Post Gordon ~ Thoughts, Commentary & Reflections

439 miles today, 8 hours driving time. Just wrapped up. Tomorrow's truck, '75', is another 2013, this one with 256,000. Yes, it was wet today except while at receiver. Got unloaded relatively fast and effortlessly. Less than an hour actual unloading and then paperwork. Lots of opportunity for hydroplaning as 4 wheelers went by, leaving their tracks as though in fresh snow.

Creeks and ditches were full...

 

Gonna drop over 30 degrees plus between tonight and tomorrow night, Denali. So balmy tonight, in the mid 50's, had driver's window down part of the way home from the yard. 20 tomorrow night. Got gas in Ellettsville again, $1.98. Guess we've moved off peak oil for a while, folks.

Peak oil was supposed to have been the point at which this finite ancient dinosaur blood and guts was thereafter ever-reducing in quantity. Some day it'll be so rare they'll harvest it out of the atmosphere and out of plastics retrieved from oceans and ancient landfills--ours.

Tonight's mouse is a good one. Very dead. Last night's mouse, alive when I put him out on the deck railing--the bugger's gone and my trap with him!! THAT was a $2 trap!! Where'd he go?? I ask you!! Where??

Brought 2 eggs in from the nesting box tonight. Retrieved 1 this morning before I left out. Gave a dozen to Trainer Frank. Payback for the Ritz crackers I ate out of his truck. Wouldn't let me replace them... likes the eggs, though. And he was the designated chicken killer when he was a kid, knows how to do it, butcher them, too.

Frank and I will have business, tell you!

Yeah, Wayne got re-routed but I'm still going to St. Louis tomorrow. Have to make a decision what to do about phone and headset. New Nokia says it's hooked to headset but I can't hear anything or make a call. And the headset connects and disconnects from it. G-r-r-r-r!!

Well, it was a refurb off StraightTalk web site for $10 bucks, an E71--nice phone. Takes videos. Meant I had to buy the $45 unlimited card. Usually buy the $30 card. I don't talk that much but Trainer Frank and Sunday Driver talk a LOT!! Trying to keep up with the Joneses (Frank and Sunday Driver) without popping for a $300 iPhone 4. I know, I know. It's like movies with me. I'd just as soon see an old one for a couple bucks...

Wayne's pretty talkative on the phone, too!

StraightTalk didn't have the little flip phones I like. Whenever I need to renew, I try to remember to order the $30 card with a free phone. Well, they figure it vice versa. Free phone and card. $30. They give you the phone, like a razor, hoping you'll continue to buy minutes. Have had zero luck with smartphones. Have had a number of them. There's always something, like headset issue.

The night I couldn't dial 911 after a service truck went head on into a semi just north of town. That was it. Went back to my flip phone. Could dial 911 with the flip phone any day. The phone numbers on the smart phone were, like rubbery. Not like rubbery keys. There were no keys. They were on the screen and couldn't make them connect. Terrible at dialing numbers. Even 911.

Finally, after fumbling around, I thought screw it. I was only 15 feet away, so just walked over, no pulse anyway so the call wasn't all that important. Truck driver was banged up some but safe in his rig. And his phone worked. Had already called his boss, not 911.

Called 911 for him (and the dead guy) when my hands settled down enough to dial 911... Better late than toast, like the dead guy. Despite all the stopped cars, 911 told me no one had called yet. Ugh!

Went back to flip phone...


//Thank you, mp4!! Not sure which part of this post you liked, but thx!

 

Wireless hotspots a really good idea, too. Would power both iPad and phone, wouldn't it! Nonetheless, got the Nokia working--wasn't the Nokia's fault after all. Somehow managed to mute the incoming call on the headset. Wow! Nice tone. Went back online to StraightTalk and bought another for backup. Has a big battery, will have two and 2nd phone. Have 2 weeks or so, I think, to return if change my mind.

Somehow it's always too much trouble and they pile up...

Do you Skype or have a cell phone service, too?

Blu, sometime when you're in the Indy or Brazil area we should meet. There's a Greek lunch buffet I really like by Sam's Club, off 465 on Indy west side. Met goldenfan and ampm wayne, so far.

Hafta be a day I'm off. Looks like Mondays, Wed-Fri for now. Not sure how long they'll keep this 3 day stuff up. Trainer Frank even commented about it. "Yeah, they hired you part-time and run you like full-time... " Actually, the full-timers run 6-day weeks a lot.

3 11- or 12- hour days is what?

Pretty close to a regular person's 40-hour week!


//Then again, today I'm running out I-70 west from Cloverdale...

 

Plan B

36 gal diesel at the Pilot in Effingham, plan to fuel 2nd time on way back. Just approaching 67/231 Junction a 'Please read' message on PeopleNet. This outfit does not use messaging, so almost blew it off but there's a good pull over on the other side the 4-way stop. Message was to call Boss.

Nokia and headset are not playing pals. He called, it dropped him.

Great. I ordered 2nd Nokia this am.

Bunch of loads Monday, would I work Monday (KY) in lieu of Tuesday...

Did not agree right off this time, but did agree. Will actually work out better. I'm last truck and could leave as late as noon, maybe get a start on better shelter for the roosters. Have Tuesday-Friday to get to Spencer Y. Tomorrow was last sign-up day for 'Get Fit Challenge' so that's off.