Bulkmatic, as it happens...

107 miles later.

 

Vroom Vroom... I didn't know we still had any manual transmission trucks.

 

Sorry for the delay, I haven't been at a computer until now and anything more than a sentence from my phone keypad is usually enough to make me want to throw it thru a wall.

I haven't broken or torn anything lately! Hopefully it will stay that way. The shoulder is doing a lot better overall, probably 90%. Don't think I'll get anymore out of it than where I'm at now, partly because I was a ####ty patient when it came to the rehab stuff I was suppose to be doing at home and didn't.

The leg is as good as it's gonna get by now also. As long as I pay attention to which knee I go on first and which one I come back up on I can kneel on it, which the surgeon said she didn't think I'd be able to do anymore (something to do with the way they had to go thru my knee to get the rod in the leg bone). I would say it's painful to do so, but it doesn't feel good either. Sorry, I know that doesn't make any sense but it's the best I can describe it. Going up stairs is easier than coming down, that #### plateau fracture has heeled but that area just below the knee in the front of the leg still hurts coming down stairs and it's a little bit of a gimp. Docs haven't figured out why, all test show everything there is healed fine so I just chalk it up to the way it is now and grab the hand rail.

Overall I'm still moving around okay, just a little slower than I did before, and certain things I do a little differently now. It could be a worse and personally I truly believe that if hadn't been standing there when my step father took that header he would have face planted into a concrete tile floor from 6 steps up and died from it so I got no complaints.

 

Had PC taken away last week. Was told to many guys were abusing it so now it's gone.

Only got to drive the 10 speed for about 450 miles. Had to switch into a different temp truck yesterday because it was the last of my 4 days on and the guy I share the truck with has only driven stick while in school, never after.

Always said I prefer manual but secretly wondered if going back into a manual would suck because the auto had made me lazy or something like that but I ####, I really loved having a manual again.

 

Could have been worse, I wasn't on the shoulder. #### high tech plastic trucks. I'm ready to go, trailer is ready to go, engine is ready to go, transmission says up yours buddy I'm not going anywhere.