When I left out on the road a couple of weeks ago I knew that the current property managers were leaving and new managers would be coming in. When I got home Friday I found that they had indeed hired new managers. Yesterday while I was sitting in my recliner and working to finish up my Christmas knitting I heard a small commotion outside so I checked to see what what going on. I saw a woman whom I recognized as one half of the new management team standing on my carport, phone in hand, hav...

I made it home today and will be here until at least the day after Christmas. It was a pretty good run down here from WI. I finished loading around 3:00 on Tuesday afternoon. I then set out for Florida. I knew the traffic around the Chicago area would be pure hell so I cut across WI so as to drop down I-39 on the western side of Illinois to avoid that mess. While it added a few more miles to the trip it avoided the Chicago and Gary, IN traffic nightmare and actually saved me time. I de...

I wandered over to Applebee's for a few brews and dinner. Naturally I took my knitting pack with me. I trudged through the several inches of crappy, cold, bullshit snow and had a few beers and some dinner. I hadn't been there more than 10 minutes before a couple of women expressed an interest in my knitting and I was engaged in some lengthy conversation. It carried on over to a couple of guys who chimed in with their own interest and questions, as well as a couple of other people who were...

Brrrrrr. I am now back in WI once again. It's cold and it's snowing. Yuck. I'm laid over until Monday so I checked into the hotel where it's nice and warm. I'll spend the remainder of the weekend doing some knitting and just hanging out. Could be worse I suppose, but I really would rather be out there making some cash. Oh well, it's that time of year and freight is pretty slow. I did knit up a beanie cap for myself to try out some different stitch patterns. I wanted to create a pattern ...

I'm still sitting at home waiting for the call from dispatch that will send me back out on the road. So far nothing. Freight does get slow this time of year so I am not really too surprised. Last week I order a couple of 16" circular needles from Knit Picks to use for knitting hats. The shortest I had was 24" and they are really too long for doing hats so my hats came out a little too big. The mail just ran and when I checked the box there was the package from Knit Picks. Yippee! I am n...

For those who observe the Christmas holiday with gift exchanges, what is that one thing that you are really hoping to get? Maybe it's more than one thing. Maybe it's something you haven't even mentioned to a potential gift giver but secretly would like to get. So, JU, let's have it. What do you want for Christmas? I'll start it off. Some really nice yarn. A knitting book by Elsebeth Lavold titled Viking Patterns For Knitting

Wow, some folks got some cheap gas in WI. Link

These Westboro "church" people are sick as hell. I hope someone turns a fire hose on them. Link

When I came home last Friday I told dispatch that I would be ready to go again this Friday (today). After more than six weeks out I am still not feeling quite ready to go but dutifully called in to dispatch to get my load information. I was really hoping she would tell me that she didn't have anything for me yet. I lucked out and she did indeed say that she hadn't yet found a decent paying load for me. Yippee! I didn't want to hit the road yet anyway. I told her that was just ducky for me ...

As I will probably be leaving out on the road again tomorrow I am basically using up the groceries I have on hand. I was looking through the fridge and cupboards trying to decide what to make for dinner. I had the ingredients for baked beans and some ground chuck. Hmmmmm. Ok, I whipped up the makings for the baked beans, browned the chuck in some green and red bell peppers, onion, and red pepper. I then mixed it into the prepped beans and popped the whole mess into the oven. I really didn'...

I just saw a news story on the idiot box about a truck driver that was involved in four separate accidents in Tampa yesterday resulting in the death of one person. They named the intersection where the fatality occurred and something just hit me as wrong about the story. A bit of quick Googling for the news story both cleared it up as well as angered me a bit. The 'truck driver' wasn't a trucker at all but was a guy driving a pickup. The way the story was given on the newscast gave the dis...

I've been putting off going to the laundrymat all week. I hate those places. But, after over six weeks on the road I have way too much laundry to be able to get it done in my little machine here at home. The laundrymat is the only reasonable option and I have to get it done as I'll probably be leaving back out again on Friday. I sorted out all the warm weather clothing and will do that here at home as I won't really be needing much of it on the road now. That still leaves a helluva lot of ...

We had a cold front pass through sunny Florida. The temps, which had been running above average, are now down in the low 60s with very low humidity. It's quite nice. Where I had been running the air conditioning yesterday to knock down the humidity I have now shut that down and opened the windows to allow the nice fresh air to circulate through the house. It's quite comfortable if just a tad chilly. The high for today is predicted to be in the upper 60s or low 70s and the humidity is suppo...

Just in case you're really bored. Link

This is a pretty amusing site. Lots of funny pics. Link