*twitch* must play game!

Work
This morning I got to work and almost right away Zhaun told me there's a truck backing in, make a bale, take out the empties, and mark down the wheeler of cereal that's in the hallway. So I went to make the bale but the baler wasn't full. Zhaun brought back some boxes and left them so I threw them away. The baler still wasn't very full but I made a bale anyway. Took out the empties. Then Keebler had to be checked in so I did that quick, then got on the truck. It was the grocery truck. First pallet had a few items that must have started out on it but in transit had all slid off. After the first pallet or two the driver came in. And it's Idiot (the guy who didn't know if he was getting returns that one Wednesday and who thought pallets were square). Lovely! So he walked up to the only available jack in the backroom and asked if it was a good one. Um, at that point it doesn't matter, does it, if it's the only one available. And he was just stupid the whole time. Commented on how it's getting cold and I really wanted to tell him "Yeah, that starts to happen in October." but I didn't. And he said something else obvious too but I don't remember, something about a pallet being too high or something. He just really irritates me. After we were done I asked if he was getting returns. He said he didn't know, how do we know? I told him usually the driver knows. I paused. Then I said "and if the driver doesn't know they call dispatch." So he went to go call them. When he got back he said he looked at his to do list and didn't see returns on there. I asked if he had called them. He said no, but if he was supposed to get returns they would have put it on there. So I let him go fully expecting to have dispatch calling me to get mad at me but I didn't care. Hire someone with some semblance of intelligence next time. (they never called me and I never saw him again so I assume he wasn't supposed to get returns) So what was his plan? Get to the store, offload, and then what? I would think you'd have that figured out.

They reset the entire wall deli and someone decided that Kroger Value cheese belonged in the egg case and they cut me down by two facings on the 18-ct eggs. I complained about it to Julie who said they'd find a place to work them back into the cheese set. (my egg case is connected to the wall deli case)

While facing I found a warm coffee mate in the markdown cart that's next to the milk section. It was so close that where they were standing to put it into the cart they could have simply opened the door and stuffed it in with the milk. Because of this person I had to throw it away. I also found ice cream in with the creamers while facing and that's a vendor product so not only is that bad for us it's bad for the vendor cause now they'll probably have to credit us out for that cause the only other way to scan out vendor items is by putting it under theft or donation.

I had the Amaretto Coffee Mate guy in again today. *sigh*  He bought about 10 of them I think. I wish he'd special order.

While doing my order I was in the creamers (yes a lot happened in the coffee mate section today) and this woman comes up and stands close enough to me that I have to move over a little. She reached out her arm and made me move back a little more. Well, if she's not going to say hello or excuse me I wasn't going to. I really do keep meaning to start giving a rude excuse me to people who do this but I never think of it in time. And she picked up a coffee creamer and edged in closer to me. As I moved away a little more I must have made a face cause she said that I was fine I could go back to work she can't find what she wants anyway, in this irritated voice like I was the one being rude for having made a face of discomfit and irritation. I asked what she wanted, she wanted the amaretto, which was empty on the shelf because of the guy earlier. I told her we were out. Never mind the five or six cases in the backroom. I told her we were out because she was mean to me. She doesn't deserve to be rewarded for her rudeness. She growled. Yes, she growled. Then she put back the one she'd taken and picked up two different ones and left.

Our deli/frozen load was brought by an old, fat guy. Why do they do this to me? They send me drivers who can't help. He got winded walking across the room, he obviously couldn't help offload. Really, he put the bulkhead in the back of the trailer and came to sign the papers and was wheezing and as he spoke to me spittle flew and hit my hand which was totally gross and I went to wash it as soon as I could. It took 1 1/2 hours to offload what is normally a 45 minute truck.

And my load was all wrong. They had my sunny delight split into three pallets with wall deli on some of them and sunny delight on top of the butter and it was all spread out and weird. They could have saved at least one or two pallets if they'd stacked it correctly. I stayed a little late to help Dustin condense the sunny delight into one pallet. Which was kinda neat as I had to get on top of a pallet of cottage cheese and sour cream to reach the top of the sunny delight pallet and I got a chance to show off. The guys show off so easy, I see Dustin carrying two or three cases of something I can only carry one of. Well today there was a spot where I'd dug for something so there was basically a low spot with two high spots on either side. I put my hands on the high spots and pushed myself up and curled my legs so my feet landed on the low spot. (the high spots were about chest height on me an the low spot about hip height) Bet he couldn't have done that.

On my way home from work I was at a red light and the car ahead of me turned right and I pulled up and this truck behind me rushed up all quick to cover the car-length I'd pulled up and he was all antsy and inching forwards. The light was red, I glanced away for a split second, glanced back and the light was green. I couldn't have been stopped at the green more than that split second, but as I was starting to go forwards the impatient guy behind me honked at me. I was already moving. I was already pulling out. It's not like I had been stopped at the green for a while, a second's delay is perfectly normal. I can get in a hurry sometimes but that's just too much of a hurry.

Like yesterday I was at a stop sign. And a woman was walking across the way, and the car that was supposed to go first couldn't since that woman was in his way. So I took advantage of the moment and sped across. And the car that should have gone first honked at me. So, what, they thought they could drive through the person in front of them? Or that since they had to wait I had to too?

Video Games
We got the new Castlevania game. Lords of Shadow. I know it's been out for over a week now but we like to support the locally owned store since they sell old games (I believe nes is the oldest they go) and he's friendly with Victor, they're on each other's buddy lists and and etc. He's a nice guy. Anyway, he finally got the game in for us and I went out to get it yesterday. I started playing it and it's so much fun. It's suppose to be one of the harder action games out there but I'm plowing through it just fine. I started dying a lot in this last section with lots of cliffs. But otherwise I'm doing pretty good. Honestly I have to say that enough though the angst is a big motivator for me I wouldn't be playing it if the hero was ugly. There's a lot to be said for rugged, long haired, British men in armor. Especially ones with a tragic past and probably a tragic future. I teared up at one point during a cut scene. Sometimes the angles of the camera are kinda weird but that's ok. The game is basically a dark, more mature Zelda. It even has a hookshot. The gameplay itself is very Force Unleashed. (I only played FU ....oh, well, ahem. I guess that doesn't quite work as an acronym does it? Anyway, I only played Force Unleashed for Wii) We got this game for the 360.

Costumes
I did some work on my lightsaber but I'll post pics later, tomorrow morning. I also sewed the side seams on my tunic but one of the needles on my serger broke while doing the second side seam so I have to replace that and finish up the side seam and press it. And then I can go spend time with my rugged, long haired, angsty, British warrior.