Cottleston Pie

pallet jack

A group from my company spent today volunteering down at the Capital Area Food Bank. (And other groups were volunteering elsewhere as part of an annual "Day of Caring" event.) It was fantastic. We were doing food salvage in an assembly-line environment. I was stacking full boxes of food on the appropriate pallet and when the pallets were full, I logged the full pallet, plastic-wrapped it, and took it out into the warehouse on a pallet jack. I also did various other tasks, running stuff that needed to be moved around on pallet jacks. And I spent a chunk of time taping new flat boxes into shape. Maybe 80 of them? It was a lot.

It was a nice change of pace and I had a great time and can't wait to do it again next year. I'm glad IBM let us do it today on company time (in that way, it was a significant donation).

I well may not need to wait all the way until next year of course if I do it on my own time (there can be logistical difficulties with this, but not completely insurmountable I would guess). And my dept may do some different activity next year (we did a different activity last year and it didn't work out nearly so well). I wish the the CAFB weren't very much on the opposite side of the city.