I worked at Golden Rule from 9:30 AM – 11:30 PM trying to catch up from the TN trip. I then went home and packed and did laundry ’til 2:15. I then took a shower and tried to find some eggs for breakfast. We were out. So I decided to make waffles. I couldn’t find the waffle iron. I look in the place it usually was. Not there. I looked thru every cupoboard. Nowhere to be found. At this point I was having some serious questions as to why I couldn’t just eat cereal like any normal person would have done in such a sitation. I considered waking Mom to ask her, but I decided I was too nice to do that; plus I didn’t want her to look at me like I’m crazy and realize that’s she’s right. I looked again in the place I had first looked. There it was. In plain sight. I made some culinary masterpieces (I will share pictures later) which I topped with syrup, strawberry jam, caramel syrup and chocolate syrup. Dad and I went down to the office where we finished getting everything together and I sent off some of the things I sold on eBay.
Soon Jeff Groff picked me up. Jeff is a book rack servicer for Choice Books. It just so happened that his route that day included Reagan. It was also his first stop. It was also timed exactly right. He dropped me off and I checked in curbside because they are less particular about weight. I had a very heavy box. I checked it in and went inside to Starbucks. As I waited in line, the skycap came up to me and said, “Sir! Sir! Your bag was too heavy. I’m sorry, I didn’t know until I picked it up. I could get in trouble if I let it go. You’ll need to take some things out or pay a fee.” I went over, knowing that if a bag was over 50 pounds, they charged $25. If it was over 75, they charged $50. I cut off the tape as best I could with my key. They didn’t have a scissor behind the counter for security reasons. I took out a toner cartridge. It now weighed 74.8! Yay! I taped it back up. The Northwest rep came over and said, “It’s still too heavy! Over 50 is $25 and over 70 is $50. Grrr… I had the weight threshold wrong… I laboriously used my key again and put the toner back in and taped it back up. TSA then untaped it to inspect it, then taped it back up.
I worked on CBNOVA’s T1 quote for about half-an-hour. Then I slept for an hour. (Remember, I never did get to bed the night before.) I hustled thru Memphis to my connecting flight to Wichita. I met a Holdeman lady in the boarding area that was heading to KS as well. I worked on the T1 quote the whole way. I sat beside a GWU International Affairs major. When I landed in Wichita, I had a voicemail waiting from our Amadeus rep from Memphis. She said that she had heard I didn’t get much sleep the night before and was wondering if she could meet me right outside security to have a hot breakfast. I called her back and thanked her profusely and said that I would have loved to and that I’m sorry but I didn’t get the message until after I left Memphis and that I probably wouldn’t have had time anyway and that it was so sweet of her and I hoped she hadn’t made a special trip out. She was silent for a bit then sheepishly admitted that she hadn’t called me until after I left Memphis and had done it as a joke. *groan* The thought of that hot breakfast!
Jeff N. graciously picked me up at the airport. We also met an Ellis Miller who is my dad’s first cousin. He was there to pick up his son who was on my flight as well. We stopped at Best Buy to get a firewire card. We looked and couldn’t find it for a while even after a rep told us where it was. They had them in new-fangled boxes that don’t look anything like the usual ones. What is this world coming to? (/rhetorical question)
I went to Grandpa’s for lunch and met Elmer Smucker, who is conducting pre-ordination meetings at Center. We (Grandpa, Elmer, Uncle Lowell and I)had an extremely interesting discussion about various doctrinal matters. The main topic of discussion was Effussion vs. Immersion. I became immersed in their effusive conversation. *groan* Sorry, couldn’t resist! 
Lowell shared an anecdote that illustrated the rapid maturation of technology. He and his 3-year-old son, Joey, were at a truck stop. They saw a man using a pay phone. Joey said, “Ha! Look Dad! That guy forgot his cell phone!”
I believe I have set a new record for most consecutive hours worked by a Golden Rule employee: 27 hours! I worked from 9:30 AM, March 22 to 12:30 PM, March 23. During that time I got one hour of sleep. I have worked 29 out of the last 32 hours. I have been awake 31 out of the last 32 hours. I think I am going to go to Grandpa’s to take a nap now.
8 Responses
March 23rd, 2005 at 8:53 pm
dude! man you are becoming sucked into the rat race. If it is any comfort I laughed at your pun about immersion. And the comment about Joey.
March 23rd, 2005 at 10:50 pm
“most consecutive hours…[d]uring that time I got one hour of sleep”? Uh-oh…
March 24th, 2005 at 2:06 am
Hey, since you’re so close anyway, you should just pop down here this weekend.
March 24th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
Ohh I love it. Pwned by another girl
Poor Hansy
March 24th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Haha well one of the benifits of being out here is we can have a LAN party!
Woohoo!
March 25th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
This would be a good place for me to add a comment, right?
March 25th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
very funny post there. but if you were so tired WHY did you blog first? You should have gotten sleep first then blogged.
March 25th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
Benji: Not like I do it all the time.
jdi: We get paid for business travel time. It is not necessary to work during that time. I did work for two hours of that travel time on a TI quote. That was the time I slept, was during travel time.
Jen: Thot about it… as did some other people from down there, but don’t think it will work so well this time.
Josh: One of the operative words there being “can” which means to have to ability to. On the other hand if certain parties are too busy (such as yourself)….
Jeff: Indubitably.
Susie: Because I am such a dedicated, hard-working individual.
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