So, I bought the shirts

Yeah, that’s been the high point of the past two or three weeks. I need more pants too.

We have inventory coming up. My area is ready to go, ship-shape and Bristol fashion. Some of the other areas, not so much. Particularly my partner’s area. We’ve all been working extra days, and on one of the overlap days we don’t normally have at the normal end of day meeting to make sure everything got done, he mentioned his folks had fallen farther behind but he had a plan to catch back up. A favorite quote from Serenity went through my head, "yeah, well what you plan and what takes place ain’t ever exactly been similar" and a hush fell over the office. Apparently after going through my head it made its way to my mouth and came out in all its sarcastic glory for everyone to hear. Oops. After a few awkward moments, my partner stated firmly, "no grenades" (the response to the original quote in the movie) and the only other Firefly fan in the office laughed and the moment passed. Of course Facility Manager held me after…

Partner (one of the Buck Bucks that I have neglected to number) caught up with me after and said I was right, but keep it to myself please, and went off to yell at some of his hourly managers. Of course, if he’d yelled at them (or better yet worked his checklists) a month ago he’d be in as good a shape as my area is. My area is completely ready, there are two areas that are not ready yet but are on track to be ready. They are high-volume areas and can’t start prepping as far out as the rest of us. Even StrangeBoy’s area is better off than Partner’s area and he’s still working fourteen-hour days. *sigh*

I had today off. I’m supposed to have tomorrow off too, but if I wake up with an overwhelming feeling of guilt I might go in and help.