Oops

WOW.

That's all I can say about the President's speech tonight. It is honestly the first time since he was elected that I can say he looked presidential. He didn't seem smug, arrogant, bumbling or anything of the like. He was clear speaking and seemed human. I have to give him high marks for it, as it truly was the speech of his political life and made be briefly think that I could vote for this man.

Then I remembered all the stuff that his administration has and hasnt done, and I snapped back to reality.

Now that the convention is over, we get into the heart of the campaign season. I think this is going to be one of the nastiest campaigns ever, but I hope I am wrong. There are real issues affecting real people in this country that need to be discussed. I hope they will be.

I titled this post Oops for a reason. I made a big oops today. It seems that I was supposed to work the opening shift at my store today. The only problem is I thought I closed, so I wasn't there. I was in bed...asleep. That is till my wife called me because my employee Pam had called her to see where I was. Lets just say, I got to the store as quickly as possible after the phone call, which is a quite a chore since I live about 20 minutes away. Luckily, Pam was able to get up with one of the other managers who lives a lot closer and she came in and opened the store. We ended up opening about 20 minutes late, so we might get fined by the mall, but who knows. All I know is it wont happen again.

Especially since I am the one that does the schedule. You would think I would know what I work.

OOPS!!!

Unfit for Command update: We actually received 36 copies of the book today, 19 of which were special orders. So, of course as soon as we got them, I hid them in the back room where no one would see them, just like Rush and Sean said. I'm kidding of course. They went immediately to the floor, and after the 19 special orders were pulled out, the rest went on the New-Non-Fiction table, right in the front of the store and on the Bestseller wall.

Too bad Rush and Sean don't come in my store.

The more and more I see the "undecided swing voters" they keep trotting out in these polling focus groups, the more I bang my head against the wall. They come out with comments that just make me shake my head. Were these people watching the same speeches I was? Some of the comments they make simply make me go...Huh? If these are the people that will ultimately decide this election, like all the experts are telling us, we are in trouble. If they cant even make intelligent comments about a speech they just got finished watching, how are they going to make an intelligent decision when they step in the booth? Scary stuff....