A bunch of useless crap
Published on November 9, 2009 By MasonM In Blogging

I arrived at the delivery point in Alabama, a new steel plant under construction, only to find they couldn’t offload me until today (Monday) as the crane was to be tied up all weekend. They were kind enough to allow me to drop the trailer there on the site, which made it a lot easier for to get around and find a motel.

This morning I went back to the jobsite to get unloaded only yo find that “they” had sent the wrong size lift booms for a something this heavy (35,000 lbs). He said the right booms should be there tomorrow but whether or not they could unload me then depends a lot on the weather as hurricane Ida is currently bearing down on us.

As I have no intention of riding out a hurricane sitting in my truck, especially as the generator is down again, I requested more motel funds from the company, to be charged back to the customer of course, and went in search of a cheap motel.

There’s nothing I can do about these delays, sometime you just can’t win in these situations and just have to ride them out.  There is a Wally World nearby, so I’ll be popping over there shortly to pick up some supplies just in case we lose power here during the storm.

With any luck, I’ll be unloaded and out of here tomorrow. I am not holding my breath on that, though. I expect that it will more than likely be Wednesday before I get out of here, at the earliest. No crane is going to operate in hurricane force winds and I don’t expect the winds to die down before then.

I have a couple of good books to read, Stephen King’s Just After Sunset and the sixth book in the Hitchhker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy, And Another Thing by Eoin Colter. I also have plenty of pipe tobacco, my knitting, and a dry room. I think I’ll be set once I lay in some supplies. I’ll fill my small cooler with ice and beer, some Gatorade, lunch meat, and pick up a loaf of bread. That will tide me over during the storm, even without power.

Off to Wally World.


Comments
on Nov 12, 2009

Hope it all worked out for you with the storm and all.  I am so glad I live in the high country desert of NM and not on the coast any more.  Stay safe Mason.  judy

on Nov 12, 2009

...the sixth book in the Hitchhker’s Guide To The Galaxy...

Hahaha, nice.

on Nov 15, 2009

the sixth book in the Hitchhker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy

Damn, and I thought that I had all four! Looks like I got some readin' to do.

on Nov 16, 2009

notronaj
Hope it all worked out for you with the storm and all.  I am so glad I live in the high country desert of NM and not on the coast any more.  Stay safe Mason.  judy

Thanks, it turned out ok. I didn't get unloaded until Thursday because they had to clean all the mud off the jobsite, but I did finally manage to get out of there.

on Nov 16, 2009

Audiafox

...the sixth book in the Hitchhker’s Guide To The Galaxy...
Hahaha, nice.

It was pretty good, but not quite up to Douglas Adams.

on Nov 16, 2009

Bunnahabhain

the sixth book in the Hitchhker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy
Damn, and I thought that I had all four! Looks like I got some readin' to do.

I had read all but this most recent one.

on Nov 18, 2009

Eoin Colter?  I will have to check that out.  I have read all the other five books in the ever-increasingly misnamed trilogy.

on Nov 20, 2009

Jythier
Eoin Colter?  I will have to check that out.  I have read all the other five books in the ever-increasingly misnamed trilogy.

I found it in Wally World of all places. It was amusing and did a good job of sticking to Adams' writing, but to me at least it was pretty obvious it wasn't written by Adams. It was an enjoyable read just the same.