gridlore | Is anyone going to be surprised?

My first day back after a month-long battle with pneumonia. What happened?

I get the worst truck in the fleet. No radio, no power jack (so no GPS), heavy gates, and it tops 58mph when you drop it off a cliff.

Said truck is parked so far into the warehouse that I had to wait for every other truck but one to move out before I could move.

This included three empty trucks.

Halfway through checking my small load, I get asked to do a load to Modesto. Big order, 2/3rds going on one truck, I'm taking the balance.

Then get two orders for Livermore. Finally get rolling.

All goes well until I get to a vendor to do a return, and find that we didn't include all the material.

I'll be back there tomorrow.

Since I was going to Modesto anyway, I got tagged with a pick-up at our one vendor in town.

Now, I knew where the delivery was, and I knew where the vendor was.

What I didn't know was how to go from point A to point B.

No Thomas Guide for the area, no GPS.

I had kshandra text me directions.

Why Google maps seems to insist on taking me down residential streets at 30mph when a half-mile further on there was an expressway with a 50mph speed limit is beyond me.

And what was I sent to pick up? One (1) 10-foot piece of Unistrut. Weighs about 8lbs.

Good thing I brought the big truck, huh? :)

Even with all that, and clocking out after 9.5 hours, I walked back into the warehouse (carrying my piece of strut) singing Back in the Saddle at the top of my lungs. Things are looking good at work, several new hires in the warehouse, we're building more rack space, and everyone is keeping busy.

I predict a very hot shower in my immediate future.

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The very last segment of the very last academic math class I ever took was about routing problems, so when something like that happens, I think, "They need to adjust their algorithms". Most notoriously, on our last vacation, we found that "fastest route" was 5 hours longer than "shortest distance". (After driving 1/2 hour in the wrong direction).

Sometimes I think the penguins who are trying to take over the world are involved in programming GPSs for us.

I've complained to Garmin that even when I explicitly select "bicycle" as what to generate the route for, they generate routes that use freeways (ie "non-motorized vehicles prohibited").

We had the opposite. SUV, pulling a trailer, and there was nothing to indicate that the suggested route was a trail that would barely hold a bike. A friend told me that this was characteristic of Utah, where they got highway funds proportionate to the miles of designated roads, and apparently the GPS took the official database's word that there really were roads there.

Glad to hear you recovered - pneumonia is nasty.

Is this where I avoid making a nice rack joke?

Glad to see you back in harness again.

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