12 thoughts on “February 15, 2020: Grade A Love-Em-Up”
Valentine's Day at the joint yesterday. Busiest day since the first month we were open. Busiest dinner shift ever (5 years). Longest ticket time was 21 minutes, which is just an insane performance by my kitchen staff. Luckily, we were able to schedule the "A" team and it paid off. Only down side is I feel I am getting a little old to run my tail off for 14 hours straight. Did sneak off with the wife after the last rush and had a nice dinner and glass of wine at my previous employer's restaurant. Overall a good day! One last shift today before I head south for the week.
Congrats on a successful day.
I cannot imagine running a restaurant. Hats off!
Great job! Kudos to you and your staff.
Looked closer at next year's Ft. Myers vacation, and we are there late enough to probably catch some games. Besides home games, also in reach are away games with Red Sox (Ft. Myers, but will most certainly sell out), Rays (Port Charlotte, 1hr away), and Braves (Sarasota, 2hrs away). I've been to Port Charlotte, which was a nice ballpark. And if I don't get to any games, the practice fields are hopping most every morning. Might be tough to do since I'll be working, but I might have to steal away for a couple hours anyway.
In LaLa for the weekend. We were hoping to meet up with the Boy and his gf before they went off to celebrate Valentine's day. Unfortunately, she had the temerity to come down with acute appendicitis.
She is home after surgery last night. We hope to drop by today with a load of trashy magazines for her.
New guest bathroom sink faucet installed. Does it shut off completely? No.
Just finished The Good Place.
Not sure how I feel. Happy and sad all at once. Which, I suppose, is precisely what they were going for. I'm reminded of a few other finales, in very good ways. Lost, and DS9 come immediately to mind.
Good stuff.
I'm looking forward to whatever Michael Schur decides to do next.
Speaking of DS9, I'm in season 7, so planning to countdown those episodes sometime this year
We just started last week, halfway through season one. I have to keep telling myself to disregard logic in relation to plot development and just have fun, but we’re enjoying it.
I really liked the horror of infinite wish fulfillment as a kind numbing negative thing. I'm not sure that I'm totally sold on their solution to the issue, but it was vastly better than "everything perfect forever" as an ending
In a tv sense, My main problem was that the final episode made the main character just sort of react to everything. She didn't really drive much in the final episode, after being the catalyst for almost everything through the whole series. I really liked the bittersweet tone they set, and a lot of both the bitter and the sweet felt very earned, I just wish that they had let Eleanor drive a bit more in the end.
Also, "keep it sleazy" didn't really work for me as a final line.
The one thing that I noticed about this finale is that I felt like I was doing that "happy mourning" thing more for the losses the characters were going through than for myself. It struck a chord, but I didn't cry, and I didn't feel the same sense of personal loss that I did with Parks & Rec. For me, that show is the gold standard. And the thing that strikes me - in addition to your point about Eleanor reacting more than driving - is that thing felt kind of rushed.
I wanted to experience a few of those Bearimys with the characters, not just know that they took place. For example, hearing Chidi talk about the moment he knew he was ready is telling, instead of us being shown that moment happening.
And I'm in agreement on the final line bit. But I can forgive it.
That all said, this was still a very well done finale, a wonderful show, and any criticisms should be taken as light, because that's all they are.
Valentine's Day at the joint yesterday. Busiest day since the first month we were open. Busiest dinner shift ever (5 years). Longest ticket time was 21 minutes, which is just an insane performance by my kitchen staff. Luckily, we were able to schedule the "A" team and it paid off. Only down side is I feel I am getting a little old to run my tail off for 14 hours straight. Did sneak off with the wife after the last rush and had a nice dinner and glass of wine at my previous employer's restaurant. Overall a good day! One last shift today before I head south for the week.
Congrats on a successful day.
I cannot imagine running a restaurant. Hats off!
Great job! Kudos to you and your staff.
Looked closer at next year's Ft. Myers vacation, and we are there late enough to probably catch some games. Besides home games, also in reach are away games with Red Sox (Ft. Myers, but will most certainly sell out), Rays (Port Charlotte, 1hr away), and Braves (Sarasota, 2hrs away). I've been to Port Charlotte, which was a nice ballpark. And if I don't get to any games, the practice fields are hopping most every morning. Might be tough to do since I'll be working, but I might have to steal away for a couple hours anyway.
In LaLa for the weekend. We were hoping to meet up with the Boy and his gf before they went off to celebrate Valentine's day. Unfortunately, she had the temerity to come down with acute appendicitis.
She is home after surgery last night. We hope to drop by today with a load of trashy magazines for her.
New guest bathroom sink faucet installed. Does it shut off completely? No.
Just finished The Good Place.
Not sure how I feel. Happy and sad all at once. Which, I suppose, is precisely what they were going for. I'm reminded of a few other finales, in very good ways. Lost, and DS9 come immediately to mind.
Good stuff.
I'm looking forward to whatever Michael Schur decides to do next.
Speaking of DS9, I'm in season 7, so planning to countdown those episodes sometime this year
We just started last week, halfway through season one. I have to keep telling myself to disregard logic in relation to plot development and just have fun, but we’re enjoying it.
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Re: Finale Spoiler
Full agreement with everything you've said here.