Happy St. Patrick's Day

This month I met a new coworker for the tax office. I left when they arrived since we use the same computer (and I'm working 6 days a week due to my other job). Oh, they just worked 8 hours at their other job and working another 4 hours here to close the office. I would hate working 12 hour shifts so to each their own. Apparently someone quit last week without telling the manager and help was needed here. They usually work at another office. My hotel job began serving the hot breakfast again. Head honcho said Covid was over and everything was going back to normal. Ok, whatever you say. The unvaccinated lying in hospital beds would beg to differ that Covid is over. This is my first hotel job and only experienced their prepackaged Covid breakfast so this will be an experience. We even got a new pancake machine (I prefer waffles). My Verdict on My Hotel Hot Breakfast. It's food. Pancakes were a wee flat and hard to cut with side of my plastic fork. Cook said the new pancake machine wasn't making them very big (batter is in a plastic bag placed in the machine). Biscuits tasted like KFC Biscuits and explained to cook my "Summer of Hell" working for KFC between colleges. Eggs are that carton stuff of egg whites without yolks dyed yellow. It felt like eating hard boiled eggs without the yolks. Not restaurant quality, but it's a hot breakfast. Eventually, cook figured out how to do the pancakes so they are fluffy and gotten bigger. Their turkey patty is quite spicy and had to place it in a biscuit to cut some of the spice. Had a basketball team staying at our hotel, which usually means noise complaints from other guests after midnight. Sometimes I do wonder who is worse behaved, the students or the adults. Often the adults are drinking beer in the lobby being loud and obnoxious while teens run up and down the halls. Once a coworker found empty beer bottles floating in the pool. Seriously, who wants to swim in that. A few schools had pizza parties in the pool room where we don't allow food or drinks because we don't want garbage in the pool. Had to be the bad guy. Had several drunk people call in the middle of the night wanting to swim in our pool. Yeah, I prefer not to have to call 911 when your drunk buddy drowns, so no. They even asked if I would call the police if they snuck in the pool room. I replied that was a possibility. I hate drunk people. My Mom got her Covid vaccine shots so her senior living place was opening back up again. Her health has greatly deteriorated watching TV from her couch every day for months. She even developed the beginning of bed sores. She was happy to start exercising and playing cards with the others again. She finally allowed to grocery shop with my sister instead of dropping off her bags. During Covid, I asked family to call my Mom so she had someone to talk to. Some family think her mental state declined as well from not interacting with people. Had our first night of being sold out of the hotel. I don't think tht had happened for a while. Most people are those who are traveling by car cause can't fly on airplanes. They need a place to stop and rest. Worked the overnight shift during Daylight Savings Time. It was fun watching the clock on the computer tonight. 1:57, 1:58, 1:59, then poof, it's 3:00. Got another coworker at the tax place cause they were getting busy. Good thing my hotle coworker came back from his car wreck recovery. His leg was in a brace from being broken, but he was walking. Hotel had to demand a lot of my time away from the tax place, especially after a laundry person quit. Didn't have a St. Patrick's Day parade for my city again. Oh well, had to work anyway. Happy St. Patrick's Day Everybody!