01/19/2017

It has been awhile since I have blogged. I have been working 10 hour days and that has left me little time to formulate thoughts. I came to work after holiday break and things were easier. My batch numbers haven't gone way up but they have gone up a bit and the stress has come down a bit since I am getting used to the same things over and over. There are so many small things like under standing the run list inside and out and being able to see the run list and runs inside the run list as an example. If you had Transfer orders that looked like this 5001 5015 5016 5017 5018 4123 4124 4125 you would know the first one is an odd ball the next three are going to be the same materials in a run then it switches to another run of 3 batches of the same material. This helps if you are trying to spread out runs to different people. It also helps plan the night. Working the computer has gotten easier as well. So overall I hope I don't get fired because every day I show a bit more progress. Today was pretty fun because our safety director asked me to come up during a meeting and demonstrate stuff. Since I was a trainer it was simple as hell to know transitions and questions and things to bring home. I really need to be on a stage or a trainer somewhere because I have a knack of seeing inside the game of the dynamics of speakers and trainers. It means something to me when I have the balls to sit right square in front and participate. So much of my life I just wanted a paycheck I understand now I can make trainers be at ease if I participate and I also have to make sure I am not an over participater. Chiefs lost I may go into a blog about that later. Alex Smith and Andy Reid are just good enough to get to the playoffs and let you down. It was a good season though.

1/14/2017

I didn't get to blog much this week because we are working 10 hour shifts which leaves not much energy for much else. I did a good job of taking this pallet off of paletizer. The paletizer is millions of dollars and Gary one of the main guys at my work asked me to take this pallet off of it. the entry is narrow and there are sensors that are 100,000 dollars on right and left and it has long lamps going vertically like a garage light. He said ..."Whatever you do don't hit that glass" I was like welp lets do this. It was a bit ugly but I am not used to working in front of Gary and certainly was not familiar with this piece of equipment or the entrance. So good job for me to just go for it and not wuss out.

Saturday 01/08/2017

Saturday was pretty normal. We bowled and I have bowled like shit all year. Just need to not worry about it and do the best I can. I was making spares, but I can't get anything to carry. Standing straight up at-least had me release the ball pretty much the same everytime. At the end of the games I was slowing the ball speed down and it was going left. Sunday I made some videos and listened to Run The Jewels. I listened to the book think and grow rich on the youtube.

01/06/2016

Yesterday I smashed out 1 and a half piece lists and 12 batches. I felt pretty good. I had some episodes were I was annoyed and frustrated, but you got to be a man and push through those times. If I didn't use self-control or self-discipline everyday I would be broke. So when I felt annoyed I just told myself RAY THIS IS A CHANCE TO BE STRONGER LIKE DR.DRE-THE ROCK-JAY-Z!!! So when I have that vision in mind I am successful and I can smash out batches. We worked overtime yesterday and it was pretty fun. We had cherry mashes at work which was fun as well. Overall I am showing real progress on the fork-lift and I couldn't be more thrilled.

01/05/2016

Yesterday I got some products from the back side of a rack- I was able to flip out products...meaning if I need 600 KG's and I roll up to a pallet that has a 1000 KG' I need to throw off 400 KG's and take the 600 that is in that bay and flip the tags and put the pallet with 400 back saving time and work. I also work on backing in on bays so I am not turning blind side to a bay. It seems like I am doing better with my calculations. Lets say I need 476.28 KG that is 21 bags. I go to the piece area and get two bags that are 5.5 and .02 kg. So 476.8 - 5.5 -.02 Now I need 470.76 KG's So I am still going to need 21 bags. There is a bin out there with 6 bags (if I get to 6 bags I can't remember the Kg's off my head per 22.68 bag...I do have these memberized 22.68 1 bag 2 45.36 3 bags 68.04 4 bags 90.27 5 bags 113.4) ok so I go to clear out that 6 bag bin 136.08 is now transfered into the room. I am not done I ned to get the rest of the KG's 470.76-136.08. I know now I need 15 bags 15 X 22.68 so I transfer from 02/04/3/1/ 340.2 kg's and grab this bags. Look at my pallet I have 5 + 15 I have 20 bags all together and that is 5 tie 4 rows high. Good to go check and make sure I transfered everything to the room one last time. Turn the key and off to the next item.

01/04/2017

Today I went to planet fitness. I worked. I did 2 piece lists that were large like 3000 kg's and 7 batches. I had a wild hair because a guy I know seems to make lots of money and drives umm an outlandish sportscar. So I sent him a message over facebook and he wanted me to set a time with his secretary to interview with him. I wasn't really scared I just was like if he expects me to work right away I can't do that. LOL cart before the horse though. I probably should be freaking out because I may chicken out on the interview if it is tomorrow, but if things seem like they are plausable and it seems like I can learn from people and provide value, I would be all for making a leap of faith if it ment a chance at actually having some things I dream about (G-Wagon!) One thing that I have to really pat myself on my back for is I was sitting here thinking about work and I remembered my password was still jacked up. Instead of waiting to go to work. I was like. I need to get that done NOW. Take action NOW so it will save you some stress. I went to work and as luck would have it I was able to get it fixed. I want to always ALWAYS act if I can do something in the moment that may suck, but that will save me stress in the long run.

01/03/2017

I had a week off and I didn't do well with my diet. I got addicted to a sugar rush because I felt down most days. I did well compared to people who drink/do drugs/cut themselves. So that is good. I went to planet fitness today. I am studying DBT which is a new theropy. I love cars and that is one thing I need to think about more if I want to improve my mood. I go back to work and I don't know if I am off probation and good to go or fired. I am not really scared one way or another because I would like to move back to KC. I don't know what the universe has in store for me!

Happy New Years

This new year I am doing better than I usually do. I haven't had episodes of anxiety for awhile. I really wanted nba2k17 madden 17 and I wasn't planning on this but I updated my copy of mlb the show. NBA was on sale for 29 bucks. Madden was 20 bucks! and MLB was 10 bucks. So I spent 60 bucks on video games. Hopefully I get some enjoyment out of it. I already played a game with jason so that is good.