"What we've got here is failure to communicate."

• Cool Hand Luke

Ted was supposed to work today with Wee Jeanie; it was on the oh so recently published "who works which Saturday" list which Senga insisted on hand-crafting lest we did something involving our initiatives.
That list already messed with Ted's Saturday schedule as he was not meant to work in March at all due to previous days swapped with other colleagues but today everyone was "instructed" to come in for "a big end of month sales push"
So what does that do for the published schedule, woof! A dog needs to know when he can go to the beach on Saturday. You can't mess with my recreational habits like they don't matter.

The funny thing is that, on the day, only Ted and Wee Jeanie turned up for "the big push" due to everyone else having prior arrangements. Maybe the folks at the Evil Empire that come up with these ludicrous plans will attempt to give more than 48 hours notice of their demented plans in future. How does that sound? And the hilarious thing about it is that Ted was able to sit in Wee Jeanies' office and have his breakfast and a good long chat before any customers showed up. In fact there was barely enough trade all morning to keep the two of them occupied; thank goodness all six could not work today!

By the way just so you know, I got to play with Bella again at the ball park this morning and afterwards Ted took me to meet the new vet in town. She was very nice even tho' she poked and prodded me a bit and asked all sorts of stuff about heart worms and fleas and things no self respecting dog would have anything to do with. She has a "state of the art" surgery and even did a urine analysis while I waited; so now I'm on anti-biotic s which are supposed to stop me waking Ted up a 3am to let me out for a pee. Apparently I have a urinary tract infection which will hopefully be cured by these pills. I have to go back in 14 days to see if that has worked out or if something more drastic is needed.

... to be continued.