Wonder Of Wonders

Wonder of wonders, we have tomorrow off, y'all!  I couldn't believe it.  Heh, Group Leader Shark announced it in the morning meeting Thursday, and immediately one of the other brazers shouted, "No backsies!  You said it and no backsies!"  Which seemed a lot funnier at the time, now that I think about it. 

But there were no backsies and yes, we do have tomorrow off.  Even more, they let us go home at 2:00 today.  The first thing I did was to run home and grab the gas can...OK, the first thing I did was run home and run to the bathroom.  THEN I grabbed the gas can and went to The Ol' Corner Store first.  

Would you believe it, they still don't have modern gas pumps?  No card swipers, or chips, or anything.  So, I pulled out as fast as I pulled in and went to Mr. Monroe's, and wonder of wonders, the pump I went to actually worked!  That gas station has always been a bit of a hit or miss kind of thing.  

Anyway, I filled up the can with the intention of mowing later on today, but as it happens I will not in fact be mowing later on today.  And why?  Because wonder of wonders IT'S RAINING!!!  It's been raining for about an hour or so as I write this, which is probably more rain than we got in all of July.  So, I'll take it. 

Instead, I stayed inside and watched a few more Ryan Trahan videos, then I realized, hey, I can go back and watch the rest of season 9 of The X-Files -- which I'd skipped to watch the reboot seasons, when Mulder came back.  So, I did that, and knit a bit on the charity hat. 

I'm really liking the way these colors are knitting up.  I might have to get some more of this yarn when the Hobby Lobby in Batesville opens.  I'm not exactly sure when that will be.  I'd heard October, but I don't know for sure. 

But before it started raining, what I had intended to do was to get the front yard mowed, then spread some of this EZSeed in the bare spots I left in the back yard when I pulled up all that ground ivy. 

I may do that here in a little bit, after the rain stops, and I'll try to get the yard mowed tomorrow.  We're supposed to have a brief break in the heat, then it'll get hot again.  Still, any break is a relief after this last week.   This was Tuesday, and check out that heat index. 

I'd intended to blog that day, but never got around to it.  

This has been such a rough week at work, that blogging just didn't happen.  It seemed that every single order I got had something wrong with it, and the frustrating part is that those who could do something about it don't seem to care.   I had one order a few days ago that every single adapter tube was bent wrong.  Every single one.  

I showed the order to Group Leader Shark, but if the parts were done on second shift, there really isn't anything she can do about it. But it's been like that all week.  Yesterday, I had an order that two of the four adapter tubes were wrong, and today I got one that three out of the four were wrong.  When I showed that one to GLS, I seriously thought she was going to cry.  

She's as frustrated as we are, but as I said, all she can do is talk to the group leader on second shift.  If second shift GL isn't going to make her people do right, then all we can do is re-do all of those parts.  

Gee, if only we had an upper management who would give us the support we need to be successful at our jobs.  

On a similar note, change the phrase "answering an email" to "making a phone call" and this is me to a T. 

I've got so many phone calls I need to make, and so many phone calls I'm just not making. 

Maybe next week...Speaking of, I just realized that thanks to judicious scheduling of my vacation days, I only have two more Fridays to work this year!  Woo Hoo!  Maybe I can make some of those phone calls then.  

Now, wouldn't that be a wonder...

Of wonders.