I had planned on ordering yarn to make another sweater, but with the slow economy and subsequent slow frieght I just can't afford it right now. So I broke into my yarn stash and put together enough yarn of colors that should go together to make a sweater. It's all acrylic as I've used up most of "the good stuff", but that's ok at least it'll be washable, and it's soft acrylics not the harsh itchy stuff. I'm making this one a turtleneck. Naturally I am not using a pattern, just improvising as ...

*Sigh* I've come to the conclusion that mahines in general just hate me.  My clothes dryer has died on me. My truck needed a jump start. Now my main airconditioner has stopped working. Damn thing was working perfectly yesterday, without the slightest hint of a problem. I hate to even wonder "What's next?"

Well today was really special.  I loaded all of my road clothes in the truck, fired it up, and headed out to pick up the machine I was supposed to haul to Iowa. When I got there I walked in and found the guy I was supposed to see and the first thing he asked me "Where are your riggers?" My heart dropped into my stomach as the implication of that question sank in.  "I'm a trucker, you're supposed to provide the riggers to load the thing, that's the way it works" I said to him alre...

A friend of mine, who lives in California, is getting married in October of next year. He contacted me and asked if I would be willing to perform the wedding (I guess I'm the only ordained person he knows LOL). I checked with the state of California and found that I can legally perform the marriage there so I told him I would do it. I then realized that I hadn't seen my ordination papers in a few years (will need them when it comes time to sign the marriage license). I dug through some of m...

I got a call from dispatch around 11:00 this morning. She had found a partial load for me to pick up about 1.5 hours from my house going to Iowa. Cool. The plan was for me to go and pick it up and then as it doesn't need to be in Iowa until Monday morning just return home to wait for her to find something else to fill out the load. Sounded like a plan to me. I called the shipper and set everything up. He said to come in around 1:00 PM. No problem. After eating an early lunch I went out to ...

I'm watching the morning news and they just told about a meeting that is scheduled to try and explain the change over to digital braodcasts. The news reader (I won't call these idiots reporters), made a statement with regard to the change to DTV  "...that means no more antennas". It's exactly this sort of moronic statement that upsets people and makes them think the only way they'll be able to pick up the broadcast is by getting cable they can't afford. There are a lot of elderly on fixe...

I'm in the process of doing my laundry and getting packed up to hit the road again. This time around part of this process is to determine what warmer weather clothes I'll leave behind to be replaced by my Winter clothing. Even in the Winter I do still visit some places like Florida and other deep South areas where it stays relatively warm year-round so I always have a small amount of warm weather clothes along with me. This morning I took the time to finish off the sapphire blue sweater I mad...

I've had a great many injuries over the years, many of them quite serious and some life threatening. But there have been some silly ones as well. Probably the silliest one was a...bowling injury. Yep, you read it right, a bowling injury. My last girlfriend was teaching me to bowl one night while we were out with some friends (she bowled on a league). I was using a 16 lbs ball that I had bought earlier that day and had drilled for me Seems the guy doing the drilling screwed up and the ho...

Someone on a show playing on the idiot box mentioned fried ice cream. That got my attention. I love fried ice cream. I haven't had it in years. Last time was when my last girlfriend and I were in a restauraunt that happened to serve it and I introduced her to it. '02 or '03 maybe? Even though lactose and I do not get along I have a weakness for fried ice cream. The stuff really is great. If you've never had it you really should. Damn, I'm going to have to go find some tomorrow.

As I am not home all that much paying for cable would be a major waste of money so I just use a pair of amplified rabbit ears to receive television broadcasts. It's always been a bit snowy with some interference, but no more than I watch tv it was adequate. Yesterday I bought a DTV converter box for my living room tv. Wow, what a difference! All but one of our local stations is broadcasting in digital, and the picture quality is amazing. Channels that before were barely watchable are now crys...

I finally made it home again after fighting my way out of the Hell hole known as Miami. Damn I hate that place! I watched the election results Tuesday night with a growing sense of dread. It was obvious and no surprise that Obama had the win. Why dread? I can't really put my finger on it except to say that at this point in history, with our economy on a serious downhill slide, I just don't feel that we need a far Left President. I do have mixed feelings about the Obama win. On the one hand...

I spent last night in Nashville. I walked the bridge that crosses the river and leads into downtown. There's a nice sports bar there called the Riverfront Tavern. It's a friendly place, has good food, and I always have a good time there. Last night was no exception. While I was sitting at the bar knitting and chatting with a couple of fellow patrons and the bartender (who naturally remembered me due to my knitting) an attractive young lady came in and sat down to my right. After a few minutes...

I'm sitting around the truckstop near the yard. Later today I'll be loading up for FL. I plan on spending a week or so at the house and then won't return back home again until Christmas. It's always dead from Christmas until the new year so it's a good time to just mstay home and loaf. I'll make what money I can until then. I can't believe how late I slept this morning. I must have been more tired than I thought. Yesterday wasn't a very busy day for me at all. I went down to the port in Milwa...

I hate fucking snow. I really do. Am in Wisconsin today and saw the first fucking snowflakes of the Winter season. Fuck them. I really, really hate cold weather and fucking snow. I really hate fucking snow. After checkiing into the hotel I had to walk through falling fucking snow to Applebee's. Fuck that shit, I hate it. Cold, wet, and just plain ugly. Fuck it. In school they teach you that this cold, wet, frozen form of precipitation is called snow. They lied. It's called fucking snow....

I stopped by my favorite Applebee's. I saw my favorite people and got my favorite hugs. I was having a good time. Until this asshat showed up. He was a typical loud-mouthed, obnoxious, asshole. I did my best to ignore this asshat for a while but he finally crossed the line. He gave one of the servers a hard time and called her a name I won't write here. This woman is a good person and didn't deserve to be called such a name. I calmly got up off my stool, walked around the bar, tapped...