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Florida police shoot unarmed black caretaker who had his hands up as he tried to help autistic patient
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Yep. Arm yourselves.
Cleaning...
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And cleaning now, cutting a swath through the dust and grime, the bathroom, wafts of urea drifting into the kitchen, it's been needing a cleaning for a while.
A couple of months at least...
And so I do it, buy some new light bulbs, it's bright now, and the brightness illuminates the fantastic job I've done, dig out a new toothbrush, a mere 20 minutes worth of work, close the door and set about clearing a spot for the vacuum, there's still a lot of stuff to be sold off, my pack needs to be lightened, the time draws ever nearer...
The Complainers
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It wasn't the last of them, they continued to be as regular as ever. By which I'm referring to P & C (follow embedded link).
It was C's 50th birthday and P wanted to arrange a big surprise. He bargained with the owner, got a 4 course set menu for $35.00 per person. This is unbelievable. I've not been to a fine restaurant where you could get even one course for that, they're getting 4, but they're friends of the owners...And being as all their friends are the freeloading scourges of the restaurant we were not looking forward to it...
The night, darkly anticipated and dreaded for months before, finally arrives. We pull out all stops, bring in all the part-timers. I can't deal with them, I'll handle the "regular" customers on the other side of the restaurant.
The night goes. Late. Their final bill, $4400.00 for 58 people. They're all hammered, loaded, 6 hours straight drinking, no brakes at all these folk, P thanks us, tips 15%, they leave in the nether hours after midnight...all hammered, soused to the gills, their friends, my age, alcoholics every one...
3 weeks later P texts the owner, wants to talk in private, he feels that he's been charged too much. The wine, they could have bought it at the liquor store for $20.00 per bottle, the guests, they drank too much...
A*****, thankfully he was on to them, he told P every bottle of wine opened, got approval, the PPA (Per person average) worked out to $74.00 per person, cheap, free by fine dining standards, it's fucking unbelievable, but he meets with the owner to complain, and the owner finally loses it, tells him that he's offended, he gave him a deal (he did, a hell of a deal, I'd be thrilled to get that deal any day of the week), and yet still they complain, never cheap enough, never free enough, never enough, they're the narcissists, and finally he leaves and we're relieved, this little disagreement means we won't be seeing them for a while, the worst of our customers (and it's a tough competition), still, another 100 or so to go...
Pokemon-Go
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Coming home from a day with my daughter, 8:00, stop at the Kalamata Grocery...across the street, in Connaught Park, there's about 50 people standing in a circle, phones out and extended...briefly I wonder WTF, but the penny drops...by the time I get back to take a photo the crowd is dispersing.
It's surreal, this, a whole other level of engagement/disconnect from the world around you...
Pokemon-Go thing, it's quite the new craze, and I'd be curious to try if I were a bit more of a nerd and didn't give a damn about the EULA, (which is terrible, but people have long grown used to the idea of no-privacy). But it's the start of interesting things, Augmented reality, layers superimposed upon layers, there were always these layers, but it demanded a sound and reflective mind to find them, now, anyone with a cellphone and a good data plan can roam their neighborhood catching Pokemon, but there are ever the countless invisible layers they miss...
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