sunday?... SUNDAY!

my my what a pleasent surprise.
started slow, then whoosh... there they were. i turned around and all of a sudden there were people there. pretty decent for a sunday. we would have had more but the weather didnt exactly co-operate with us. nifty little storms rolled through. it was a nice enough behaved crowd other than the minor's being their usual selves. at least till after 2 - then we had a scuffle in the parking lot.

hope everyone had a good memorial day, time to recover and get ready for the coming week.

wakey wakey... eggs and bakey!

definitely a saturday.

once again we didnt wake up till around 1am. just no energy till that late in the evening. we gotta get out of that rut somehow. not that its not great after that, it just kicks ass, but until then we gotta struggle to keep ourselves awake and not put the building to sleep.

anyway, still a slow start-up, with all the graduations going on, and the holiday travelers. i played alot of oddball stuff before 9pm just cause i could, and it was that slow that it didnt matter. even by 10pm it was still like that. but after 11, things were picking up. so other than the usual stupid requests it was pretty much like a saturday night, just slower.

stupid requests?...

yeah... there is such a thing. but try to convince the manager of that. guess that's why he gets paid to be a figurehead. your song might be really nice to you, just inmportant as all get out.. but that doesnt mean we're gonna play it.

see last post...

some people never learn.

anyway, last night was slower than normal for a friday - high school graduation for area schools combined with holiday weekend. but it was still a friday. no fights or anything, just drama. i pretty much played it a bit low key for friday, but still managed to distract self for awhile.

tonight needs to be better, in more ways than one, and with any luck it might be. we'll see.

not much else to talk about right now other than the weather, and it's changing all the time so why bother.

later kids

being there

not always enough to just be there. you have to be all there and semi- focused.

started off as a typical thursday night with everyone trickling in throughout the night. it only took me an hour and a half to piss off the manager. he needs a personality/sense of humor transplant desperatly (now taking donations for that). crowd wise same old story - they'd either dance or not. we did manage to have the contest and pool tourny and even stayed open till almost 3. so i guess tonight was a "good" night?

time for the mini lecture.

"How to Compartmentalize Emotions and Events To Ensure A Good Evening of Entertainment"
shut it in a box and bury it deep, dont let it affect the way you have to keep a building full of people entertained. just swallow it down or channel it if you have to. sure you'll feel like hell for doing it. you'll have a hard knot in the middle of your gut that feels like its gonna burn its way through, or make you puke. but, you have a job to do and you CANT let it show. no matter how much you feel like screaming out in the middle of it all. wait till you're home before you have a breakdown. make those acting lessons pay off. close your eyes, take a deep deep breath, envision the pain and the problem as a ball and shut it in a box then shove it into a back corner of your mind. let it out when you have the time after the job is done.

who needs therapy when you have sleep deprivation and caffiene.


see ya tomorrow kids.

just another night when i dont wake up till after 1am

so there i was... falling asleep at the wheel ( cd player - wheel.. same diff), when all of a sudden the wet t-shirt contest was over and i was wide awake. fun fun party party. lets see if we do any better tomorrow. its a four day weekend and they get paid sat. night.

things to do tomorrow - 1. wake up
2. wake up some more
3. stay awake!

i get all three of those done and we might just survive.

sunday sunday sunday....

yeah, it sucked.

wednesday through saturday were pretty good though. we even managed to have a legs contest on thursday! first time for everything. friday and saturday were pretty much typical weekend nights, excepting the new and improved internal b.s., and went off pretty much without major problems.

now for a mini-rant: rules like "employees dont get to make requests" are really great. they're even better when they are followed. i could give a rats ass if a bartender is cranky that i didnt play their songs. i'm not there for them, i'm there for the people in the club trying to have a good time. leave your drama and sob story at home - i just dont give a rats ass.

time to go make the donuts.

its a new record. almost a month

its been good, its been bad. its been stressfull occasionally. but with any luck i'm back doing this on a mostly regular basis.

feel ya in later.

(hopefully it will be less than a month)