Unbelievable day at work.  First, I felt like crap.  I have been  sick - today was the worst day yet.  How I dragged myself out of bed, I have no idea.  I don’t really even remember driving to work.  I was totally out of it.  I went into automatic mode - there were several orders to pull and hardly any of it had been done yet.  It was almost 7:00am before I realized that the manager hadn’t shown up - who is usually there at 6:00am.

I called him, no answer.  I called my old boss downtown to let him know what was going on - I can’t delivere product and run the store at the same time, it’s one or the other.  After about 15 minutes, my manager called - he had overslept.

Onto the day’s business.  Delivery here, pickups there, more deliveries - all OVER the place. Salesman whining about getting his delivery done first.  His was not the first in the truck routing system, I go by who puts their stuff in there first, if the guy with the stuff in there first wants to okay it, then I’ll do the other one.  Well, it’s already after noon and I”m just leaving the yard in Phoenix - I have 2 deliveries, one of them a very long distance away by local delivery standards. 

Yeah, it was close to 5:00pm before I got off work.  No break, all day long, which only helped me feel worse.  I was ravenously hungry and couldn’t find anything low-calorie/good for a diet.  I settled on a small, carne asada burrito.  No cheese, no guacamole, it’s mostly just meat with a flour tortilla.  Flour tortilla? Big no-no  on a diet but I wasn’t about to go around feeling as bad as I was and further exacerbating the situation by not eating, either. 

Well, whatever.  I have been trying to find a person with the right kind of truck for days now to move that trailer over here, so far, no luck.  But, now that I know that the semi can pull the thing, I am going to ask the boss if he’ll let me use the company tractor.  My old boss would let me, I don’t know about this guy.   Umm, take it back, we did find someone who would do it - for $200.  Both the owner of the trailer and I balked at that.  $200 for 24 miles?  Bunk.  That’s almost $8 per mile!  No thanks.  A regular towing company would do it for less. 

I have nothing else.  Plenty to say but little energy right now.  There are things that need done around here - I am making Michael pick up the slack anymore.  He’s here, he’s going to work, period.  Today he took out the trash, turned on the dishwasher AND unloaded them after they were done WITHOUT my having to ask him.  He has found out that I am very intolerant of people living with me that are not going to pitch in and help out.  Yes, Michael left - for a while - but came back.  I prod him every single day about school - I continue to hear how he’s going to get registered and I continue to hear the excuses about his mom not having a vehcile available so they can’t go.

Take  a bus.  I have little sympathy - well in his case - I have no sympathy whatsoever - for slackers.  Oh, the dog crap was also picked up.   He knows the alternatives: Computer will be password protected so he can’t use it and the Direct TV cards will be removed from the receivers so he can’t watch TV.  That is quite the motivation for a person like that, trust me, it is. 

Oh, and it rained again today!  But I was in no mood.  Being sick, standing out in the rain attempting to load and strap down a truck isn’t much fun.  

I’m outta here.

ben