Post Gordon ~ Thoughts, Commentary & Reflections

Ugh!! Sorry to hear the challenges you've been up against. Sounds like the flu that has hit so many so hard this season and developed AFTER the vaccine was finalized, too, so good chance to get sick even if you've been vaccinated. Sounds like all hangover, no celebration...

Hopefully this week treats you better. Let us know!!




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Physician, Heal...

Tomorrow's run is to KY. Tonight attended 2nd lecture in Spencer Y's 'Get Fit Challenge'... had a diet/nutritionist from IU (Indiana University) Health telling us our portions are too big. Eat smaller.

All right, I'll buy that. Riddle me this: why is 1/2 a beer not a problem, goes in the refridge and patiently waits; 1/2 about anything else leads to 3/4, leads to--all gone!!

Gal was easily 50 pounds extra, carrying more extra than I'm carrying...

Say, what??


//Hey! My TTR mail now says can store 1,000 messages, not the mere 100 that always causes fits... something new?

 

Petro, Brazil, Indiana (I-70/SR 59)

On the way back from Brazil (Indiana), a large coyote crossed up ahead looking like a ghost, and paused when it reached the safety of the high side of the ditch. That's actually the first time I've seen a coyote cross directly in front of me; seen quite a few coyotes, just not ones crossing the road like that.

Maybe that explains the large rabbit crunched on SR 67 today. Hadn't occurred to me that it might have been fleeing some predator and ran right into traffic and to it's death. Seemed odd that it would end up toast like that, where it could seemingly have waited easily and crossed safely.

Just got back from meeting Blu, who told me look for a guy 'six-foot, long hair, full beard, brown coat'. We talked as much IT/IS (Information Technology/Information Systems) in parts of the conversation as trucking since we both have that background. Before trucking, he was part of a company that produced highly redundant mainframe systems that aggregated data for the likes of IBM, since IBM did a great job on the firehose-size streams of data but not on the garden hose amounts that come out of, for example, ATM transactions, one small chunk of data trickling out at a time.

What a treat to meet you, Blu!! More later...

 

1934 Vehicle Code Book Heirloom

Once I got onto i-70 from Cloverdale, we continued to talk on the cell. Blu told about his grandfather, a Teamster who drove for a small outfit based in Watsonville, California, and carried a Bible-sized complete volume of the 1934 California Vehicle Code that was handed down to Blu, altho it resides now with a buddy in Federal road law enforcement in Northern California.

Blu's grandaddy carried the Vehicle Code book his entire driving career, apparently. If pulled over, he'd demand the officer show him the alleged violation and if not there because enacted after 1934, he'd insist 'they' had failed to inform him of the 'new' rule and on that ground refuse the citation!

Surely modern California Vehicle Code is multiple volumes today, but what a creative defense...

Apparently Blu is no more a sports fan than I am. I'm a sports zero. Behind us in the far room a group of folks were enrapt in a football game, probably Ohio from what I hear on the news this morning. I wouldn't know. Not part of my vocabulary. Or interest. In our conversation, it never came up...

I am interested in food. Our service at Petro was so bad it became funny and the server, though sweet, was a zero in the service department. Despite the bad service, Blu did well with a blackberry cobbler (something he can't get back in Salinas, California) when it did finally arrive, while my tasty veggie soup sat waiting. Soup was very good, though. Server still got a tip. For being sweet, not for service.

You may recall that Blu's an O/O (Owner-Operator) who runs mainly California to Mid-West, Cincy (Cinci-tucky, he calls it), and although I ran through Cincy repeatedly for both Gordon and the Haz outfit, he had to remind me the nearby roads, like I-275 bypass (like 465 in Indy that circles the city).

Blu started with England (and seems to have had a good experience there), then Gordon and once he got enough time in to move on and into his own truck, did so. Seems to like this truck much more than first one.


//9:00 am Tuesday. Got light, fluffy snow coming down. Temps supposed to drop all day again. Didn't have the predicted ice storm yesterday...