Final day!
Well, today has just been full of good news. 
Starting around lunchtime, I learned that John would likely make it back from his deposition in plenty of time to take the 9:00-midnight shift at the shop, meaning that I’d only have to take care of another five-hour stint instead of the full eight hours. So that was kind of a relief! Of course, the only downside to this is that I didn’t get a chance to try out one of the delicious sandwiches that Christa suggested I make (see http://www.famteam.com/luke/comment.php?entry=888). Darn. 
Then, as Mark and I were entering the shop, preparing for the 3:30 buzzer to sound, Uncle Joe approached us and let us know that they actually don’t need us to work tomorrow since they had caught up on some of their jobs. So… we finished a day early. I guess, if anything, that means we did a pretty good job over the nine days we worked there.
Anyway, as far as what I did on this, my final day — I operated the same 60-ton press that I used on Friday, Monday and Tuesday. I was actually doing the same type of thing as I was doing yesterday, where the machine kind of crimps a plate of metal. I believe it’s for the bottom of a fusebox.
I actually got to see what these metal plates are used for, as they had a mostly-assembled fusebox near the machine. So I could get an idea of what these pieces are used for. That was kind of neat. Anyway, I ended up crimping 1,010 of these plates, and I put them in these big boxes. Each box contained three layers of 250 pieces, for all of those who were wondering.
I need to answer a couple of questions that were left in recent comments.
Matt asked if the machines have counters on them. Indeed, they do.
Deborah mentioned my profile picture (which can be seen on Xanga). She actually snapped that photo on New Year’s Day. She did a good job, especially considering what she had to work with. 
And it seems a few people are interested in what I’m writing. Well, it’s actually the “e-fatuation” post that I’ve been wanting to write for nearly two years. I’ve just kind of put it off for a while as I could never quite get a grip on what exactly I wanted to write. I decided to take the plunge the other night, so I just opened up Word and started typing. It’s a start, anyway.