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Faire season begins.
2022-Aug-31, Wednesday 17:11I still havent posted on Pride and July 4th yet.
Mid Aug and Faireseson begins.
My life goes wild through the end of the year.
Normally, in this season, Im up at 2230 On Fri night, eat dinner, do my Amazon sort,
then on to Faire, do all day there (Were still building, opening isnt til mid Sept) and zonk out some time after midnite.
My Saturdays till xmass are over 24 hrs long.
We replaced the decrepit Cuthberts kitchen trailer with qty2 8x12 buildings that connect.
We discovered this year that one of the buildings was racked out of square before the wall that abuts the other section was installed, so things are a tad out of square.
Building Cuthberts is going a lot faster than it used to, but we are still finishing the kitchen.
It took a day and a half to get the buildings leveled and another day and a half to do the roof.
In future years, this will go much faster.
Im hoping we can get down to a 1 weekend build and a 1 day teardown.
This way, we wont have the conflict between teardown weekend at Renn and opening workshops at Dickens.
During build, we go out to dinner on Sat night. Interestingly enough, both Saturdays, I was in my sleeping bag by 9pm.
At the end of July, I started a new day job, (first since Jan) where I go from Amazon to day job in about 15 mins and they are OK with me starting 6 to 630 am on day job, which gets me out of there before afternoon commute gets too nasty.
Unfortunately, Im still getting my internal clock working right.
At Amazon, I am now trained for almost all tasks on the floor, save problem solve and powered forklift.
Ive done pallet jack since the start.
I really prefer running pallets as i cover serious milage, a good day being 12 and a record of 15.
2 weeks ago, i didnt run fast enough, and they sent me to TDR cl;ass, 6 hrs.
Trailer Dock & Release.
Basically, I take a tablet and open the dock door, extend dockplate, check for shipping damage, lock the tail of the trailer to the building and a few other things, then reverse the process for release.
It also means 3.5 mi mornings.....
Last Sat, I heard over the radio (TDRs are on radio, so we know EVERYTHING thats going on) that the Mowry & Cherry St intersection was closed due to an accident.
Trucks would be delayed as they had to turn around and go up to Thornton and come in the other way.
Soon I saw no new trucks. 530 am and I was out of there, bound for Hollister.
I went out to look at the street for grins.
Id heard from people hiking in from the satellite parking area that the sidewalk was litererd with debris.
One of the managers was directing traffic out our driveway, cars only, the wrong way up cherry, inbound had to go to the satellite lot and had to use Auto Mall to get there.
The west side of cherry from our driveway (Cherry Oaks, as we are Oak5) to Mow3ry was ankle and knee deep in debris.
1 hydrant was broken, 2 lamp posts, a half dozen trees, debris litered the sidewalk and some landed in the Fed Ex parking lot next door.
3 severely damaged cars were in the street with a photo crew documenting the mess, and another 3 or 4 card sat with colateral damage from the initial accident.
It was bad. Obviously someone wwas speeding and the news said that booze and speed were involved.
I would learn on Monday that someone picked up and extra shift on morning sort, and while the druks went to the hospital, it was the Amazonian who picked up and extra shift who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Devon Black is with us out at the Queens College at Rennfaire this year.
Jeanie & Fred are still with Regents up the hill from us.
I was going to do the Scottish Games this year, butwe have so much to do at Cuthberts, Im going to Casa de Fruta again this weekend.
Once we get build down 2 only 2 weekends, Ill return to the games.
Im up past my bedtime.
Mid Aug and Faireseson begins.
My life goes wild through the end of the year.
Normally, in this season, Im up at 2230 On Fri night, eat dinner, do my Amazon sort,
then on to Faire, do all day there (Were still building, opening isnt til mid Sept) and zonk out some time after midnite.
My Saturdays till xmass are over 24 hrs long.
We replaced the decrepit Cuthberts kitchen trailer with qty2 8x12 buildings that connect.
We discovered this year that one of the buildings was racked out of square before the wall that abuts the other section was installed, so things are a tad out of square.
Building Cuthberts is going a lot faster than it used to, but we are still finishing the kitchen.
It took a day and a half to get the buildings leveled and another day and a half to do the roof.
In future years, this will go much faster.
Im hoping we can get down to a 1 weekend build and a 1 day teardown.
This way, we wont have the conflict between teardown weekend at Renn and opening workshops at Dickens.
During build, we go out to dinner on Sat night. Interestingly enough, both Saturdays, I was in my sleeping bag by 9pm.
At the end of July, I started a new day job, (first since Jan) where I go from Amazon to day job in about 15 mins and they are OK with me starting 6 to 630 am on day job, which gets me out of there before afternoon commute gets too nasty.
Unfortunately, Im still getting my internal clock working right.
At Amazon, I am now trained for almost all tasks on the floor, save problem solve and powered forklift.
Ive done pallet jack since the start.
I really prefer running pallets as i cover serious milage, a good day being 12 and a record of 15.
2 weeks ago, i didnt run fast enough, and they sent me to TDR cl;ass, 6 hrs.
Trailer Dock & Release.
Basically, I take a tablet and open the dock door, extend dockplate, check for shipping damage, lock the tail of the trailer to the building and a few other things, then reverse the process for release.
It also means 3.5 mi mornings.....
Last Sat, I heard over the radio (TDRs are on radio, so we know EVERYTHING thats going on) that the Mowry & Cherry St intersection was closed due to an accident.
Trucks would be delayed as they had to turn around and go up to Thornton and come in the other way.
Soon I saw no new trucks. 530 am and I was out of there, bound for Hollister.
I went out to look at the street for grins.
Id heard from people hiking in from the satellite parking area that the sidewalk was litererd with debris.
One of the managers was directing traffic out our driveway, cars only, the wrong way up cherry, inbound had to go to the satellite lot and had to use Auto Mall to get there.
The west side of cherry from our driveway (Cherry Oaks, as we are Oak5) to Mow3ry was ankle and knee deep in debris.
1 hydrant was broken, 2 lamp posts, a half dozen trees, debris litered the sidewalk and some landed in the Fed Ex parking lot next door.
3 severely damaged cars were in the street with a photo crew documenting the mess, and another 3 or 4 card sat with colateral damage from the initial accident.
It was bad. Obviously someone wwas speeding and the news said that booze and speed were involved.
I would learn on Monday that someone picked up and extra shift on morning sort, and while the druks went to the hospital, it was the Amazonian who picked up and extra shift who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Devon Black is with us out at the Queens College at Rennfaire this year.
Jeanie & Fred are still with Regents up the hill from us.
I was going to do the Scottish Games this year, butwe have so much to do at Cuthberts, Im going to Casa de Fruta again this weekend.
Once we get build down 2 only 2 weekends, Ill return to the games.
Im up past my bedtime.
