hola

not much again today. well, last night i was riding to my car on the bus minding my own business and this lady that was sitting across from me had chicken wings and hot sauce ina cup. well, the bus hit a bump and the hot sauce spilled all over my bare foot. seeing as i was wearing sandals yesterday.damn i dint think they got that sauce that hot, it was either because it was hot or it jsut stung from the sauce being hot sauce. dont ever let that stuff fall on you, especially on your feet. burnt like hell. took till i got home for most of the pain to go away and i had to take a shower for that to happen. very amusing, i laughed after the initial pain disappeared. very amusing indeed. here is some information on the expansion at the Casino. I find it interesting, hope you will as well. This is reported in the weekly employee news and information newsletter that is published for us. "Water is flowing through one of the twin waterfalls in the new Winter Garden, gining a glimpse of the dramatic visual and aural effect to come when construction is complete. Much of the marble floor tile has been installed, and the in-floor planters for the 22-foot palm trees and other plants have been readied to recieve potting soil and flora. The structure for the indoor fountain, part of the main entry into the gaming floor, also is in place. Outside, workers spent much of last week laying the steamheat hoses that will keep the sweeping driveway clear of snow and ice during the winter. Work on the Tower Hotel and the Events Center continues at a rapid pace. Most of the sheetrock has been installed in the Tower, and crews are painting, wallpapering, and installing bath and floor tile throughout the building. In the Events Center, about three-quarters of both the fixed and retractable seating has been installed, and almost all of the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work has been completed. Landscaping and sidewalk installation continue around the resort complex. Last week, crews were planting trees, shrubs and grasses in the median on the main entrance boulevard. The ground near the Route 365 entrance is being terraced as part of the landscaping around the new 200-foot-long stone wall, which eventually will hold new signage for the resort. Furnishings for the dining and lounge area at the new clubhouse at Atunyote Golf Club began arriving last week. Most of the sheetrock is hung and finished, and workers have begun priming and painting. The oversized Cape Cod-style building is slated to be finished around Labor Day." Hope you enjoy learning some more about whats happening at the casino. as i get more news ill pass it along. in the next few days i will be putting in excerpts from the booklet i recieved when i went on the property tour, some interesting facts to share. I also put up two new polls. we want your opinion on the names we picked for the little one that is on the way. i took all the rest of the polls down so its just those two now. katie and the baby are doing good, she went to her docotrs this afternoon to see why she has a pain in her lower left side. sure its nothing other than a muscle either being pushed on by the baby or jsut normal pregnancy stuff, better safe than sorry though. keep us in your thoughts. FYI: You expel air at 15 M.P.H. talk to you later Joe

this week

well nothing too interesting to add today. just that the chceck that i wrote for katies carpayment has seen fit to disappear. so i had to stop payment on that check and i will take one down there today, in a few minutes. bastards. uhm....we went to the state fair last friday, hot hot hot. we only spent three hours there didnt get to see everything that i wanted to see but most of it. most of the time was spent trying to stay cool. we went through 4 or 5 bottles of water in the process. did i mention it was very hot. good time though. we got to watch some of a tiger show. i think that is about all for now. talk to you later joe

yeah

ok quick little update, i got the job, officially yesterday. the pay is either 10 or 11 and hour not sure which, she couldnt remember. there are going to be 6 of us working, two supervisor types and 4 bakers. im the only baker as of yet. she has three more people to hire. so if anyones knows a baker that is looking for work steer them towards turning stone casino. talk to you later joe

Bakery

I have a third and i hope final interview with jen, the head pastry chef on monday. so by tomorrow night i should know whats going on and if i have a job there or not. should be interesting. again jsut hopefully for one more day keep your fingers crossed. i really hope this is it for me. my interview is at 200, just before work. talk to you tomorrow or the next day with the great news. talk to you later. joe

this was interesting

now you all know that i dont care about other peoples views, they can have them its their right, but some just seem more dumb than others. now i dont want to offend anyone that strongly believes in god, i get this womans point, but it seems extreme. again the problems with youth in america, it seems is being blamed on music. this article was in a local paper. it was a letter to the editor and has to do with why vernon downs is in so much financial troubles. this in the entire article: "Letter to the Editor: The Town of Vernon and Vernon Downs are getting their just desserts. Together they have regularly sponsored morally bankrupt concerts; now Vernon Downs finds itself financially bankrupt. Even horsemen poassively acquiesed to rock venue. One cannot survive on immorality. The Town and the Track did not care how many young people's lives were ruined by rock concerts, and now they are getting a taste of their own medicine. Judgement day for Vernon has finally arrived. Some local businesses even claimed to want rock concert goers in town and through their greed they are losing even what they had, the daily business of the horsemen. Had equal attention been given to the equestrian arts instead of concerts, we wouild have a fine horse facility today, with its accompanying business. When God's laws are violated through immorality and greed, there are prices to pay--and payday for Vernon has arrived." I wont say who wrote this not that any of you would know her. Now i understand her right to do this and have these feelings and objections, but it seems onthe extreme side to me. oh well. to each their own i guess. nothing new here same old. i no longer have a second job, thank god. went for my second intreview hopefully ill find out tomorrow when i go back to work and talk to jen whats going on and if i need to interview again or what. nothing new on that front. i also may be getting a new email addy soon, yahoo is good i just want to be able to use something like outlook and not have to pay for the email service to get it, so....if any of you have suggestions other than hotmail for email clients tell me please. id like to find something different. talk to you later joe

hello again

hey there all. not much new going on here. had my first interview for the baker position, went well and then tomorrow i go and talk to the asst pastry chef. that should be all i need to do unless i have to go talk to the exec chef. but it looks good, cause jen the pastry chef seems to want me to work for them, i guess they dont have too many people interested yet. well, thats about all for now, so keep your fingers crossed a little longer. talk to you later joe

notink today

Not much new going on today. Still waiting to hear if i got the job in the bakery so please continue to keep your fingers crossed for it. as i said nothing new so... talk to you later joe

blah, blah, blah

Nothing at all to talk about today. It was just one long weekend. i had to work both jobs and sat when i usually go home early, well, that didnt happen so i had to work my 5.5 hours at good gollys. that was tuff. especially since on sat we only sold maybe 10 tables while i was there. this was good seeing as i got to get everything that needed to be done in the kitchen done, so. and then last night at the casino it wasnt too bad, just long. we were busy but we didnt get hit like we usually do. the scintas are at the casino, for those of you who dont know, they are apparently popular in ny and vegas and usually when they come to the casino they sell out. which they have done in the three shows they have this week. yeah. well, i guess that is all the rant for now talk to you later joe

I Saw the future...Part 2

Ok so i was at the butcher shop, today we move along back outside down the corridor again. On the right hand side a little ways further down the hall, we run into another door. stepping through the door we come into another huge room that runs from that door about 40 feet straight ahead and then runs next to the corridor for about 300 ft. this is the new kitchen for the buffet. you look across the room and about a quarter of the way down the wall there is an opening for a set of double doors that leads to an even bigger room. we go through them and are standing in the entranceway of the dinning room. this room was gigantic. off in the distance you could see the stone archways that will eventually lead to the winter garden and its twin water falls. the room was just about 2 stories tall in some spots. and in the middle you could see the startings of an island or a penninsula where the food was going to be prepared for the guests or served to the guests. There were two pillars from floor to ceiling in the middle towards the island. and then a low wall on the far side creating a boundry between the dining rooma nd what i would presume is going to be part of the winter garden. you could also see where the escalator was goign to be for the second story and even more restaurants, including the Brazillian Steakhouse. So we went back into the kitchen and admired some of the 12 new ranges they had inside, still wrapped in their plastic coatings so they dont get scratched. They also had a grill there too. very nice, wish we had that at the Forrest. On the other side of the wall they had a wall of ice machines, and i mean that litterally. there had to be at least 15 of them just on the one wall. Now we go back out into the corridor and down a little and enter another cavernous room. about the same as the buffet kitchen in size but on the back wall on the other end of the room they have a gigantic oven. this oven is for the baking of bread. So i guess you figured this out that this is going to be the bakery. The oven was a good 15 ft long and 10 ft tall and was one of the ovens that has a shelf to bake on that rotates in a circle. the bread gets put on the shelf, and then it is slowly rotated up, back, down, forward, up againtot he door. all in a circle. very nice baking oven. on the other wall near the door were two very large hobart mixers, 20-30 qts easily if not more. these werent your table top mixers at home. and then there were a few stainless steel tables against another wall. This is where we atarted our journey back to work. The sheer amount of cooler space through out was enourmouse. 6 in the butcher shop and then another 12 scattered in the buffet. these are walkin coolers not reach in. I hope you enjoyed your little tour today. Other news after seeing the new bakery and realizing that they would be making their own bread i had a quick chat with the head baker Jen and she still has spots for bakers ont he third shift. So needless to say i put in for it. Please keep your fingers crossed and me in your thoughts and prayers that i might be able to get this. i would truly love to do this again. Oh and it pays 11/hr. damn good money. talk to you later joe

I have seen the future

And damn is it large. first off sorry about the length of time between posts. Secondly i got a quick tour of the new part of the casino. ill tell you that there are no words to describe how large this new section is and the areas in it. the only one that comes to mind as even near is cavernous. Mind you this was just the first story, thats not including the events arfena area or the restaurants on the second story. anyways back to what i saw. The first thing we went into was the new convention center kitchen. this is located maybe 20 feet from the old one but is three times as large. its set up long but it stretches about 400 ft or more. its narrow in the back where the dishwashers are and then widens as you get to the prep area. i didnt get to see much of this because we wanted to see the rest of the new stuff. so this was just a quick walk through to get to the new part. The next thing that we seen was the new loading dock. this has 4 doors for tractor trailers to back into and was about 500 ft deep. (mind you all of this is still in the buildiung stage, they got the walls up and floors down but its still obviously a construction site.) and then we stepped into a wide hallway. you could probably fit 4-5 people side by side once they get all the stuff out of it. as you walk down this hall there is a door on your right that you walk through and in here there are 4 very large stainless steel tables (im talking whole sides of cattle could be easily set on one side of them) and in the back wall they have 6 walk-in coolers and i would poresume a couple freezers. You look up to the left and you see a very large air conditioner for cooling. You see this room is going to be the butcher shop. this could accommodate up to 8 employees all cutting sides of beef. and still have room to drive a forklift through it easily. well, i really have to go so i will finish the desription tomorrow. two more rooms to go and the best is yet to come. you can find the details of the site and what it will look like when its done here talk to you later joe