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p/u a tcall at fontana yard and delivered it in poway ca. then p/u in southgate ca going to porterville ca for tomorrow morning delivery. sitting at the petro off i-5 and laval.

 

Primm tonight ... Drop in SoCal tomorrow, then pu a tcall and take it to Stockton ... then home for 9-10 days. Got 7.8 mpg hauling 42K over Eisenhower to Vegas.

 

delivered in Rocklin and got out of there at 5:45 this morning, DM stuck a load on me I didnt care too much for since it was the heaviest I would of ever gotten and I had trouble scaling the 45700 load I got once before and this one was even heavier so I asked if I could get something else so he took it off and told me to finish up the Stockton lease which I did then he sent me to UPS in Oakland to get a mt, he said if there was still a roll door to grab it. Got there and found the roll door and then called him up and he said perfect thats my load south. I guess JB hunt wants to rent it for storage so I will be taking it to them in Northridge. Shut down at Joes travel center in Westley and im going to relax for a bit and then go to bed at a decent hour to get my schedule back on track.

Will take off around 6am to deliver this then begin my next project in SoCal

 

Vandalia, IL. Some nice loads on MAC 30, too bad they do not fit with my home time.

 

Houston to Ottawa KS for tomorrow, will call Harrisonville back and see if they can use me again while I'm in their spiderweb.

 

Burnsville, MN.

I finally got home time.
My DM let me deadhead 125 miles from my last drop to get here.
I put my truck in the shop to see if they could find a bad vibration problem. The shop at Richmond, VA just shined it on last month, and I'm tired of being shaken to death.

It is nice to finally get back home, with a real kitchen.
I made chicken fried rice tonight. Yum!!!!
And it's Burnsville instead of Apple Valley because my sister moved to a new place.
3 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, so we each have our own bathroom.
She did mine up special.
Moose everything. Moose decorations, moose shower curtain, even a moose toothbrush/toothpaste holder.

I'll be going to the DMV tomorrow to transfer my license to this state. I have to now, since my HM is expiring in CA.
I'll not be renewing the HM endorsement. Too much pain for not enough gain.

And I got my new laptop computer. Found a good deal at Costco - a $1,000 Toshiba with a $200 instant rebate. (they have some very low prices)
17", 16GB RAM, 1TB drive...
And Windows 8.
I hate Windows 8.
I knew I wouldn't like it from what I have read about it, but actually trying to use it is even worse than I imagined.
Most times I can't even figure out how to close a program! It takes a reboot, or opening Task Manager and ending the process.
Nothing is where it should be, and everything is hard to find.
That puppy is going bye-bye tomorrow.
I'm creating a set of recovery disks as I type. Well, it just finished.
Just in case I want to restore the original OS.
But in the morning I will be reformatting and installing Windows 7.

Microsoft has never released a worse version of Windows - and that includes ME.
It looks and feels like it was created by a bunch of 3rd graders during their lunch breaks as a joke to the industry.

 

nice specs on the laptop minus win8, my wifes newer laptop has win8, mine is a little older and I have 7. I tried the win8 beta before they ever launched and gave it a couple days before I said goodbye to it as well. They tried to intrigue people with all the touch screen technology out these days but instead just ruined windows.

I know there are some settings and stuff you can do to make your windows 8 function and look like 7 but I would have to remember how you do it. I remember ME and it sucked but not quite as bad but I still preferred 2000 server edition back then, hated xp for awhile but then liked vista.

I miss the days when you just stuck in a hard disk and went into dos to fix issues, these days they try to make it harder and harder to use dos or what they like to call command prompt or "cmd"

I have always been a computer nerd and sometimes I think I should of stayed in the field when I had my first tech job when I was 18.

 

With Windows 8 there are no longer Admin Tools, and even finding the hidden partitions on the hard drive seems impossible.

I was a tech for a dozen years or so, so I know my way around the system.
But W8 seems to block me at nearly every point.

It is an OS for stupid, ignorant people.
People that are simply interested in Facebook or other social media.
People that only care what is on the surface, not what underlies it all.

Even the user guide for this laptop treats me like a child.

And everything is so hidden!
In the user guide it says that to create recovery disk's you have to enter a certain phrase in the search window.
Why not just have a direct link in a folder for this? That is how it has been for years... decades.
But, no, you have to get into an online PDF file and be told the exact wording to use to do it.

It is the most user-unfriendly OS I have ever come across.
I have played with several Linux OS's, OS-2, plain and simple DOS, and some that most have never heard about.
Windows 8 is by far the worst.

 

I agree with you, I also used to play with a lot of linux systems too, I used to run a dual boot since I just couldnt give up my windows. Some stuff just would not run with wine. Linux has become a lot more user friendly as well in the past few years but I have not used it in over a year. I do have some linux live cd's I have used to fix my computers when they would completely crash, using a live linux os you can get to your windows partition and save your files but you probably have done that as well. When I went to school for my A+ it was windows 98 at that time and we learnt how to do everything in dos including the formatting, partitioning etc etc, nowadays you just stick a cd in and it does everything for you with a couple clicks. Everything has dumbed down when it comes to computers but for the average person this is probably a good thing.


So with windows 8 you cant search for "cmd" or control panel to access any of that stuff? I will avoid 8 for as long as I can, I hope they figure out they need to revert some of these changes in future os's. Seems each decade they make a fail os.

 

You can still find certain things, but it is a chore.

I was just telling my nephew about my early days with computers.
Back then it was pre-286, 386, 486, Pentium, etc.
Back then the system BIOS had real options to play with - including the interleave factor for the hard drive.
I changed it with my first computer, and lost all the data on the hard drive.

I hosed the system by experimenting with a few other settings as well.

But I learned by doing it.
I learned what I did wrong, what made it better, and why the setting was there in the first place.
My mistakes, and that learning process, led me to be a pretty good computer tech.

But all those options are moot now.
The BIOS in these new systems are dumbed down to the point that you can't hurt anything - or make anything better.

That interleave factor I mentioned...
The system could read and write at a certain speed, and the hard drive at another.
So reading/writing every sector in a row posed a problem.
Interleaving was a way to skip over a sector to the next, so it could be more in line.
In a 1 to 1 ratio it would read one sector after another, in a 2-1 ratio it would read every other sector, in a 3-1 - every third sector.
And every hard drive was different because it rotated at a slightly different speed.

To get the best performance you had to determine the best interleave factor, and that meant testing the computer at each setting.
You would set the interleave, format and install the OS, then test the speed.
Over and over, until you got it right.
Only then would you have the computer performing at its best in relation to hard drive speed vs. processor speed.

I loved those days when the skill and art were a part of tech genius.

These days, everything is too generic.
Plug it in and it works, but don't give the options to make it get better or fail.

We are dooming ourselves by trying to play it, always, safe.
It doesn't leave room for advancement by insight and experimentation.

Windows 8 is a perfect example.