Hunting Course

Saturday was the last day of my hunting course. I had to be in class by 8 a.m. It was too early for me, but I made it. I didn't sleep well the night before since the test and shooting a gun was on my mind. The test was multiply choice which is the best kind of test. The test had 100 questions. I am happy to say I passed with 100 percent. Everyone in the class passed the test. There were no scores less than 94 percent.

Once everyone was done with the test, it was time to go shoot some guns. It was my first time shooting a gun. Shooting a .22 was cool. Each person in class had to shoot three times. We were shooting skeet. I hit one of my targets. Iwas surprised when I saw the skeet shatter in midair. The kick from the gun wasn't bad. It was one thing that I forgot about until after squeezing the trigger for the first time. I passed the shooting test as well.

I will be getting my hunting license now. I am also thinking about taking the bowhunting class.

Taco Bell

I went to Taco Bell with Stacey last Friday. She loves the place. I have been turned off to the place ever since they accidently put sour cream in my soft taco. It is not an ingredient that goes in soft tacos and I don't care for it in my soft taco.

The place was a mess. Almost every table was dirty. Thankfully, we were able to get a table that was clean. I saw some people sit at a dirty table which was just gross.

I may not want to go to another Taco Bell for a long time.

Hunting Course

I decided I would like to go out hunting with my father-in-law. And to do this, you need to have a hunting license. In Connecticut, you need to take a firearms course to receive a hunting license. I talked with Stacey about what I was thinking about. I needed to talk to her about it since the course would cost us and it would also take me away from being with her. She was fine with both. One thing we didn't need to worry about was the money because when I called to register for the state class I found out that it was free. I couldn't believe it. Now I know why these classes fill up fast. I have seen through the state's Department of Environmental Protection website classes fill up within two days.

The class was interesting. I was surprised by how many kids under the age of 16 there. Out of the all male class, there is also one young girl. I just expected to see people in their 20s and over. I also didn't expect to see any girls either. I am not a chauvinist. I know women hunt, but you don't here that often of women hunting.

My four days off

I didn't want four days off in a row. With that many days off, I won't want to go back to work on Sunday. There are times I don't want to go back to work after having two days off in a row. The reason I got the days off is because I needed three nights off and the fourth day I needed the entire day off because of a firearms course I am taking. I wrote in my work's log book that for the first three days I could open up the store, but couldn't close. My boss had an issue with this. He wrote in the log, "what course is four days." Well there are a lot of courses that are could be four days. You look through certain towns Adult Continuing Education catalogue and you would know there are courses that are only one day and there are others that are 8 weeks. My boss thought I wanted the time off for something else and I was using the course as an excuse.

He wrote that I should have run this by him first. Well, by me writing it in the logbook over a month before the course started was me letting him know. My job is where I work. It doesn't run my life. My boss is not my father. I don't have to run something like this by him. The only person in my life I have to talk to about something like this is my wife, Stacey.

This course started during the week of my bosses vacation which he also mentioned in the logbook. When I signed up for the state's firearm course, I had forgotten it was during his vacation week. The store has two other managers not including my boss or me. The store also has a part-time shift supervisor. With this many managers, it should have been fine to work out a schedule without my boss haven't any issues. He also said that he would do his best, but the store comes first. He doesn't say this to another manager who has every Monday off because of family issues. So the things going on in my life isn't as important as the things going on in someone's elses family life?

Well, I am thankful that I requested off February 28 because if I didn't I believe my boss wouldn't have scheduled me for another day off until March. Our work weeks go from Friday to Thursday. The reason I say this is because the last time I got days off near each other which was January 25 and 26, I didn't get another day off until February 4. That was eight days after my last day off. That was a very long week. My boss also had an issue with me taking off two Satursdays in February. It's not my fault February is a short month with only four Satursdays in it.

Interesting Customer

I had this environmentalist come up to be with this fry box and empty bag of apple fries. I thought she was going to say the apple fries had expired. I was wrong. Her issue was with Burger King using the fry box as a holder. She mentioned how fry cartons like the one she had was filling up landfills and wouldn't decompose for years. I told her that the BK corporation is the one who decided to sell the apple fries that way since they want it to look like fries. I told her she could go online to the BK website to mention her concerns. She said she has in the past. She thought it would be better coming from our restaurant. She then left her discarded fry box and apple fry bag on the counter. I almost asked her to come back for her garbage so she could throw it away. I decided to keep my mouth shut and just throw it away myself.

Wise up people

People should know what they are ordering. If you go to McDonalds and order a number #1 know that this is the Big Mac meal. If you go to Burger King, know that a number #4 is a whopper junior meal. There has been numerous times where I would call a whopper junior, medium fry and medium drink and people would look at me with a stupid look on their face then say, "I ordered a number #4." Or I get the opposite when I say a number #4 and they tell me they order a whopper junior meal.
The worse is when people can't remember what they ordered. How can you forget what you ordered when you just told the cashier your order less than 5 minutes before they got to the end of the counter. They start looking up at the menu and trying to find the meal they order.
Also people if you don't want the meal don't order by a number. Because if you order by the number it means you want a meal. So if you just want the sandwinch just order the sandwinch don't say you want a number #1.

Posting blogs via mobile

I guess I have to get use to posting blog entries via text messaging. I didn't realize it would appear on my blog like that. I will have to experiment by seeing if I can post by e-mail which I believe I can.

Gym Petpeeves

I belong to a gym. What I hate is coming to work out and seeing the shit people leave. They leave their shoes and jackets
on the coathooks. My gym has lockers, but people leave them hanging up. I be worried my stuff would get stolen. The gym does have cameras since it is opened 24/7. Well, banks have cameras and they still get robbed.The other thing people leave all over the place are their bottles of water and other liquids. Like I said before, take them home with you. The gym is not your house. At least leave the stuff in your car. Take these things with you. I hope they weren't expecting them to be there when they came again. Since I startled throwing them away. I hate looking at them.