Yes, I'm counting down. To what you may ask my loyal follower(s)? VACATION!! From WORK!! I think it's been about a year since I took a vacation from work (with the exception of a day here and there...yeah that's it, about 2). My wife and I are going away. There is a beautiful casino/resort about an hour away, and the room is only $59 for the night. Ann has to work in the morning, probably, but that's ok. Usually you can't check in before 3 or 4pm anyway, and being it isn't far, it works. Anthony will be fine for the night and we are not far, so it is all good. Ann and I haven't been away together alone for a night since...well, our honeymoon I think. And that trip didn't turn out so well, being I broke my collarbone and was good for shit the rest of the trip.
Had 2 ice cream promotions to write this week. I am happy to say I made it through both. The first one was very tricky due to quantity issues to each location I ship to. Had to change quantities on the orders, then go through each set of orders and try to combine orders to save trucks. I feel great about it though, because I managed to save 3 trucks. It doesn't seem like a lot, but when you take into consideration all of the "picking" of the orders (getting the right quantity of each item), getting carriers to come in on time, getting appointments for delivery, and the like, this works well for me. Monday I will build on to less than truckload orders, which is easy. I also had another one that was a "short lead" promo. They wanted it 6 days from when it was written. Wheeeeeeeee. Writing those were very easy, because they write the orders as full trucks. So I'm satisfied.
This week, I'll catch up on "projects" and then next week is only 2 days in. Or so I think. I have 2 more promotions to write, one frozen and one ice cream. This is going to be not so much fun. I have a feeling I'm going to be working 1/2 day on Wednesday to make sure loose ends are tied. Plus somewhere in the next week and a half I am going to be training a few co-workers on how to do a replenishment report. That will be fun. It's actually easy, but I am hopeful that with this training, all of the reports will be formatted exactly the same, so there are no issues with our company or the company we run these reports for. Know what I mean?
Went to the Naturals game last night. They were losing 4-0 early, then made it 4-3, then were winning 6-5, then down 10-7 after 7, so we left. It was already 10pm at that point. We listened in the car on the way home, and of course we made it 10-9 in the 9th inning when I got in the driveway. Ann and Anthony came in the house, and I stayed in the car to listen. We tied it at 10 and I blazed a trail into the house to turn on the radio. We all listened as the Naturals won 11-10 and of course we weren't there :( Ah well, such is life.
Well, that's about it for now. Time to get my Sunday work done.
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