Overtime on the Horizon

One of the announcements that was made at our pre-work meeting last night was that there would be mandatory overtime for our shift this Thursday. That, of course, is normally our first day off. Last year when we were here for the regular workamper peak season program, any and all overtime was completely voluntary for us, even though the regular full-time people had to work when asked. With the pilot program we are under now, we aren't too sure, so we need to check with HR when we go in today. We didn't want to make a hasty decision to work an extra 10 hours, so we waited until today to decide - assuming it is an option for us. Even though it is early in our very physical schedule, we probably will opt for the overtime, since it represents a nearly $300 payday for us, just for the one day. That also means that we only would have 2 days off this week, instead of our normal 3 days. We may wish we had the extra day to recover.

We have plans - tentatively - to go to Louisville sometime this weekend. That is the nearest Costco and we desperately need some supplies that we usually get at Costco or Sams Club. There are also some places we want to visit in and around Louisville, so we can do some of those while we are there. There is also a wonderful Italian Restaurant (Puccini's) there where we had a great meal with our friends Hank, Brenda, Karen and George last year - they are presently all back in Cody for the summer season. It should be fun this weekend, if we don't have to use wheelchairs.

More rain and humidity yesterday. Josie and I both were drenched from sweat again last night after work. It is even worse in the warehouse than it is outside, and we really look forward to taking our showers after work and before going to bed. This entire week is expected to remain hot, humid and stormy. We just remind ourselves why we are here, so we will take whatever the area has to offer. Hopefully, when it is time for us to leave we won't have any hydraulics problems like we had last year that tended to spoil the start of our Christmas season. In the meantime, we will take it one week at a time...