The weather is rather schizophrenic lately.....by Friday it will be in the 60's again for the next three days. Of course it has to get freezing again on our two days off work.....😕
I don't mean to brag.....okay, well, maybe I do mean to brag, but all that aside Tuesday, our 5th consecutive 10 hour day I felt the best I have felt since we began working 5 weeks ago. I'm almost sitting here wishing I wasn't writing about it, because I begin to think I will jinx it by mentioning it. It is like I just turned a corner and went from thinking all the time about how tired my feet and legs were, to not even thinking about them anymore. Now it is just me and the boredom walking side by side down endless aisles picking whatever.
About 99.999% of what we pick is clothing, or some sort of clothing related apparel. I no longer see the items as clothing, but just plastic bags with some sort of material inside. All I care about anymore is that the correct UPC (Universal Product Code) code, or ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number), or LPN (License Plate Numbering (I have no idea why it is called that, so don't ask) number is somewhere on what I am picking, and secondly will I get the positive 'BEEP', or the scolding 'BEE-BOOP' tone? Sometimes there might be, literally, 50 items in a large bin all completely identical in appearance, except that the one you are looking for is the only one with a slightly different ASIN, and you have to go through every single one of those 50 identical items to find the one correct ASIN that will scan properly and let you move on to the next 'pick'. That happened twice to me Tuesday afternoon.
It began to snow just after we entered the concrete bunker at 6:15 am, and was still snowing when we took out lunch break at 11:20 am. Thankfully it was not snowing when we exited the bunker a little after 5 pm to make the 1/4 mile uphill walk home in the 25º F, blustery remains of the day. Fortunately for us very little of the snow stuck, and as I write to you this morning there is NO snow on the ground.
When we go to work on a cold day like Tuesday we leave the front portable fireplace running so it doesn't get overwhelmingly cold inside. As soon as we get inside we turn on the other two heaters and usually within minutes our home is comfortable, but Tuesday we had to turn on one of the gas furnaces for a while to get to that comfortable state. Eventually we were able to turn it off, but it took about an hour!
We tried to stay up until at least 10 pm, but by 9:30 I was asleep in my recliner, and TLE was trying to wake me up to go to bed. I guess you could say I have officially switched over to going to bed at 8 pm.....at least for the next few weeks. And speaking of weeks, we now hove 15 work days left, and by this time next week we will have just 10....time is flying!
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