September 7, 2011

I have the Gamer Thoughts video recorded, currently uploading the youtube, but its a long upload.  I'll have it posted as soon as it's done.  Other than that, today was a pretty easy day.  Filled up the silos and had some down time for a bit.  Only bad thing is we are starting smokers tomorrow.... Ugh.

August 31, 2011

Not too bad of a day today at work.  We were running mesquite briquettes all day, and other than a few messes, the only major thing that really happened today was filling the silos.  A friend of mine starts his first full shift tomorrow at the plant, so that's going to be fun.

August 29, 2011

Well, today was a rather interesting and yet confusing day.  We are on a new kind of white starch that, the best way I can describe it is..... salt.  I'm serious, it looks like I'm dumping fifty pound bags of salt.  Other than that, our things to do today were to fill up the blue and silver silos, then when the silver got close to empty, switch formulas so by the time it did go empty, the new formula should be coming out of the dryer so we can run it to silver.  It takes about two and a half hours for briquettes to get through the dryer, and the silver silo holds about eighteen feet of briquettes when it's full.  Here's the confusing part, we continued to run to silver, after we had filled it up, and were still running the formula we were running.  Kinda hard for Bagging to empty a silo we are still running to.

August 17, 2011

Wasn't too bad of a day at work today, the mix was a bit wet, so the main issues were the press and the wet shaker.  Apparently some of the loads of char we have been getting have been pretty wet.  Also had a plus of filling up the blue silo.  Speaking of which, guess while I'm on it, should explain about the silos we fill up at the plant.  There are three of them: blue, silver, and big.  I'm not kidding, those are our identifiers for them.  Blue is the smallest of the three, and the big, to me, almost looks like one of the silos you'd see at a grain farm.  Anyway, wasn't too bad of a day today.

Today, I also got to thinking about a couple of things to do on the blog, some of which I'd like readers opinions on.  For starters, to help make the daily posts a little interesting, I had an idea of a "Song of the Day" at the end of each post, where I post a song that has been going through my head at work that day, if I can find it on youtube.  An example being the one below, an OverClocked Remix song: Skies of Arcadia 'Dungeon Cave (Buried Alive Mix)'.  OCR songs generally have the game they came from within the title.  Also got to thinking about having pages on the site for finding the Penny's Worth/Gamer Thoughts faster than looking through the archive, and one for fanart for the story, just in case any of you guys have any.  Not going to lie, I'm good at writing, not so good at drawing.  I'm also thinking about, if we do the live broadcast for the Gamer Thoughts, whether or not to implement the feed of the chat, means I could probably just as easy read the message of interest aloud.  I don't know, just some thing I got to thinking about.  Leave a comment with your opinions on any of it.  Now, for the Song of the Day example: