First day back at work
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Back from first day at work.
First day back to work last night was pretty good and quite productive. Because of holidays I only work Thursday of this week and the Monday night I just did.
I was slightly concerned about some things at work. I found out that all the union crap has failed to make the work day 8 hours and some other ideas that could cost me my job or make it easier for those already in the plant to take from me. I found out that most of the people still laid off are probably not coming back to work. One part of me is quite sad about this. Another part is feeling a bit guilty because I made it and they didn’t. And yet another part of me is saying ‘thank god I got my decent paying job back’.
Now the new thing on the block is that the company is looking into having a robot remove the gold balls from the molds instead of humans. While interesting, this does seem to pose some problems for the company. Quality assurance of the product is probably first and foremost. I’m not sure how they expect a mechanical arm reaching into a mold and removing golf balls determine as quickly as a human whether the ball is damaged or not. It’s also going to be fun to see how they expect a robot to remove a stuck ball or fix a mold having problems.
In any event, my goal was to stay there five years. My other two manufacturing jobs that paid well only lasted 2 years each. So we’ll see what happens.
My brother drives me nuts with the recycling we have to do. I’m actually into recycling because I have to live here on planet Earth for another potential 55 years. So I follow the rules and such our town has set. They really aren’t that big a deal if you even bother to recycle. But my brother, who’s lived in town for a couple of years longer than me, STILL freely mixes cardboard with cans and plastic jugs. This drives me nuts for two reasons: the pick up leave all bins mixed incorrectly and the second is that I have two grocery bags – each maybe half full – right there for all the cardboard to be easily placed in. My brother also insists on placing plastic coat hangers in with the cans & plastic jugs. And he even threw a telephone with a plastic casing in with the cans & jugs. I’m like ‘wtf?!” I’m not sure if he’s just ignorant, lazy, or just doesn’t care.
All three of my fantasy football teams won over the weekend. I believe the work one is 4-4-1. Bob’s league my team is 5-4 while the tops teams are only 6-3 and in Dwain’s league I’ve crawled back to 4-5 after losing 5 games in a row. In Dwain’s league I’ve crawled from 9th place out of 10 up to 5th place. Top 4 teams make the play-off’s. Not a whole lot of games left but I’m still in the hunt for a third consecutive Super Bowl championship in Dwain’s league. I want to remain the only champion of that league’s existence!
Probably doing way too much chatting with IMVU the 3-d cartoon chat room thing. But it will cut down because of work.
Driving my friend Wendy nuts by writing a story with her. It’s a fun story that might see print some day – who knows?
My weekend at this time looks jammed up. I work Thursday night to Friday morning 7pm to 7am. I get home Friday morning, do an e-mail check and I should head off to bed soon after getting home because I’m going to a casino to see about some gambling. It’s a bus trip with some family members. The bus leaves local area around 4pm. The trip/gambling deal usually lasts about 7 or 8 hours. I should be in bed by midnight or 12:30am I’m told from veterans of these trips. That’s good because I expect to go to a sci-fi con in Springfield the next day with friends. William Shatner is suppose to be there among others. Although seeing him – if tickets are still available – is additional charge of something like $40 it would be about my only chance to ever see him in person. So I’ll probably prompt my buddies to pay up. And then at some point on Sunday an acquaintance wants to have a housewarming party for the house he just bought. Ugh. I’m already dipping into saving to splurge on the things I actually want to do with the gambling and maybe seeing Shatner. But that’s the plan for the weekend – plus watching football and managing my football teams.
My mom recently had some surgery for preventive purposes. Things went well I’m happy to say. Getting her in an out of my little Cavalier was a bit of a challenge with her leg in one of those wrap around casts to keep her leg straight and immobile.
On one of the days we went to visit her during her recuperation was quite an adventure. I took my dad and oldest brother along. My brother needed to stop at a store to get a memory stick that was on sale. On the way to that we saw a car accident happen literally right in front of us. We were waiting for a red light to turn green on a four lane street. For whatever reason, this lady flips on her blinker and switches lanes while she is waiting for the red. She must have never even looked because she clipped a mini-van that was passing her on her right side – the lane she was trying to turn into! Not just that, the lady clipped the van on it’s rear wheel. There really wasn’t much damaged but we were just stunned that this lady just literally pulled out and into a car that was passing her. And none of the people involved looked past middle age.
So of course, being the first car behind the accident, every car behind me throws on it’s blinker and goes around me because if I pulled out I would cause another accident. So like 6 cars passed me from my lane and more cars passed from the lane I was trying to get into to get around the accident.
So we get to Staples and my brother utters the faithful words of - ‘I should be right out’. 20 minutes later he returns. Seems the memory sticks were locked in a case. This was expected for a small expensive item easily stolen. He got a person to get him the stick. At the register there is a problem. Seems the stick won’t ring up with it’s advertised rebate. Turns out the guy gave my brother the wrong memory stick. So my brother had to return that one, wait for the guy to get the correct one and then go through the check out line again.
So we get going on our way and quickly find out a major intersection is jammed up. My mom later heard that something like two or three small accidents involving 5 to 6 cars occurred very close together and jammed up the intersection leading to a slow movement of traffic.
I was able to turn off avoiding a potential long delay of getting through all the smashed up cars and eventually made it to the highway. It wasn’t a huge loss of time and probably made things quicker. But of course, I screw up. Despite having traveled this one stretch of high way literally 300+ times, I decided to take the wrong exit to another highway before I realize it. To go from 291 to 91 North is a right turn. The 4 lane highway breaks off into two lanes heading north, two lanes heading south. The two left lanes become an overpass over the two right lanes. This two left lanes lead to 91 North. The two right lanes turn left and go under the left lanes and put the driver on 91 south.
I had to hop off the highway and follow some new exits (due to construction) to get back on to 91 north. This only ended up being maybe 5 minutes but it was highly annoying and I felt really stupid because I never caught my error – my brother did.
So with my confidence and knowledge of the highway in question, I couldn’t remember what number the exit for the hospital was. And there was no “H” sign to help. So my brother suggested I take the only exit we could and I did and everything was okay after that.
Oy.
At least the visit with my mom went well.
Okay, done tlking unless someone IM’s me on IMVU tonight.
Back from first day at work.
First day back to work last night was pretty good and quite productive. Because of holidays I only work Thursday of this week and the Monday night I just did.
I was slightly concerned about some things at work. I found out that all the union crap has failed to make the work day 8 hours and some other ideas that could cost me my job or make it easier for those already in the plant to take from me. I found out that most of the people still laid off are probably not coming back to work. One part of me is quite sad about this. Another part is feeling a bit guilty because I made it and they didn’t. And yet another part of me is saying ‘thank god I got my decent paying job back’.
Now the new thing on the block is that the company is looking into having a robot remove the gold balls from the molds instead of humans. While interesting, this does seem to pose some problems for the company. Quality assurance of the product is probably first and foremost. I’m not sure how they expect a mechanical arm reaching into a mold and removing golf balls determine as quickly as a human whether the ball is damaged or not. It’s also going to be fun to see how they expect a robot to remove a stuck ball or fix a mold having problems.
In any event, my goal was to stay there five years. My other two manufacturing jobs that paid well only lasted 2 years each. So we’ll see what happens.
My brother drives me nuts with the recycling we have to do. I’m actually into recycling because I have to live here on planet Earth for another potential 55 years. So I follow the rules and such our town has set. They really aren’t that big a deal if you even bother to recycle. But my brother, who’s lived in town for a couple of years longer than me, STILL freely mixes cardboard with cans and plastic jugs. This drives me nuts for two reasons: the pick up leave all bins mixed incorrectly and the second is that I have two grocery bags – each maybe half full – right there for all the cardboard to be easily placed in. My brother also insists on placing plastic coat hangers in with the cans & plastic jugs. And he even threw a telephone with a plastic casing in with the cans & jugs. I’m like ‘wtf?!” I’m not sure if he’s just ignorant, lazy, or just doesn’t care.
All three of my fantasy football teams won over the weekend. I believe the work one is 4-4-1. Bob’s league my team is 5-4 while the tops teams are only 6-3 and in Dwain’s league I’ve crawled back to 4-5 after losing 5 games in a row. In Dwain’s league I’ve crawled from 9th place out of 10 up to 5th place. Top 4 teams make the play-off’s. Not a whole lot of games left but I’m still in the hunt for a third consecutive Super Bowl championship in Dwain’s league. I want to remain the only champion of that league’s existence!
Probably doing way too much chatting with IMVU the 3-d cartoon chat room thing. But it will cut down because of work.
Driving my friend Wendy nuts by writing a story with her. It’s a fun story that might see print some day – who knows?
My weekend at this time looks jammed up. I work Thursday night to Friday morning 7pm to 7am. I get home Friday morning, do an e-mail check and I should head off to bed soon after getting home because I’m going to a casino to see about some gambling. It’s a bus trip with some family members. The bus leaves local area around 4pm. The trip/gambling deal usually lasts about 7 or 8 hours. I should be in bed by midnight or 12:30am I’m told from veterans of these trips. That’s good because I expect to go to a sci-fi con in Springfield the next day with friends. William Shatner is suppose to be there among others. Although seeing him – if tickets are still available – is additional charge of something like $40 it would be about my only chance to ever see him in person. So I’ll probably prompt my buddies to pay up. And then at some point on Sunday an acquaintance wants to have a housewarming party for the house he just bought. Ugh. I’m already dipping into saving to splurge on the things I actually want to do with the gambling and maybe seeing Shatner. But that’s the plan for the weekend – plus watching football and managing my football teams.
My mom recently had some surgery for preventive purposes. Things went well I’m happy to say. Getting her in an out of my little Cavalier was a bit of a challenge with her leg in one of those wrap around casts to keep her leg straight and immobile.
On one of the days we went to visit her during her recuperation was quite an adventure. I took my dad and oldest brother along. My brother needed to stop at a store to get a memory stick that was on sale. On the way to that we saw a car accident happen literally right in front of us. We were waiting for a red light to turn green on a four lane street. For whatever reason, this lady flips on her blinker and switches lanes while she is waiting for the red. She must have never even looked because she clipped a mini-van that was passing her on her right side – the lane she was trying to turn into! Not just that, the lady clipped the van on it’s rear wheel. There really wasn’t much damaged but we were just stunned that this lady just literally pulled out and into a car that was passing her. And none of the people involved looked past middle age.
So of course, being the first car behind the accident, every car behind me throws on it’s blinker and goes around me because if I pulled out I would cause another accident. So like 6 cars passed me from my lane and more cars passed from the lane I was trying to get into to get around the accident.
So we get to Staples and my brother utters the faithful words of - ‘I should be right out’. 20 minutes later he returns. Seems the memory sticks were locked in a case. This was expected for a small expensive item easily stolen. He got a person to get him the stick. At the register there is a problem. Seems the stick won’t ring up with it’s advertised rebate. Turns out the guy gave my brother the wrong memory stick. So my brother had to return that one, wait for the guy to get the correct one and then go through the check out line again.
So we get going on our way and quickly find out a major intersection is jammed up. My mom later heard that something like two or three small accidents involving 5 to 6 cars occurred very close together and jammed up the intersection leading to a slow movement of traffic.
I was able to turn off avoiding a potential long delay of getting through all the smashed up cars and eventually made it to the highway. It wasn’t a huge loss of time and probably made things quicker. But of course, I screw up. Despite having traveled this one stretch of high way literally 300+ times, I decided to take the wrong exit to another highway before I realize it. To go from 291 to 91 North is a right turn. The 4 lane highway breaks off into two lanes heading north, two lanes heading south. The two left lanes become an overpass over the two right lanes. This two left lanes lead to 91 North. The two right lanes turn left and go under the left lanes and put the driver on 91 south.
I had to hop off the highway and follow some new exits (due to construction) to get back on to 91 north. This only ended up being maybe 5 minutes but it was highly annoying and I felt really stupid because I never caught my error – my brother did.
So with my confidence and knowledge of the highway in question, I couldn’t remember what number the exit for the hospital was. And there was no “H” sign to help. So my brother suggested I take the only exit we could and I did and everything was okay after that.
Oy.
At least the visit with my mom went well.
Okay, done tlking unless someone IM’s me on IMVU tonight.
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