Ever have one of those days? My alarm was set to go off at 5am, then again at 5:30. I remember the 5am alarm, but not the 5:30. So, when I woke up at 7:23am, I said fuck it, pardon my french, called in to work, left a message for my boss, told him I would be in this afternoon, I had some stuff to do this morning. That "stuff" ended up being watching parts of Oprah, part of a tv show from a few years back called Seven Days, and then finally going into work at 12:15.

Of course, as soon as I got there, I was busy busy busy. Most of the stuff I do first thing when I come in on Monday mornings I didn't get to until about 2pm. A customer rejected some material, so I had to sort through how many coils we had sent her that "could" be rejected, and send that to the technical rep from the mill. I also worked with the warehouse to cancel a couple loads that were due to deliver Tuesday. These two loads had coils on it that I am concerned could also be rejected, and since the customer doesn't have acres of space for a bunch of rejected coils, the last thing I want to do is send her more for her to reject. My only concern is that one of the coils she rejected should have been ok, if the problems at the mill from last August/September were truly fixed.

It's always something. So by the time I got everything sorted out and the emails sent that I needed to send, my afternoon was half over, lol. I got some invoicing done, just before 4pm, so I left the invoices sitting on my desk to be put in envelopes tomorrow when I get in.

I did get a good chuckle about 3:30...an outside salesman called me asking if I had a customer PO for a specific order, I looked in the folder and said, "Nope, don't have it." He called the customer and asked them to fax to him. But for some reason, he wasn't receiving it, so he requested they send it to our office, to my attention. Well, they faxed it, but they left my name off it. So one of our coordinators saw it on the fax machine and faxed it to the salesman. The salesman saw it come over the fax, figured it came from the customer, and faxed it to me, back to the same office it just came from! It even had this little fax sticky address thingy on it, saying it was from Todd to Kevin. Kevin didn't even see it, lol. So I walked over to Todd, and asked for a copy of the original fax that he had, so I didn't have a fax of a fax of a fax. Then I called Kevin, and told him what he did, chuckling all the while. He thought Todd had the PO the whole time, so I explained that it had just come over the fax 20 minutes earlier. That got Kevin laffing too. Killed a tree with all that, lmao.

The drive to work was great today (only because I was doing it at 11:30am). Tomorrow, I HAVE to get up at 5:30, so I can leave at 6:30. They are doing construction on this one section of one of the roads I take, and traffic gets backed up. Well, Sunday they moved traffic over to the new section they just built, because they need to erect the new toll booths. See, they're taking the toll booths that are at one road, and moving the eastbound booths further west. They will be widening more of the road next year, and the governor is finishing up this "open road tolling" plan which is supposed to ease congestion. Yeah, right! I haven't noticed it yet. Will be a few more years before I see a change in my commute time. Typically it takes at least an hour to get to work, that hasn't changed in a year and a half, and I don't see it changing in the next two years. So anyway, with this new lane configuration, I'm expecting that everyone will come to a complete stop there, because they have to stop and say "Wow! New lanes! I hope they aren't charging me a toll here!" Stupid idiots, all of them. There's a freaking sign that says no tolls will be collected there! Duh! So to compensate for this, I have to allow 90 minutes for commute time, just in case. I know if I don't, I'll show up at work at 8:30, which means I either cut my lunch short, or I stay late, which I don't like doing, seeing as how I have an hour drive home too.

So, it's off to bed for me, gotta try to get some sleep so I can actually get up at 5:30, lol.