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"If you had a fish what would you name him?" -Kat
"SWIMMER!" -Damon (our 4-year old grandson.)
"That's a really stupid name." -Dillon (Damon's father)

Tuesday, 3-10-26: Shit-show, 70, changes, I dunno?
My life is a fuckin' train wreck.  What a bunch of crap!  We grand-opened the restaurant last week, MK 2.0, and at first it went fairly well.  However, we had a lot of bumps in the road.  A LOT.  Our kitchen is kind-of a mess and when it gets busy there are long wait-times for food.  We have servers who forget condiments and silverware, and it's not good.  Thankfully the place we replaced was even worse so the community is happy we are back, but we kind-of failed a bit last week.  Sales hit the goal I wanted, but we caused some damage with a few angry customers.  I did my best to walk around and be our liaison, but we had callouts every single day.  OMG FUCKIN SERIOUSLY?!  Sat night I was in dish so I couldn't talk to customers like I wanted, and Friday night some asshole beotch filmed me kicking her out so that was another shit-show.

This friggin' chick, I don't get it.  Her husband or boyfriend or whatever he is wanted to order drinks at the bar, but the bar was busy making drinks for other tables.  He didn't want to wait, he called the bartender a lazy fn bitch, I went to throw him out when his chick got in my face.  By then I was toast because we were packed full and way behind in all areas.  Most customers were fine with waiting an hour for their food, but not all of them.  Most of them said they were just glad we're back because Mack's was such a mess.  We were a mess as well, but at least we didn't get busted for drugs!

We got our asses handed to us all weekend and to add insult to injury our payroll company whom I will not name on this bootleg site no one ever reads totally blew it.  They didn't give me the help I desperately needed, they double-paid all servers and bartenders, and that cost us $1200.  OMG WTF, OVER?  All I wanna know is why?  Why does that happen?  I am looking into other payroll options because FUCK THAT.  I might do it myself after tax season, but I have no time to learn it because I feel like I'm always behind and yes, I totally hate my life and would be okay with dying.  I wish I could get terminal cancer or something beyond my control so when I die no one will think I'm a pussy for killing myself.  My life SUCKS.

One of our good customers, someone whom I've actually known for years, has terminal brain cancer-tumors.  I really like the guy and his wife, and I thought he was heading in the right direction until I talked to them a bit Saturday night.  That was a hard one for me, and I thought I wish there was a way I could trade with him so he could live another couple decades.  He deserves it more than me, but sadly that technology does not exist.  If it did exist I'd do it.  Kat would me mad, but I'd finally be at peace knowing I have 6-12 months to live the last of my life and then just leave.

How can my life get better?  Today helped because we hit 70 degrees this afternoon and I was able to quit by 1500 and go for a jog.  I actually could have been home a half-hour earlier but Kat wanted me to stop by Burger King and for some unknown reason they were backed up and busy at around 1445 on a Tuesday afternoon.  All I wanna know is why?  Why does that happen at that time?  It should be a slower time for them, right?  She wanted a steakhouse whopper meal so I got her ass one, and then she gave me shit because it was beef and not the impossible burger.  OMG WHY THE FUCK DON'T I JUST HAUL ON HER AND BE SINGLE SO I CAN DIE ALONE THIS IS FUCKIN BULLSHIT?!  She texted me she wanted the steakhouse meal-thing so I got it.  I didn't know there was some fake-meat bullshit option.  Fuck my dog-shit life I can't wait to just die.

^MY FUCKIN LIFE.

If I hadn't been able to go for a jog today that might have ended me so I thank the gods who do not exist that I could.  I didn't jog much, I walked half of it, but it was nice to be outside again.  2 miles with maybe one mile at a slow jog and the other mile at a brisk walk.  It's the earliest 70-degree day on record for our area Oh Jesus Hell ya!  Good thing because I see the oil bill over $300, close to $5 per gallon now thank you president fuck-stain Trump for going to war with Iran.  I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST WHY THE FUCK ARE WE WERE ANYMORE?!  Can we please just get our oil from shale in North Dakota or Alaska?  We already took over Venezuela earlier this year for their oil and it pisses me off.  I thought Trump was Americe-first yet we are meddling all over the world.  The middle-east has been a wreck all my life so why don't we just GTFO and let them all kill each other?  Iran vs. Israel isn't out fucking problem.

I threw my life a hail-Mary earlier when I offered a job to a new guy who will become our kitchen manager.  I don't think Kat liked it, she seemed a bit off about it all, but doing the same thing we did with MK 1.0 will definitely kill me.  I really don't mind dying, I've written that a lot lately, but I feel like if I check out now I'll let a lot of people down. Kat likes the idea of a kitchen manager, but not the financial side of things and I don't love that either but we have to pivot in a hurry or we are pwned.  We are known for epic karaoke, cool vibe, etc.  However, we are NOT known for great food that can come quickly so that has to change.  If it doesn't change we are done.

Tax season is still a beast.  I have lots of new clients, and I want most of them.  I want to make good money at tax season so I don't have to work so hard the rest of the year, but part of me wants a dedicated tax office away from everything so I just go to work and do that for 8-12 hours a day 5-6 days a week for 2.5 months then a little here and there the rest of the year.  However, that fuckin' restaurant is my Hotel California.  I checked in and I can never leave so that means my focus is always split. Nothing is done anywhere because I FUCKIN' SUCK.

Alright turds, all two of you who read this dump, I'm gonna watch the Celtics-Spurs in San Antonio.  It's a close game, but Jaylen Brown got the boot for arguing with the ref so that hurts.  A lot.  Tatum is back as of a few days ago so the Celtics have a great team.  Too bad I can't watch them much because I always have something going on.  Gods damn it!

Part of me wants to just pack a few things, get into the truck, and drive south to the Carolinas and find a new place to live all by myself.  Who knows, if things keep up this way I might just do that.  Or fuck it I'll go all the way to Florida.  Even though Florida mostly sucks at least it's warm all the time and far away from my worthless life here.  The end.  Fin.

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Tuesday 3-3-26: Chaos tomorrow?  GRAND OPENING 2.0.
We could not finish.  There was just too much to do.  We are close, though!  Grand opening of Mad Kat 2.0 should be tomorrow at 1500, and I expect a full restaurant by 1700.  I would prefer it not be full so I might turn some customers away, but that might be easier said than done.  Even though we didn't 100% finish everything I'd say we are 98% there now.  This morning I was thinking 98% was impossible, but we had some help in the afternoon and busted out a bunch of stuff.  Jason was there doing the TVs over the pool-tables, electricians were there, plumber showed up, HVAC guy, it was all hand on deck for a bit right around our initial staff meeting.

These 12-hour days with no stopping will destroy both my wife and I.  Actually she works over 12 hours.  What a bunch of crap!  It's 2026 and she's still at the bar.  I got home around 1930, got cleaned up, and now here  I am for a few minutes before my one coffee brandy and edible kick in.  I went a couple extra bites on the edibles tonight because I have slept very poorly lately even when I take an edible.

I can handle a couple more weeks of going nonstop but I think beyond that there could be permanent damage.  I hate my life already so it won't take much for me to go over that invisible and looming edge.  I am happy Kat gets to have her restaurant back, but I'm afraid it will be my Hotel California and since I once checked in I can never leave.  What a bunch of crap!

Fuckin' payroll is another problem area for me.  We are using the same bank for payroll that we used for MK 1.0, but this time their system is different and very difficult to use.  I'm really struggling with it so today I emailed the rep and told him I'm looking into just doing payroll through Toast.  I'm not lying, I already connected with a Toast rep.  I am not screwing around with a complex payroll system when I can search for something easier.

I think AI is a big part of the problem, and it will get worse.  Today when I messaged Toast I got a reply that I knew was from an AI-bot so I wrote "Thanks AI bot please don't become self-aware and take over the world."  The AI-bot wrote back some generic thanks for asking a question bullshit.  The more we use AI the more pwned we become, and pretty soon the federal government will annex an entire state just to build AI-farms.  What a bunch of crap!  (If they do annex a state to become an AI-dump it should be Delaware or Rhode Island.  So small they shouldn't have been states in the first place.

I am NOT ready to open the restaurant tomorrow.  We almost didn't pull it off, and this morning Kat was minutes from pushing it back.  It's been a HUGE challenge, much more than I expected, and I couldn't properly prepare for it all.  I barely know how to use Toast, I don't know the table chart, and I didn't finish some of the trim and carpentry.  What a bunch of crap!  I'll do what I can when I can, but I really can't finish it all until after tax season.