Off to the Windy....

Wow, it has been a while. Time flies when you're working 50-60 hours a week......

Anyway, I am a much happier person now that the heat has quit and Fall is finally here!!!! The trees aren't real pretty due to the heat and dry (we are officially in a severe draught), but the cool air is Divine. I haven't turned the heat on yet....but I may have to here in the next few days. It is supposed to get down to freezing tonight....brrrrrr. I am grateful for that too...as it will finally put a screeching halt to the allergens out there.

I am on my way Sat morn to the Windy City to attend this year's PackExpo. Work is sending me so I get paid for this....way cool. I will be staying right downtown Chicago. In a big swanky hotel...I don't even have clothes nice enough to walk into the lobby! They will probably park my little Chevy way back in a corner somewhere so it won't embarrass the Benz's and Beemers. But I am sooooo looking forward to a break from the Plant.

I worked almost 60 hours this week....in 4 days. I have tomorrow off to get ready to go. We had the line down for a semi-annual maintenance break of 2.5 round the clock days of ripping and tearing equipment apart and reassembling. We filleted the packer and disemboweled the filler. I had about 8 mechanics, 2 electricians, and 4 or 5 technicians working around the clock. We did an incredible amount of work and then started everything back up yesterday. We came up pretty well.....except for the labelers....we didn't even work on the labelers and they cost us about 5 hours all together. But she is running like the cold wind outside tonight. Good .... I'm exhausted.

We have had it all this week in weather. Hot on the weekend, then we had Tornado warnings Tuesday, windy and rain yesterday and now the temp is taking a nosedive. Wheeeeeee.

Well, I better head to bed or I won't get up tomorrow. The road beckons. Later........