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Timothy W Macinta.
Going where
I am going to Philidelphia (spell check) for a few days over Spring Break. The girls do not have break at the same time as me so I am going to visit a friend up there. My faviorate band in the world is going to be in NYC on Friday the 12 of March http://www.commandercody.com at the http://rodeobar.com/ . Without sounding to stupid "How cool is that" So Friday we will be taking the train from his house to the city and watching the band. I think the bar is in Mahattan. I have never been to New York City so it should be interesting. Maybe the girls and I can skip away for a few day during their break. I think all schools should have the Spring Break at the same time, or at least the school where I go and our kids.
My mistake
I would like to apoligize to the hostess of an event that I attended. It seem that my actions offended her. The group that I was with were trying to get seated at a busy resturant. Part of the party was seated already and the rest were waiting for their table. The people at the table had already paid their bill and had been sitting there for a while. I went up to the head of the table and quitely said to the person sitting there " Sir I am not trying to be rude or anything like that but a fiend of ours is going into the Air Force and there is quite a large group of us here to see him off. Half of our group is already seated and the other half is planning on using this table." The person directly to the right of the man at the table said to me. "Are you saying you want us to leave" I responded with " No I am not saying that at all. All I am doing is relating to you what the situation is. What you do with the information is completly up to you." The group talked amongst themselves and presently departed. The crew of the resturant flew into action and cleared the table for the rest of our party. It seems that all these people needed was information that was not available to them. It appears the man in charge of the departing party regiersted a complaint with the manager. The server helped me play a small joke on the hostess of our group. He told our group that the other party had had a big fit and the manager wanted to speak to the head of our group. Needless to say that everybody who was there pointed their finger, down the way, to me as the culprit. Then we burst the Lindy in trouble bubble by telling her it was a joke. So yes my approach is a lot more direct than most peoples. But it got us a table. And if othere peoples feeling are hurt then I would like to say" Take a stand and if you dont like what I did then dont sit at the table, but dont sit and be embarssed. You didn't do anything." I stand on my own and take ownership of everything I do. And if you haven't figured it out yet, sometimes it is outside of the norms. So again if I offended you I apoligize.
Afterwards the server said it was one of the best moves he had ever seen. The wait staff and kitchen staff chuckled for at least 15 miniutes. He had tried to move them along earlier but to no avail.
One thing I don't understand is if this places policy is adding 15% to parties of 8 or more and they have a policy of not splitting checks (they do them by table) how where they able to add 15% on to the check at the table that I was sitting at when there where only 6 people there.
The girls and I bought Aubrey and family dinner. And we left another 10% (on top of the 15%) so I think our server made out pretty good on our end.
oh well
Oh well. A new change has been installed in the child living araingements. My ex-wife has requested that the girls stay with her during the week and stay with me only every other weekend. The old living deal was every other week. I liked it, the kids liked it. I now pick the kids up everyday after school and return them to her at 5:15 p.m. She claimed it was because of their school work was suffering from being with me. Even though we met with the teachers and she had no facts to back that up with. So now I pay 1350 dollars a month (child support) to be a baby sitter for her. I hope she finds a man soon who can tolarate her so she leavers me and the kids alone and quits screwing with our schedule.
Arrrgggghhhh
Why does divorce when it involves kids have to be a chore. Why cant people just try and do what is in the best interest of the kids. Sure everybody has a different opinion of what is best, but hey cant we just get along. Do to the people that read my blog I will leave out specifics, but I feel like Charlie Brown and Lucy keeps moving the football. Maybe I should just try and quit kicking it?
We are Back
Well the girls and I are back from Mexico. It is way warmer there than here. We went to Playa Del Carmen, just outside of Cancun. We had a great time. There are some pics under the the Mexico link on the right. I will be putting some more up as they come along. I really love tutoring, it has been very rewarding. I am taking 9 credit hours this semester in stead of 6. So most of my time will be taking up between school and the girls and work. Hop all is well for evrybody and my 2004 be better than 2003.
