I'm already experiencing the fallout of being...

president of the resident's council.  We have had two issues in the last two days involving the dining room where residents had complaints that I had to take to the administrator.  My fear is that she will put it on her list of things to talk to the chef about, but it won't get addressed right away.  Her heart is in the right place, but there's too much going on for these concerns to get to the top of her to-do list.

So I'm going to hit up the chef directly tomorrow.  We'll see how that goes.  I suspect that much of his staff is being resistant to the types of changes he is trying to implement.  They were used to working for someone who "speaks their language" and he doesn't and that has me thinking they're just going around him when he's here and doing their own thing when he isn't.

I tried to write today and got a few thousand words jotted down but then we had a power outage for alarm testing and I lost all momentum.  I'll be trying again tomorrow until it's time to go to trivia, when I'm not busy watching the last three episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" that I have yet to watch on DVD.

We won at trivia last night.  By nine points.  It was a satisfying victory.  Two wins in two nights and we go for three wins in three nights tonight.

Mitt Romney is scheduled to sit down for a private meeting with President Obama tomorrow.  I wonder if he will risk the Secret Service getting a gander at the magic underwear, or will he leave it at home?

Fun with Classified Ads:

"Looking for someone that can work 9-3pm or 9-4pm 5 days a week. 1 meal a day is included. Must be quick on your feet and be able to multitask. If you are interested, please send your picture resume."  What's a picture resume?

This Date in History:

On this date in 1520, Ferdinand Magellan and his three ships entered the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
On this date in 1581, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway paid for their marriage license.
On this date in 1893, women vote in a general election for the first time, in New Zealand.
On this date in 1907, Louis B. Mayer opens his first theater.
On this date in 1925, the Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting.
On this date in 1942, the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston was the site of a fire that killed 491 people.
On this date in 1943, the Tehran Conference took place, where President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin sat down to discuss war strategy.
On this date in 1964, the National Security Council agrees to recommend to President Johnson that he adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam.
On this date in 1972, the last executions in Paris took place, with two murderers being guillotined.