Hey everybody--hope you're all having a good weekend. Aside from the fact that I have to work tonight--in the pit--I'm having a pretty good one too. I saw the roadmap for tonight before I left the casino last night--no $5 blackjack for Mikey. I'm back where I belong in Chinatown, where I can relax, watch the highlights on ESPN on the bar TVs, and flirt with all my favorite waitresses whenever they come by.
Not a bad gig for a Saturday night.
Last night wasn't too bad, either, although a couple of my readers were witnesses to my shame and saw me sitting at the Let It Ride table for two hours. But frequent commenter and Seahawks fan T-Rev made the trip out to my casino, and while I was just wandering through the pit I heard him yelling for me. He was camped out at a Pai Gow table, but I was assigned a bunch of carnival games last night, so he made his way over to Crazy4Poker where I administered the first of several beatings.
Yep, unfortunately, I only gave him a couple of decent hands for the entire evening. Mostly I was kicking everyone's asses. But he was a good sport about it and was playing with house money that he took from the Evil Empire the night before, so we still managed to have a few laughs and it made the night go by much faster. Besides being a good example for the rest of the players with his generous toking, brothaman also told me that he found a Jack Youngblood bobblehead doll for me and will ship it along as soon as I get settled into my new place.
Speaking of which, I'm heading over there in about an hour to chat with my new roommie to iron out all the details and set proper expectations. I'm not really doing a lease, like we had here at the apartment, so we're just gonna talk and make sure there are no surprises, and also work out the logistics of my move.
Now that I know where I'll be living, and the fact that it's an even nicer place, I'm looking forward to getting it all done and living there instead of here. The stress of not knowing, which ate at me for several weeks, is now gone, and although moving all my stuff is gonna suck, I'm sure I'll be happy at my new place. And it's a couple of miles closer to work, so I'll save a bit of gas money every week, plus I'll avoid that clusterf*ck of stoplights at Green Valley Ranch and The District that I can never seem to catch green, even when coming home in the middle of the night.
On the job front, I spoke to all the people in charge of my destiny last night. First of all, I met with the Casino Director (the big BIG boss) and asked her if she'd gotten my transfer request. She said that she had, but was waiting to give it her stamp of approval and forward it along until she talked to me. She wanted to make sure I was aware that yes, I was indeed going back to the Extra Board and would be losing all of my benefits and such. I told her it was worth it to me, personally, because the money was better and I was much happier in the poker room. So she said that's all she needed to hear and would get with the poker room manager right away and get the ball rolling.
And I also ran into the poker room manager back in the dining room again, and he said that as soon as he talks to the Director, he's planning on hiring me. No news there, same thing he told me the other day.
I also had a chat with my shift boss and told her that I was likely to be leaving very soon, but I was wondering if she'd be willing to let me take a bunch of my vacation time on days that I'm already scheduled to work over the course of the next week or so. See, a full-time pit dealer, like I am, for now, gets a full eight hour share of tokes for every day of vacation that they take. But in departments where you 'roll your own' tokes, like poker dealers and cocktail waitresses, whenever you go on vacation, you get nothing but your hourly wage.
And I just hit my anniversary date a couple of weeks ago, so payroll popped another two weeks worth of vacation into my account, and I don't want to lose all those 'toke days' when I go to the poker room. So tonight, my boss and I are going to try and work out a plan where I can get as many vacation days in before I officially transfer over to the poker room. So I may not even be working this Sunday or Monday night. And I've already got Thursday night off as a floater day (Courtney is coming to town).
But the problem is, I'm not sure when I'll actually be officially transferred to the poker room. And the poker room manager keeps telling me he wants me ASAP, although I *know* they're overstaffed this week. So who knows what's going to happen. My work life is in turmoil right now, but kind of in a good way. But it would be nice to have a few fully-paid days off to spend preparing and packing for the move. And I'd love to spend a day or two relaxing by the pool getting some sun, too.
So that's the news from here. I'm hoping that by the time most of you read this on Monday morning in your offices that I'll know a bit more.
Mikey
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