30th/ 31st of May 2012 - Pagliacci and Mouse Trap

Last night my lovely wife was making the sandwiches for our childen's school lunches when she exclaimed "oh no, we have no bread, well... We have pitta bread" I adopted a Mr.T voice and bellowed "I'd pitta tha' foo's!" My wife didn't find this funny, I can only assume it was "too soon" after her realisation and grief over the lost bread. It's a much held belief that only idiots laugh at their own jokes, this is obviously wrong as I laugh at mine all the time. I mean if I myself didn't think they were funny what would be the point of attempting to make someone else laugh with them?

I have an apple danish with my lunch today, because I'm worth it. I used that slogan as "maybe she's born with it" didn't seem applicable, it's less gender neutral and if I had have been born with it it would most definitely have gone off by now making it far less of a treat. Also today I should be getting my freedom date, Uhuru from Amistad, new temporary boss Righty and my actual boss should have been discussing candidates and CVs with my answer coming today, though Righty isn't here he's at helping out the old boss where she has moved Grr! Hope that isn't a hindrance. I've been plugging (Promoting. Not the 30's gangster slang for relentlessly shooting someone with a tommy gun) a lad who's e-mailed me a few times regarding the job he works on nights currently and sees my job as an ideal way to crawl from his nocturnal existence to my horrible hours without losing pay as it's a step up for him.

I've worked in the role the guy is before and appreciate his desire to learn and do a job befitting of what he's capable of, he seems technically sound, and I've been mentoring him in a way by e-mail, leaving him files on my computer and printed out Access excercises for him to scurry up in his night shift and collect, luring the mouse to to my career trap with a chunk of educational cheese. When I'm writing my helpful e-mails and such to him I wonder to myself am I trying to help him or free myself? In truth it's probably both I hope he gets my job now after the trouble we've gone to.