November Potpouri

Well let's start.. Congratulations on the Kansas City Royals for winning the AL pennant.  They made watching baseball fun again. They took it all the way to a game 7 and if you had told me this team would make the world series.  I would have laughed and said "your crazy".  However, this team showed heart and determination and made people believe in the team again.

The other story is me working at Goodyear.  It's now  been a month and slowly, but surely, I am starting to realize that there more involving the job than just building tires.  You are building belts, your are stocking the tires on a flat bed, you are taking the tires via the tug truck. You are sometimes stocking your fellow workers with liners, sidewall, butyl, etc.  I sometimes ask myself the question "Am I able to keep up with these people?"  Now, I know that my co-workers are always saying to me that the speed will come.  I want to believe, but I have a hard time seeing the big picture because this is so different for me. I have been through quota's before when I work at Silpada as a picker/packer.  This is a bigger scale because I am building tires compare to just getting your order right.  I am going to give them my best and that's all I can do. If it works great and if doesn't at least I can say that I tried and not quit.  I have switched shifts from 1st to second hoping to get better training and maybe get along with new co-workers.  I did dodge a bullet by not getting laid off this past week.  That would have sucked...I would have been here for a month and they let me go...man I just got started.

Also, yesterday I went inside an IKEA store for the very first time.  The store reminds me of a combination of a Nebraska Furniture Mart meets a Crate & Barrel.  Huge selection of many items and great food at their restaurant.  I tried their famous sweedish meatballs with mashed potatoes & gravy along with lingberries. 

Signed
Tim "ready for thanksgiving" Crippen