Tuesday, October 6, 2026

As usual, not a whole lot of time to write anything this morning.

And, now, I’m stuck, staring at the screen, wondering what I have that is worthy of writing in such a short amount of time.

I’m loving having broadcast TV back in the home.

I need to figure out more “crock-pot” recipes to add to my arsenal.

I’m slowly getting into the new role at work. There’s just too much crap that I need to get a handle on to make headway. If this were like my Family Dollar days, I’d just stay a little later and come and go as I pleased in addition to whatever I was scheduled in order to try and fix things. But, I’m on somebody else’s dime and under someone else’s watch, so I’m a little limited as to what I can do and when. It bothers me a bit, but, hey, what can I do?

Met our “emerging store manager”; I’ll leave it at that for now. I will say that he managed to introduce a thought yesterday that I just hate. In a meeting he said our average basket is a little over a hundred bucks. My thought–WTF? Why is our basket so low? I worked in FD’s where my basket was between $50-$75; in my opinion, our basket should be $200.

Ashlee is burning out. Kinda have to leave that thought there for now, as I’ve not enough time to write on that.

Well, time to go.

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Just taking the time to make a couple quick notes.

I’m a Team Lead, effective today. Yay. Maybe I’ll pop back in and write more on that, later.

I bought a simple little TV amp the other day, and put it in line last night. I now have more reliable reception in the living and family rooms, now. Yay! That actually excites me a lot; now I can watch broadcast TV, again. I still need to get over my stupid height/falling fears, climb the tower, and elevate the antenna so that I can hopefully receive KET.

Related to the antenna stuff, we watched The Wizard of Oz last night; it was being broadcast on MeTV.

I dunno. I’m sure there’s other stuff I could quickly jot down, but I think that’ll do it for now.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

I need to stop staying up late. I’m eating into my morning hours. And I like the extra bit of time I was getting in the mornings. Not only did it give me more time to sit and write something, but it gave me a little bit of time to do a few little housework pieces. Guess I’ll actually try and be a little more disciplined tonight.