2024 March
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texxgadgetThe last pipe organ factory on the west coast is Schoenstein Organ Co, founded in San Francisco CA 1877,
moved to Benicia CA 20 years ago.
The company has come back from the dead, members of the family have also returned to the business since Jack purchased and revived it.
Each year, they have an open house where they show off whatever they have on the erection floor and have somepne play it for the crowd.
Its cool to wander the plant admiring the old tools that made the organ we are listening to.
One of the guys at Amazon, Dan grew up outside Corpus Christie TX.
I have a gut feeling Dan has the hots for me.
Dan has a partner and I dont usually date "attached" people, however and Ive been able to steer clear of even discussing the matter.
I am still on public transit after the readending the 1st of Nov.
It took a while for me to get the dragging plastic on the end of the rear bumper, and Dickensfaire and weather didnt help.
I finally got the plastic off at the start of Feb and drove it in to the body shop for the estimate.
We were expecting insurance to total it.
Since then, I get up at 2130, dress & eat dinner, at 2200 Dad and I head to BART where I catch a Fremont train.
At Fremont I have a 20 min layover before catching the 200 bus several miles till Im half mile from Amazon.
There are times when I wonder if Im the only one NOT jumping the gates at BART.
Seems like EVERYONE ELSE just steps over the turnstyle.
If all goes well, I get a 20 min nap in one of the beanbags in the Amazon break room before starting shift at 0030.
Im on Sunrise and Dan is on Morning, so our shifts overlap a bit.
When Im done, I take another nap in the breakroom and Dan gives me a lift to Oakland and I BART to Berkeley,
and transfer to another bus (after another layover) and walk another half mile home.
My commute is a LOT longer than it was with a car.
So back to Schoenstein:
Yesterdays organ is about to be shipped to "Good Shepherd Church" in Corpus Christie.
Dan is a Cantor at several churches in the local diocese and he also sings with the Livermore Opera.
I knew he would be working all day Sunday so there was no way to get him up to Benicia.
I sent him several pics from the event and finally of the sign stating where its going.
I found out this morning he was a section leader in the choir at that church!
Now, remember the car?
Well insurance called back.
Imagine our surprise when it came back 250 decutable from us and 11.5k to the body shop!
I was THRILLED. That car handles like nothing else Ive driven. It also has a kick ass sound system.
Then the body shop called back. They cant get the parts, so the car is to be totalled anyway.
Now Im NOT thrilled.
I have a mounting list of things I was going to do after faire season, but without a car everything is running behind.
The job at Amazon is a 4hr shipt with the possibility of beinf flexed up to 5 or down to 3.
For the last year, except during prime week, we are almost always being flexed down and they are trying to figure out how to get rid of Sunrise shift.
The problem is that we do a lot of things that would clash with a sorting shift, and we can sort ourselves because the machines are down for maintenence.
Cross dock moves would clash with running a regular sort.
I almost defaulted on several credit cards in Dec, but Ive managed to lower my cost of living and Im hopeful of reviving the last card this month.
Its very tough.
More later.
moved to Benicia CA 20 years ago.
The company has come back from the dead, members of the family have also returned to the business since Jack purchased and revived it.
Each year, they have an open house where they show off whatever they have on the erection floor and have somepne play it for the crowd.
Its cool to wander the plant admiring the old tools that made the organ we are listening to.
One of the guys at Amazon, Dan grew up outside Corpus Christie TX.
I have a gut feeling Dan has the hots for me.
Dan has a partner and I dont usually date "attached" people, however and Ive been able to steer clear of even discussing the matter.
I am still on public transit after the readending the 1st of Nov.
It took a while for me to get the dragging plastic on the end of the rear bumper, and Dickensfaire and weather didnt help.
I finally got the plastic off at the start of Feb and drove it in to the body shop for the estimate.
We were expecting insurance to total it.
Since then, I get up at 2130, dress & eat dinner, at 2200 Dad and I head to BART where I catch a Fremont train.
At Fremont I have a 20 min layover before catching the 200 bus several miles till Im half mile from Amazon.
There are times when I wonder if Im the only one NOT jumping the gates at BART.
Seems like EVERYONE ELSE just steps over the turnstyle.
If all goes well, I get a 20 min nap in one of the beanbags in the Amazon break room before starting shift at 0030.
Im on Sunrise and Dan is on Morning, so our shifts overlap a bit.
When Im done, I take another nap in the breakroom and Dan gives me a lift to Oakland and I BART to Berkeley,
and transfer to another bus (after another layover) and walk another half mile home.
My commute is a LOT longer than it was with a car.
So back to Schoenstein:
Yesterdays organ is about to be shipped to "Good Shepherd Church" in Corpus Christie.
Dan is a Cantor at several churches in the local diocese and he also sings with the Livermore Opera.
I knew he would be working all day Sunday so there was no way to get him up to Benicia.
I sent him several pics from the event and finally of the sign stating where its going.
I found out this morning he was a section leader in the choir at that church!
Now, remember the car?
Well insurance called back.
Imagine our surprise when it came back 250 decutable from us and 11.5k to the body shop!
I was THRILLED. That car handles like nothing else Ive driven. It also has a kick ass sound system.
Then the body shop called back. They cant get the parts, so the car is to be totalled anyway.
Now Im NOT thrilled.
I have a mounting list of things I was going to do after faire season, but without a car everything is running behind.
The job at Amazon is a 4hr shipt with the possibility of beinf flexed up to 5 or down to 3.
For the last year, except during prime week, we are almost always being flexed down and they are trying to figure out how to get rid of Sunrise shift.
The problem is that we do a lot of things that would clash with a sorting shift, and we can sort ourselves because the machines are down for maintenence.
Cross dock moves would clash with running a regular sort.
I almost defaulted on several credit cards in Dec, but Ive managed to lower my cost of living and Im hopeful of reviving the last card this month.
Its very tough.
More later.
