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Shift Work
At my job it is required that someone be there 24/7, 356.25 days a year. We work 12 hour shifts, so I either work from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM, or from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM. We switch shifts every four weeks. For the last few night shifts I have been switching with a co-worker that was working a second job and wanted to stay on nights. I just started my first night shift since August. I forgot how much I like nights. It’s so much slower and quieter. I can get a lot more reading done.
I actually really love my shifts. It’s nice to change it up every four weeks. Days are much busier at work, but it’s nice to be up at normal hours too. Nights are nice and quiet and I get to stay up late on my days off. I am a night and morning person if that is really possible. I love getting up early and I love staying up late. I pretty much don’t like sleeping. I could get way more done if I didn’t have to waste five hours a day sleeping. Am I weird?
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Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader
At work the other day someone got an email with a simple math problem. Nobody could solve it, nobody, but me that is. I thought it was pretty simple. I am no math genius, but it was my favorite subject after science in school. Am I weird that I find math fun? I actually wish I could do more math for fun. I know I forgot most of the math that I learned in school, which sucks. So, here is that problem that nobody could figure out:
There are 7 girls on a school bus. Each girl has 7 backpacks. In each backpack there are 7 big cats. Each big cat has 7 little cats.
How many legs are on the bus?
There is no trickery. It’s just a simple math problem. Is it really hard, or do I work with a bunch of dummies? Try it out and put your answers in the comments.
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Rare Blog About Work
I hate when people complain that they don’t blog enough, so I won’t do that. I feel like I have been in a little rut lately. My mind is full of things I want to blog about, but when I sit down at my computer I get sucked into reading my feeds, and watching and listening to all my podcasts, and I never remember what I was going to blog about. Today I didn’t forget. I worked all day so it’s a rare blog about work.
Today was a busy ass day at work. One of our chemical feed systems broke down and had to be cleaned in order to be fixed. It took me a couple hours to clean it, which then makes a mess of the floor so you have to clean that too. I got it all cleaned up, then the mechanics fixed it and left a big mess on the floor. It pisses me off when people don’t clean up after themselves. It only took me ten minutes to clean up after them, but still, I hate leaning up after people.
So that’s what was on my mind today. Not much, but hey, at least it was something.
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Day Off
Today I finally get a day off of work. I work 12 hour shifts at work, so usually three days is the most I ever work in a row. Because of people taking vacations, I ended up working five days in a row. Pretty much all I have been doing it working and sleeping. I am looking forward to the check next friday though, 20 hours of overtime will be a nice little chunk of change. Now time to get caught up on my RSS reading and podcast listening.