Damn I should have stayed in Florida. It's 15 degrees outside right now. That's just insane cold. And of course there's a nice wind blowing to make it feel even colder. I went out to get some smokes and even though I was wearing longhandles, a coat, gloves, and fur hat I was still freezing. I bought my smokes and beat it back to my hotel. I was going to go get some dinner someplace. To hell with that! I ordered pizza delivery. Let the delivery driver freeze, I'm staying in where it's warm....

I normally use a small travel optical mouse with my laptop because I don't like touchpads all that much. It's a nice little scroll wheel mouse with a retractable cord and is a pretty handy size for carrying in the laptop case. When I went to bed last night I had left the mouse plugged into the laptop. When I got up this morning I discovered that Socrates has chewed through the cord at some point during the night. Damn cat. As I needed to make a run to Wally World anyway, I picked up a n...

As much as I enjoy the ritual of wet shaving, spoiling myself with a nice shave cream applied with a badger bristle brush and removing my whiskers with a good razor, it's getting into the cold season. I spend a good amount of time outdoors securing loads in all sorts of weather. It's time for me to set aside personal spoilage in favor of practicality. I have started growing my beard again. The cold weather is setting in and when out in a strong wind and subfreezing temperatures a beard ca...

This is where sex is going today. Link

This is where sex is going today. Link

When I checked into the hotel tonight the young lady at the desk asked if I had "gotten " my lost earring the last time I was here. I told her that yes, I did, and thanked her for asking. To be honest I don't even really remember her, but I guess she must have remembered me and said that she had asked the other girls several times before my last visit if I had picked it up. She even remembered which room I preferred, my name, and filled out the registration card for me so that all I had to...

I got to the yard this afternoon, dropped my load, and checked the box for paperwork for my next load. There was nothing there with my name on it. WTF? Ok, whatever. I parked my truck and headed down to the bar. As I expected the boss and several others from work were there. The boss, Pete, bought me a beer and asked how my trip had gone. We chatted for a few minutes and I got around to the fact that there wasn't a load waiting for me. He called over his brother, who is charge of outbou...

Last night some dimwit parked next to me, on my right. Well, he sort of parked. He backed his rig about half way into the parking space and left it there, front hanging out blocking half the drive. WTF? When I got up this morning I loooked at his half assed parking jub. When it was time for me to leave there would be no way I could pull out and make the swing without taking off his hood. I went on inside and took care of my morning routine and had some coffee. When I came back out the i...

It seems that the police in India are heartless bastards. Link HOWRAH: In the wee hours of Wednesday, a newborn died of hunger and cold in a police station in Howrah as cops turned a deaf ear to the wails and continued to grill the hapless mother. The mother was picked up the previous evening for bearing a child out of wedlock. Twenty-one-year-old Soma Giri, a resident of Palpara in Jagachha, Howrah, is in shock. She is also mentally challenged. Her mother Malati, who accompa...

I'm parked for the night in GA. I'm about 14 hours or so from the yard in WI and should make it there by noon on Saturday weather permitting. It's still a nice comfortably warm temperature but I see the cold front is rapidly making it's way across the country. I'll dress warmer in the morning. When I called dispatch from the port to let them I know I was loaded, she wistfully asked me what the weather was like there. I casually said that I had the a/c running as it was in the 80s. She audi...

I got to the port in Tampa around 8:00 this morning in hopes of getting loaded and rolling in short order. I was wrong. Post 9/11, ports have a lot more security. It takes about an hour to go through all of the ID check, background check, and vehicle inspection just to get in. Once I was finally allowed in I asked the guard where this company was located in the port. "Oh, ummm, I don't know. But there are signs." *sigh* Ports are very large places ya know. I knew which street they were...

I received yet another one of those fake eBay scam letters. Instead of deleting it as I normally do I decided to forward it to ebay's scam reporting address, not that I think it will actually do any good but what the heck. try to make trouble for scammers whenever you can, right? Here is an excerpt from the reply they sent me: Hello, Thank you for writing to eBay regarding the email you received. Emails such as this, commonly referred to as "spoof" or "phished" messages, are se...

Dispatch finally found me a load out. Tomorrow I'll be heading over to the port in Tampa to pick up a 35 ft long piece of steel pipe heading to WI. While I really hate going to ports at least I'll have something to get back on the road and make a couple of bucks. I'm in the process of washing up the dishes and doing the final pack up in preparation for leaving in the morning. It's been nice spending time at home but I have bills to pay so it's back to the grind tomorrow. And the damn cold ...

It seems that God has directed Benny Hinn to buy himself a jet. Link

I just saw this story on my local news station. Police arrest this sick bastard in Tampa for torturing and killing three cats with a propane torch. Some people are just sick. Link