I am spending a couple of days laid over in North Carolina, in the Greensboro/Winston Salem area. The final stop on this last load was a small excavator. I delivered it on Tuesday and now have to wait around until Thursday to pick it up again and take it back to the factory in Wisconsin.

As I have had a terrible backache for the past week this layover is a welcome chance to rest and try and get my back to ease up a bit before I have to hit the road again. I have had to use my cane the past couple of days, and that always makes me a bit grumpy.

Oh well, that's the way it is sometimes.

I had done laundry a few days ago, but the clothes came out of the dryer wrinkled. Carrying a bulky iron and ironing board in the truck is impractical. I had hoped this motel room would have an iron and board, but alas it doesn't. I visited the local Walmart this morning and picked up an inexpensive hand-held garment steamer.

I tried it out back here in my room and have to say it was twenty bucks well spent. As the clothes can be steamed right on the hangar it is far easier than ironing, and the wrinkles and creases just fall away. I really wasn't expecting much from the thing and so was quite impressed by how well it worked. No more wrinkled clothes for me.

I also grudgingly picked up a new cane at Walmart. I didn't really want to, but my old one was cracked and I was concerned it might snap under my weight. The new one is aluminum, adjustable, and has a padded handle which is far more comfortable to the hand. I hate using a cane, but if I have to it may as well be a comfortable one.

I have been putting off doing my paperwork all morning but I guess I really should get it done and scanned in to the office if I want to get paid next week. I hate doing paperwork but it must be done.