Running with JCT, Part Deux

Crimson Tide! PuuhhlEEZe! My favorite part was the Tribunal at the end. My 14 yo daughter is riding w/ me for the Summer and when I read her this she said: " NOOOO!! We are NOT watching that movie again Dad! We are watching Longmire on Netflix!" LOL

 

And Toria STILL asks me for a confirmation! Then Chuck and Smitty and the whole"Extended Coverage" crew! LOL! I think it's a game. It's called: "Messin' Wit Da Aminal; watch THIS!" LOL. Gotta love 'em, though. I think that is prolly one of the biggest reasons I stay in this rat race. I like my fellow rats a LOT. LOL.

 

Love the disclaimer there Animal

 

Just thought I'd stop by and say Hi. Been workin' a lot. between the ranch and this gig; takes a lot of time away. Y'all know what I mean. So many ROCKS (who knew AZ had so MANY rocks LOL) to move and so little time. Luckily, The Sunrise is on 40 so I'm by it a lot. Terrie (my wife) got real sick and had to go back to Texas to live w/ her Mom for a while. I'm still bustin' rocks and burnin' asphalt on The 40 in nowhere Copper State and elsewhere we roam though. Mrs. Aminal should be back to the Ranch in the Spring, though. So that's good. House should be finished by then. Close enough anyway. LOL.

Great Summer with my youngest daughter. She lives in SC. JCT planners been really cool about getting me where I asked to go with her. Especially Rob. Super Kudos to him. He seemed to totally understand the goal. A Last Summer Tour of America w/ my baby girl before she hits that Magic Age of the Fifteen when her life as a maturing adult with School and Work and Driving (y'all know they can drive alone at 15 1/2 now?!) and her own pick-up (a '92 Ford F-150 stepside - loves me my rancher girl - her choice; not mine; I SUGGESTED GMC - my '88 K1500 longbed w/ the 454 and the 4x4 posi front and rear diffs has been GREAT, but we all gots our preferences. LOL): You know. Young and upcoming Life and driving herself and her own truck will hit her this upcoming year. My time with her is about to fade. Planners have been AWESOME!! Got by the Ranch SEVERAL times and got to give her, her first driving lessons. Course I had to make sure she knew that ole GMC has a TON more gumph than her sporty Ford. LOL. Got some new burn marks in the high country of The Juniperwoods in AZ in discovering how much. LOL. Little tree trimming between Williams and Kingman in the ridge running too. LOL. She did great, though.

That's about it. Darla's doin' OK. Not as well as I'd like at 250K (Lord; where has the time gone?) and I still HATE Freightliner and most shops. Got an intermittent problem with her transmission not wanting to go into even number gears til she's good and going. Like 20 mins good and going. Gotta skip shift in the odd number gears and ride 11 til she just decides she'll catch 12. Whenever that is. Crazy mule!! Out about $500 in the shops not finding out the problem. Ours included. Autobots. Total love/hate there and more hate than love cause of Freightliner !@#$%^&*()_+ warranty NON-coverage. PLUS, a Yellow Freight double blew a tire right in front of me on the 40 just before Tucumcari the other night and it took out my wet air tank and smushed the pop-off valve on my primary tank back in and cost me some dough for a Band-Aid from Jack's there in TUCUMNM just to be able to roll so after I deliver here in GA and then I drop off Little Bit in SC (her High School Freshman Orientation is next week) I'm gonna be camped out at Freightliner of Savannah for a few days getting THAT taken care of; plus she needs PM, plus THE PAINT ON THE FRONT BUMPER IS PEELING OFF FOR NO REASON!! Pretty mule looks like she has a big ole black eye! Oh, plus the right windshield has a big crack from a rock from a rock bucket. Bunch of other nick-knack conspiring to finish draining my escrow after $4K for all new Michelin X-Energy drives. LOL.

It's like the late great Gilda usta say as Rosane Rosannadanna; It's always somethin'. Either ya got a piece of sweater in your belly button like a little lint ball or a smushed in air tank from a Yellow Freight attack gator. It's always somethin'!

Night guys and stay safe.

 

We may have met in Tulare CA? loadlocks and cheese--

I just thought it was funny that after 4 days or so of running at a certain temperature, sending in said temps twice a day, all of a sudden it is a near emergency for them to know what the bol temps say.

 

So the terminal is locked down now. You have to get a key card and swipe to get into the driver areas.

 

Really, are they gonna give everybody one?

 

Yep. I got mine. All the ouside doors were locked except the main lobby front door.

 

Just picked up a couple of steaks for $5.50 from Basha's Supermarket in Kingman, Az. Gonna cook me up some steak and eggs for breakfast in the morning.

They actually have some pretty good prices when you get their discount card. It's was free to get, so, was like why not. That's how I got the steaks for the price I did instead of $10.

 

Yes, you have to get it from your DM. They probably did that cuz they don't want me coming in there and shooting the place up cuz of all these trailer repairs I'm doing