Monday, November 29, 2004

MONDAY

0650 - Alarm goes off.
0705 - Drag my ass outta bed.
0756 - Get to work, check emails, check voicemail messages.
0805 - Discover that a delayed shipment that finally cleared customs will be delayed
another day due to lack of available truck to bring it up from Kelowna.
0829 - Realize that we're about to run out of certain material contained in shipment.
0830 - Spend the next half hour on the phone with alternate trucking companies.
Give up on worthless trucking companies, arrange for our own transport driver
to pick up materials in Kelowna.
0900 - Decide not to participate in an all-day dry-assed meeting.
0902 - Run through MRP planning screens, setup resin schedules, update pricing contracts.
1100 - Step in on meeting long enough to pick at the lunch buffet.
1115 - Go for a walk. Take a new route behind the industrial park, through the farmland.
Meet a horse at the fence. He seems pretty cool. Decide to bring him an apple tomorrow.
1140 - Get back to work, step into bathroom to fix my toque hair.
1142 - Run into boss in hallway, tell him I feel for him. (He's stuck in dry-assed meeting)
1145 - Get back at it: Launch raw materials POs, organize mass BOM change for planning
department, correct discrepancies in inter-division finished goods transfers. Answer
silly materials-related questions from sales and aftersales personnel.
1350 - Afternoon shift warehouseman arrives, fill him in on what needs to get done, proofread
his wife's resume for him before he takes it up to admin.
1400 - Use connections with cross-border suppliers to set up BC bud smuggling operation.
1430 - Get the jibblies after drinking too much caffeinated tea.
1445 - Take a few minutes to browse the internet for old DOS games.
1500 - Create POs for service invoices, raw materials transport, and expansion CAP-EXs.
1600 - Wonder why the kids don't call anymore.
1610 - Realize its ten after four.
1615 - Water my plant, tell her she's looking kinda sad lately, decide to buy her some fertilizer.
1620 - Make appointment with with bodyshop for warranty work to my car.
1630 - Get the hell outta Dodge. Stop for groceries on the way home.
1730 - Get home, eat dinner, make fun of Christine cuz she's lost her voice.
1800 - Phone rings, 416 area code, think it's the bank, answer it, wind up participating in
half hour beer drinker survey... pass with flying colors.
1830 - Play some video games.
2100 - Decide to update my blog..... this lame shit was all that I could come up with. Shut up.

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