driving the forklift

Today was unbelievably busy. I didn't stop running from 7:00am until 5:00pm, when things finally quieted down. The pile of paper on my desk has grown quite a bit so I'll be here for a while digging through it. The checks are the best part!

So what happened today? We received two 250lb rolls of aluminum which will be turned into Candlelier heat shields tomorrow. We shipped a couple of hundred ice cream balls to the east coast (500 more are wrapped and ready to ship to another location tomorrow). We received about 15,000 candles, regular and citronella. This is truly "just in time" since we're down to about 30 citronella candles. One order we couldn't fill today will go out tomorrow since we've got the candles in hand. The label printer sales guy came for a visit. It ended up taking him four hours to finish his demonstration, and it still needs more work. He'll be back tomorrow.

And . . . and . . . and !!! I drove the forklift! Not just from one location to another! I used a chain to pull the pallets of candles (~2500lbs each) from the front of the truck to the back. Then I picked each of them up and put them in a nice row on the ground. No one got hurt and I didn't damage any of the product. That was some scary fun!