A bunch of useless crap
Published on February 1, 2007 By MasonM In Blogging
The shop tells me that they finally have my generator repaired. I'll believe it if it stays running all night tonight and I don't wake up frozen to death (which I'm pretty sure would be a bad thing).

I'm on a load that takes me home, via the scenic route.It's a very tight schedule and will keep me quite busy over the next couple of days. I have 2 stops tomorrow in Cincinnati, a stop in Franklin, VA for Saturday before noon, and a final stop in Tampa at 8:00 am Monday. This is a bit tight and was made tighter by the fact that the final pick up in Milwaukee wasn't ready until 4:00 this afternoon.

As I had some time to kill before being able to pick up the last stop I bobtailed out for lunch and made a stop at the Hobby Lobby to see what sort of yarns and needles they might have. Low and behold they were having a 50% off sale on knitting needles. I wish I would have had more cash on me than I did as there was a nice set of Boyce interchangeable circular needles in a case whose regular price is $70 and I could have had them for half.

Since I didn't have a lot of cash on me at that moment and didn't feel like searching for an ATM, I settled for buying sets of DPNS in sizes 6 and 8, and a 29" circular needle in size 10 as well as 4 skeins of Sinfonia sport weight yarn so I can try my hand at knitting socks.

I finally made the final pick up in Milwaukee at 4:00 and headed South. I'm about 3.5 hours from Cinci right now. I'll grab a few hours of sleep here (hopefully without freezing), get up early, and make a mad dash on in to try and get the two stops off as quickly as possible. It's about 10.5 hours over to Franklin from there so I'll have to do a bit of trucking to be there before noon on Saturday without fracturing any hours of service rules. I'll bend them a bit anyway, but would rather not get too far across that line.

I'm looking forward to getting home to relax and maybe knit a pair of socks or two.

Comments
on Feb 01, 2007
The shop tells me that they finally have my generator repaired. I'll believe it if it stays running all night tonight and I don't wake up frozen to death (which I'm pretty sure would be a bad thing).


what was wrong with it? I'm curious...
on Feb 01, 2007
what was wrong with it? I'm curious

They said a bad oil pressure sensor.
on Feb 01, 2007
They said a bad oil pressure sensor.


I was wanting to say i was close by guessing a bad module. Does a bad oil pressure sensor count??     
on Feb 02, 2007
I was wanting to say i was close by guessing a bad module. Does a bad oil pressure sensor count??




You may still be in the running. The damn thing shut down again last night so it still isn't fixed. Needless to say I was a bit pissed.
on Feb 02, 2007
Ah, you will probably be passing through Richmond on your way to Franklin.  They were under water about 7 years ago due to Floyd, but have recovered nicely.  460 From Petersburg to Franklin is a nice stretch of road.  If you get a chance, stop at the Virginia Diner.  They are famous for their ham and peanuts.