Recently I have been really proud of my load quality under pressure. (Load quality refers to how effective your package walls in the trucks are, in terms of space usage and stability.) Last night, I flipped out on this guy who has terrible load quality and wasn't following any of the loading techniques we had been trained in earlier in the week ( Read more... )

I've been loading the trucks for nearly a month now. My first week was tough, physically and psychologically. But things got better, especially as I got to know the other truck loaders in our area. We would talk, joke, curse, and commiserate about having to heave thirty pound boxes over our heads, with fifty pound boxes falling off the sides of the ( Read more... )

Late last week, they started me loading the trucks. It's a basic thing everyone gets to try out, but they had prioritized keeping me on the top belt, picking off packages. I figure now that things have gotten lighter, they can train me to do more stuff ( Read more... )

I called the package sorting job a firebreak. Certain worries of the past, much of the career failure baggage from the past ten years can burn and burn, but they won't cross over. I might have been wrong, though. At the very least, I was wrong about its completeness. The sense of refuge I mentioned began to crack today. As I shifted, flipped, and ( Read more... )

Today was a light day at the package sorting hub. We finished extremely early. While that means fewer hours, I found it convenient, since I will need to be up very early tomorrow morning to head to NYC.

The light load was also fortunate, since my counterpart--I'll call him Cowen--was not in. He stands on the other side of the belt and also assists ( Read more... )

I have three key thoughts floating around today.

One: for me, some distinction exists between actions with an outcome and outcomes with a future. I mean future in some kind of idealistic sense, in the sense of "This person has a future." But also in a personal sense ( Read more... )

This is probably going to be a bit jargony, but I hope to clarify and build on it later ( Read more... )

Challenges: only did stuff after dinner; weak AJATT exposure throughout day; assorted problems with Nixnote (Evernote client); internet went down at somewhat important times; Sam's Closed before we had a chance to get the rotisserie chicken

Accomplishments: took Moodscope test; went for an hour walk; did about an hour of work and summary on that ( Read more... )

Challenges: wake time-2:48PM; watched TV until Papa and Marlon got home; Android phone was not plugged in properly last night, meaning 1) no battery for food-pictures 2) no bringing AnkiDroid downstairs/elsewhere for studying ( Read more... )

Week's almost over. In addition to helping out with WordPress stuff, I finally had a couple of paid programming projects to work on: those took up most of my time.

And I finally got to experience really working something again. It's messy, it's crazy, it's absorbing. When something finally works, damn does it feel like a miracle. I hope that's not ( Read more... )