New Year New You

You know how around this time of year, people are saying things like, "new year, new me" or some such similar nonsense? 

Yeah, apparently the plant never got that memo.  You guessed it.  There were shenanigans.  More shenanigans. It would seem there had been a fight yesterday.  In the bathroom.  Between two guys fighting over a girl.  

And I said, with my voice dripping with as much sarcasm as I could muster, "But, but, but, I thought taking our insulated mugs away was supposed to stop all that stuff!"  

But wait, there's more!

Yesterday morning, one of the second shift brazers came to day shift.  I know she'd been wanting to come ever since they hired her back last last year, but I'd been under the impression that they weren't going to let her.  But there she was. 

"Huh,"  I said to myself.  "They must have let her come to day shift after all," and didn't think much more about it.   Fast forward to just after lunch today...One of the assembly line supervisors came up to the sub brazing area and said that nobody had told that girl she could come to day shift. Nobody.  She'd just done it.  

That explains why Group Leader Shark didn't know, or Uncle Supervisor, or even the front office.  Nobody knew she was supposed to be coming to days.   She says Junior told her to come, but he won't be back until Monday, so they couldn't even ask him.  I don't know what's going to happen with that.   I mean, it is his decision who to move where, but he's still got to go through the proper channels. 

Heh, one of my coworkers said, "Maybe they'll get rid of him because of that."  No such luck...

And we won't even talk about all the bad parts they were telling us to let go last month that suddenly they don't want to let them go, only nobody wants to admit who it was who approved them...but it had to be somebody...

Who needs reality TV when I can just go to work? 

In more pleasant news, one of my coworkers approached me yesterday -- a lot happened yesterday that I didn't tell you about, apparently -- and told he her brother has cancer, and offered to pay me to knit a scarf for him.  I told her scarves take a long time, and she'd probably be better off just buying him one. 

But after I got home, I got to thinking I could knit him a cowl.  If I could find some bulky weight yarn, I can probably get it done this weekend, so today, I asked her if she had gotten him a scarf yet.  She said no, so I told her my idea and she said that would be better anyway.  

Knowing I didn't have any bulky weight yarn in my stash, I meandered down the yarn aisle at Walmart after work, and found this.  

 I liked the yarn, but didn't know if it would be suitable for a man.  As luck would have it, a few aisles over, I ran into a male coworker of mine and told him what I was planning and told him I needed a man's opinion on the yarn choice.  

"I'd wear it," he emphatically replied.  

Thanking him, I finished my shopping and as soon as I finish this post, I'm going to cast on a cowl, and I should have it done by Monday, especially since we did indeed get tomorrow off. 

Now if you'll excuse me, I must go find some size 13 needles.  

Laters. 

Hi Ho Hi Ho

 It's back to work we go...

I walked into the plant this morning, and my coworker said, "Good morning!  Welcome back!"  

"Good morning.  I hate to be back," was my response. 

Other than that, the day passed largely without incident, and I'm even hearing rumors that we're going to be off Saturday.  If we are, I might finally make that trip up to Batesville after all.  

But back to today, by the time we got off, my feet were so tired and hurt so bad, needless to say I did not go walk any Pokémon Go routes after work.  I came home, filled the bird feeders and sat down.  I've been there ever since save for a short moment to take a hot shower. 

Thus, this post will be brief, because I still need to find time to practice my piano and frankly, I'm already ready to go to bed.  

Oh, and I tried one of my hot cocoa topper marshmallows yesterday.  

It was cute, but overall, I wasn't impressed.  Let's just say, I won't pay full price for them if I see them next year. 

That's it for today.  

Wait, I almost forgot!  One of the local vape shops burned down a couple of days ago, and yesterday, the owner released the surveillance video clearly showing that the fire was set deliberately.  At the risk of repeating myself, and you thought life in a small town was dull.  

Now, I really am going to get off of there.  

Goodnight, all. 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Gentle Readers!  

Would you believe, I almost forgot to watch the Tournament of Roses Parade?  Seriously, I was right in the middle of an episode of Gilmore Girls, when I said, "Wait!  The parade!"  Fortunately, I still had a few minutes before it started, so I switched to Great American Family channel, which is where I usually watch it because they don't show commercials during the parade.  

As soon as that was over, I switched to ESPN and watched Texas vs Arizona State, which was a much closer game than I expected it to be.  I'm telling ya, if Texas wants to make it past --well, as of this writing, it looks like it's going to be Ohio State, but the point is, Texas is going to have to play a whole lot better than they have been lately if they want to advance past the next round. 

While all of that was going on, I took down and put away the Christmas decorations.  The house is sad again.  I still haven't put all the books and stuff back onto the shelves, though.  That'll come over the next few days. I want to figure where to put these three candles, which means I'm going to have to change stuff up.  

I'm thinking they might look really nice beside the painting my older brother did back when he was on his Bob Ross kick.   Hang on a second...

Something like this: 

I don't know.  I'll figure something out. 

In other news, as expected, I finished the Coal Harbour hat. 

Want to hear something funny?  I have one of those metal tapestry needles.  I know I have one, because it's what I'd been using to sew the buttons onto all of those Calorimetry headbands I knit last year.  When I started doing these sock yarn hats, I looked all over for it, figuring it would be easier to weave in ends than the fat plastic needle I usually use for my worsted weight hats. 

I couldn't find it anywhere.  I looked and looked, and was pulling my hair out in frustration.  What on earth had I done with it.  Right before the first freeze, I went out to my herb gardens and cut the last of the cayenne peppers to ....string them up and dry them.  That's when I found the needle.  

I'd left it on the thread I was using to dry the peppers.  

And finally, New Year's day is when a lot of people make resolutions to be a better person or whatnot.  This thing says, "Nope.  I'm going to be as evil as ever."  

The brat...