Variety

Too much work and not enough play makes the manager a dull girl. Well, in my case, more demanding and likely to act out of frustration. Last week, the 12 to 14 hour days did not result in a sense of accomplishment. Instead, they revealed that the team still isn't doing basic compliance to standards and seasonal business makes them feel they have an excuse to fail in this area. There will be two extra trips now to find out how many more locations have failed to maintain their records to expectations. The spontaneous promotions to run seasonal locations are a level on the high maintenance scale that is unfathomable. Those folks thought they were ready to run a full location and they can't seem to make a decision on their own. Well, you can see why this is called variety, because I haven't had enough to talk about something else. Thankfully, my spouse steppped in to make things better. We went to the symphony and enjoyed the Carmina Barana. This is a Cantata that was by Orff, who adapted 24 poems out of 5,000 that were written in a monastery in the 1300s to adapt to choral/orchestral presentation. These are not your standard monastic poetry with some baudy and drunken stories thrown in the mix. Most of it is in Latin with some German for good measure. It was amazing to hear in person. That was Friday. Saturday was date night and it was time for Hockey. We enjoyed a good game, but it was the opposing team that played well. Our guys didn't hold their lanes and their passing was really bad. It was tough to watch. I personally have decided that those two guys weren't tripped, instead they stood on our players' sticks. At least one of them was called for diving. Now it is time to finish knitting my nieces Christmas gift, since I spent 4 hours on employee issues, new hires and expense reports on a Saturday. If any of you think that this time should have been spent working on Saturday, you need more variety. Tell me what your variety is.