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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Quarter Counting

Quarters are still a major means by which customers pay to use the self-service bays, vacuums and vending, and in the case of the latter two the only way to pay. Most of the quarters are reused. I put them right back into the bill changers when they are emptied out. Any excess quarters are deposited... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

And That's a Wrap

Today's entry is the wrap-up to The Kevin Middleton Series. When I started this series, I wrote how I felt it was going to easier to write about Kevin than to write about The Final Two Years, the last series I wrote, which focused on the final two years that Dad operated Location A. With the series... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Not a Bad Person

I would not go so far as to call Kevin Middleton a bad person. To automatically label anyone with faults as bad would be to label everyone as bad. We all have faults. In Kevin's case, his faults of being a know-it-all and his teasing sense of humor was what made Dad realize that he was not the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Notice Anything?

"Do you notice anything?" Michael Gellington asked me shortly after he became manager at Location D in March 2009. I hate that question because when it is asked, some mysterious forces go into effect that prevents me from noticing the obvious. I had to admit to Michael that I did not notice. "We... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

What He Does at Work

On Monday, I went to see World Wrestling Entertainment's WWE Monday Night Raw with Dad and Steve Redder. The show was great, and I had a blast with the guys. Here is a funny little episode that happened earlier that day. Before he picked me up, Dad had some time to kill and stopped at Mom's house.... Sign in to see full entry.

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