Bradley has a page called the South Beloit Student Pages.

Then we have a page that the teachers did. I had to laugh because the calendar of events page was last updated in February. And I’m not even that bad.

Finally we have a page done by an Alumni before my time. That has to do with reunions and alumni. I thought it was funny not to many of my classmates have seen this page. I guess not to many of them are computer literate.

I was thinking about the whole union fiasco, and came up with this observation (my opinion manager types).

First, the person who contacted the union people did not have a burning passion to see change in the hotel. When I say this I mean that they gave up to fast. Also the person in question was to frightened buy the possibility of getting fired because of his or her actions. If you are going to do something like contacting a union you have to not be afraid of what could happen, and a Fuck You Attitude™ is required. Sometimes change is a violent thing, just as the act of creation is. One must struggle with the knowledge that what you are attempting could hurt your fellow employees. Like say for instance the Engineering dept. If a union came in it would hurt those guys a lot. Their hands would be tied as to what they could do. I have friends in the before mentioned engineering dept., but I know for a change for the better will have causalities. I am willing to make that sacrifice if I attempt a union.

Second, the union that was contacted were worthless swine. They knew as much about organizing as do I. But learned a few things from what these supposed pros did. Hypothetically if I was to contact a union I would first look into the possible union choices. I would hypothetically pick say the Ufcw-The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Which includes Hotels, such as say a Holiday Inn. Hypothetically speaking of course.

Now you probably want to know where I’m going with all this. And I’ll tell you where I’m going with this. I’m going for a comedic closing with my patented and trademarked wit and sarcasm and a pinch of my Fuck You Attitude™.

Me being the eternal company man would do this for my beloved hotel. I would offer the management a chance of paying me off, to forgo any lawyer bills they may pick trying to seek help in fighting the union. Say a flat under the table Five Hundred Bucks to keep me from doing anything related to union organizing. This is all hypothetically speaking of course. Because would I like some Republic Pictures bad guy tell my plans of world domination to the good guy so that he could stop me? No. Again this is all hypothetically speaking of course.

I just returned from seeing Saving Private Ryan. And was totally amazed. Usually after seeing a movie I feel like the main character. When I saw Diehard I went away feeling like I could take on a skyscraper full of terrorists. With Saving Private Ryan I did not go away feeling like a W.W.II soldier. In fact I no longer have the child dream of fighting in the big one. John Wayne era W.W.II movies always gave you the heroic feeling. Those movies portrayed W.W.II as a great war. Not that I ever thought wars were great. They made it feel like W.W.II was a noble battle. Where as opposed to movies about Vietnam. Which portrayed that war as a dirty ruthless fight.

Saving Private Ryan did not try to glamorize W.W.II. It showed it the way my Grandpa told me about it. “You would be standing right next to a guy and see him get shot to pieces.” Grandpa would go on to say “John Wayne movies don’t show you the truth.” And that “they were bullshit.”

Saving Private Ryan Showed the landing at Normandy like I would figure it really was. The poor bastards first out had the shit shot out of them. Speilberg did war scenes with a camera effect that made it feel like you were there on the beach with them. It was very erratic camera movements. It added to the claustrophobia of the scene. They also showed all of the gory detail of war. When people where hit, they fell down. None of the running around like a funky chicken. Blood was everywhere. And these GIs wanted two things. Their momma and morphine.

Well enough of me playing Siskel and Ebert. Go see the goddamn movie. And do not bring kids to see it. And mark my words Tom Hanks is getting another Oscar for this movie.

My old buddy Lumpy is in town. Him and the wife have came up from Arizona to visit me and the Izers. Lumpy will be in town for about a week. He has a funny way of knocking on your door when you least expect him. But that’s what makes Lumpy special in a extra chromosome way. I love the guy.

My mom just called me, and offered me a gig as a General Manager. She works for a company called AmeriHost. She says that its a great company to work for. Its a property in Sycamore IL. Mom says the pay is 25,000. And I really am kind of afraid. I have never been in charge of employees. I to be honest have a bad time with fellow employees anyway.

I have a few problems about this. One, I don’t know anything about this company called AmeriHost. Its been my opinion that all of the companies that have owned the HI have all started like they are the greatest thing on the face of the planet. Not to many of them turned out that way in the long run. Two, its to damned far away. I don’t want to drive to work that long distance every day.

The third problem is that it just shows that my mom just doesn’t know me at all. I can honestly say I am not GM material. And know that we got a top manager reading this page, I’m sure he can back me on this. And as much as I bash our GM, I admire that he has the balls to do it. That could be another reason why I wouldn’t take this job. I have seen the kind of hoops our GM has had to jump through for our owners. I couldn’t do it.

Being the first top Manager to see the site I had a talk with him to see what he thought:

Turk: Howdy.
Jvlbl: Hey I was in the front office
Turk: doing what?
Jvlbl: just hanging
Turk: so what part or parts do you think I am misinformed on?
Jvlbl: our AGM and the chicago position
Turk: That came from her mouth
Jvlbl: she was telling a little white L**
Turk: any thing else in particular
Jvlbl: or just not the whole story
Turk: What else did you object to?
Jvlbl: also the night manager positoin was done away with
Turk: Did I say otherwise?
Jvlbl: no I guess not (sorry)
Turk: Its ok. I have had the site for eight months now. I forget some of it.
Jvlbl: and in gm’s defence he’s really not all bad
Turk: I don’t think he’s bad. I’m just poking fun at him and his job.
Jvlbl: and i thought it was good
Turk: thanks
Turk: Anything you think I should revise from a managment point of view?
Jvlbl: can i be on the non excriment management list
Turk: Surething.
Jvlbl: what a guy
Turk: that was written in anger.
Jvlbl: come on now
Turk: Really.
Jvlbl: why
Turk: Because I got written up for sitting down after nine hours.
Jvlbl: that was not good and i know who did it and she told me she did it when she did it and i told her that i disagreed
Turk: She was doing what she thought was right.
Jvlbl: but who the hell am i?
Jvlbl: true, but not looking at the big picture. but i wasn’t there so i don’t know the details
Turk: Nor was I.
Jvlbl: anyway…….gotta roll lots o things to do i’m a busy busy guy
Turk: See ya.
Jvlbl: next mod shift

So there you have it, non-excrement.