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Monday, July 15, 2024   Welcome to Monday. It was so nice to have what was essentially a two-and-a-half-day weekend. Our facility was shut down to facilitate an inventory audit. Order Processing began to shut down mid-day Thursday and by the time I got into work, about 2:30 Friday afternoon the shipping floor was nearly empty.    Our 'Freight Carrier Partners' were alerted that we would close at 7:00 on Friday, and our company gave most of the second shift staff the day off. That also meant that there were no loaders to load the trucks that did show up after 3:00, in addition, nobody alerted our inbound team that there would be nobody to unload shipping containers after that hour and they proceeded to operate normally. So between 3:00 and 5:00, there were three trucks to load, two containers to unload, and no forklift drivers. Three supervisors were pulled off of the inventory prep duties to facilitate this. So now there was less prep work done for the 'one-day' inve...

  Thankful that it is Independence Day! We all need to reflect and appreciate the bravery of our nation’s Founding Fathers who broke away from centuries of tradition to forge a new experiment of a democratic republic. They were risking everything that they had and the lives of not only themselves and their family but of all of the people that they were trying to liberate for something that was, for the most part, untried. There were many varying opinions amongst those gathered in Philadelphia in 1776, and through compromise and a desire to make things better for everyone they hammered out an agreement. If only our government could do something like this today.   Yes, I would be in favor of looking at a refresh of our constitution, especially the electoral college system, but I wouldn't trust this task to most of those currently in the highest levels of our political process today. What can we do?     How will I celebrate Independence Day? To my surprise I had...

 I am so very thankful for all the well wishes and support I received for my birthday. Had a 'group event' at the Trenton Thunder baseball game. I was concerned that I wouldn't meet the minimum of 20 people to be a 'group' but more than double that came!  Have been very overwhelmed by the responses. If everyone whom I reached out to had RSVP'ed it would have been much larger, but it was min-June and there are graduation events and people going away on holiday, so all that was expected. I know some have Saturdays as work days ( I am often in that camp) and one whom I reached out to, and had gotten special accommodations for, just don't do out-of-doors activities because of health issues.  I am overjoyed by the number of people who wanted to celebrate with me, whatever their motovation.   The overwhelming response blew my budget, and it may take a few weeks of crazy overtime to catch up. Being alone in the world for so long had brought on the expectation that ...