So it has gotten to the point that I now have to wear thick shoes, and only wear work gloves when I approach the new puppy. By the way, the new puppy’s name is Cooper. I will start to play with him and immediately beg him to stop chewing on me. It is tough when you lift your arm up to get your hand away from him only to see Cooper hanging in the air attached to my two middle fingers. Now I am starting to have nightmares of being in a haunted house and seeing a grown up version of him first licking his lips and then coming after me. Remember the movie Jaws where the captain of the boat is eaten, well in my dream, it is done very slowly. I know this will pass and eventually his teeth will round off a bit. Hey what if I took rocks and rolled them in hamburger, maybe that would dull those teeth down. Then again, If my wife caught me doing that, I might be finding pebbles in my tooth paste.
Hey folks, the prices of the goods we buy have skyrocketed. Some food items like bacon, frying oil and hash browns have nearly doubled. Also the hourly wage of everyone in the kitchen has gone up as well. I was going to raise prices but I am hesitant because I am hoping some of these prices will come down. So I have decided to reduce the email discount by 5%. So, on the weekdays it will be 10% and on the weekends it will be 5%. I apologize but this is the simplest way of dealing with this until we know what is in the future.
Thank you.
Also, someone approached me about collecting jackets for children of Afghan refugees. So I have a box in all 3 restaurants. If you have some old jackets even if they are adult size, please bring them in. They sure will appreciate it.
Sept 27 - Oct 3
Ok, so puppies are supposed to be cute and cuddly, but as we know, but always forget, they like to break in their teeth. Why? It is not like in primitive times when they had to catch prey to survive. Puppies and dogs are babied now and so you would think they would respond by appreciating their masters and not trying to eat them. So after you have to pry them off your hand you put them in their cage to calm down for a while. Then you feel guilty after they whine for 10 minutes and you let them out, which only seems to make them angry so they get more aggressive. So then you try to calm them down but that doesn’t work, and then when you least expect it they bite you in that place. That is the place you cannot write about, that is the place that is exceptionally prone to have you scream. And yet we love them so much.
Sept 20 - 26
I know there is a God. I also know he is a he. Why, because she’s are sympathetic and don’t like to play games with you when they are bored. He’s on the other hand like to mess with you, and what better way to mess with you, then to convince you to get a puppy.
There we were all tranquil in our lives and then we decided to get a puppy, and life as we knew it is over. I remember watching TV to relax. I remember not having to look for holes in the carpet. I remember walking around barefoot and not having my big toe attacked by very sharp teeth. I remember crawling into bed and going to sleep. Oh, sleep, I remember sleep. I use to have nice peaceful dreams. Now, just as I go into slumber, one of several noises commence and the dreams are now long nightmares. I know just like children, one day it will get better, but meanwhile I know the man upstairs is not as bored.
Sept 13 - 19
As many of you know I have lost many brain cells and to prove it today I bought a car.
This car appears to have 38,000 miles but I think it is closer to 238,000 miles. It has no radio which is probably good because it has no antenna. It has no AC which I guess doesn’t matter because it has no hard top. Neither door opens easily, andwhen you get them open, they squeak like the doors at Frankenstein’s castle. The rearview mirror is faded but enough to see I still have some hair. When you open the trunk, it has a broken golf club in there to keep the trunk lid open. I am afraid to open the engine compartment. It looks like someone painted clouds on the front and rear hood but someone told me that was oxidation of the paint. Too bad they told me, I kind of liked the clouds look. It looks like it has windshield wipers but the control knob is hanging under the dash, not that I would ever drive it in the rain. I went to put gas in it and never did find the gas cap. For some reason the emergency brake doesn’t work either, like when would I ever have an emergency. The regular brakes work, but they feel like it would be easier to throw out an anchor. I can go on, but when you lack brain cells you find you are easy to please, so I have to say, I sure love this old Buick LeSabre.
People, 20 years ago a tragedy occurred. I would like everyone for a minute to think of the largest restaurant in America sitting on top floor of the World Trade Center Buildings, Windows on the World. I can picture the dishwashers, busboys, waitresses and cooks all go about doing their job like we do all time. The fear and anguish they had to go through was just unfathomable. I feel bad for the general manager who got to work late that day and survived. He said he looked up and saw white flags waving out of the top windows. He realized those were table cloths that his employees were waving in desperation. In our business we become family, and they for sure had a family. It is unthinkable to know your entire family tragically has to go through that. Anyway very little is ever said about those restaurant workers at the top and I just wanted to say “I am so sorry for what happened to you”.