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Not really.  Power outages can be fun when you’re a kid.  Lots of adventure and fun playing the day by candle light and lanterns.  It’s not fun when you’er an adult and your place of business looses power.  For over an hour.  First you have to get all the customers out.  And if you are lucky no one yells at you for the power being out.  Because, you have complete control over that of course.  Then you have get the teenaged staff to keep their ADD in check long enough for them to do what needs to be done.  Then you have to just sit and wait for the power to come back.  Though not really sit so much as run around and do things that can only be done while the power is out.  Like check emergency lights.  Then after a while you decide to de-thread movies and rig up the films so they can be run again quickly which is not extremely difficult, but not easy either.  So yeah, power outages… not fun.

Yet it usually doesn’t happen all at once.  A few weeks ago Thor was fired from the Grande.  He was the only person that had been employeed there for as long as I have been.  There is no official story as to why he was fired but rumor has it that there were emails which the higher-ups did not feel were professional or appropriate.  Of course instead of talking to him about it, they just fired him.  (There is a pattern developing here with the way they will terminate people at the drop of a hat.)   They also decided they would interview for a “City Manager” position which was discovered to be a lie.  They were interviewing for Thor’s job right under his nose.  So, after Thor’s termination they made Kevin interum GM.  This is the second time they have done this with Kevin.  And while it might look good the first time, the second time is just a slap in the face.  They told him he would be GM until they found a replace.  Translated: Your good enough to do this for a little while and we have faith in you for now but we just want someone better.  So, Kevin decided he wasn’t comfortable with his future at the company and is now leaving us to go back to Regal.  He isn’t the only one either.  Stewart had the same idea and has already jumped ship and gone back to Regal.  So, now, within a few weeks time, we have no salary managers at the Grande.  We have three hourly managers, one of which has only been a manager for a month, another one who has gotten far to complacement in their job and a third who will likely leave soon as well.  Oh, and don’t worry, Thor landed on his feet and is back to work at Regal as well.

The next few weeks should be entertaining as the Grande slowly implodes.  Hopefully upper management will be able to get replacements soon but I doubt it.  It’s taken them a month or more to get a replacement for Thor.  It’s been implied that the projectionists will be put into a managerial role to help cover the deficits.  This is a huge mistake just waiting to happen.  For starters we aren’t really trained to handle things 100%.  Then there is the fact that if you pull us out of the booth to run the floor, who will run the booth? 

I’ve seen something like this happen before so it’ll at least be a fun ride!

Lately the internet seems to be buzzing about the new Trek movie.  People are bashing it and complaining about how much JJ changed things.  Well, from what I saw it’s still very much Star Trek.  Transporters?  Check.  Big ship that can do faster than light?  Check.  Phasers?  Check.  Surly Doctor, Conflicted Vulcan, and laugh in the face of danger Captain?  Check, check and check.  Overall I’d say the movie was very entertaining.  Not a great movie by any means but definitely better than some of the more recent Star Trek movies.  Did JJ change things?  Of course he did.  It’s a relaunch to stale story that hasn’t been told in years.  He updated it, polished it and made some adjustments that I found very exciting.  A “true Trek fan” might not enjoy it but this movie was made for a new generation of new fans who probably don’t even realize who William Shatner is other than being the guy on the Priceline commercials.  And it works.

So I woke up today and was fine.  I ate my usual cereal for breakfast.  About 2 hrs later I started real dizzy, lightheaded and nauseaous and up came the breakfast about 30 minutes later.  For the rest of the day I’ve been laying down for the most part and dealing with the lightheadedness and nausea.  I talked to my mom this afternoon and she had the same thing yesterday.  (We live 2 hrs apart so I didn’t get it from her.)  She said she is fine today so hopefully I will be tomorrow. 

Imaging being a nice relaxing flight.  Everything is running smoothly, except for that annoying kid that won’t shut up.  Now, imaging this happening:

Pretty sure I would need some new underwear.  Originally it was thought to have been caused by lighting but the NTSB is now saying fire.  Either way, scary stuff.

You can read more about it here: http://www.planebuzz.com/2009/04/atlantic_southeast_airlines_li.html

I think yesterday qualifies for worst day ever.  I get up, get ready for work, go out to my car, put the key in the ignition and… nothing.  Car won’t start.  So I call a tow truck.  Luckily the guy is able to get it started and I take it directly to the shop.  So, $400 later I have a new starter in the car.  I get to work 2 hrs late, deal with the usual idiots and then Jenna calls.  Turns out her work is laying off about 25 people and she has to awesome fortune to be one of them.  The good thing is that they gave about 2 months notice.  So she will be out of a job in June and finishes school in July.  Hopefully it won’t be hard for her to find a job after July.  So, after all this I go into work at the theater and Jenna calls to let me know that she cannot drive her car (which she picked up from the shop a couple days ago) because none of the rear lights work.  Well, the turn signals work.  But there are no tail lights and no break lights.  Which means it’s illegal for her to drive and extremely unsafe.  So, back to the shop it goes! 

Jenna managed to become invisible again causing another driver to rear-end her.  She is fine and the car is being fixed.  At first they were talking about totaling it but the damage appears to not have been as extensive as originally estimated.  So, two weeks with a rental car and the car should be fixed.  I’m thinking we might need to add a sign or something to the back of her car since the grey color seems to not be noticeable. 

They got our hopes up for more snow this week.  (Yeah I know I haven’t put up the pictures from Blizzard ‘09 yet but I will soon.)  They were calling for 2-4 inches over night so I figured maybe 1-3 inches.  I stayed up late playing xBox and relaxing assuming I would be able to sleep in this morning.  Well, nothing happened.  We had a light dusting on the cars and grass but everything else was clear.  Stupid weatherman. 

Welcome to the world baby Liam!

Congrats to Kelly and Justin!

(okay I give props to Kelly a bit more, she did have to push 9 pounds!)

We are so happy for the both of you!

Yay!  Art got a job.  He’ll be starting at Brier Creek on Friday.  I’m glad he wasn’t completely screwed.  We should be going to dinner with his new woman this weekend. 

Lots of fun this week.  Work, work, work and then work some more.  I get to go in tomorrow night, on my night off, to help build prints.  Why are we getting 7 prints this week?  Is that really necessary?