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Date: 18 February 2005 05:15:55
I wish to start this entry with a bit of a tribute to the person among others who encouraged me to get a blog. Till I started the blog the only people that got to hear these stories was a small group of friends. How did that widen to the whole wide world I hear you ask. Four yrs ago I was in another city visiting a friend and the curate in the pre curate days was there hanging out. That is the curate from the curate's dregs wiblog. I then got to hang with the curate last year whilst he was up visiting my friend. It was at that time I told stories about what I do and he strongly encouraged me to get a blog and the wibsite was the best place to do it. So after um and awing I asked for a blog and here we are today. So much thanks to the Curate for his inspiration and it is a very large shame that his blog has come to it's conclusion.
Today I checked my stats and I have cracked 100 hits. So thank you all for your most wonderful support. I want to thank those hitting me in the top three countries United Kingdom, Australia and the ever-popular Country not detectable coming up at number three. I would also like to thank the not so common countries as well. They would be the Czech Republic, France, New Zealand, Canada and Thailand. They all have one visited once. I would like to get a hit from the United Arab Emirates because supposedly when you do in your statistics page the flag appears a whole lot larger than those of other countries. So if you know anyone from the U.A.E can you send my link along so I can see the large flag. Ta.
One thing I somehow forgot to mention about the Rainbow Connection was that R.C and I actually share the same first name. You could not believe how much confusion that causes for our colleagues and our clients. We often get radio calls like the following. “Housekeeping to Pete* (not our real names)” then the reply goes like this “ which one last caller” “Um Pete”. “Housekeeping we have two Peters on today which event is that for?”. It can cause much frustration and anger for us. The frustration can turn to Joy when we are working day shift and the other is night shift. It makes the handover where we introduce the next floorie to look after the client. We do standard jokes about it causes less confusion for our clients. That it is cheaper for our company as they just print the same business cards. And my favourite that our company has started cloning experiments and we are what came out of that. There is a big height difference and hair colour change and my sideburns are way superior to his.
My sideburns are my objects of pride. They are well looked after and are often referred to as “the boys”. And the reason I am called “Chops”. But they are slightly under threat as they are very large and nearly meet up together at the chin. I have had them this big before and it was cool. It was just before I left my previous job at the house of chops and became a floorie. My clients generally love them and remark about how good they are. The boss said I might need you to trim them back the other week. It was at this point I reminded him they were bigger a year ago when I had them and he encouraged them as they were well trimmed and showed individuality. I have not heard any more talk of trimming the boys. If they ask me I think I will start a petition. I am known around the building for them. Which is funny cause the Rainbow Connection is known around my country for his individual sense of style. He is known by one thing in particular people will call and say can i speak to xxx xxx Pete. It pays to be different in our game. Everything rises and falls on reputation.
Till next time stay unique and don't let the man shave your sideburns off,
Chops.