I'm having my morning coffee and shaking the cobwebs out of my head. I woke around 6:00 this morning, which is my normal wake up time, realized that I really don't need to get up early, and went back to sleep for a couple more hours. Just being lazy.
I am about 8 hours from Eau Claire where I'll be delivering on Monday morning. Two whole days to make an 8 hour run from here. I'm debating whether to just stay here until tomorrow morning or go on up the road a little way and split the trip into 2 parts.
I have paperwork to do. I've been procrasatinating on it and really need to get it done so I can get paid the end of next week. I didn't get paid this week because I hadn't turned in the paperwork yet. No biggie as I still have plenty of cash left from the previous payday, and when I do get paid at the end of next week it'll be a nice two week check.
The ladies in the office get a bit testy at times because of late paperwork, so I really need to make sure it's in there before one of them calls me up and complains about it. They usually get the most grumpy about it around the end of the month when they're trying to close out the month's billing so if I get it all turned in on Monday it'll still be ok.
I have no good excuse for not getting it done. I just hate paperwork and let it slide. My bad. I have a system set up to make doing the paperwork as quick and easy as possible. Most of the drivers do it all by hand. I use my PCMiler routing software and spreadsheet templates I set up. I just copy/paste, enter a few small details, and hit print. Not exactly difficult, yet somehow I still wind up putting it off no matter how many times I vow to keep up with it.
It really would make my life easier if I just did it as I go, but somehow that just never seems to happen. More often than not after driving/working all day I just don't feel like doing paperwork so I wind up letting it slide until crunch time and have to commit to the time to get it done.
As I have loads of extra time this weekend I'll go ahead and get it done. That'll make my wallet happy as well as the ladies in the office. Being as they do my payroll, I like to keep them happy.
I was thinking about the boss asking me to come and work in the office. If my hip continues to degrade I may have to seriously look at such an option, but I really don't want to move to WI. I wonder if we could set up a telecommute situation? There could be some advantage to having a satellite office in Florida I suppose, but I'm not sure how open he would be to something like that.
I could easily set up my home PC to route into their system from there, and telephones are easily forwarded and/or rerouted these days so it would be possible enough, they would just have to FedEx me the paper forms they use.
Next time he and I are having a beer together I'll feel him out on it to see how he might feel about it. That would allow me to still live in Florida and be able to work if I get to the point I can no longer drive. WI is just too damned cold in the winter.