Good Weekend, Bad Weekend, You Decide

Headed home after work Christmas morning, nice to drive home with no traffic. Got home and it was time to open presents. Andrew had a blast, he didn't know what to play with first. I got my wife an I Pod and dock so she can listen to all her favorite music at work, she got me a couple of cool video games for my 360. It was a very pleasant morning.

I did get to bed late, but when I woke up, Darlene had a wonderful dinner waiting. We ate and cleaned up and then it's time to head out to work. I get in and find things the way I expected them to be, the cashiers working felt because it was a holiday, that all they had to do was sit behind the counter. I got stuck with all the clean up, but that's O.K. it made the night go faster. It was a quiet night for the most part.

Decided to take a vacation day on the Friday after Christmas, the plan was to get some sleep and go get the kids, head home and proceed to kid my daughters' ass at Halo on the XBox 360. I got off work at 7ish, did some shopping and headed home. I am 10 minutes from the house when I get a call from work telling me that one of the tow trucks was vandalized, so I turn around and head back to work to check the surveillance and see if anyone had gone through the front gate.(the gate hasn't been closed since the heavy snow started as no one wanted to go back there because of the ice) I fast forwarded through 2 nights of video and saw no one other than employees going in there through the front gate, which means whoever did it hopped over the back and did the deed. As I was checking the back lot, the zipper on my coat got the way of the Titanic. This was a rather expensive coat and I have had it for about 7 years so I guess it was time for a new one. I finish checking things out at work and I head out to R E I to get a coat, found one that suited my needs for about 300.00. I don't screw around when it comes to coats, I hate being cold.

I go get Margaret and Nicholas head home and lay down for a nap. I get a call an hour later from the manager saying the owner is holding me responsible for what happened as I did not make sure the gate was closed. I pointed out to the manager that the video showed no one going back there and the light to the back parking lot has been broken for years, a fact that the owner has known and will not fix. Well long story short, I was fed to the lions and got a 3 day unpaid vacation. Goes to show you that no good deed goes unpunished.

I spent most of the next day and a half taking my frusrtation out on video games, not really speaking to ANYONE. Darlene was rather concerned that on the wrestling game, I was beating my opponents to a bloody pulp instead of playing for fun. She relayed to me how upset she was that I ignored everyone for a day and a half playing games, I told her that I needed to work out some frustration, would she rather I take things out on a C.G.I. person or out on the family.