I took all the vacation time I had and started a long weekend this morning. I couldn’t have picked a better time, either. Not only is Tulsa Tough going on this weekend, but my boss is due to come back tomorrow night. She is going to have to start by terminating a couple of employees including one of our suspects. Meanwhile we do not have enough people to stock the shelves and the store manager wants us to spend more time making the store look pretty.
I usually spend Friday helping set up things along the race course at Tulsa Tough. This year I will spend time preparing and handing out race packets as well.
I am switching hotels this year. I used to stay at a hotel along I-244 just east of Tulsa Tough headquarters on the far east end of downtown. The hotel wasn’t much but the neighboring area was a little sketchy. Last year the homeless started camping in the median of the freeway. Over the last year there were reports of fights in the parking lots of both hotels in the area, naked people wandering around and in your face prostitution and drug dealing.
I am staying on the far west side this year. This is slightly more inconvenient because of the extra distance and the exit I need not being available coming from the west. My boss called and told me that I could just head east one additional exit and turn around. With constant road construction and repair you cannot count on the easy solution being the available one.
Footyfried 