The hard work finally paid off at my job this month. That’s pretty much why I haven’t written anything substancial here in a couple of weeks. Work had been a wild ride with inventory preparations and my job to help oversee it all. I had teams from other stores come in to help with auditing different parts of the inventory and, between them and my own team, had it all done just in time for inventory day. This is the scorecard for my store’s, not to mention my inventory audit team’s, performance for the year.
In the end, we passed with flying colors, but not without some wrestling with receiving issues and other small things. The aftermath of the leftover variances was left to my team to resolve within seven days. We got done with it today, which is a really good feeling. Now, all that is left is to file away the year and start another. Hopefully I’ll be able to train someone to take my place soon; I want to move on to different things, as yet undecided. I’ve been doing this for too long and I know when I need to bow out with a win under the belt!
A funny thing happened when I got out of work today. I always have my iPod on when I go to work. I was listening to songs from my “Favorites” playlist, which has around 160 songs. I forgot to stop the player when I set it down in my locker to start my work. As I was leaving the building, thinking about all that I and my team have accomplished, I got in the car… and noticed a sound coming from my hip. My iPod was still playing! It went through around 120 songs while it was tucked away in my locker! What made this really awesome was that the song it was playing at the time fit perfectly with the end to my current endeavor at work. So I restarted the song… and jammed to it all the way home! Below is an excerpt from the lyrics:
(From “The Victory Dance” by Theocracy)
Seven scars turned to ashes,
faces of madness melt into victory.
Trial by fire, my burden,
burned in refining flames of purity.
Seven steps into darkness,
mortal and crownless, eternal victory.
Altar flames rising, burning higher,
and straight through the fire;
I’m dancing the victory dance!(Lyrics: Matt Smith)
You all can probably tell that I was feeling better than I have been for a long time. I’m now going to relax and have a good three day weekend and some hard-earned rest!
Cheers! 
Congrats on the great job! Your iPod was obviously thinking the same thing!
And yes, I believe too that iPods are somehow intelligent… its almost a bit scary
hey Chris congrats on a job well done . It sure feels good when you burst your butt doing something and everything comes out as planned.
As for the iPod, I must say you are not the only that has accidently left his iPod on, to then find out its on song #435, well at this point in time it all depends on how much charge the iPod battery can hold.