Was the title for the Airshow at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas. We got there early and stood in line for an hour for a short bus ride to the base. This airshow is HUGE! I’m sure I was the only one at the airshow taking pictures of trucks. But this was pretty cool. The big screen on a trailer. The screen would show the planes (of course) and would switch to pictures inside the cockpit of the various performers. They also had a Predator flying above the show being controlled from 50 miles away taking pictures of the airshow [...More...]
Jun 082011
Jun 082011
I’m still home after 15 days. A little more than I expected, but when the truck was in for some minor repairs, I was called and told I needed a new clutch. At least it’s under warranty but it wasn’t going to be shipped for 5 days because of some back-orders. I paid for overnight so when it is shipped there won’t be any delay. Hopefully, the clutch comes in today and I can get back on the road Monday or Tuesday. After taking this much time off, it’s going to be hard to go back to work. Cindy goes [...More...]
Jun 082011
Well, its been 8 days of home life and as they say, we owe, we owe, so its off to work we go. Oh yes the facts of life that us common folk must follow until age 65 or longer. The Golden Years sounds nice but as my mom says, “There’s nothing Golden about them”. Today we pack the truck and head for San Jose for a pick-up Wednesday that is going to Austin, TX. We have another on the 29th at the same place so we are hoping for a load to take back. My daughter, her husband and [...More...]
Jun 082011
We finally made it home after getting rained on all through Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma. I had to unload part of what we have here in Vegas anyway and the rest in LA on Monday morning. My dispatcher came in to unlock the warehouse on Saturday and helped unload and we had a long talk about trucking and other things going on at the office. He was showing me on his emails all the bids that he would put in and then get underbid for some outrageous amount going to places like Florida where people know they will have to [...More...]
Jun 082011
The day I completed and passed my A+ tests I updated all my online resumes. Careerbuilder, Monster etc… That same day I get a call from a recruiter from one of the IT staffing companies in town, checking to see if I’m available for a contract (temporary) computer support job. I won’t find out if I even have a chance to interview till next week, but it was kind of cool to get called like that. A real corporate type interview; You know when the last time I had to do that was? A long, long, long time ago. This [...More...]
Jun 082011
I’ve been driving truck since Oct ’98. I’ve pulled a reefer (refrigerated trailer) and dry van and had to deal with the hassles that accompany hauling produce and boxed meat. Including lumpers, refrigerated warehouses, farms and the stink of meat plants. Now I haul Special Commodities also called pad wrap or blanket wrap freight. Things that require special handling. Electronics, new furniture, even personal household moves once in awhile, trade shows and the like. It’s still a hassle, just a different kind of hassle. But there are good parts to it too. Before trucking I was a Network Technician and [...More...]
Jun 082011
I actually did have something planned to send, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for and I couldn’t find an e-card I liked. Being on the road is too much of an excuse, but in reality, I’m such a slug and have no excuses for not even sending a e-card for Valentine’s Day, I hope this makes up for it, if only a little bit. Love you and miss you, baby.
Jun 082011
It’s great being home right now. Fall and Winter are the best times to be in Vegas. The days and even the nights have been great. Cindy has been working hard at school and we’re looking at upgrading our little portable printer to a laserjet because of all the printing she has been doing. The University of Phoenix has most of their text books online and it’s easier to read on paper instead of the screen all the time. What we’re saving on textbooks we’ll spend on a decent printer. We just got back from taking Willie to his first [...More...]
Jun 082011
A couple of updates to the site – I noticed I didn’t have comments listed on the side, when I was looking for a plug-in to list comments, I ran across this Similar Posts plug-in. Other plug-ins use tags and categories, this one compares the entire posts and looks for similar posts with the same content. Probably not real important or relevant to this site, but I wanted to see how it looked in case I wanted to use it on another site. I’m not sure if I like both so I may keep looking around for something different. We [...More...]
Jun 082011
Well its Christmas Day and the shopping was completed on December 23rd. I have lots of family in Minnesota as I grew-up there and so did my children. We are at my mom’s house and it is all white outside. It snowed last Thursday and the snowflakes were the size of golf balls. It was beautiful except Wayne and I were out driving and it was very slippery and on one road where there was a hill to the stop light and a traffic cop was only letting a few cars go at a time and it they made it [...More...]