Things are really busy these days. My support team is pushing me to develop content for my web page. I am a restaurant operator above all else and managing The Hub is a full time job.

Our restaurant suffers from the same maladies as most. What they say is true. If it weren't for all the problems in dealing with the help, this would be a great business. We are constantly dealing with turn-over in the ranks of the unskilled. Most of our positions that require talant are filled and remain so. The turnover is at the bottom of the pyramid.

I read what the restaurant consultants say about how we need to learn to deal with young people in a different way than we did years ago, but I am convinced the problem is not with us learning to deal with them. My experience is that most of the kids I find applying for work in my restaurant are seriously ignorant.

Parents are letting their kids advance from grade to grade without mastering basic skills which are the building blocks for learning everything else.

School systems are advancing kids from grade to grade for a variety of reasons. They don't want to screw up their success statistics when measuring against other schools. They say that failing a child traumatizes the child. I guess they are more concerned about the trauma than the ignorance.

Teacher unions force school systems to keep ignorant teachers.

The end result is that the bright or above average kids succeed in spite of their education and the less bright kids "pass" on into society oblivious of their ignorance. You know what they say, "Ignorance is Bliss."

In my business, the ones that apply for work are the ones that don't have a clear view of where they are going in life. The reason is probably that they don't know where to begin. They are not trained for anything. They can't even take care of their own basic needs.

Enough of the ranting about that.

On a more positive note, my most senior cook returned to work this week after four months recuperating from a fractured knee cap. The thought of how much that must hurt makes me cringe.

Welcome back Brian.

I referred to the web site above. We are officially thehubinsnohomish.com for anyone who might care. The site is under construction at this time. My dear friends in the Tillicum Kiwanis of Snohomish are the instigators and facilitators. They are great friends and have the skills to turn what I have to say into a doable deal.

My restaurant has been a part of this community for 58 years now. It has a long and colorful history. My family has been involved in the community for a long time. For this reason, I am attempting to write about our history for the web site. I suspect it will be too unwieldly for a basic setup, but I think John Bruce and Jim Rahm will be able to overcome my wordiness with technology.

I sent my menu to John yesterday so he could evaluate the possible ways to display it. There are so many doodads a web site developer can employ to make them do all sorts of things. I had never thought about pixel density when developing the look. For each setting it affects the displayed material. Not everyone is looking at the internet the way I do.

At any rate, I am having to consider a lot more than I knew in determining how my site should look. The more people that know about it and have access to the previews, the more input I get that will need to be worked and forwarded to John and Jim.

I am confident that my circle of advisors won't rest until they have badgered me to death.

The summer has not turned out the way I predicted it would when it began in June. In the past two months I have been making a lot of lemonade.

School starts in my community next week. That will be the beginning of a better season.