'A Genuine Wish In One Hand Situation'

When I got off work this morning at 7:32 AM, I had completed working 20 of the previous 32 hours.  However I did not feel I should miss two days in a row just because Uncle Gerry is a skotchie bit tired (crass understatement).  At any rate, just before letting me clock out this morning, the boss man asked me the wrong question.  Oh I had an answer for the question, it was even the one he was expecting to hear.  But I must first lay some background for said question.  

On Monday and Tuesday nights, I come on at 11 PM and 10 PM respectively.  The previous shift on both nights is a team made up of a couple of peeps I will call XM and XF (ones a guy, the other is a gal).  Now if my buddy and I, to use a baseball analogy, are the Big League A Team, then these guys would have to be considered 'zzz' league or whatever is beyond backwater bush leagues.  These guys are so far removed from the big leagues they make the Backwater Bullfrogs look like the DamnYankees!  Yes I know there is supposed to be a space between Damn and Yankees!, but my Mother (whose 85th Birthday was yesterday, may she RIP) was a Dodger fan.  Now my Mother was a good Christian woman who did not hold much with the cussin part of cussin and discussin.  However, before the Dodgers vacated the Big Apple for La La Land, there were two baseball teams that mattered to my Mother.  The Brooklyn Dodgers and The DamnYankees!  I was about twelve before I discovered there was a space that was supposed to be there.  My Mother rarely said a bad word, but there was always the Dodgers and the DamnYankees!.  However, I digress...

The Boss man asked me if XM had left me a mess to clean up when he left last night.  Biting my tongue and taking a long deep breath, I turned to answer him.  My response was: "Just one night a week, I would like to come in to find that XM and XF had actually done their jobs."  This was followed by a mini rant on the evils of team XMF knowing that hoping to find they would actually do their jobs is 'a genuine wish in one hand situation'.  He then asked for some specifics and I rattled off a list of about 20 items and asked for half an hour to compile 20 more lists of 20 items once I had a chance to really think about the matter.  

You have to realize that when I turn over a shift, the store is totally prepared, spit shined and running like a well oiled machine.  I rarely receive the same treatment in return.  I also told the boss man if I am going to have to keep doing their jobs for them, they need to start paying me part of the money they "earned" for my trouble.  Fat chance of that, lol.  But I got it off my chest and turned the store over in its usual immaculateness and came home to chill out and get this post put together.  I already had the music picked out, I had that ready yesterday before I ran outta time (so sorry about that).  So let's get off the story board and into the Music Hall and the Art Museum, shall we?

I heard some Music by today's featured Composer on both Venice Classic Radio and XM76 Symphony Hall and I love his works for the Cello for which I was in the mood.  So today you get  the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D Major, Ben 105 by Ignaz Joseph Pleyel which is posted down below.  That performance is by the Erdõdy Chamber Orchestra with Péter Szabó as both the Cello Soloist and the Conductor.  Over on my tumblr, you may hear the Academy for Ancient Music's performance of Pleyel's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C Major featuring Ivan Monighetti as the Soloist with Stephen Mai conducting.

Then I have a squadron of sultry studs splashing about this week's edition of Wet Wednesday posted down below (or is it down low?).  While you are over on my tumblr, be sure to check out 'Surfer 19' who is your Hottie of the Day!.  Thanks for the visit, see you again soon.  Until next time as always, Enjoyu!