My truck is still in the shop for yet another day. It should be ready to roll around noon tomorrow. I'm back in the hotel where I have spent all of this week. Not making a fracking dime. I went over to Applebee's around 4:00 this afternoon and had a few brews. I was there when they had the shift change from afternoon to evening, and one of the newer bartenders came on duty as well as the adorable little redheaded server. I was once again struck by how tiny she is as well as how damn cute s...
I just got off the phone with the shop. I called to see if they had heard anything from the body shop about my truck as it was supposed to be ready today. He said that he had spoken with them and now they are saying it will be ready tomorrow "for sure". For crying out loud all they had to do was repair the fiberglass fender and shoot some paint. Our shop will replace the bumper and chrome once they finish this. What the hell could take three days about that? Last time they did the exact sa...
Today I helped out the office by spending some time picking up a couple of generators and hauling them back to the yard. It's not something I was getting paid for, but it was better than sitting around in a hotel room being bored by what passes for entertainment on television. I used one of the spare trucks but did stipulate that the truck had to have working ac as there are a couple of them that don't. While waiting around at the factory I got hungry and wandered into their break room. I ...
I'm watching a fascinating program on the History Channel about ancient Crete and the Minoan society that flourished there some 3,500 years ago. They believe the city on the central island of Santorini fits Plato's description of Atlantis. Seems reasonable to me bassed upon the evidence they have excavated. Those people were thousands of years ahead of their time. Three and four story buildings, every house having hot and cold running water as well as a highly technically advanced sewage s...
As I mentioned in another article some sort of six legged or possibly 8 legged critter or critters dined on my right foot and ankle a few days ago. So far the bites show no signs of healing and are quite painful and itchy. Itchy enough to be maddening. I have no idea what sort of critter did the biting but I'd love to knock off a few of it's relatives about now. I shot a couple of (bad) pics of the bites. Anyone have any ideas (maybe one of our resident doctors) as to what sort of creature...
I delivered the load of animal feeders yesterday afternoon. It turned out that I had been misinformed about where they were going. I had been told they were going to a farm, but it turned out they actually went to the Shalom Wildlife Preserve here in WI. I followed the little gravel road that was not built with trucks in mind at all and had a difficult time getting around some of the curves without taking out a few pine trees in the process. On one curve I had to pull up and back up severa...
I made a stop near a cache today to do a little geocaching. The cache was out in the woods. I grabbed my gear and started hiking. I followed the gps to the coordinates and starting looking around. The gps said that I was right on top of it, but I couldn't find any sign of the thing. I knew from the listing that I was searching for an ammo can, and they aren't exactly small, but after poking around just about everywhere that could possibly hide one I was coming up empty. So I just kind o...
I'm parked at a small truckstop in rural TX for the night. I'm picking up a load near here tomorrow morning that will take me back up to WI. I'm a little on the tired side at this point. I left WI a little before noon on Tuesday, delivered in KS on Wednesday, delivered at the Army depot in TX today, and made my way deeper into TX to be in a good position to make an early pick up tomorrow morning. Normally I would be able to just take it easy on my way back to WI but I am delivering the loa...
I got bored with the beard and shaved it off. This should be good for scaring the children.
I managed to do some geocaching along my route up from FL to MN and then from MN to the yard here in WI. On the run up from FL I really didn't have a lot of time to spend on it but did manage to find a couple of quick and easy ones. Today I was able to take my time wandering across WI as I didn't really have to be anywhere at any certain time today. I'm not due in at the office until tomorrow morning. I plotted a couple of caches on my GPS that were along my route and stopped at both of th...
It's been a stressful couple of days. One long traffic backup after another. I finally got my load delivered today, a full 24 hours late, and headed into WI to make way to the yard. I stopped at a small truck stop inside of WI and decided to relax for the evening. After having something to eat I kicked back and started knitting. That always relaxes me. While I was working on the Irish Hiking Scarf I suddenly felt my truck rock to one side. Damn! I knew what that meant. Some asshole just hi...
Yeah, it was one of those days where everything worked out exactly the way it shouldn't have. I got to the pick up location 15 minutes early this morning as is my habit but still wound up having to wait a couple of hours before getting loaded. Instead of getting all bent out of shape about it I just pulled out my knitting and worked on that until time to finally load. When the guy walked over to my truck to tell me he was ready for me he kind of did a double take on the knitting but never ...
I'm having my morning coffee and getting ready to head back out on the road again. With the moving and all it just doesn't feel like I've been home long enough. But there are bills to pay and a new house to pay for, so off I go again. I have to pick up some power substation transformer components about 30 minutes from here and haul them up to MN. The crane will be there at 9:00 this morning and so will I. I'm all packed up. All is left is to carry out the trash, rinse out the coffee pot , ...