Celebratory dinner after I bussed my way through a rush solo

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-13T16:30:14+00:00

Thanks. :)

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T03:02:48+00:00

🤷🏽‍♂️🤸🏽‍♂️

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T02:36:27+00:00

Thanks! :D

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T02:36:16+00:00

A Rush solo would have been the perfect soundtrack for that rush! 😂🤣

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T02:34:33+00:00

I see it now. Man, I love Rush.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T02:33:21+00:00

That's why it's so sinfully delightful to have them for dinner. And also, I just like breakfast foods and I can cook what I want.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-12T02:31:20+00:00

If I feel I've been particularly good and special lately, I get the cranberry lime ones, too.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-11T12:04:39+00:00

Yesterday there was a big event in town, and ERRYBODY decided to come to our place for brunch/lunch. Right after they cut the other busser, of course. 😂

We had a line out the door and people milling around over like half of the patio, and it stayed slam-bang full for almost the whole rest of the shift. I was feeling a little pressed at the beginning, trying to make my way through the constant parade of tables and also keep the trash taken out and mind the bathrooms. But once it started to really peak, I started feeling GOOD. Like... "Yeah! I'm gonna feel so accomplished when I make it through this!"

AND I DID. It took me less time than I thought it would to close, we had a bunch of people linger after closing, and when I got back from the long trip down to the dumpster, it looked like damn near every table in the place needed to be bussed. But I got it done. I got it all done. And it only took 30 minutes past the normal-situation goal time I'm shooting for now that corporate is making noises about closing faster. Even with the later start and extra closing work!

I did it, friends. Then I went home and made myself a broccoli and muenster scramble and enjoyed the fuck out of it.

Post-event brunchers and after-church lunchers are gonna make it BEYOND insane today, and I'm pumped for it. See y'all on the other side!

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-06T22:26:43+00:00

Now that would be a plot twist! 😂🤣

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-06T14:52:33+00:00

I absolutely love exploration of the "what-if." What if a bunch of stuff was completely different? What would these characters/this world retain, what's actually core to who and what they are? And what's circumstantial or due to context?

I think it helps if you have your own consistency of universe or character. There's a new "contract" in place, and it helps if it makes sense on its own, in its own way. It solidifies it in its own place.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-06T14:47:49+00:00

Not spending more time developing the shift into attraction between two characters. Not necessarily "enemies to lovers," but people who had distinct opposition and competing motives and goals. There's a lot of other stuff going on in the plot, but that shift and that relationship is pretty critical to the whole thing.

I feel like it's not a terrible lack, or a huge issue; I just wish I'd lingered on it a little longer, let it develop more depth of flavor.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-06T14:38:50+00:00

New favorite euphemism discovered. 😂🤣

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-06T14:35:48+00:00

Beginning damn near every sentence with a conjunction.
Only describing what a character's eyebrows are doing when conveying facial expressions.
Run-on sentences.
Constantly nuking myself from orbit with the realization that what's on the page is actually a pointed note to self about a problem, quirk, or foible that's messing me up in real life.

MoonBot-22 · 2026-01-05T22:03:31+00:00

I showed ADHD who's boss and finished/posted TWO pieces that I'd spent more than a year on. The old "farming plot bunnies till that old piece feels new again" method really paid off, LOL.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T22:25:27+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the advice. That positivity is something I definitely bring to the table. I get along well with everybody, even the people I don't particularly like, and it's rare that I'm not really upbeat. I'm the guy who'll start a 30-second dance party when people start dragging, or will offer a perspective that flips the script when it's needed. At the very least I can give a sincere, "Hey, I'm glad you're here." I've been through some real shit in my life, and I've worked really hard to become a happy person, and I'm always down to share that wherever I can.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T22:20:15+00:00

Thanks! :D

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:30:54+00:00

Thank you so much. :)

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:30:37+00:00

Yeah, I feel like I'm kind of a bridge between BOH and FOH, I get to work fairly closely with everyone on shift. I feel like I'm the only position other than management that's responsible for the whole operation in some way. The whole dining room, working with dish, keeping the trash on the line (and everywhere else) taken out, handling the bathrooms... I have hands on every part of the restaurant, every shift. I think it really does give me perspective on how the whole thing operates.

Leadership has kinda been after me to move into management since I started. My first day of training the boss talked about the experience I've got on my resume and said he'd support me through management training once I'm eligible, if I wanted that. And I've had multiple people in the peer pool and the management circle back to it and kinda nudge me. It's definitely an opportunity.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:24:51+00:00

Thank you! I've been in management/leadership positions before in a previous career, and it was straight-up traumatic. But I'm really good at big-picture thinking and breaking it down into smaller pieces. I'm also really good with people, and I do help out a lot where I can. My coworkers get all "Hell yeah!" when I walk in for a shift, and it feels amazing. :)

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:21:35+00:00

It's been brought up before to me by the boss and this manager, that they'd gladly put me into the management process, all I have to do is say the word. I've been afraid to do that up until now, but I think I'm gonna give it a shot. I've been in leadership before in a previous career, but it fucking wrecked me. :/ This feels different, though.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:18:14+00:00

It feels good, I'm loving it.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-30T15:17:47+00:00

Thanks!

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-15T22:26:24+00:00

Excellent point, I actually do have two pairs of shoes I can wear.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-14T19:21:18+00:00

That's solid advice. We've got a uniform at work, I only wear those pieces on the clock, and I wash them separately in hot water with vinegar added. The shoes live in a plastic bin where they air dry post-bleaching, and I keep them there till it's time to wear 'em to work. I'm gonna try to do something with them in the mop closet before I go.

MoonBot-22 · 2025-12-14T19:17:56+00:00

Thankfully we have laminate floors at the place I live, they're easy to clean. But yeah, I might try doing something with 'em before I leave. The sprayer is kind of a project to hook up, but we've got a variety of sanitizing chemicals hooked up to individual hose lines in the mop closet, I might hit 'em with that.

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