Working Girl

Started the morning with Life Cereal, blueberries, cherries, and Recess: School's Out. This theatrical follow-up to the popular Disney TV cartoon opens as TJ Detweiller and his misfit friends are getting ready to head out of Third Street School for their summer vacation. TJ's disappointed when the others end up going to summer camp, and he's left alone for what he assumes will be a boring couple of months. Summer proves to be far from boring when TJ discovers what appears to be a glowing light in the cafeteria window, and their principal, Mr. Prickley, vanishes investigating it. It'll take all the smarts and cleverness of the kids of the Third Street School to save summer vacation for everyone!

I always kick off my summer with this action-packed ode to time off. It's a lesser Disney gem; worth looking for, even if you've never seen Recess. Extra points for the nifty 60s-70s soundtrack that includes "Dancing In the Street" and Robert Goulet singing "Green Tambourine" over the end credits.

I spent the rest of the day at work. This was my 8 1/2 hour shift day, and...it was boring as heck. It did pick up during the 4PM-6PM rush hour, but otherwise, I stood around a lot. The worst that happened was a guy yelled at the head front end manager over the darn Giveaway tickets; roughly translated, he didn't like them because he complained that the IRS gets most of the money. Whatever. People can be really weird sometimes. It had slowed down enough by 7:30 for me to get out a few minutes early without a relief.