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100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 2) - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com

This is the second half of the 100 do’s and don’ts from last week’s post. Again, this list is for one particular restaurant, mine, which is under construction in Bridgehampton, N.Y., and will, with any luck, open this spring. I realize that every deli needs a wisecracking waiter, most pizza joints can handle heavy metal, and burgers always taste better when delivered by a server with tattoos and tongue piercing(s).

via boss.blogs.nytimes.com

Stopped at a red light.

The sky is on fire tonight!

Scottsdale man goes vegan for 'Dr. Oz Show'

He left his job as a grocery executive to move west to become chief instructor at the Arizona Cowboy College in Scottsdale. Then, he turned city slickers into cowboys on Country Music Television, or CMT, for a few seasons.

via www.azcentral.com

What I'm Listening To

Last week, the big boss at my company decided to open up the office music selection to the staff.
Wait.
Let me back up.
At my office, satellite radio is piped through a building-wide speaker system. Almost always it's set to the XM radio station "Chill". OK, you're caught up now.

So, last week during a company meeting, the big boss announced that each employee could have a week where our own music would play during work hours. Oh, and he also said: "Anything goes." Seriously. He said that.

I was so excited I nearly bounced out of my seat! Because of my enthusiasm (or because I shouted "FOR REAL?!?!" when it was announced) I was the first to showcase my personal music. Resisting the urge to play a week of Madonna, I created four different playlists and, last week, I had the pleasure of showcasing four days of hand picked eclectic mixes (and will get my fifth day later in the month).

Mixed in with my perpetual favorites like Sufjan Stevens, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Keane, Oasis, and Alanis were my three new favorite cds: Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack, and Passion Pit: Manners.

 

These cds seem to be on perpetual shuffle on my iPod/iTunes and I can't seem to get enough of them. The WTWTA soundtrack is just too much fun. Karen O & the Kids are wild and fun, the Phoenix record makes me want to get up and dance, and the Passion Pit cd is so musically different that it's awesome.

For the most part, my musical stylings were well received. However, I did get some flak for the howling children on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. 

Check out iTunes or Amazon to preview tracks from these records and decide for yourself!

One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) (NYTimes.com)

Herewith is a modest list of dos and don’ts for servers at the seafood restaurant I am building. Veteran waiters, moonlighting actresses, libertarians and baristas will no doubt protest some or most of what follows. They will claim it homogenizes them or stifles their true nature. And yet, if 100 different actors play Hamlet, hitting all the same marks, reciting all the same lines, cannot each one bring something unique to that role?

via boss.blogs.nytimes.com

Thanks to Cameron who posted this on her Facebook page. What a great list. Can't wait to see the other 50 tips. Click the link above to go to the NY Time blog to see the full list.

Blog it.

Ooh! Have you seen this cool tool that Typepad offers? It's kinda like the Share on Facebook button, but instead it posts to your Typepad Blog. I know I'll be using this A LOT, so get ready!!

Click here to get the Blog It button.

I have a lot to share from the past few months, so I'm spending my evening catching up on my blogging. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things around here now that the bulk of my travel is finished for the year.

One year!

Just popping in to commemorate my one year of living in Phoenix! I can't believe how fast it went. I think after surviving the summer, I'm now qualified to live on the surface of the sun!

Slacker

I have so much to write and no time to sit down and write it. Life has been overwhelming the last few months. When I am overwhelmed, I like to make lists to put my mind at ease that I'm not going to forget something.  Here's the list of all the things I want to tell you about:

- Urban Tea Loft
- Sedona
- Queen Creek Olive Mill
- Joe's Farm Grill
- Liberty Market
- Philly vacation
- Snow Patrol in PHL
- BBQ with 30 of my closest friends
- Quilting news
- Knitting news
- my upcoming trip to Germany (!!!!!)
- Knit the Season book review

See? Lots and lots of activity, which is great! I'll do my best to get caught up in the next few weeks!

Happy Birfday to me!

Celebrating another Thirty Something Birthday! This year has been a GREAT one!

Favorite {Photo} Friday #47: Shadow Puppet Attack!

Earlier in the week, I went to SMOCA (Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art) to check out the William Wegman exhibit, you know, the guy who photographs Weimaraner dogs in various scenes. While there, I was excited to see Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope an exhibit consisting of four installations by artists Jon Fisher & Jeff Shore, Aaron Rothman, Mungo Thomson and Jennifer West that experiment with the process of creating and presenting moving imagery.

The Jennifer West exhibit was the most fun, with 5 projectors around the room and altered filmstrips running through them on a loop. We were invited to walk through the room catching our shadows on the screens. This is a shot of Jennifer in front of one projector and Alan making hand puppet monsters ready to attack her. There were a few kids in the exhibit space with us who thought it was the funniest thing ever!