Steven Neil

Today was a rough day at work. First of all, we had a staff meeting right at 9:00 AM which meant I had to fight traffic to get there right on time. Corporate honchos bored us with their new mission statement for a couple of hours. Sometimes I wonder if these guys, who run a multi-million dollar corporation, know anything about marketing, especially to their own employees.

Then, one of the urinals in the main men’s room began spewing out water. They had to shut down water to the whole floor for several hours while the plumber came and fixed whatever was wrong with. Luckily it was lunch time for me so I went over to the BK, where, of course, they screwed up my order. What a surprise.

After lunch, I had a vendor call and they were being a real butthead. I don’t want to go into details but it was over something trivial.

Now that I’m home I’m going to have a couple of beers and relax.

I love to get out into the great outdoors. I enjoy going on hikes and camping out under the stars, even when it’s cold out like it was last weekend. I’ve been camping since I was a kid in Boy Scouts and it’s one of my favorite things to do when I want to get away from it all.

Like I said, it was cold. We were expect it to only dip into the 40’s overnight but it got down to about 27 at the elevation we were at. Oh, this was in the Great Smokey Mountain Park in North Carolina. We hiked the Abrams Falls Trail and camped out at the main campground. It was a lot of fun except there were a lot of skunks around for some reason. Luckily, we didn’t get sprayed.