No bear sightings.

Thanks to UPS not being there last night to pick up our shipments, work was in a state of screaming chaos mild disorder this morning. I ended up with a couple of boxes going to Manteca. Joke's on me, the site is actually just a bit outside Manteca. A bit to the East. How far? The place I delivered to was across the street from a lot for shuttles to Yosemite National Park.

My day was made more interesting by the abject failure of the night crew to do well, anything. Because of them, I ended up lifting over 1,000lbs today. Nine boxes weighing 50lbs each that I had to move from the (wrong) shelf to my pallet; then off my truck onto a pallet provided by a client. That's 900lbs right there. The boxes for Manteca totaled about 175lbs, and I had to move them from the UPS cart to the ground, then onto my pallet. Another 350lbs of lifting. Add in gates, taking other boxes off the truck, unloading 20ft Unistrut by hand.. hell, I may have come close to a ton by the end of the day.

But not all was gloom and doom. I did something rare for a driver. I had lunch in a place with silverware and plates. My last stop in Livermore before heading into the Central Valley was next to a Chili's, and it was about lunch time, so I took my lunch (and both my ten-minute breaks) and enjoyed Queso. No beer, alas, but I'm making up for that now.

Real funny end to the day. I took off my backpack when I went into the men's room at the shop (to call the accommodations "cramped" would be like calling the Titanic's maiden voyage "only partially successful.") Come out, and it's gone. Hmmm.. I am tired, and Ghu knows I can be forgetful.. start to look around. Not in the office. Not in the sales bullpen where I talked Giants for a while. Not in either break area.. I even look across the street to see if I had failed to pick it up after I helped Harry get his truck parked. Nowhere to be found! Until I went back over to the men's room and found my bag exactly where I left it and Tim (my boss) standing there drinking some water and trying to look innocent. I chased his ass out of the warehouse. He will pay for this!

This has been another episode of "As the Wheel Turns" tune in tomorrow when we'll here our hero say: "My God, I've never had to deliver stiffening rods to a blank before!" (Let's play Match Game!)

They said I was mad! The fools!

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