Try Lifting Weights With the Back of Your Hand

Today was another grueling day at the plastic-rolling plant.  Actually we rolled copper foil again.  Today was 700+ meters of 600mm-wide copper foil.  That's almost 2 feet wide.  Imagine a narrow   red carpet rolled out (but in copper foil) the length of more than 7 and a half football fields.  That's a REAL size comparison, not one of those made-up ones from my earlier blogs.  And I put it in terms of football fields not because that's the standard of comparison in the US but because the Superbowl has just recently ended I hear.

Now, while rolling all that copper, I have to monitor this touch panel.  Not just monitor it, no, I have to make adjustments to it.  Pretty much everywhere you touch on this screen takes you to an input screen where you can adjust oven temperature, line speed, tension, automatic centering, something about nips, and lots of other stuff in Japanese.  It's hard work. My coworkers are always like "Now, when I tell you, change the line speed to 1.7" and I'm like "What did you just say?  Does anyone around here speak English?  I think I took a wrong exit just outside of Indy."

If you take one step backwards from the picture I just showed, you can see there are additional buttons not included on the touch panel.  One confusing thing is that most of the green buttons down there make things stop and most of the red ones make something go.  However, I think "Giant Red Button" is universal for "Don't Ever Press This Button".  At least that's what I've been told.  I imagine if one of my coworkers got caught in a roller and started having his body wound back and forth around a bunch of steel rollers and then baked at 250+ degrees, I would be allowed to press it.










At work we got some new stickers to put up in appropriate places around the workroom.  They're cute, and brightly colored.  They asked for me to help decide where they should go.

The one on the left says underneath "If your hand already looks like a cute elephant, try massaging your trunk finger here."  The one on the right says underneath "Try lifting weights with the back of your hand."  I'm having a hard time deciding where to put them.  Except they're clearly stuck to that thing under them, so I guess that's where they go.

On the way home, I decided tonight I'm gonna get CRUNKY.  So that's just what I did.

Lastly, I hung my laundry BACK out to dry last night.  Of course all my laundry is wetter now than ever (EVER!) before.  I give up, I'm using the dyer.