pictures

I haven't had much of an oppertunity to get out and take pictures recently, in fact it has been well over five months since I have wandered the streets of Wichita. Part of me wishes I had an even bigger city to go around and take pictures in. I can only walk around downtown Wichita so many times before I start shooting the same things. As soon as I get the ambition, I'll trek around again. Until then, here are a few of my favorite pictures I have taken in the couple of years that I have lived in Kansas. The first one is the very first picture I took in Wichita. I can't even remember what street it was on.

The second picture comes from Cowtown. It was in the Wulf House, someone picked a flower and had it in a tea cup of water, but it eventually died....obviously.


And the last one is one of the more recent pictures I have. Just two birds chillin' out in an alley (once again, in downtown). I like the black and white aspect of it.

Its like spring cleaning, but at work.

I have figured out work and work related stress. It is closely related to spring cleaning, except it deals with people. Just stay with me here. So during the fall and winter you usually start to collect a lot of stuff around the house/apartment and then you get the urge to just take it all out to the trash or recycle it or give it away to a goodwill type store. Fair enough. I have to do the same thing, but with employees.

They work well for me for about three months or so, but eventually give out and have to be taken out (but unfortunately, I can't take em out back and beat them) and need to start all over. I have four people working for me right now. One is going to be moving over to the bakery to be the daily baker, fair enough. The only bad part is that he is the only one who is worth a damn. One just started two weeks ago, is still in high school, and can only work about twenty hours. Its okay, he'll last for a while, but he is going to be going to college at either K State or KU...sucky. One guy works two days a week. He is involved in lots at his school what with sports and what not. Then there is the one on the bottom rung. He is like the fourth string quaterback. You need to keep him around just because he fills out the roster and he could be useful...one day. I don't know what day that will be, but he will be useful some time. I really need to let him go, but I would just be shorting myself, and I can't afford to do that.

Just need to find someone worth keeping around. And someone who wants to stay around and doesn't mind working. What a rare breed that is.

chaos around the corner

I worked a grueling eleven hour day (granted, the last three were my fault) today. It would have been longer, but I didn't want to take a second lunch, so I left for the day. It was all in preparation for Friday. The busiest day of the year. The store is going to do around six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, most of which will be in the first three hours. So much money. Thats around six days worth of sales all wrapped in one for our store.

All of it is organized chaos. Every single minute of it draing energy. A nine hour day full of psycho people who have to go out and shop the day after thanksgiving, and at such an early hour. I have to go to work at 5:00 in the morning. One hour before we open. What the hell!



Crazy

small details in life.

I was thinking about something the other night as I lay in bed having trouble falling asleep at one in the morning. Have you ever thought about the small details and moments in your life that have had a huge impact?

For example: when I first moved down to Wichita, and I went out to find a job, my first stop was at Target. I had plans to go to other places of employment that day, but when I filled out the application, I got hired. What if I had gone somewhere else first. What if I had gone to Famous Dave's or Granite City or some bar down the road. Where would I be now if I had done that. Weird to think about that kind of stuff, isn't it?