The counting is done, and all appears to be in pretty good shape. What they don't know, is we are pulling our 5.5 million pounds (It was over 3 million to count and the rest was in railcars). We will be moving our business to a different warehouse and they might be getting the idea we are doing that because they weren't that happy to see us. We got through the security gate and went into the office to find the guy that was going to get us started. There was only one girl in the office and I'm pretty sure we scared the hell out of her. She was sitting behind a Plexiglas window with her back turned to us, so I knocked on the window. She turned around, but didn't ask if she could help us or even get up to come over to open the window. I may have freaked her out when I tried to slide the window open to tell her why we were there, but hell, she wasn't moving and I wasn't interested in sitting there all morning. She finally came over, we told her why we were there and she made us leave the main office a sit in a little waiting room. She got us some visitor badges, here is mine and you can see that she thought I was worthy of a James Bond badge.

John was jealous because he got 003 and nothing cool has ever been 003. We finally met Nick who got us started. When we walked into the warehouse I thought we were in Fort Knox.

These bars are some sort of metal, but not sure what. There were these:

They were stamped with Alcoa, so maybe this was aluminum. I don't think there was anyone at this warehouse that had a sense of humor, or they were terrified of us, because whenever we cracked a joke, they either stared at us or acted like they didn't hear us. In fact, the only person we have encountered that even smiled, is the girl at the front desk of the hotel. She must of had a customer service class or something because she smiles and is friendly, a novel idea when dealing directly with people.

Chad, thank you for the website. One problem, on the list of toll booths, I can't figure out which is the one I blew through. I was on I80, but I'll be damned if I can figure out which one on the list it is. I guess they won't spend too much time and energy chasing down the $.30 to $.80 I owe them.

I've got to get back to working on the spreadsheet, so goodbye for now.