A Week of Supervisin'

Well, my first week went alright, but I am happy that it's the weekend. I expected this job to be much more similar to the job that I had been doing for quite some time now, but it turns out that this new schedule is much more fast paced than weekend nights! While the requirements of the job are very much alike, there are a few critical differences that make this shift much more complicated to manage than weekend nights. On weekend nights we have two days from the date that a trailer arrives in the yard to get them unloaded, on weeknights, we only have one day! We also get trailers that come in during our schedule that must be unloaded in only two hours from their scheduled arrival time. This may not sound too hard, but it takes a little getting used to! I am enjoying the challenge and I am really hoping that I will improve with practice. So far, although my nights haven't been stellar, we have accomplished all that was required of us!

My new bosses are great, both of them are being very supportive and are willing to help me learn. Next week, another guy who does the same job that I do on another shift is coming to work with me and give me some pointers to help me out. Anyway, I am still very thankful for my new job and I anticipate before too long I will really start to enjoy it!

In bike news, Jeremy passed his motorcycle riding test last Monday, and I am now sure that I am ready to pass mine! I haven't ridden too much this week, but I did go for one ride on Wednesday morning. I am still really enjoying this whole bike riding thing! I can't wait to get a bike that I can actually ride to work! I think that I might try to get one like this.



Or This



I am now sort of thinking more about the cruiser than the street bike. I would love to have a street bike, but I think the cruiser would be more practical for riding to work. Either way, I don't expect that it will happen for a while, but I would sure love to be able to buy one of those! Well, I guess that's about it for now. I hope that all of you have a good week.

Super Visor

Well, as you can see, these are some super visors, as it turns out, I too am a supervisor! Yep, about six months ago, I asked my manager about becoming a supervisor and he told me that he would let the appropriate people know. He let them know and began giving me a little more responsibility, but after a few months I began to wonder if anything would become of it. At the start of the year, it was announced that they were changing the way they had promoted supervisors in the past, now you would apply for the job more formally by filling out an application and waiting for an interview. Anyway, I filled out the application, received two interviews and then they gave me the job. I was told last night that on Tuesday April 18 I will be starting work as a supervisor over our receiving dock on the weekday nights schedule. I am very thankful for this promotion and am looking forward to starting. Now I will finally have Sundays off again and a more regular weekend. Thanks for your prayers for me in getting this job and please continue to remember to pray that I will do a good job!

More Computer and Bike Stuff!

     Well, as I'm sure many of you remember, I have had a dual monitor setup on my computer for the last month or so. I was online (as usual) the other day and I found another ad for the same monitor that I purchased as my second one, the price, still only 129.99 after rebate. I got to thinking about how much nicer it would be if both of my monitors were exactly the same and decided, "Why don't I sell the first monitor that I got on eBay?". If I set my price just high enough so that if it sells I can almost afford the matching monitor, then sale or no sale the worst that can happen is I will lose the $3 it cost me to list the monitor on eBay. Well, I set the opening bid at $99 and the Buy it Now at $165. I am charging $25 shipping +$3 for optional insurance. Amazingly the monitor sold for $197.50!!! This leaves me with a good amount of profit after I buy my new monitor. I am very excited about this!



This is the monitor that I sold.



This is the new monitor that should come in the mail in a few days.

     In motorcycle news:

I found out the other day that the seal between the main part of my engine and the magneto (thing that makes electricity to power my battery) is leaking. It isn't a very bad leak, but over the course of the years that it sat in the guys garage that sold it, it allowed a lot of oil to get into the magneto. Long story short, I took it all apart, cleaned out all of the oil, resealed it and now it is working much better! My blinkers and blinking, my headlight is brighter and the bike just seems to run better.

Jason R. and I went dirt riding on Friday and we had a great time, it was pouring down rain the entire 3 hours that we were riding, but what fun!!! I crashed in 3 really deep puddles and went down once coming down a hill, I bruised myself a little, but nothing serious! Anyway, I love my bike! Thanks again Steve!!!!