What’s so exciting about a Thursday? If I was still working that would mean that tomorrow was Friday and then the weekend would be upon me. At one time the weekend wasn’t any better than the rest of the week since I was on a six or seven day work schedule. The joys of working in the auto industry in the maintenance department. The work never ends. If you want job security maintenance is the place to be. It’s also a lot like working retail during the Christmas holiday season. There’s no rest.

This morning I finished my gloves and posted a photo on Ravelry.  Gloves

Not ten minutes after finishing the gloves I started a hat using another free pattern from Drops.  Hat Mine is going to be in black and white to match the gloves. So far, I’ve got 4 rows of the ribbing done. I’ve been winding yarn, doing laundry and dog walking today so not a whole lot of knitting was going on.

The auto industry you ask? Yes, I was a contract supervisor in the auto industry for just about 15 years between GM and Ford. My time was spent at GM’s Warren Transmission for about a total of 3 years and at the GM Tech Center for about eight years and was responsible for just about every building at one time or another. After my GM years I moved on over to another contract company and spent five years at Sterling Axle. When they wanted to move me onto afternoon shift I decided it was time to go. It was just about on schedule anyway. Our goal was for me to work until I turned 59 so I was about 4 months ahead of schedule. My boss thought I was his age and still had 4 years to go since I had already told him of my plan. He was surprised.

I don’t miss it. The paycheck but not the rest of it.