dont know if any one reads this thing so sometimes i wonder why i write anything here. i know, i started this thing, but, some times i just dont have anything to say. huh, imagine that, a trucker with nothin to say?
its been a while,as usual, since i was here last. but nothing has really changed. the wife is doing much better after her gall bladder surgury, but chose to not return to her job. that makes it a bit more demanding on me as i am now the only one floating the boat so to speak. she dose get unemployment insurance so that help a bunch. also, she has undertaken a new enterprise, i guess is the way to describe it. she has started to sell Herbalife products. so, if you use Herbalife, or want to try Herbalife, post a coment and i will send you her web site address and her e-mail address so you can contact her directly. yall be safe out yonder, big mike
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
home time, surgury on the wife and other (mis)adventures
well,again, its been a while since i was here and many things have happened. i was home over the weekend of the 7th through the 19th for home time and had a great weekend. friday morning i had a dr. appt. just to check things out, and have my b.p. meds and thyroid meds re evaluated. later that afternoon i played golf with the daughter at the casino course south of the house, the wife went to our motel room for the night with the dogs, and afterb the golf game the daughter took me down to the motel where i got ready for the "Journey" concert the wife and i were going to. once at the casino for the concert we had to wait for bout an hour so i played some blackjack and was up 40$ when the show started, after the show we played for bout another hour and a half and ended up 50$ up when we went back to the room , walked the dogs and went to bed.
the rest of the weekend was pretty much as a weekend should be, running around, good food, good friends and good times. the wife had a doctors appt. on monday with the surgeon that was to take out her gall bladder on the, as we found out, the following wednsday. as usual, i went back on the road tuesday morning and went to the yard with the load i brought up out of dallas. the boss wasnt tooo happy when i told him i needed to be back home the following tuesday for the wifes surgury.
i went out to southgate,ca. to deliver then went to our drop lot in heber,ca. to pick up a load to denison,tx. fer saturday. then the runnin around began. suffice to say i went too far to just get back home on tuesday, but i didnt even get home till 2:30 am wednsday. surgury was set for 11am wed. and all went well. i would add a pic of what they took out of her, but, this is a family site and would not be appropriate here.
i'm now sitting on a sidestreet in phoenix,az. waiting to unload the first if 3 drops in the morning. the other 2 are out in cali on tuesday, 1 in city of industry and the final in carson for as soon as i can get there after the second.
just a friendly reminder, schools gonna be starting up real soon, so that means kids out early in the morning waitin for the bus or running to the bus, and the older ones, the juniors and seniors out there, and you wont know who they are, have cars and friends and cell phones and all the other distractions in those cars and wont be paying full attention to you, so you need to pat full attention to them, along with all those other things you need to pay attention to. be careful out there.
well, thats all for now, yall be safe out yonder, big mike
the rest of the weekend was pretty much as a weekend should be, running around, good food, good friends and good times. the wife had a doctors appt. on monday with the surgeon that was to take out her gall bladder on the, as we found out, the following wednsday. as usual, i went back on the road tuesday morning and went to the yard with the load i brought up out of dallas. the boss wasnt tooo happy when i told him i needed to be back home the following tuesday for the wifes surgury.
i went out to southgate,ca. to deliver then went to our drop lot in heber,ca. to pick up a load to denison,tx. fer saturday. then the runnin around began. suffice to say i went too far to just get back home on tuesday, but i didnt even get home till 2:30 am wednsday. surgury was set for 11am wed. and all went well. i would add a pic of what they took out of her, but, this is a family site and would not be appropriate here.
i'm now sitting on a sidestreet in phoenix,az. waiting to unload the first if 3 drops in the morning. the other 2 are out in cali on tuesday, 1 in city of industry and the final in carson for as soon as i can get there after the second.
just a friendly reminder, schools gonna be starting up real soon, so that means kids out early in the morning waitin for the bus or running to the bus, and the older ones, the juniors and seniors out there, and you wont know who they are, have cars and friends and cell phones and all the other distractions in those cars and wont be paying full attention to you, so you need to pat full attention to them, along with all those other things you need to pay attention to. be careful out there.
well, thats all for now, yall be safe out yonder, big mike
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Broke,Busted and Disgusted
well it has been a while since i was here last, and to be quite honest,i was just too lazy and sort of uninterested in being here. dont know why, just was.
as i sit here at the keyboard this night, i'm broke down in the south subburbs of chicago, with a truck that has a sucked injector. was here to deliver a load in chicago on friday and then take friday night and part of saturday off to visit a family friend and take her out for a really late birthday dinner and then 2 of my daughters and grand kids in the far south town of kankakee,il. delivered and all went weel there, then went to the place i was to pick up at, dropped my wagon, got the bills for the new load then stopped to pick up some cd's from our friend checked in to the hotel and started to make the discs she wanted
well, things went well friday night as we went out to applebees. i had made the 4 discs she asked me to make. 3 of the discs were good but the 4th one just would'nt make. had a nice time and a good dinner. she dropped me off and i went to bed.
the bad stuff started on saturday morning when i went out to get the day started. oppened up the door, put the key in, started it up and the motor just started shakin like somthin was broke, blowing thich black oily smoke out the pipe. well, called the shop and they had a road service truck come out and try to figure out what was up. they determined that it was a broke injector. it wastoo late on sturday to take it anywhere so the company put me back in the motel i had just checkrd out of. they were not happy with the price though(like i was when i payed for it on friday night)but sadly they had no choice. what, the motel was gonna let me leave the truck here to go stay someplace else??? can you say NOT!!
so, here i've been sitting since friday, or technicaly, saturday morning, watching tv eating once a day, watching tv and drinking beer.not much beer mind you, just a 6 pack over 2 days.
wish i had more to say, you would think after not being here for a while, i would have more to say, but i dont. so for now.............................yall be safe out yonder, big mike
as i sit here at the keyboard this night, i'm broke down in the south subburbs of chicago, with a truck that has a sucked injector. was here to deliver a load in chicago on friday and then take friday night and part of saturday off to visit a family friend and take her out for a really late birthday dinner and then 2 of my daughters and grand kids in the far south town of kankakee,il. delivered and all went weel there, then went to the place i was to pick up at, dropped my wagon, got the bills for the new load then stopped to pick up some cd's from our friend checked in to the hotel and started to make the discs she wanted
well, things went well friday night as we went out to applebees. i had made the 4 discs she asked me to make. 3 of the discs were good but the 4th one just would'nt make. had a nice time and a good dinner. she dropped me off and i went to bed.
the bad stuff started on saturday morning when i went out to get the day started. oppened up the door, put the key in, started it up and the motor just started shakin like somthin was broke, blowing thich black oily smoke out the pipe. well, called the shop and they had a road service truck come out and try to figure out what was up. they determined that it was a broke injector. it wastoo late on sturday to take it anywhere so the company put me back in the motel i had just checkrd out of. they were not happy with the price though(like i was when i payed for it on friday night)but sadly they had no choice. what, the motel was gonna let me leave the truck here to go stay someplace else??? can you say NOT!!
so, here i've been sitting since friday, or technicaly, saturday morning, watching tv eating once a day, watching tv and drinking beer.not much beer mind you, just a 6 pack over 2 days.
wish i had more to say, you would think after not being here for a while, i would have more to say, but i dont. so for now.............................yall be safe out yonder, big mike
Thursday, June 25, 2009
hard time getting home and other adventures
well the last time we visited i was doing a 34 hr restart at the petro in Joplin,mo. it has been quite the adventure to get home and as i type this I'm just north of Detroit,mi waiting to load in the morning....but i digress. as i said last i was in Joplin,mo, they, being my dispatchers, brought me to the yard in okc and dropped my load then i did the bob-tail thing up to get my next load in Edmond,Ok going to Des Moines,Ia for the next day. mad my delivery and reloaded right in the same door going to Eagle Pass,Tex for Wednesday morning, the was to lay over till the pm and load back to okc for Thursday then home Thursday night, that however, didn't work.
they switched me up in Gainesville, Tex and sent me to Dallas, Tex supposedly to pick up a load to Lawton, Ok for asap. well, when i got to Dallas the Lawton load magically disappeared and i was on my way to aurora co for the next day by noon. managed to get to aurora by 945 and was empty by 1030 and was sitting waiting on a load when my dispatcher called and asked why i hadn't picked up the load he sent me and he found out my truck was turned off (to save fuel)and i hadn't received it yet. well he gave me the info and i was off n running to Denver to get stop 1 of 2 going to Dallas(the second being in Amarillo, Tex). got that loaded and was 35 miles east of Denver when things changed again.
same dispatcher called me and sent me back towards Denver and south on i-25 where i stopped at a small t/s in Colorado Springs to wait on another driver with a sick motor to bring me his load out of Denver going to.....wanna guess? remember i live south of Oklahoma City,Ok and have a Dr. apt. at 930 Friday morning and this is now Wednesday and i am in Colorado Springs,Co. can ya guess yet? okc right? WRONG!! I'm now going to Prewitt,Nm for Thursday morning, Prewitt is 100 miles west of Albuquerque,Nm. the only saving thing if there is one, is that i had a reload right out if the same place i unloaded. i was told that i would relay this load with another driver in Amarillo,Tex as soon as i could get there. can ya guess what happened next.....come on..i know ya can.
if you guessed that i wasn't gonna swap in Amarillo you win the prize....don't know what that would be yet but......i ended up taking that load all the way down to the drop yard in Dallas that this all basically started at in,Dallas,Tex. i got to the drop lot at 3am on Friday morning, dropped and did the bob-tail thing again up to Roanoke,Tex to pick up the load that FINALLY got me home at 6am on Friday morning. i fell into bed for 3 hours and my daughter picked me up for the Dr. after all was said and done and all the driving was finished it was a 3790 mile trip to get home from Joplin,Mo.
after the Dr. visit her and i went out fer breakfast, then she took me to the second hand sports store and bought the both of us a used set of golf clubs, 2 bags, and i bought 20 used good golf balls and we were off to the golf course, for the very first round of hopefully lots more of golf. we naturally SUCKED as it was our very first round after all. she shot a 69 and i shot a 64......for 9 holes. the clubs and the golf course fees were my fathers day present from her. thank you VERY VERY much my daughter. the rest of the weekend was real nice and relaxing. the wife and i went to the Winstar casino for dinner Saturday and we had a real good dinner then we went and donated, i mean lost 20 bucks total on the slots then as we were headed out, we topped at the box office to check prices on some tickets for upcoming shows and ended up wit a pair of tix for the august 7 show for Journey. that was my fathers day present from the BETTER HALF. steak at home on the grill on Sunday, with homemade double baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and homemade apple pie on Sunday and home made pizza on Monday, then back after it on Tuesday morning, up to the yard to spend all day in the shop getting my under dash water leak fixed and a new fuel sending unit installed, then up to Pontiac,Mi to where i am now.
well, that's enough for this time, I've bored you sufficiently this time. as always, ya ll be safe out yonder, mike
they switched me up in Gainesville, Tex and sent me to Dallas, Tex supposedly to pick up a load to Lawton, Ok for asap. well, when i got to Dallas the Lawton load magically disappeared and i was on my way to aurora co for the next day by noon. managed to get to aurora by 945 and was empty by 1030 and was sitting waiting on a load when my dispatcher called and asked why i hadn't picked up the load he sent me and he found out my truck was turned off (to save fuel)and i hadn't received it yet. well he gave me the info and i was off n running to Denver to get stop 1 of 2 going to Dallas(the second being in Amarillo, Tex). got that loaded and was 35 miles east of Denver when things changed again.
same dispatcher called me and sent me back towards Denver and south on i-25 where i stopped at a small t/s in Colorado Springs to wait on another driver with a sick motor to bring me his load out of Denver going to.....wanna guess? remember i live south of Oklahoma City,Ok and have a Dr. apt. at 930 Friday morning and this is now Wednesday and i am in Colorado Springs,Co. can ya guess yet? okc right? WRONG!! I'm now going to Prewitt,Nm for Thursday morning, Prewitt is 100 miles west of Albuquerque,Nm. the only saving thing if there is one, is that i had a reload right out if the same place i unloaded. i was told that i would relay this load with another driver in Amarillo,Tex as soon as i could get there. can ya guess what happened next.....come on..i know ya can.
if you guessed that i wasn't gonna swap in Amarillo you win the prize....don't know what that would be yet but......i ended up taking that load all the way down to the drop yard in Dallas that this all basically started at in,Dallas,Tex. i got to the drop lot at 3am on Friday morning, dropped and did the bob-tail thing again up to Roanoke,Tex to pick up the load that FINALLY got me home at 6am on Friday morning. i fell into bed for 3 hours and my daughter picked me up for the Dr. after all was said and done and all the driving was finished it was a 3790 mile trip to get home from Joplin,Mo.
after the Dr. visit her and i went out fer breakfast, then she took me to the second hand sports store and bought the both of us a used set of golf clubs, 2 bags, and i bought 20 used good golf balls and we were off to the golf course, for the very first round of hopefully lots more of golf. we naturally SUCKED as it was our very first round after all. she shot a 69 and i shot a 64......for 9 holes. the clubs and the golf course fees were my fathers day present from her. thank you VERY VERY much my daughter. the rest of the weekend was real nice and relaxing. the wife and i went to the Winstar casino for dinner Saturday and we had a real good dinner then we went and donated, i mean lost 20 bucks total on the slots then as we were headed out, we topped at the box office to check prices on some tickets for upcoming shows and ended up wit a pair of tix for the august 7 show for Journey. that was my fathers day present from the BETTER HALF. steak at home on the grill on Sunday, with homemade double baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and homemade apple pie on Sunday and home made pizza on Monday, then back after it on Tuesday morning, up to the yard to spend all day in the shop getting my under dash water leak fixed and a new fuel sending unit installed, then up to Pontiac,Mi to where i am now.
well, that's enough for this time, I've bored you sufficiently this time. as always, ya ll be safe out yonder, mike
Saturday, June 13, 2009
stuck in joplin again
that would be joplin,mo for the rest of ya. been here since yesterday and wont leave till tomorrow(sunday)morning headed to oklahoma city for a monday delivery,but, i will be dropping this in our yard there in okc bout noon thirty.
its been an interesting couple days since i was last here. last we spoke i was layed over in memphis tn for the weekend. well i delivered that in memphis on monday then went less than a mile to reload for okc. for the next morning. had enough time and ran hard enough to get there so i stopped at the casino for a few hours. went in with 50 and came out with 10. not a profitable night.
after delivery i went to the yard and was in and out in 30 mins headed to catoosa(tulsa)ok to reload 2 pickups headed to savannah,ga for thursday at 6am edt. made the 2 drops in savannah by 7:30 and headed to the pilot t/s and went ta bed. dispatcher called at 9:30 with a load out of louisville,2 picks and frankfort,ky,1 pick for a friday loading to deliver monday. yold him i would leave after i woke up, which i did around 1pm cent. time, had some food at the waffel house next door, got fuel and rolle out around 3:30pm. you know the rest so far from the first paragraph.
DONT FORGET FATHERS DAY IS SUNDAY,JUNE 21. dads just as important as mom is. after all, WITHOUT him, you wouldnt be here at all. dont forget dad, take him to breakfast, wash his car, treat him to a round of golf(if he plays)or mini golf if he dont, just DONT give him another tie! ugh!! my kids never(thank you)gave me a tie. they did give me great grand kids, though.
well, thats all for now....oh....also...dont forget SCHOOLS OUT, which means lots of families out on a summer vacation, kids out playing, and maybe sometimes not payinfg full attention, so be extra careful when driving those cars n big trucks through those small towns n big cities.
yall be safe out yonder...big mike
its been an interesting couple days since i was last here. last we spoke i was layed over in memphis tn for the weekend. well i delivered that in memphis on monday then went less than a mile to reload for okc. for the next morning. had enough time and ran hard enough to get there so i stopped at the casino for a few hours. went in with 50 and came out with 10. not a profitable night.
after delivery i went to the yard and was in and out in 30 mins headed to catoosa(tulsa)ok to reload 2 pickups headed to savannah,ga for thursday at 6am edt. made the 2 drops in savannah by 7:30 and headed to the pilot t/s and went ta bed. dispatcher called at 9:30 with a load out of louisville,2 picks and frankfort,ky,1 pick for a friday loading to deliver monday. yold him i would leave after i woke up, which i did around 1pm cent. time, had some food at the waffel house next door, got fuel and rolle out around 3:30pm. you know the rest so far from the first paragraph.
DONT FORGET FATHERS DAY IS SUNDAY,JUNE 21. dads just as important as mom is. after all, WITHOUT him, you wouldnt be here at all. dont forget dad, take him to breakfast, wash his car, treat him to a round of golf(if he plays)or mini golf if he dont, just DONT give him another tie! ugh!! my kids never(thank you)gave me a tie. they did give me great grand kids, though.
well, thats all for now....oh....also...dont forget SCHOOLS OUT, which means lots of families out on a summer vacation, kids out playing, and maybe sometimes not payinfg full attention, so be extra careful when driving those cars n big trucks through those small towns n big cities.
yall be safe out yonder...big mike
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