I'm pretty fed up with some of my neighbors. What the hell is it with some people? There are a few people who seem to think that my carport is a public sidewalk and I'm getting fed  up with it. Whenever I come home I take the time to sweep the grass clipping andsand off my carport but within a day it's dirty again because of thesepeople tracking their dirt through.   Several times a day I see a shadow go by on my carport. There are several people who, instead of walking down the ...

Judging from the articles popping up on JU it seems there are some mixed reactions to the new JU format. I suppose that's to be expected whenever any major changes take place. As  with anything new there will be a learning curve and a bit of an adjustment period before most people get comfortable with the new format. And of course there will be some bugs to be worked out, which is also to be expected whenever one deploys thousands of lines of code.   So far I have found one or tw...

This morning  I had to run down to Boynton Beach to deliver the two trash compactors I hauled down from WI. I had told the guy I would be at the jobsite at noon and left early enough to ensure making it on time.   I stopped at the truckstop in Vero Beach to fill my coffee cup. Just as I stepped out of the truck it started sprinkling. No big deal, it's FLorida and it tends to rain often here. Those big drops were pretty damn cold on my back though. I got my coffee and continued on...

For the past several weeks I have been testing a Linux distribution, PCLinuxOS, on my laptop. It's a pretty good distro, well designed and stable, but still not as fast as the one I normally use, Slackware. Today I decided to go ahead and put Slackware back on the laptop. It's been my primary operating system for years and I felt that I had pretty well put PCLinuxOS through it's paces. Right after I had reformatted the drive partitions and was about to start installing the OS the cdrom dec...

I was supposed to deliver down near Miami this afternoon but had a change of plans. I spoke with the owner of the company that is to receive the deliver, a couple of trash compactors, and he said he wouldn't be able to unload them at the job site by the time I made it down there this afternoon as his people usually knock off early on Friday. That was just fine by me and I set things up to deliver around noon on Monday and put it in the wind for home. After being broke down in Oklahoma Cit...

I went over to Applebee's for dinner. I didn't stay long as I wasn't feeling up to it, but I was glad I went. Shortly after I sat down at the bar I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and turned to see what it was. It was Jenna, formerly my favorite bartender then shift manager before she was transferred to another location. She had seen me sit down and was running over to give me a hug. I haven't seen her in ages. She was there working as a visiting manager for the night. The ser...

I spoke with my boss this morning just to update him on my condition. It was a difficult conversation as my voice hasn't yet returned and I am croaking more than speaking. While I am starting to feel better I am not feeling up to getting out in the sub-zero weather and working. He said to just keep resting, it's supposed to be a bit warmer tomorrow. He also said that he would swing by the hotel and take care of the bill, pick up my paperwork and take it in to the office for me, and drop o...

As I am starting to regain a bit of strength I wandered over to Applebee's this afternoon. I am sick of the four walls of this damn hotel room and after being laid low by the flu I wanted to get out of it for a bit. Holy shit is it cold outside! It's still sub-zero weather. That sounds bad but feels much worse. It's not a long walk over to Applebee's and I had bundled up for it but it was still a frigid, miserable walk. Naturally the wind was in my face all the way over there so my eyes...

Well, ok, actually it's just chicken noodle soup, but it's the first thing I've eaten since I caught this damn flu that actually tasted good. I managed to drive over to the grocery and pick up some soup, more orange juice and Gatorade, and a few saltines to help settle the stomach. I thought I was starting to feel better but walking around that store sapped me. The fact that the place was crowded with people stocking up because of the forecast of snow to come tonight didn't help much. It s...

I've had the flu before. Most everyone has I would think. But this one, this strain, is different. It's a real ass kicker. Normally the flu might put me out of commission for a day or two and then just make me feel bad for several more days and that would be that. This one has literally taken me off me feet since it grabbed hold of me. I find it amazing how something so small you can't even see it can take a grown man off his feet. I've been dealing with it the best I can. I've been dosing...

I finally made it back to the yard today after spending all of yesterday in fog so thick that I couldn't see 50 feet in front of me. I was very happy to finally be back at the yard as I am feeling like shit. Last Monday when I unloaded in OKC one of my fellow drivers also delivered to the same airport. One look told me she was very, very sick. After we got unloaded we both went to the closest truckstop for some breakfast. She sat across the table from me. I made a point of not touching an...

After delivering at the Oklahoma City airport on Monday I took my truck to an engine shop for repairs. As I suspected the head was bad...again. A nearby hotel has a shuttle service so I called them to pick me up and I checked in here. As there is a bar next door called Sherlock's and I spent a little time in the evenings over there enjoying a few cold ones. I think I blew their minds a bit when I first went in there. Big bearded guy in a cowboy hat sitting at the bar knitting LOL. I've bee...

I made it back to the yard from NM Friday afternoon just in time to get my DOT physical done at the clinic. I'm all legal once again with a shiny new medical card good for two more years. While I can't see very well close up, I need glasses to read small print, my distance vision is even better than I thought. I scored 20/15 on that. Not too shabby I guess. I spent Friday night down at the little bar at the bottom of the hill from the yard having a few brews and shooting the bull with the ...

While in Applebee's this weekend one of the servers, the one who calls me Sam because she thinks I sound like Sam Elliott, asked me when I was going to make her a hat. She told me her favorite colors are turquoise and yellow. I am currently knitting a turquoise hat with a bit of yellow trim for her. For this one I decided to experiment with moss stitch and am pretty happy with the way it's looking. The moss stitch makes a very interesting texture which I think will make for a very nice lookin...

As I mentioned in my previous blog entry I had some delays in getting my load ready to roll Sunday. That was all finally straightened out and I started to pull out of the yard to start for Oh. That's when the red emergency air line between the tractor and trailer snapped. That sometimes happens when it's really cold. The really shitty thing about that is that when that line goes the brakes on the trailer lock up and you're stuck. Such was the case and, after all the previous delays, I was ...