{"id":801,"date":"2012-09-19T09:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=801"},"modified":"2012-09-19T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:58:36","slug":"wednesday-19-september-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/19\/wednesday-19-september-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 19 September 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:12 –<\/span> Barbara just left with her friend Marcy for a trip to the mountains. They’ll be gone for several days, leaving Colin and me to our own devices.
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Speaking of Colin, I’ve noticed something interesting. Border Collies seem to support the Libertarian Party overwhelmingly. Since we’ve lived in this house, we’ve had four Border Collies: Kerry, Duncan, Malcolm, and Colin. Every presidential election year, without exception, the BCs pee on every Democrat and Republican campaign sign they encounter, but not one of them has ever peed on a Libertarian campaign sign. Ever. That can’t be a coincidence.
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12:58 –<\/span> I just dropped everything to deal with an inventory emergency. As of this morning, we were down to one chemistry kit in stock. The most time consuming part of assembling a kit is bagging the chemicals, so I just went downstairs and bagged up 15 sets of chemicals. Well, 30 sets, really, because there are two bags per kit, one of regulated chemicals and one of non-regulated. At any rate, I did enough for 15 more chemistry kits. Final assembly and boxing up those 15 kits will take maybe an hour tops.
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I made one small procedural change. In the past, I bagged up the regulated chemicals in a quart ziplock and then bagged the non-regulated chemicals in a gallon ziplock, putting the regulated chemicals bag inside the bag that held the non-regulated chemicals. The idea was that that would provide a second level of protection for the regulated chemicals. That’s not required by regulations, and the disadvantage to doing it that way is that I end up with a single chemicals bag. That means I have to have two SKUs for the US and Canadian versions of the chemistry kit. By keeping the regulated and non-regulated chemicals in separate bags, I need maintain only one SKU. By default, a chemistry kit is the US version. When I get an order for a Canadian version, I can simply pull the regulated chemicals bag from the box and replace it with the bag of substitute chemicals that ship with the Canadian version of the kit.
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I’ve also changed the bag type. Instead of using ziplock bags, I decided to start using the “Thank You” bags sold by the box of 1,000 at Costco, the type typically used by retailers to bag small purchases. I originally used the ziplock bags because they’re made of heavier plastic and I thought the ziplock would provide a more secure seal than knotting a Thank-You bag and cutting off the excess. The thicker plastic isn’t required by shipping regulations; the only purpose of the bag is to contain the absorbent and prevent liquid from escaping. And, as it turns out, the seal is actually better on a tied-off Thank You bag than on a ziplock. And the thinner bags result in a more flexible subassembly that’s easier to box.
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09:12 – Barbara just left with her friend Marcy for a trip to the mountains. They’ll be gone for several days, leaving Colin and me to our own devices.\n<\/p>\n

Speaking of Colin, I’ve noticed something interesting. Border Collies seem to support the Libertarian Party overwhelmingly. Since we’ve lived in this house, we’ve had four Border Collies: Kerry, Duncan, Malcolm, and Colin. Every presidential election year, without exception, the BCs pee on every Democrat and Republican campaign sign they encounter,<\/p>\n

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