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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Dogs, Groundhogs and Welders

Yesterday morning I pulled up to Location D's gas pumps like I always do. The building is in front of the pumps. Facing the building to one's left is where the non-gas customers and employees park. Manager Michael Gellington's vehicle was there. To the vehicle's right was a silver SUV. Both vehicles... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Odds and Ends...March 2011

March has been a slow month. Every few days has seen us getting rain. Some of the rains have been light while a couple other saw us get at least an inch. With it raining every few days we cannot gain customer traction and have a busy month. A few weeks back I blogged about how rainy days no longer... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Winter Is Not Ready to Give Up

The temperatures have been climbing up the last few weeks. On Thursday the temperature reached seventy-seven degrees. Friday was even warmer at eighty-one degrees. I had come to believe that spring was here in full force. Instead, yesterday found itself in the low sixties and it looks like the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 17, 2011

New Register

Location D received a new cash register on Tuesday. A lot of differences exist between the new register and the old one. The new register is a slender touch screen computer while the old register was a bulky computer with a keyboard. Further space has been saved because the old system had two... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

He Sprang Forward Instead of Falling Back

Last entry it was Daylight Savings Time in November 2007. Bobby Kidd was scheduled to work Location C that day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. A customer called Dad at around the six p.m. hour, who was at Location A, to inform him that she was having a wash problem. What followed was a case of a person, who... Sign in to see full entry.

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