Vacation!

  Woo hoo!  Connie Francis couldn't have said it any better! Vacation, what a wonderful, wonderful thing!  No matter if you're going somewhere, or staying home; doing things, or nothing at all, it's still great to have a break from the normal routine.

That's what this post is about, to let everyone know I'll be on vacation for the next week.  Because of this, there will be no KUPL Listener Blog words for Tuesday, August 14th, or Thursday, August 16th.  I may put out a post here and there during the week, however, I'm not locking myself in to having to have words for those two days.

I thank everyone in advance for their understanding of this matter.  The KUPL Listener Blog words will resume on Tuesday, August 21st.

Since I started this post with a favorite song of mine about vacations, I'll end the post the same way; this time courtesy of the Go-Gos.

Summer Is Finally Here!!!

 (Today's word will be in red, and bold.)

SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE!!!

Whether it's sunny, or cloudy; dry, or rainy, there's no denying summer is officially here for 2012.  At least that's what the calendar says.

With the arrival of summer came the departure of Earthquake Jake from KUPL.  No need to panic however; Jake just took a few vacation days until next week.

Since Jake is out, I wondered how I was going to have a word for today, since Jake is the one who enters it in for listeners to get their KUPL Nation points.  No worries though; while Jake is out, Sputnik is back and filling in; yay!

If Jake is going to be gone, it's sure nice to know that Sputnik is there to fill in!

  

3D Fun

Well, the holidays are behind us, and it's time for everyone to get back to their normal routine.

For those who took vacation during the holidays, it may be a bit rougher to head back to work. While co-workers held down the fort, those on vacation were able to set their own pace for the holidays. No getting up early, no having to dress for work; none of the average things one does daily.

Because of this, one would think it would be best to let the returning employee(s), ease back in to their schedule; not true! The longer someone has been gone, the better it is to snap them back into reality as soon as possible!

For example, one of my co-workers, Doug, (I wrote about him in a previous post, when his bear ran away), took the last two and a half weeks of the year as vacation.

Where we work, a lot of the time those last two weeks of the year can be really, really busy; so one person gone can make a difference. Luckily, this year was an exception to that rule, and our department wasn't overloaded too much. Not that Doug can escape that easily though!

That's where the "3D Fun" comes in to play. "3D" stands for "Doug's Desk Dilemma". Rather than bore everyone with details, I've supplied photos of Doug's desk, beginning the day after his vacation started:

At the end of every day, if something had been changed, I took a photo of Doug's desk:


It was a lot of fun, even though the boxes did come back to bite me. Someone ordered an item that was in one of the boxes; and we had no idea which box it was in; so we had to lug out a bunch of them to find what we were looking for. My cube is on the left, showing how many boxes had to be moved.

Once we were done looking, all the boxes were put back into Doug's cube; though they didn't all go back in the same way they came out. No big deal though, just added some tape, and the job was complete!

For those anxious to know the outcome of Doug's Desk Dilemma, the following video was shot the morning of Tuesday, January 3, 2012; Doug's first day back to work after his long vacation.


Despite all that was done to his desk, Doug had it put back in order within 45 minutes! He's still missing one of his carts though; it's been hidden in our department.

Thanks once again Doug for being such a good sport!