Authorized

But not confident or competent. I was so terribly intimidated when I got up on the tow motor. I was really hoping that the other guys would go back to work and not watch me, but alas my pitiful skills were observed by all. Sigh. The good news is that I didn’t run into anything or break anything! What I’m going to do is practice, practice, practice! That’s the best way to build confidence…for me anyway.

We were scheduled to work overtime today. I was going to have 4 people plus myself. Then yesterday one person (the new girl) backed out. That left four of us—less than ideal but still doable. I picked the one gal up from the jail (she’s on work release) and one other guy showed up when we arrived. That left one more to show up. But he didn’t. There is no way we could package parts with just three of us. Well, that’s not exactly true, but we wouldn’t have put out any quantity. So we made boxes instead, boxes for parts and cartons with all the appropriate labels to put the boxes in. We got a lot accomplished.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that we aren’t supposed to just make boxes. Mr. R showed up (owner of the company) on an errand not necessarily related to “checking up” on us. He saw we only had three workers. Next thing I knew, Ed was there. That wasn’t a good thing. We talked. I told him that I knew we weren’t supposed to just make boxes. T-Net gets paid for packaged parts—only! I told him that I felt that I shouldn’t punish those who showed up because someone else didn’t. Ed assured me that I did the right thing. Little consolation, really. We briefly discussed the need for more workers and the possibility of using college students. We need to do something since we got about 5000 more parts in on Friday afternoon.

Beth was hired as a server at Applebees. She starts training on Tuesday. The pay isn’t any better, but the restaurant is only about 5minutes from home, as opposed to 22miles.

Nelson finally started work on the “house”—the main incentive and reason we moved here nine months ago. The first day out there, setting floor joists was Thursday. It was a pretty day: sunny and seventy. Only trouble was he wasn’t thinking and wore a sleeveless t-shirt. Oh my, the sunburn is bad. We’ve been putting aloe on it. Last night he was awake most the night. His back was bothering him badly and so were his arms. There just was no getting comfortable. Amazingly, I slept through it. He’s napping on the couch right now.

Ok. Enough chattering. I mostly wanted to report that I made it through forklift training. I’ll try to write something more substantial later. TTFN