I happen to have a few minutes, so I figured I would let you know I am still sucking air. Haven’t had a lot of spare minutes, so as always the blogging goes away first.
I had been cutting spline for a wood contract – that finished with a whimper. It’s all cut, and ready to go, but the delivery date got moved – again. I had finished the spline, and was slicing up the last board I was using to put some extra pieces in the order (I’m cool like that) when the motor on my table saw retired. Great timing. Anyone with a spare 1 1/2 horsepower electric motor they won’t need, let me know.
The office manager has been on vacation this past weekend, so most of the pre-BlackFriday preparations are being done by the owner and myself. The preparations consist of Kate telling us what needs done, and then me supervising and facilitating the process. Since this is my first job in retail, and consequently my first Christmas in retail, I’m learning a lot of things very quickly.
Gotta run – time to get going, since I need to stop by the warehouse on the way to the store – which is not a new thing, but this time of year we start siphoning off all the merchandise we have been storing up all year, so I pull up at the warehouse empty and leave loaded, a reverse from the rest of the year.
Sorry for the late post – today’s schedule was: cut the rest of the spline, go to the races.
The schedule became: get the tires replaced on the front of the Camry, cut some spline, go to the races.
The most important part of the schedule? Go To The Races.
Yes, this was taken on the way out. The rest were taken in order:
I caught a little grief for wearing a Dodge lanyard and admiring the Shelby 500 right next to the Dodge RV.
The Shelby driver is a Marine/Navy man. We had a nice little chat.
Pardon the cruddy quality, but I just had to show you how close I was. I was standing on top of the Dodge Dealers RV inside of Turn 3. And yes, that was the number 3 Chevy Truck towards the end of the video …
Well, having left (several) messages a the number provided, and still not having heard anything back or even gotten a message back, I am beginning to wonder just how acute the need for donors is.
It is still weighing on my heart, so I will not completely shut that door. Maybe close it most of the way to keep the draft down.
If you are a friend on Facebook, you have probably seen my plaintive appeals to help vote Kidstop Toys as the Best in the Valley. We keep falling behind, so if you could help out that would be great. Just follow the little linky thing back where I typed “Best in the Valley”. Thanks.
and, by the way, if you happen to be in the neighborhood of 69th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale any time soon, stop on by and I will personally give you a tour of the store. With McGuire and Murphee’s permission, of course.
