I've never been to law school. I actually work for a living. I don't believe a chicken in every pot is near as good as a beer in every fridge. If elected I'll see to it that every PC asshat in the country is deported to France.  

I've never been to law school. I actually work for a living. I don't believe a chicken in every pot is near as good as a beer in every fridge. If elected I'll see to it that every PC asshat in the country is deported to France.  

I've been watching a program called Crude on the History Channel. It's the first truly realistic scientific examination of the planetary greenhouse effect that I have seen. It was quite compelling and made far more sense than most of the propaganda pieces out there today. Scientists compared data from fairly diverse fields of study. They compared past mass extinctions, formation of oil and coal deposits, past climate data extrapolated from both fossil and geologic records, and past CO2 levels...

Yesterday I made it to where I needed to go to pick up my trailer. The place is a government installation out in the middle of nowhere in Idaho. The security there is very high and I had to check in, sign in, ID check, and be escorted to the place where my trailer was sitting. It was 8 miles from the gate to the actual location, where I went through the entire security process again as well as having my truck inspected, before I was allowed into that compound to get the trailer. For obvious r...

Well, the weather people were right this time. While bobtailing across Montana I ran smack into a snow storm. Loaded big trucks get very good traction on messy roads. All that weight is a huge advantage under these conditions. Unfortunately that same truck without a load or a trailer gets almost no traction at all on the same roads. Between the snow and ice on the road and high cross winds I broke traction several times before I finally reached an exit with a hotel. I took the exit and mor...

I finally got my truck out of the shop and checked in at dispatch to see what they for me in the way of a load. After sitting around for two days I was ready to roll. What he said he wanted me to do struck as crazy on a couple of levels, and I even asked him if he'd been hitting the sauce a little early. He said we have a van trailer sitting in Idaho and he wants me to bobtail from Wisconsin to there to pick it up. Ok, a couple of things here. Firstly, I didn't know we even had a van trailer ...

I'm still hanging out at the hotel waiting to hear about my truck. I am really hoping that they'll have it ready to go soon. I find hanging around hotels to be very boring, not to mention losing all that income from sitting still instead of trucking. I'm not a big television person so I lose interest in it pretty quickly. Not much else to do in a hotel room though. Hopefully I'll get the call soon and be on my way once again. I had been planning on heading home but now I'm not so sure abou...

It's easy to tell it's a Presidential election year. As usual during an election year the loons swarm around the web like flies to a pile of shit. As is normal for these moonbats they invariably spem venom, hatred, bigotry, and insults at anyone and everyone who doesn't agree with their particular point of view without ever posting anything of substance or even remotely demonstrating intelligent, thought out fact based arguments for thier point of view. Most of the time their posts are childi...

When I got to the yard yesterday I put my truck in the shop for routine maintenance. I also mentioned a couple of minor issues they needed to address, one of which was a bit of an oil leak which I thought was just a minor problem. Turns out the rear main seal is leaking so I had to take the truck down to the engine shop. Again. Replacing the rear main seal is no small task. It involves, among other things, taking out the transmission. I am laid up in the hotel waiting to hear about the tru...

Over the past couple of weeks I have been contacted by writers for a couple of different magazines, the Financial Times in London and Yarn Forward in who knows where, for interviews about male knitting. I found it quite flattering that they would want to hear from me about the subject and did my best to answer their questions as best I could. The Financial Times one is a proposed articnle that may or may not actually run in the magazine, but the Yarn Forward one is an article in the works alt...

I'm sitting around the truckstop in Cali waiting for dispatch to find me a load. It'll be tomorrow now. It's a really nice day here. The sun is shining and there is a breeze blowing. Although the breeze is slightly chilly the air is still reasonably warm and the sun feels especially good. I was sitting at one of the picnic tables near the building and knitting when a tour bus pulled into the truckstop. A passel of tourists piled out of the bus. Most of them were elderly but there were a few y...

There an old carpenter's saying "Measure twice, cut once". The same concept applies to knitting. When knitting a fitted item such as a sweater or a vest one must knit a gauge swatch to see how many stitches and rows per inch they get with the needle/yarn combination. I did this with the alpaca vest I have been knitting and came up with 6 stitches/inch for each row/round. I did the math and cast on the stitches that would be needed to knit it in the desired size with that gauge. At just sho...

After getting my truck out of the shop on Wednesday I had to haul ass down to IL to deliver a generator, then go and pick up a Bomag roller to fill out my load. I then had to run like hell to deliver the Bomag in Denver on Friday. After Denver I had to go to Elko, NV to deliver some steel to a mining supply company. That was Saturday. Those guys did me a favor because they aren't normally open on the weekend, but agreed to come in Saturday and unload their steel so I could be on my way to Cal...

The other day while checking the oil in my trucck's generator unit I saw that the bolts holding on it's radiator had broken and the radiator was just laying loose. I was amazed that it hadn't completely broken free and fallen off. The generator supplies me with heat, air, and 110v electricity while the truck is shut off. It saves a lot of fuel compared to letting the truck run all night and is a nice thing to have. When I got back to the yard I put the truck into the shop hoping that it would...

I'm currently hanging around the truckstop in Carlisle, PA after hauling a load of four Bomag rollers and a pneumatic foam machine over to this neck of the woods. The foam machine was on it's own little trailer and so was fairly easy to unload. The guy just put a hitch on his forklift and pulled it off the trailer after I had detached the front deck. Piece of cake. The rollers were a bit more of a challenge. Two of them were sitting side by side on the top deck and had to be lifted off wit...