Many thanks to all who offered kind thoughts and such regarding my niece and her situation.
At 1945 CST her mother (my half-sib) sent a photo of herself holding what I must presume is my new grand-nephew or grand-niece. Sis is not long on explanations except on the phone, bless her heart! (Of course, she’s rarely long on being understood in any situation.) Oh, well, someone will figure it all out and get back to me.
roadrunner I’m sorry about the job. Have you followed up for feedback?
metal mouse I’m with you. I didn’t drink until college.
shady I think they brought zima back about a year ago. “Limited release” wiki tells me, whatever that is. They still sell it in Japan if you’re ever out that way.
I tried another dog park today with Akiko. A neighboring community built a dog park for their police dog. It’s a nice little park, and it has a separate fenced area for training over obstacles and so on. It’s on my “visit again” list.
Worked, came home. More tomorrow.
{{{{Sunny and hubby}}}}
Metal Mouse, I like the Kickin’ Chicken. I did swear off whiskeys for a decade, after a run in with a half gallon of Evan Williams and 2 friends.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 36 Amurrkin out and clear (true that, I can see stars up in the sky) with a predicted high of 53 and N.O.S. for the day. I shall lay in provisions today. I shall also make a trip to Sam’s to gas up twuck and procure a few items whilst there. TP is on the list as we are down to our last 4 twelve packs. :eek: Cubed steak ‘n gravy, smashed N.O.T., green beans, squish, and corn bread shall be supped this eve. I am in a downhome cookin’ mood.
road runner sorry about the job. This just means a better one is out there.
George yay for new great niece or nephew!
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then I shall purtify and, alas, don goin’ about the public attire.
Happy Hump Day Y’all!
dinner was great …aunt doesn’t cook much anymore but when she does ……roast chix and veg with home made biscuits and gravy …… but ran into some cold drizzles when putting trash to the curb thought it was hail …started and stopped in like 5 minutes now off to bed
Thanks swampy. I’m not too worried about it. I still have a pretty solid offer coming in from Germany. They’re just waiting to hear about getting funding.
Howdy all. I am off today to mourn the late President so I may watch the service on the Telly. I just had fried chicken and tater salad for breakfast. I think Mooommm is back on land today. I think we will hear from her today.
Rosie’s Sig.
Happy Hump Day!
It’s cold outside.
I took the brat to daycare. Last week he was fine, this week he had his tail down and was not sure.
Ruble - what I have
if I am listing them right
SDF8 PIT5 PIT5 G131 g131?
CLE2 PIT5 PIT5 G131 (cleveland to pittsburg?)
ACY1 PIT5 PIT5 G131
CVG7 CVG9 CVG9 PIT5 PIT5 G131 (chicago to chicago to pittsburg?)
PHL7 FXLC (philadelphia to ?)
MDW4 PIT5 PIT5 G131
UPS-NEXT-EXP
MKC6 CVG9 CVG9 PIT5 PIT5 G131
Morning all. About 38F here. Have managed to solve all the puzzles in the paper today, so my work is done.
Butters, hope FCM had a good trip, just like you had a good breakfast…
George, glad you are a uncle of a baby (more info to be forthcoming, I’m sure).
Sari, I read fluent airport code, so some of the info is:
SDF=Louisville, KY airport
PIT=Pittsburg Airport
CLE=Cleveland Airport
ACY=Atlantic City Airport
CVG=Cincinatti Airport
MDW=Chicago Midway
MKC=Kansas City Downtown Airport
What the numbers represent and the G131 (I imagine that’s the last station for processings/handoff for delivery) is one for ruble to explain.
If you really swore off whiskey for a decade, we have proof that you’re the Flash.
(Ha. I accidentally typoed that as the Flask, which also works. ;))
My best college drinking story involves me, a bottle of SoCo, & a cute girl I was hitting on. Only after I sobered up did I find out she was my advisors daughter! :eek:
I ordered something online; cost was $45; free shipping @ $50; therefore, I ordered a little something else for $8 to bring my total over $50 so the second thing was almost free because it offset shipping costs.
So of course they came in Two. Separate. Packages. (Which means even more shipping costs for them.) :smack:
I may have fondled your goodies!!! Wait – that didn’t sound real good, did it? 
OK — you are providing me with direct job security. You are what we call “our cross-dock” – stuff we are taking care due to the accident/storm in MD. We have most of our G and J lanes dedicated to the areas they would usually handle and your town is pallet G131 (high side, most of the way towards the docks, and right up against the rollers which means your area orders a LOT of stuff). PIT five (to mess up TPTB who track us down for talking about us) is me and my cohorts.
The first one was filled and boxed in Louisville and trucked to us. The second Cleveland, the 3rd Atlantic City.
CVG is Cincy Ohio and it gets ---- complicated as the label says. Their operation is super-automated and the box was filled, sent to their sort center first and then cross-docked from them to us. We then cross-docked it to your post office center in Fredericksburg.
PHL7 FXLC means it was filled at Philly and rather than being sent to their sort center and cross-docked it was turned over to the USPS or someone else from there.
MDW is Chicago of course
MKC is St Louie. They do regular air-freight shipments to Cincy (everyone does since the CVG/ACY area has so many terrific airports – you should be around Kentucky Kingdom at night when the airport next door starts UPS at midnight. Just like DaNang in 68) and then they handed it off to us. Think of it as a Jungle version of a razzle-dazzle play. We totally hate the gaylords (huge boxes filled with boxes – it has nothing to do with Swampy and the way CVG packed them on the trucks. It gets complicated to explain but they are short and double-stacked and we really don’t have the right equipment to safely dump them. So its all unloaded piece by piece by hand. And usually we have Safety Department hovering over us the whole time we are doing it.
UPS-NEXT-EXP ------------ have I mentioned sometimes lately that we kinda have this big L on our foreheads? It was filled somewhere and someone way up the foodchain told the computers “don’t send anything else towards Kopek ---- his bosses are assholes”. So rather than the internal route to the USPS they bailed right to UPS from beginning to end. The normal box sent through us costs less than a buck until we turn it over to USPS and maybe another buck after that. UPS is more like 3 bucks plus depending on size and weight (small and large are expensive; average not so much so).
I actually have been working G a lot when I’ve been able to scan and mostly on the high side of the lane so I very well could have palletized one of those. Cool deal! I will dedicate my doubles tomorrow and Friday to you!
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See those nice neat piles of boxes and packages on the thin plastic postal pallets? Yeah – well ours rarely look that perfect. Nobody’s does this time of year. But each of those pallets has a number and will go to a specific post office for delivery. Hers is right up near the rollers everything comes down and more than half-way down to the left.
If you walked into our building through the front fire door and got on the “Green Mile” (our slightly safer walking path) on your right would be Lane J and on the left Lane G. Most of both right now are almost all cross-dock stuff going to Maryland and area. Closest to the front of the building are the “high numbers” (101 or so to 154 or so ---- no two are alike) and away from you is the low side with something like 004-052.
As you walk along the next thing you come to is Lane H on your right. H and J share a belt to that point and the pick-off stands at that point and diverts the packages for that lane by hand. Next past that is Lane E which shares a belt with G. Then you walk faster because you have reached Boss Land or our stand-up area where all the managers meet to come up with new ideas to make my beard even whiter than it is. After that is D and after that is B and after that you get the mirror image of the start of your journey with Lane A being on the right and Lane C (or the Leper Colony as we lovingly call it) on your left. Think of it as a V-8 motor with six cylinders opposite two cylinders.
My beloved Leper Colony --------- Lane Charlie. When I get fired I will miss it most of all; seriously. When we opened we were still under construction and it was dark and almost hidden which is part of the reason it got its nickname. After me and another guy being there for five shifts in a row he said something about “yeah – the Leper Colony – no-one can hear us cry” Any lane under our roof you can be assigned to and think tonight may not be bad. Not Charlie ----- Charlie has sucked for over 4 straight years now. I actually like that aspect of it. When you can conquer the Leper Colony you know you did something fantastic. Our center is along a creek about 5 miles from Down Town in an area often used as a camping area. A friend who is Delaware jokes me that Lane C is built over one of their burial grounds and its just his ancestors getting back at Whitey.
Work is like monkeys in a tree.
The big boss (top monkey) looks down & all he sees are smiling monkeys looking up at him. However, when the workers (monkeys at the bottom) look up, all they see are assholes. :eek:
Oh — the docs all went well and I see them again in six months. So if anyone invested in a Kopek voo-doo doll Flytrap they may want to get a refund.
Ugh… the downside of bipolar disorder: I’ve been pretty depressed lately. I’m doing a pretty good job managing it at work and around the kids, but I’m just running out of steam. Spent a lot of time last night crying and now my eyes, sinuses, head, and face hurt.
I know it’ll get better; it always does. But this time of year is so damn stressful trying to get end of year work done, prepare for Christmas, budget, shop, wrap, decorate, and still do everything else I need to do to keep the house running… which is a lot.
Sorry for the bummer post.
Went to the laundromat, now off to work.
{{{{Juliet}}}}
Wifey and I need to go to Costco this afternoon. Pray for us. :eek:
Swampy, you will be glad to know that one of the things on my list is TP. I have no idea what is on Wifey’s list.
I am mildly annoyed with USPS. I had two packages that made it all the way to Portland properly, and then got routed to McMinnville, which is on the other side of our town from PDX. Mac sent them back to us and I got them yesterday, but they should have been here Monday. Nothing major. They are just things I wanted for the train layout I’m gonna build this winter to replace the one I have.
See, when I was on death’s door a couple of years ago I got to thinking about what will happen after I leave, and realized that the only way the kids would be able to get my present layout out of the house would be with a chainsaw. So after some thought, I decided to build a new one that could be taken apart for removal. I think I have finally settled on a plan that will work, and will fit into the limited space I have available. So this winter will be demolition and reconstruction. I’m sure you all wanted to know that.
I’m rambling, so it’s time to go make myself presentable.
Happy Hump Day, and Rosie’s sig to you all.
Howdy Y’all! I went to the Pubic Sto’ and procured provisions, got ‘em back to da cave and put them where they stay until use. Then I went to Sam’s where twuck got fed gas and I got stuff from there. Whilst at Sam’s I did not buy anything I didn’t go there to get. Except the apple pie. I always get an apple pie cause they’re good. So, really, since I always get the pie, I didn’t buy anything I didn’t intend on buyin’. Talked to OYKW and he asked me if I got an apple pie at Sam’s. I said it was not on the list. He said, “yeah but you got one cause you always do.” I said, “if you know I always do then why did you ask?” He said, “I’ve been thinkin’ about apple pie and didn’t want to get my hopes up in case there was no apple pie.” The reason we are together is because no one else would put up with either of us. 
{{{Juliet}}} here’s hopin’ today is a better day.
I can understand that.
When you come back, bring pie.