you know you buy in bulk when...

- you go the grocery store and it takes a forklift and two guys to bring everything to your car.
- your grocery store sets its hours around you
- your version of a shopping list is a 9 tab spreadsheet on a laptop
- you go to Costco and check out with 200 lbs. of sugar and some tuna fish and don't think twice about it.
- you finally understand why someone would want a no-limit american express card
- when you walk into a warehouse club, you don't just grab one flatbed cart...you grab two and can still be in and out in under 20 minutes.
- your requirements for your next vehicle include load leveling suspension and a towing package, not because you tow, but because you need the extra ceiling on the gross vehicle weight.

today...a recap

today started out great. i woke up early and drove to the gym to the beat of rump shaker by wreckx 'n effects. great pre-workout music. i hit the gym, lift, swim, get cleaned up and head out on my errands. i should have just gone home.

i drove down to pick up my 900 lbs. (no, i'm not kidding) of chocolate. it wasn't ready. eh, no big thing. i'll wait for it to be picked from the warehouse.

i get a call on my cell phone. the temperers are acting up and it's 3 days until my busiest day of the year.

i drive to my produce guy to pick up my apples and strawberries as i'm dead out of both. they had screwed up the previous day and didn't get them to me so i was counting on them today. no strawberries, no apples. i probably swear more than i should in my normal everyday speech. today was excessive.

i drive to restaurant depot for damage control almost getting run off the road by a semi on the way there. i pick up 6 cases of apples and bunch of other stuff and get it out to my car...on two carts...to a car with 900 lbs. of chocolate in it. the ensuing spectacle of me packing my car draws a crowd of two of the checkout people and the regional manager. they claim that it's not going to fit. i say otherwise. i repack the car twice before it all fits.

i get to work and find out that the place was left a wreck the night before. wonderful.

i get a call from a potential franchisee who wants to work in the store for "4-6 hours per day for two weeks" and "handle all business transactions". umm...let me think...no. he then asks if we are doing as well as we had thought we would. i tell him "no, we're really not doing the business we thought we would." he then tells me that rocky mountain's product is wonderful so it must be poor customer service that is keeping people away. i almost exploded.

work is over and i head to play indoor soccer. i actually ducked out of the way of a shot. my job is to stand in front of those things so they don't go in. but i ducked. because of that, instead of winning, we tied.

i'm going for my bottle of knob creek.

badlands

the last week in may, i will be setting off on my first training adventure in training for life-goal #1 (climbing denali). newgard and i will be setting off into the badlands for 4 days and 3 nights during which i will wear really short khaki shorts, speak with an australian accent, and wrestle a bear so i can stick my thumb in its butthole. crikey! the goal is to cover between 60 and 80 miles in the four days. destinations are yet to be determined. if either of you two readers of this blog know any good resources for trail maps, or have any recommendations on equipment (hawkins and timmy, i'm looking at you here) send 'em my way. also, if you are interested in joining us, let me know.