Another weekend passed...
Dear Blog,
Another weekend has come and gone, and while I'm upset to see it go, I can reflect happily on what was, overall, a very good couple of days.
Friday night was a bit hectic at the hub. We, once again, did not get our seniority graduation party, although we're told that "it's coming." For the end of the shift, I got sent over to North side.
North side is an odd aisle to work. First of all, everything is backwards. The incoming, orange, and small sort belts (the ones that run in front of the sorter) run in the opposite directions as their counterparts on Southside, and the belts behind the sorter are all arranged as a mirror image of the belts in the southside. In addition, whereas our supervisor is generally a low-key guy who doesn't get on our cases much, the Northside supervisor is more of the hard driver type. In cae you're wondering which approach works more efficiently - well, the sample size is small, but our aisel always seems to be the first one out. Just saying...
Anyway, Saturday was good fun. Kait's High School had their Homecoming game at 4:00 and their dance at 7. I went to the game with her (not the dance, obviously), and we watched while they beat Lowell High - the High School of the city where we live, which has a student body about 4 times the size of Kait's school (and about 3 times the size of Chesapeake) by two touchdowns. We left for that game immediately after Dan Ennis kicked the game winning field goal for Maryland to put them past Clemson (on the road) and keep them in a tie for first place in the Division. Then, I got back in time to watch LSU beat Tennessee, also on the road, also on a play with fewer than 10 seconds to go - a TD pass, this time.
We went to the Cape late Saturday night, and then on Sunday I got up just in time to watch the first half of the Redskins/Cowboys game and then we went to Dino's (the local sports bar, which has the Sunday Direct Ticket package and abotu a hazillion TVs) and caught the second half, featuring the most spectacular ending I have ever seen. NOTE: many of you may accuse me of having poor memory, since the Redskins had a similarly memorable comeback win last season against the same Cowboys, but the thing a lot of people forget about that game is that the Redskins struck so quickly that although the comeback started with about 4:00 to play, the Skins had taken the lead with over 2 minutes remaining. With today's game, I went from thinking the Redskins could win with 35 seconds left, to knowing the Cowboys would win with 6 seconds left, to celebrating - vocally - as the Redskins did win with no time on the clock. I've never been on that kind of a roller coaster before. Not even with the Monday Night Miracle.
We drove back on Sunday night, in time to catch the second half of the Pats/Colts game. And now, here I sit, typing away early on a Monday Morning.
I've got a great bit from Bill Mahr's show Friday Night on my political blog, and I'll put up the college wrap-up right away - certainly by the time you read this.
Ta ta.
Another weekend has come and gone, and while I'm upset to see it go, I can reflect happily on what was, overall, a very good couple of days.
Friday night was a bit hectic at the hub. We, once again, did not get our seniority graduation party, although we're told that "it's coming." For the end of the shift, I got sent over to North side.
North side is an odd aisle to work. First of all, everything is backwards. The incoming, orange, and small sort belts (the ones that run in front of the sorter) run in the opposite directions as their counterparts on Southside, and the belts behind the sorter are all arranged as a mirror image of the belts in the southside. In addition, whereas our supervisor is generally a low-key guy who doesn't get on our cases much, the Northside supervisor is more of the hard driver type. In cae you're wondering which approach works more efficiently - well, the sample size is small, but our aisel always seems to be the first one out. Just saying...
Anyway, Saturday was good fun. Kait's High School had their Homecoming game at 4:00 and their dance at 7. I went to the game with her (not the dance, obviously), and we watched while they beat Lowell High - the High School of the city where we live, which has a student body about 4 times the size of Kait's school (and about 3 times the size of Chesapeake) by two touchdowns. We left for that game immediately after Dan Ennis kicked the game winning field goal for Maryland to put them past Clemson (on the road) and keep them in a tie for first place in the Division. Then, I got back in time to watch LSU beat Tennessee, also on the road, also on a play with fewer than 10 seconds to go - a TD pass, this time.
We went to the Cape late Saturday night, and then on Sunday I got up just in time to watch the first half of the Redskins/Cowboys game and then we went to Dino's (the local sports bar, which has the Sunday Direct Ticket package and abotu a hazillion TVs) and caught the second half, featuring the most spectacular ending I have ever seen. NOTE: many of you may accuse me of having poor memory, since the Redskins had a similarly memorable comeback win last season against the same Cowboys, but the thing a lot of people forget about that game is that the Redskins struck so quickly that although the comeback started with about 4:00 to play, the Skins had taken the lead with over 2 minutes remaining. With today's game, I went from thinking the Redskins could win with 35 seconds left, to knowing the Cowboys would win with 6 seconds left, to celebrating - vocally - as the Redskins did win with no time on the clock. I've never been on that kind of a roller coaster before. Not even with the Monday Night Miracle.
We drove back on Sunday night, in time to catch the second half of the Pats/Colts game. And now, here I sit, typing away early on a Monday Morning.
I've got a great bit from Bill Mahr's show Friday Night on my political blog, and I'll put up the college wrap-up right away - certainly by the time you read this.
Ta ta.
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