It's been cold and raining in Wisconsin for a couple of days now. I've been working out in the crap and not enjoying it one damn bit.

Thursday morning I delivered some machinery to an automation plant in Milwaukee. I had picked it up from the Harley Davidson plant in York, PA. I had heard rumors that they might be shutting down that plant. I talked to a manager there and he said that they are shutting down part of it and consolidating operations in the newer part of the plant. They are also down-sizing their manpower.

From what he told me, they were going to close it down if the union hadn't agreed to a new contract, which they finally did. Lower pay is better than no pay I suppose, although a good many of them will be losing their jobs due to downsizing anyway.

While unloading the machinery in Milwaukee, basically a robotic welder, I managed to slice the index finger of my left hand pretty good. Lucky for me I was wearing work gloves or might have been a lot worse. As it is, it's painful and annoying but so bad as to require sutures or anything. Had I not been wearing my gloves, the left one now wrecked, I would likely have been making a trip to the emergency room. That sharp metal sliced through the leather glove like it was nothing.

I am in the hotel this morning trying to get motivated to get to work. I have a load heading for GA. There is a very large, very tall, 30,000 lbs crate of mining machinery that I am taking to the port in Savannah where it will make it's way to Brisbane, Australia. There is also a large generator that I will be delivering to a job site in Atlanta.

The weather makes motivation something of an issue, especially after being out working in the cold and rain for the past couple of days. I am drinking my coffee and smoking my pipe and trying to work up enough motivation to go secure my load and get rolling.

Ah well, at least it should be warmer in GA.