Mundane Monday.....

Right back at it once again this week.


Well hello one and all, I hope you had a weekend worthy of your awesomeness. I know mine was that of typical Toner Boy style, so let’s begin.


On Friday when I left the office I decided to go visit Corn for a few hours and hang out at the shop while traffic congestion thinned out like my hair. Hunny and Thunder were at the Coliseum as extra’s on the set for Moneyball


Damn Cracker is at it late today. Hell it is almost 11 and that is his first time to the snack cart outside.


On Saturday I went out to the restaurant to make a test run of the kitchen and some of the product that they have on hand with a meal for the families. Not too bad, but there are some concerns that I have with some product and how we are going to be able to work the menu in the space that we have. I think time will work a lot of these issues out on its own, and only one or two things would need to be addressed before things get going too far. We did 6 items for everyone to choose from, 3 from the core menu and 3 things that I put together based on what they had on hand. The 3 core menu items were a steak sandwich, build a burger, and build a chicken sandwich. *BLESS YOU INFLUENZA* Uncle Shartly had the steak, Lu had the chicken, and Thunder had a burger. The 3 specials that I put together from the product on hand was a fried shrimp poor boy, BBQ Asian chicken breast, and a grilled chicken salad. Well we had 5 people order the poor boy, and Little Miss had the Asian chicken. Both went over really well. I had a steak sandwich when all was said and done, and I was very happy with the product and the taste. More to come as this story unfolds….


Paparazzi took Momma Ruth down to Hollywood to go all ‘tourist’ on the place for her birthday. God help us all! Wait… God help the stars!!!! I am just jealous that they say Gordon Ramsay at the pool while they were there. Not that I would talk to the guy while he is sitting at the pool in his Speedo, but still.


Sunday was a bit of a day of rest. Thunder has not been feeling very well at night and not getting much sleep so she was in the sack until almost noon! Not that the rest of the house was up very early themselves. Went to the store to grab some stuff to make dinner and then took the girls to go and see Despicable Me. Great movie, and the 3D was really good. Made an Ancho Chile pork soup with hominy and some nuclear salsa that I will need to share with any takers out there. I know McLovin and Fuzz will be more than happy to eat it. I don’t think that it is too bad, but it will clear the sinuses and put beads of sweat on your scalp after a while that is for sure. Used a couples of the chipotle’s from Turbo’s garden to make it. Thanks Ma! Going to make some corn fritters this week that got my attention a few months back when watching TV. I love making things like this on the fly. Hell the soup idea only came up because I had some left over pork loin, and let me tell you… it was off the hook! Spent about $20 at Safeway to get what I needed to make enough soup to feed 6, about 4 quarts of salsa and everything I needed to make probably 30 corn fritters. And that is at Safeway prices. See… this is why I need my own kitchen.


For those of you who do not follow along on the Facebook fan page, you are missing out, you can tell by my words above…. yes, Influenza is back! Yeah that sniffling, sneezing, couching, aching, stuffy head and whistling nose to drive Toner Boy crazy lady is back. No to be cynical or anything, but I was sort of looking at her in the same light that Ron White looks at his in-laws. Just sayin. Yeah I know it’s bad, but you don’t have to listen to thing human noise maker!


Smut Queen has just returned from a writers gathering out in Florida. I hope she pimped Toner Boy while she was there. OK… you can stop laughing at any time now. It is obviously a somewhat fun read… you are here aren’t you? Glad you had a good trip! Now get another book done so I can start pimpin again!


I have a request for Hack, Albert and Ass Clown. Hack… remember our conversation on Friday. I was wrong…. I need it more! But I will do what is right and take one for the team. Wait, no I won’t. Yes I will. Shit… fine…. taking one for the team it is. Albert… you don’t have a relative or lost uncle out there who just died and left you boat loads of money so we can start our own version of Cheers?? Ass Clown…. what I said to Albert. You know it never hurts to check out all the branches on your family tree!!! Start beating the bushes people!


*BLESS YOU INFLUENZA*


Anyway is walking hot laps around here today. Wonder if he needed to put some miles on is pedometer or something? Earlier I had a problem with an audit program that he wrote. So I show him the error and the error code. His reply to fixing it. “Don’t know. What did they do wrong? They saved it wrong. Tell them to do re-enter it and save it again.” Really? That is your fix? Have them re-enter 2 hours worth of work, cross your fingers, and pray it saves? Yeah you are a regular customer service dream come true aren’t you?


My left hand itch was full of shit last week. If it wasn’t you never would have heard me make the statement. I don’t think there is Wi-Fi on the beaches of Fiji!


On tap for this week…


Wednesday I am going to run to Corn’s shop to get into their weekly poker game they run over there. Should be interesting to report back on. Maybe I can make some headway on more guys for our fundraisers out of it?


This weekend the girls are going down to Gilroy to visit family before the girls go back to school. Me… yeah, I will be working if the restaurant gets past the fire inspector. If no I see a LOT of sleep in my future! Not that they say you can really ‘catch up’ on sleep, but I just think at this point in time my ass could use it. Maybe if I win some cash on Wednesday I will go and play the weekend tournaments over at the ‘Come Suck’. *CRACK* *RIP* I think what I really need is a trip to Vegas or something. Yeah… I will get a lot of sleep there! AHAHAH


Damn… even this is starting to feel like talking to myself. Huh. This might be worse than I thought. If I don’t feel like I am at least venting this crap out to anyone, what is the point? Does anyone else out there that is as crazy as I am understand my thought process on this?


Just checked Google Earth (Because I have nothing else to do.) and it looks like they have new satellite images over part of our little town. Not 100% sure what day of the week it was or from how long ago. There is no one at my house, all the cars are at my parents place, their boat though is parked on the dock at the beach and The Fuzz is home. Chet…. your house was still not built! Yeah like I said… part of our little town. The area around my house and my parents is pretty new because Pops new truck is out front and the race trailer is in the driveway. Pill is home, and Albert is not. The best part of all of this…. you can see my BBQ in the backyard. Yes… my BBQ is big enough to be seen from space! No not some distorted little dot in the backyard that the rest of you are going to see when you look for yourselves, but my big ass alien spacecraft BBQ can be seen clear as a bell! I feel like Danny Devito in that one Christmas movie he did with Ferris Bueller!


My trip to the restroom has brought up a couple of things that need to be noted –


If your son is old enough to ride all the rides at Disneyland, he is WAY too old to join you in the ladies restroom no matter what ‘number’ he needs to do!


I know I am here in Oaktown and some people cannot help but to be ‘pimpalishious’ but….. you do not wear those long pointy toed brown leather ankle boots, with your shorts, and no socks even if they are fly and do match!


Your cologne should never beat you to a location by 15 feet, when walking into a head wind and carrying a bag containing McDonald’s fries.


Last one before really taxing my brain on whether or not to go for a walk and see the latest installment of graffiti around the outside of the office… If your ass is wider than your shoulders, please stop saying super size it!


Yes, the last two were a couple.


RIP - Mitch Miller (I know... I thought he was dead a LONG time ago as well.  He was 99!)


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