Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Reflections on being up for fifteen hours at 2:30 pm
It rained like all get out while we were at lunch last night and got darn cold. Of course we've got it some what better than the folks down in Florida but I suspect that come January they will still think they are better off in the warm sun than we are as we survive our cold winter snows.
Over lunch there was some brief conversations on the upcoming election. While support for Kerry is some what mild, a number of my co-workers have taken up the flip flop line from the right wingers that sit in the White House, the thinking went along the lines that Bush is a failed president. As one said, if things are screwed up now have four Bush years, think how bad they will be after four more. I thought that comment hit the mark.
We had a large load last night and I'm dead tired. But I am getting better at throwing the stock in grocery. Everyone else on the night crew has at least five years more experience in throwing the stock than I do so naturally they do it faster. But each night I learn a little more about the thousands of things American buy to keep themselves happy and content, how big they are, how many go on a shelf and the best way to present them to the customer. What a stupid country we are. We buy all this crap and then wonder why we're overweight and in rotten health.
So I get home and deal with my two lame computers. I using the lap top now as I had to download and upload some copy for the sight that this one could only take as the desk top was very ill. Every once in the one this one decides to call it a day, I never know when, which mean that everything I've done goes down the toilet.
I slept for a while then went down to the Dutch for a beer and read the newspaper. (they get the Wall Street journal there and while I know they are a bunch of right wingers, they write well and I like knowing what the other one percent is doing and thinklng-if that's the right word)
So in comes Rev Dave and Peter from Church. I've been spending a lot of my waking hours doing church stuff and today I didn't want to talk. They seemed to understand that when I begged off their invite to join them. I just wanted to have my three beer, read the WSJ and veg.
The Yankees play a double header today, starting at four. I may make the first few innings of the first game but that will be about it. I'm doing frozen tonight at 11:30. Right now I'm going into the kitchen to do the dishes from last night-this is part of an effort to give Kathy more time to herself-as Kathy gets home in about an hour and I've an estimated work time in the kitchen of just shy of that.
So how the hell was your day?
- posted by Peter Roberts @ 11:35 AM
