Snow!

There I was at work, just a working away, when my coworker called to me, "Becky, it's snowing!"

"It's snowing!" I shouted, then leapt over my brazing stand and ran to the door, shoving old ladies down, scattering chickens, and stepping on kittens in my haste to get outside to revel in the snowfall. 

OK, not really, but that sounds so much better than I casually strolled to the nearest door and looked out of the window, which is what I really did.  Sure enough, tiny little snowflakes were floating down from the heavens.  It didn't stick, but it was still nice to see.  

Now, this weekend is going to be a different story, as this is what we have in the forecast.  Oh, and just so you know, we did not reach that high of 37.  

They keep going back and forth between snow and rain, but what with the temps it'll end up being an icy mess either way. 

The good thing about it is that they're doing inventory this week, and we are all going to be off on Friday anyway, and the ones who aren't working inventory will be off Thursday as well.  I think.  The latest rumor going around plant is that they're going to bring in all the employees to do inventory.  I don't believe that one, because they've already put out the list, but I've heard it from several sources, so who knows. 

I mean, what are they going to do?  They can't write cards, and -- in the words of a former supervisor of mine, "you got to have sense enough to count", which most of the employees out there don't have. 

Ask me how I know...Yep, every single order I got today was short of parts.  Every. Single. One.  Oh and you remember when I said all those parts that they'd been telling us to let go they were suddenly not good enough?  We got there this morning and one of the auditors had flagged several orders and sent them back up to tubing. 

But after a lengthy discussion with Group Leader Shark, Uncle Supervisor, and a few of the auditors, they sent them back to the line.  Then the auditors brought out this board that had examples of parts...I don't know if they were bad or what, because I didn't go look at it.  The question is, why did they bring it over to sub-brazing?  Shouldn't they have taken it to tubing, you know, where they make the parts in the first place?  

Wouldn't it make more sense to have them check the parts before they run 216 bad ones?  It would to me, but what do I know?  I don't have me one of them fancy schmancy college degrees. 

Well, I do, but, but, but that's not the point.  The point is, it should be common sense to make tubing check their parts instead of just sending them on to the next person and saying, "If they're wrong, someone else will catch it."  

In other news, this cold weather is making it feel like Christmas again, and good thing, too, because I got two more cards today.  

And finally, even though we didn't have any tornadoes in the area, the wind blew so hard it blew the cover off of my fire pit.  Fortunately, it didn't go far, and got stuck in my fence.  It's now safely back on the pit and weighed down with firewood. 

Speaking of, I lit a little fire in the wood stove when I got home, which I don't normally do during the week, but as cold as it was, it felt really nice.  

Oh, and my coworker loved the cowl I knit for her brother and insisted on paying me for it.  I was only asking for the cost of the yarn, but she gave me some extra.  When I tried to give the difference back to her, she said, "No, you will not!"  

Anyway, I hope her brother likes it, because I sure did, and now I want to make one for myself.  

Maybe I will.