it's Monday (again)

 Not long ago...... in a galaxy very close by......

Monday held no significance.....

Sunday wasn't ruined by Monday.....

Hell, i didn't even need an alarm clock..... for a few weeks, anyway.

But now, like with everything i do, i've thrown myself in, with pretty much everything i can, into the world of volunteering.......

I volunteer three days a week, which seems weird, given the fact that, not long ago i was working five days a week and earning pretty nice money.

Today..... a blast from my past.......

STOCKTAKE!

I used to be the master of stocktaking.....

In my early days of stocktaking, I'd parade around the warehouse with a big old piece of cardboard and some sharpie pens..... I'd count everything up, tally style, and deliver the giant tally carboard sheet to the lass in the office who used to run the stock count on the brewery system.

Then, eventually, we got computers and seats and everything, and i made a bit of s spreadsheet, and we used to count up on sheets and key it into a spreadsheet and send it up to the lass in the office who .... you get the idea.

Then, i spoke to my cousin, Tom, and explained the way it works, and he coded some pretty nifty spreadsheet, which took our count spreadsheet and jiggled it around and spat out the summarised count.

Then i made some computer based input forms for the stock count.

Then i made some barcodes and bought some little barcode scanners so the lads could scan a bay..... scan the product code..... key in a quantity.... and when they'd finished counting we smashed a few spreadsheets together and it spat out the answer......  then we compared that answer to the brewery management system's answer and worked out the discrepancies.

The stocktake went from being a two or three day process to being done in like two or three hours.

Don't get me wrong, at the end of all that I wasn't the one doing the stocktake any more - i passed it on to the warehouse lads..... it was tried and tested, and it really worked well.

anyway..... today was STOCKTAKE day at the charity i volunteer at.....

PPE (that's personal protecton equipment if you didn't know)

So, back to a scrap of paper stolen off the printer, a pen that i found, broken, on the floor, and manual counting again...

gloves, hi-viz vest, wellington boots...... etc

a proper blast from my not-too-distant-past, and very much a task well within my comfort zone.

Here's an animated gif of the egg curry i made for tea...... taken just before i submerged the eggs in the simmering sauce...... the meal was delicious with a cheap pilau (microwave) rice and some lovely plain naan breads (shop bought) - it was a mild madras kinda thing.....