We finally finished our major project last Thursday. All of the containers are shipping out today. It will be interesting to have the plant nearly entirely devoid of finished products. Everyone at the plant was in high spirits today, the long weekend left everyone feeling well rested.
Last Friday was King Chulalongkorn Day, celebrating [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Long weekend.
Almost there
The first container left today and we’ve almost packed everything, ready for the next load. We’re down to the last 2 or 3 shifts, hopefully 2. There is a three day weekend coming up and I’m very much looking forward to it.
I’ve been trying to figure out how many hours I’ve been working, [...]
Production
Our plant has a lot of cherries and a lot of little bags and we’ve got a very small amount of time to combine A and B. For the past several weeks, my team and I have been purchasing, planning, and preparing for the product to arrive so we could be sure everything would [...]
Not much this weekend
I’m strictly not doing anything interesting this weekend. Just relaxing and reading. Next week will be incredibly long and intense. The first major test of my ability to manage a complex project.
I imagine it will be long on working hours and short on sleep, so I’m fine with a boring weekend.
There is [...]
Snorkling
For a while now I’ve been wanting to visit one of the islands off the coast here. Every time I was about to go, I came up with some reason why I couldn’t make it yet. My camera’s battery wasn’t charged or I needed to go into Pattaya for something or I didn’t [...]