"Sunday Off"

It never fails!  The charter flights bringing in the pop are always "scheduled" for Saturdays, and we plan our staffing accordingly.  We get just over 1,000 twelve packs of pop, that have to be taken off of the truck and put on pallets.  The pallets need to be directed down a ramp, through the warehouse aisles, and over to the location designated for pop.  Then they all have to be taken off of the pallets and stacked properly (so that the pile is less likely to topple).  All of this is done by hand of course.
Back to the "It never fails!".  "Something" always happens to delay the charter, and it never comes until Sunday (when we are closed).  So, we know that it will arrive somewhere between 10AM and 6PM, and that some/none of our stock people will be available to help us on short notice when it comes.  It would be 1-2 hours of fairly easy work if it came on Saturday like it's supposed to, but will probably be a good four hours of sweating for me and Paul doing it ourselves on our "day off".
At least the wind is still fairly slow, and the temperature is barely -20.  One other thing that always sneaks up on me here in the arctic, daylight savings time.  When I heard on the radio yesterday that we had to change the clocks, I was thinking - why are we changing time in the middle of winter?  I'm supposing that some places are starting to feel like spring already.  We're still in the middle of winter.  Maybe it will be getting closer to spring by the time we come back from vacation.

Stay tuned.