Black Cat story: It was a warm early Wednesday morning here in Hewitt Texas, as the Don and the Tres were walking down the street. The sun was not yet up in the sky, there was a light breeze, and there was no traffic on the street. These conditions were perfect for the Tres and the Don to be out and about. During this walk there were not many discussions between the two of them, although they did stop at several mail boxes for a short break.
Now the story gets interesting. As we were walking, the Don could see something lying next to a driveway, which was a couple hundred feet away. Whatever this object was, it was black and it did not seem to be something that should be in the grass next to the driveway. As we got closer, I could see it was a black cat. The thought came to mind, could this be another dead cat, like we had seen last week?
Suddenly the Tres saw the cat, he was giving his full attention to the black cat. We were about 10 feet away when the black cat jumped up, turned, and ran to the other side of the driveway, where it quickly went up the tree. Now the Tres was pulling on the lead as he wanted to play with the cat. I am glad the Tres cannot climb a tree, if he could, I believe he would have pulled me up into the tree with him. The rest of the walk was uninteresting.
The End
Old work memory: I was asked to be manager and Lonnie was asked to be a supervisor. There was another person who was asked to go, his name was Terry, he came from the home office and would be a supervisor.
Part of preparation for opening a new DC (Distribution Center) was to locate each item that would be stocked in the new distribution center. Now the new center would be designed differently from the DC in Missouri, so we could not use the Missouri item locations.
We were allowed to give our thoughts about the layout of the racking and the traffic flow throughout the DC. The flow is very important as we unloaded trucks, checked and separated merchandise by location, moved the merchandise from receiving to the stocking areas, stocked the merchandise, filled and packed orders, moved the orders to shipping, loaded trucks, and all that would be done at the same time. Staying safe while we were doing all that was important!
Myself and Lonnie were responsible for the item placement. To explain, we had drawings of how all the racks would be placed in the new DC, then we had to decide where each item would be placed in the racks, using the item computer number, the size of the item, approximately how many would be stocked, and then provide the items new location number. We basically used the item size and quantity from Missouri DC.
Lonnie and I along with some other help from the Cape staff, worked on these drawings for several months. Then using these drawings, each of these items had to be entered into the computer. It has been too long since all this happened, I do not know how many items that we had to locate in the drawings, I would guess around fifty thousand items.
Well, I need to get a shower as I have been working outside this morning doing the usual watering of the flower pots, and I also cut up that tree limb that had fallen out of the tree. I want to go and get my hair cut today so I need to get moving.
We hope you have a best day and as always, please stay safe.
Old dog walker!
Senior person who hopes to get a cup of coffee after the hair butchering, Don the Ford
May today be better than your best day, but not as good as tomorrow!
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