Goats yelling like humans

Seriously funny stuff, give it a look you won't regret it. Gets really good after the second goat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7z_zyy1sa8

Daschund UN

Apparently there's supposed to be a live stream going up at
http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage/dachshundun/
as the performances go on. I'm hoping that it will be a good representation of what the performances are like since I won't be able to make it down there on time.

Daschund UN

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage/dachshundun/

I really do hope that I will get a chance to see this spectacle. It combines performance art and daschunds, one I love the other done right is inspirational. This combination, I am hoping lives up to its billing.

The only downside of this is that somehow, what I thought would be a fairly accessible event now has reserved seating? When did this happen? I'm hoping that we'll be able to see it too! I've been paying attention to this for a while, we go to Hawaii for 10 days and come back to this being possibly inaccessible... I hope that this does pan out for us and we can get in.

Kona Brewing Pipeline Porter

I'm slowly becoming more impressed with this brewery. I've only tried a few beers by them from their sampler pack, but each are good and with their own admirable qualities.

This one, the pipeline porter is a good porter on its own. Between Bellwoods and Indie Ale House TO porter lovers are spoiled, this isn't in that category of goodness ... But it was good enough to surprise me. It was pleasant throughout, dark malty chocolatey and coffee tones. Also has a nice coffee finish. It was brewed with local coffee so there is a good reason for that.

I wasn't expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. I suggest you give it a shot if you can without spending a ton of effort doing so.

Kona brewing Big Wave Golden Ale

Now this was a surprise. The wife and I went to Hawaii with my folks to spend almost two weeks at a vacation rental on Kauaii. The place we were supposed to stay in wasn't up to standards (nonfunctional appliances, ants, run down) so mom took it on herself to find a new place. Where we are now is a two bedroom condo on the ocean. I can't complain at all since it was a last minute save and the new place is just fine.

Anyways, we had shown up and the folks had these beers from the Kona brewing company there. There was the Longboard lager which tasted like a good quality lager, a bit like Creemore but without as much maltiness to it. The real surprise for me out of what was there was the Big Wave golden ale. Quite nice and a surprising amount of citrus to it. I could almost swear that I was getting pineapple out of it but I don't know of any hops off the top of my head with that profile. Quite nice and you can do far worse on a sunny day than a nice light citrusy ale like this one. Well done!

Closing Saturday night

I was originally supposed to close Sunday, a much gentler night than Saturday. However, nobody was scheduled and the manager was left hanging so I offered to flip my Sunday for the Saturday to buy him some time to find someone. Things were reasonable for the most part and were steady until the store started getting close to closing, then a few things became obvious. Mainly that I can't rely on this set of pharmacy technicians to manage themselves. The times given out were not sufficient... I'd be mad too if it took over an hour and I was told 20 minutes. The dispensing machine going down didn't help, however the people doing the actual filling didn't help the case much either; it was slow, and by the time baskets reached me people were already showing up to pick up. On top of that there was no logical order to the baskets after peoples' prescriptions were filled, they just kept piling them on top of each other so that there was no rational way to know what needed to be checked next. Someone started instigating out by cash and then a few other people joined in as they often do when they smell blood. It was more of a mess than I'd care to admit.

There were not enough people there, there should have been more techs at a minimum. Also, I'm going to have to force them to give out strips of paper for pick up times along with writing times down for promised time of pickup. I'm also going to have to adopt the practice of calling out wait times just so I can manage expectations better.

Anyways, we got everyone out with a 1/2 hour overtime on my part - more from others. I'm probably going to be hearing about it after I get back from holidays :( but according to the other staff members these end rushes happen often enough on Saturdays that I shouldn't be too concerned about it. Hopefully I can just chalk it up to experience and get on with things.

Also, my engine's light came on during my drive home. Thankfully it wasn't anything other than a lack of coolant, it just needs to hold together for another couple months.