Anticipation.

Eager anticipation.

I think I may have finally caught up on my sleep. Over the weekend I did some serious catching up! I think if I cut loose I could have my week done by Wednesday noon. Biggest problem is that many of the businesses and people I interact with are not open when I want to do business.

Duh! People are just no darn good! Episode twenty-one. Received a call yesterday from our core customer. We had a load deliver to their Abilene warehouse that was short. This was a new driver and he had made an Abilene, Fort Worth, Waco circle. The call came from a dock inventory controller, the load had arrived over the weekend but was not to the dock until this morning. We laughed at the office that maybe the new driver thought this was like Blue Bell, eat (or in this case drink) all you can and sell the rest. The customer was telling us that we would be invoiced for a pallet of soft drink. A pallet! We called the director of transportation at the Abilene facility and asked what we were supposed to do. He was short. Load count is the driver's responsibility. We explained that the loading facility in Waco does not allow drivers on the docks and that the guard at the guard shack does a count and seals the trailer and the hustle and bustle of the traffic does not allow the time or space for our drivers to check the count before the guard moves on. We were told that it was our problem to figure out a suitable process to remedy this situation. We called the dock office at Waco and left a message, asking them to return our call at their earliest convenience. Of course in a situation like this insurance is not in play because this was not damage, basically it was a dispute in count with us in the middle with empty pockets. In a few minutes the phone rang and it was the same dock inventory controller from Abilene, he made some quick chit chat before revealing his real reason for the call. While the load in question was one pallet short, it had been brought to his attention that the pallets on this load were new larger pallets and that the total product count was good, so never mind! Just about the same time the Waco dock office returned our call and we let them know what was going on. They laughed at the count problem and said it wasn't the first one since they had begun working in the new larger pallets. We discussed the "no access" problem that prevents our drivers from being able to do a load count and they told us to have the drivers mark the paperwork SLC (shipper load count) and that as long as the trailers were sealed by their personnel and the trailer seal is intact when it delivers, any discrepancy in count is the shipper's responsibility. And now you know the rest of the story and one more chapter of people are just no darn good!

Krl and I are trying to put together some plans. She is antsy. This weekend is our anniversary so we will probably do something! I think we will get a divorce and just live together. HOT! That ought to stir things up! Actually that would probably be pretty tame compared to some of the things we have discussed! I think I am up enough on my work that I can take some time off to do things we need to do and more importantly want to do. I think I have almost a week in comp time built up!

I am getting frustrated with the insurance situation at work. The forms have been turned in to elect to enroll or not and now they are just sitting. Come on guys, we need to move on this! Typical hurry up and wait.

Kat is coming over today. Krl was wondering about +e, I don't know if she talked with Kali or not. We aren't sure if +e is even in town. It sounds like a party! Fillies, swimming pool and the hot Texas sun.

FATHER, strike down the infidels! Take this day and super size it! I continue to lift up Krl for YOUR healing. I continue to ask for YOUR gifts of healing and care for those near and dear who are in need. I pray for those who are sad and heavy hearted with grief. I pray for those of us who stumble in our walk with YOU. I pray for our spiritual family and our leaders. I ask YOUR blessings on the efforts to expand YOUR kingdom. Holy.