Oil spill at the Zoo

So here's a little story for you (I'll give you the shortened version, for your sake) about my day at work. I was training a new supervisor on how to open everything. It turned out to be a pretty good training day cause half of our opening staff called in sick, so we had to shuffle things around a lot, but it was all working out ok. So we went to unlock stuff and turn on the few things that take a long time to heat up, for instance the elephant ears fryer. The ears fryer stands a bit over waist high to me and is about 3 ft. wide, maybe 4 ft. long. Anyhoo, we went about our unlocking, got to the office to find even more messages from even more "sick" folk and then got a call from the lead at the big restaraunt down below. In our frenzy that morning, we had forgotten that it is monday, we dump and change the oil in the ears cart on mondays. The person dumping the oil got had filled three pickle buckets full of 350 degree oil before he realized that the fryer was on. He realized this because the buckets had melted from the inside out and were seeping onto the cart floor, down the hill and across the pathway by the concert lawn. Thank god he had the presence of mind to put out caution wet floor signs and began the 4 hour scrubbing process that left the sidewalk not perfect, but much less slippery. Fuck. Of course this had to happen in the middle of my 7 day work week. If anyone can figure out how to be rich without working, let me know.

Sunday ponderings

I've recently been told that Kurt Russell was Ted Nugent's best man at his wedding. Although I find this information awesome, it led me to ponder, what kind of man is KR really? Is he a crazy right wing sort of guy like the Nuge or is he just very open minded to the idea of having crazy right wing-cabin-living-hunter friends like the Nuge? How much do we really know about KR? Hmmm...
This I do know: Grindhouse ruled!