Completed Overtime Day

It doesn't sound like a 5 day work week should be that bad on anybody. Working 5 ten hour days in a very physical job is tough - especially at our age. We get some aches and pains from our developing arthritis and also some aches from lingering problems - such as Josie's hands that were damaged from so many years of making floral arrangements. She suggested I mention this new, almost miracle gel, called BioFreeze, which we discovered while here last year from our friend Brenda. It is a medication that we use regularly for our aches and pains and provides almost immediate relief. If you haven't tried it, and would like to find a good muscle medication that works, give a shot. We found the best price to be found through Amazon.com, with no sales tax and free shipping. There are several different forms of the medication - gel, roll on, pump - but it is the same no matter what form is used. No, we don't get any commission for selling the stuff.

The overtime day yesterday was not so bad. Again though, it is easy to say after the day is done, but it was not so easy while going through it. We both did our normal stowing duty and until Amazon makes arrangements to clear out some inventory, it makes for a tough day. They are opening 3 new fulfillment centers within the next 2 weeks - 2 in Tennessee and one in South Carolina - and they plan to move a lot of the inventory to those new facilities. That will make some more room for us to stow merchandise and remove some of the frustration we all have as a result of not finding many empty bins in which to stow the product. The warehouse now is at 95 % capacity.

People keep arriving for the peak season which begins very soon - October 1. It is interesting for us to see the changes in management policies and attitudes as we near the peak season. Many of the "nuisance" issues we have been fighting are going away. We still will not ever come to work at any of the Amazon facilities again unless it is at the beginning of the peak season. We have talked about - possibly - working just the peak season at the facility in Fernley, NV, next year, which is just outside of Reno. We talked about spending some time in Vegas following our summer in Southwestern Colorado - if it works out - and then just driving up the road to Fernley in October. It could be a decent plan. It wouldn't cost us anything to stay in the Thousand Trails campground in Las Vegas, so that could be a real decent option. Gosh, spending several weeks surrounded by all that entertainment and - casinos. Watch out!