Pictures from Vacation

I found out today that the coworker who is technically my backup (who absolutely hates doing anything remotely technical and hates having to react quickly) has been job looking. It's not that her job is hard. In fact, she has it pretty damn easy, because she says no so easily and does the things she wants to do. So, while I show off some pictures of vacation, I'm going to moan about her, because whatever she decides to do, will impact me.

Her leaving may not be a bad thing. Maybe then we could get someone into the position that wants to be helpful, wants to know how to do things, and wants to be my backup. It's pretty far fetched that this will happen and if it does happen, it would probably take about a year to find this person. The job is low paying. But I don't want someone to continue in this position that they absolutely hate.

But she has it easy. Tomorrow she is taking a day off, "Because I'm burned out from doing your job". Hell, I've done my job for 7 years and I have never said to my boss, "I'm burned out". He has told me to take a day off here and there, but I never go to him and say "I can't think today and I need tomorrow off".

And today I got the whole story that I've heard most of my life coming out of my sister's mouth. She was complaining because the art gallery that I used to run that has been her responsibility for a year has been difficult. She "can't live in your shadow" and "you were perfect and I do it all wrong". Of course she is saying this in front of the boss in a big production. I mean, this is like I'm her big sister and she is living in my shadow. Hell, I gave her the checklists that I used to use for the art gallery. All she has to do is read and she would be fine. But things didn't go well because she decided that some things would take too much time. So instead of saying, "Yes, I skimped on some things that used to be done", I got blamed for her failure because I make her live up to a high standard that no one else can do.

My sister got married and moved out. I don't have to hear this any longer. Maybe it is time for this coworker to get out of here and move on. I was never perfect in my job. I'm still not perfect. But this blaming me for something like this, is just a big baby move.

Now the image guide:

Image one - HOUSE OF BLUES! I could have eaten there every single night. Good drinks, good food, good bread pudding. I may think about taking a trip to the Cleveland House of Blues just for the food.

Image two - A picture for my scientific friends out there. This was at one of those miniature golf courses that are everywhere at the beach. It had this whole sci-fi thing going on inside the building and when you go outside, it is all tiki-huts, with subtle hints of sci-fi influences (the markers for the course all had symbols and such like this).

Image three - The beach one evening, after the subtropical storm moved away - and while motorcycles roared behind.