My first stop today was at the Central Prison in Raleigh, NC. I was elivering a machinery cooling unit there. They are builiding onto the prison there.

Needless to say, prisons are not exactly my favorite places to deliver. I can't help but think of what brutality goes on in those places and how many people don't belong in them that are sent there anyway. Makes  me shudder.

It should have been a really quick, one piece stop but things were delayed and I wound up spending most of the day there. It really sucked. By the time I finallty got out of there I had spent most of the day there, had a sunburn, and was starved half to death. It was pretty much a cluster fuck.

Once I got out of the prison my day was mostly done. I ran down to SC and checked into a motel, had a few beers and some much needed food, and called it a day. My afteroon stop was now my tomorrow stop and I would just have to adapt accorindingly.

Such is the nature of trucking.

I think the bartender here took a liking to me. She seemed to pay special attention to me. Maybe it was my imagination, maybe it wasn't. But she was arreactive and spent a good measure of time chatting with me. I enjoyed it either way. There isn't  much that compares to spending time talking with an attractive woman.

I've been keeping a hand written jouranl of late and when I have more time I'll post a synposis of what I have written there. For now, this will do.