Good news is when you get home in the morning from a long night of drinking it's still dark...silver lining.Quote:
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Good news is when you get home in the morning from a long night of drinking it's still dark...silver lining.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenBBN
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1 day when I rule the world, we're going to spring forward once and never spring back. That way you get the benefit of the long summer evenings without it getting dark in the winter at 4 pm (an exaggeration, but not by much). I did some reading and the US had year-round DST from 1942-45 and for about 15 months in the early 70s. Just do it again and make it permanent. I'm trying to figure out who'd be against this.
If DST lasts all year long, sunrise in dodge city kansas would occur at about 8:40 am on the shortest day of the year. I would not like that if I lived there
On my way to deliver $28,000 worth of fruit. New line of work, I guess.
That's the problem. They move it back b/c of how late the sun rises in winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_bgblue
The politics of it is really fascinating. There is actual lobbying over it and fighting over when to make the switch as well. Rural folks generally want more light in the mornings, esp. for kids waiting for buses etc.. in the 70s/80s the candy industry pushed to make sure the switch was after Halloween b/c they wanted more light for trick or treating. At least I think I have that straight.
They can make anything political it seems.
You may want to inspect the contents closer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Are you sure you are not delivering truffles or saffron instead of fruit?
Well, the Volvo is gonna have to make a lot of trips
When we started, I didn't have help.
For two hours, we had athletes helping. That was the golden hours.
Now it's coaches. And me. Attachment 5928
Getting close...
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Better turn the lights on.
I am finished. Headed home, skipping dinner and straight to an adult beverage.
Now I've got "30,000 pounds of bananas" by Harry Chapin stuck in my head.
My best guess is that it was 200,000 pounds of fruit. Could be a little less than that, but it was about 1,000 boxes of 10, 20 and 40-pound assortment of fruit. I am SO sore now, strained all kind of things. Also have nearly 8 miles on Fitbit today with 17,000 steps.
I was responsible for landing the sales in the hands of the student-athletes, collecting their forms, accounting for the forms, placing the order (my wife wasn't real happy to see the invoice come to me, by the way--neither was I), and oversee distribution. The student-athletes were responsible for picking up the orders and delivering it to their end-customers.
The truck arrived around 11:15 this morning and had to be emptied. The A.D. and I emptied the entire truck together; me with a pallet jack inside the truck, and he was driving the forklift.
Then when they were emptied, because the boxes were a mismatch on different pallets, we had to assimilate the boxes together. Then place them strategically where workers could load them into cars, in a logical (designed with the form in mind) order.
That took about 90 minutes with very little help. At 1 pm pickup began with cars driving through--we had one board member getting names, pulling their forms, and then handing the form to me--where I had to hand-pull every box for 30-40 minutes by myself and load every car. No help.
At 1:40, athletic P.E. began, and for a period of about two hours, we had tons of help. I tried to do as little as possible then, while the able-bodied young men and women hoisted the boxes, and I sometimes called out the orders, walking with the cars down the aisle.
And then school ended, and practices began or weren't called, and they left, and fortunately, there were a few coaches that hung around. But I was one of about 5 or 6 for most of the time. I didn't really like taking the order form and calling out the order, so I got on the assembly line, and pulled fruit and loaded. When we were low on coaches, I would walk down the line farther and load more, but it got to the point where I was basically loading from 2-3 pallets (there were 17 pallets with different boxes of fruit), and then return for the next person and load from there again.
Finally at 6 our time, it was supposed to stop--we had 12 people who had not picked up their orders, which wasn't bad, and two people that did not turn in orders that needed to be filled. One of them plays on the same club and school team as my son, so I was trying my best to accommodate them, even though Ryan "forgot" to bring his order form--it was in the living room, a full six weeks past due, and of course, way past the time for ordering fruit. Anyway, we got very lucky, as I ordered extra fruit in case of problems--there were none, shockingly, as the accounting was perfect--and we could fill the late orders.
Big success. Lot of pain. I'm too old for that nonsense. Next year I may help on the accounting end of it, but I don't think I will be there for delivery day.
Daggone Darrell. Next year hand truck it into the cafeteria and let people come in and pick up their orders.
Clean the gutters, then......
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It would take forever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catfan73
Believe it or not, this is the product of a lot of study and manpower on how to make the process the most efficient possible.
Hand trucking it into the cafeteria (we could actually use the forklift to drive to the cafeteria door, so that part is easy) would be one thing. It would take extra time to get it in there, and it is sometimes used (it was Thursday) for some sort of cheerleader practice. Or was it flag? Or something.
Anyway, the problem would exist at pickup. Having 200 orders have to haul an average of 100 pounds each back to their own car would be a catastrophe. First, the cafeteria isn't immediately adjacent to the parking lot. There is a very broad sidewalk, but it requires maybe 150 feet to walk to get to it, and that doesn't count where you park.
Then you figure--how are we going to get little old ladies (OK, 40-somethings) to haul their fruit boxes? If they only had a 10-pound box, or maybe a 20, then they could do that, I guess. Larger than that, maybe they could hand truck it back to their car, and then return the hand truck back to the cafeteria. And over and over, so on and so forth.
No, it's just a miserable experience that produces about $25,000 badly needed dollars for the athletic program each year that a few souls with sucker written on their forehead have to deal with. I'm king of that category.
Darrell, are you sure that there was only one truck that made the delivery to the parking lot?
Yup. I was inside it, using the pallet jack to drag each pallet to the edge of the truck so the A.D. could take it with the forklift. Every. Dang. Pallet.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_bgblue
(But it wasn't bad with the pallet jack. Kind of fun, actually. If my day had stopped with that, it would've been ok.)
Just trying to figure out how one truck could haul 200,000 lbs. Most over the road trucks are limited to 80,000 gross weight which includes the weight of the trailer and the tractor. 200,000 lb loads are normally transported by rail unless using one of these rigs.
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Duh!
Check my math.
20 pound average x 1,000 boxes is 20,000 and not 200,000.
It felt like 200!
Probably a little less than 20,000, but close. Had 10, 20, and 40 pound boxes, but way more 10 pound than 40.
Very happy to know your shipper was not breaking interstate and intrastate laws delivering the items that you worked so hard to see delivered.
Just dirty math but 200k lbs of oranges would be like a million oranges.
Or in another words a sh@&(t load of oranges😳
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Yeah, probably only 100,000 oranges. A pittance.
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Originally Posted by blueboss
I think it goes like this:
one.
a few.
several.
a dozen.
a bunch.
dozens.
a bucket load.
a bushel.
a crap load.
a crap ton.
a s*** load.
infinity.
Felt like infinity, but probably just a s*** load.
Love this time of year. Football and basketball. Go Cats.
Went to bed 4 hours ago, and wanted to sleep in til the game kicked off. I'm not 21 where I can do that any more!
How about a little upset win for Kentucky today?
Okay! Done deal!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
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Wish I could do that with more things!Quote:
Originally Posted by blueboss
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Originally Posted by Darrell KSR
Woke up at 5:00 like I always do and started grinning all over again. :653:
Day two and hopefully final day of out door Christmas decorating.
So far only two trips to hardware/Home Depot stores.
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Our tree went up today with 3 grand children assisting. It was amusing to watch and fortunately everything survived in good shape. I even survived the chore of getting the unassembled tree and ornaments down from the attic unscathed..
Just finished raking the front yard. 14 Lowes lawn bags and believe me, they're stuffed.
I wasn't a great neighbor yesterday. I cut our grass for the last time and got fallen leaves at the same time--about 4 bags worth of clippings, total. There was some cut grass and cut fallen leaves that blew out from under my mower onto the sidewalk around my house (I have a corner lot, so I have sidewalk on the front and side of my house). I guess I could've blown the sidewalk clippings into a pile and bagged those up, but it would've taken more time and I still had to get my Christmas lights up. So I blew the sidewalk clippings into the road. Total was probably less than a bag, but it didn't look good having a line of clippings laying in the road about 3 feet off my lawn. It's going to be rainy and windy today, so hopefully the evidence of my bad-neighborness has been blown away.
I used to live at a place that had 2 huge oak trees planted in my next-door neighbors' yard, but right on the property line. The prevailing wind usually blew the leaves into our yard. Took about that many bags to get them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catfan73
Of course they cut the trees down about 2 months before we move. :mad0176:
BTW, do you see kids going around raking leaves anymore? I don't in my subdivision. I made some good money in my early teenage years doing fall leaves.
About half the leaves I rake every year are from neighbor's yards, especially this one huge and half dead oak tree. But he's 90. What are you going to do?
I see signs up for leaf removal but I'm sure they're put up by the lawn care guys. I would have gladly paid a teenager or two for doing the job but apparently around here they don't need money.