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November 27th, 2009
 | 12:38 am - Writer's Block: If we took a holiday ...
As it stands, Samhain(Halloween) still ranks as my personal fave.
Why? Perhaps because I can already see beyond the veil? I dunno.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/snore.gif) tired
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November 26th, 2009
 | 01:40 am - Let's see if we can KEEP it this way.
Weighed this morning. Down to 169 with jeans and tshirt on. Oh my. Just...wow.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/surprised.gif) surprised
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November 25th, 2009
 | 06:25 pm - Well that was interesting.
Hokay. Tried running a memory test on the old laptop, once, twice, three times. Passed all three times. So I don't know WTF is going on. Even took it out on a short trip while the mate was at the doc's for her latest x-ray and all. That came out fine. No problems with the comp either.
So I'm just basically at a loss to figure out what the problem is with it intermittently crashing. Thought perhaps it's the hard disk now with a flaky track that's affecting the swap file? It still could be the memory though just deciding to flake out after extended usage. I don't know. I do know I can't find any of the old memory modules, so that's a big uh oh. I'm stuck with the one now for better or worse.
But yeah, as I mentioned, the mate's arm seems to have healed up now, with the bone completely fused back together. She'll need to get her muscles surrounding it back into shape of course, but she's working on that. We even have a physical therapist's office that DOES take our insurance within a stone's throw of our house. So cool.
While we were out, did a few various errands. Picked up mail. I finally got my damn hair cut, so I could see again. Next door there's a consignment shop, at which we found a coffee table for our living room, for only $35, and it's solid maple. Whoot!
Picked up a few supplies for the upcoming Thanksgiving, but the main run will be this evening. That's all for now.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
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| 01:59 pm - Writer's Block: Is your goose (or tofu) cooked?
This year, we'll be travelling to a friend's house in town. All every year previously we've played host to the occasion, so this'll be somewhat different this time.
Not even sure if I can define something like a "traditional" menu. I mean, turkey, ham, maybe mashed potatoes and yams, but after that...? You usually see all those anyway. Though for use, we've been having Tofurky as well. So there it is.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/blah.gif) hungry
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November 24th, 2009
 | 02:38 pm - This is a day to kill someone.
Hokay. Got to the consignee last night in enough time to get unloaded before they closed. Did we get another load or get sent room right away?
Noooooooo... we SAT there for like 12 hours waiting for them to make up their fricking minds!
THEN they gave us a Nintendo load picking up in Sumner, to be staged at the f-ing Seattle drop yard. That's done. Did we get to go home then?
Noooooooo... They gave us a SECOND staging load, as if they didn't have enough local drivers all the fricking ready! At least IT's going to Portland.
This is the kind of shit that makes me want to wait till they've got an account riding on my performance, and THAT's when I give 'em the stiff arm "Up yours buddy!" and bugger off. Capitalism at its finest.
Current Location: Sumner, WA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/angry.gif) enraged
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November 23rd, 2009
 | 01:17 pm - Writer's Block: It's Never Too Early...
I'll probably start in just as soon as I get back home, which if all goes well should be late tomorrow morning! Whoohoo!
And I even know the first thing I'm ordering. Shhhhhh... not telling just yet. They might be watching.
Current Location: Cottage Grove, OR
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/smile.gif) happy
Current Music: Kenny Loggins -
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November 22nd, 2009
| 05:30 pm - Well, here we are.
At the next shipper finally after waiting nearly all day at the Fontana OC. I guess it's okay. Meant lotsa Wifi time. Heh.
Was informed we got through CA60 in the nick of time since it had a chemical spill right after we exited.
So we're on our way to WA, and I'm thinking this'll be our last load of this time out, unless they get crazy and tell us to relay a flipping Nintendo load to the Seattle drop yard, which is always possible. Guess I wouldn't mind the Portland OC so much, since we have to go there anyway, but I doubt that'll happen.
Right, just keep thinking we deadhead home after live unloading. Yeah, that's it.
Current Location: Long Beach, CA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/blank.gif) blase
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| 03:37 am - Hardly a Ringing Endorsement
Well, tried my first pack or Wrigley's 5, Solstice flavor. First piece was slightly wintergreeny. Put the second one in and hmmm, this tastes familiar.
Then it hit me. Cool mint Listerine. And I mean exactly the same. Probably uses the same flavorings, menthol, wintergreen, yadda yadda yadda.
Current Location: Mira Loma, CA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/weird.gif) weird
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| 01:48 am - You Know
You'd think out of all the places in the US to pick up freight, Hell A would be one of the easiest. So why are we sitting at the TA waiting for our next load, hmmmm?
At least the drop at the consignee went just splendid. No problem whatsoever.
Current Location: Ontario, CA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/annoyed.gif) miffed
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November 21st, 2009
| 12:49 pm - All righty.
Here we go once again, almost to Hell-A. As usual, going home HAS to involve a trip there first. W T F. But at least we'll be in Fontana with time to burn. I may sign out the company car and do a little Xmas shopping for folks while I'm there. We'll see.
Anywho, not much else to report really. Gonna be home in three days. That much is way good. Sooooo...yeah.
Current Location: Needles, CA
Current Mood: blank
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November 19th, 2009
| 04:47 pm - Now who would you trust?
Hokay, at the Atlanta OC now and got the windshield fixed.
SNI is saying it'll take 1.5 hours for the silicone to cure.
The installation guy says it'll take 3-4 hours for it to cure.
Now from what I remember about silicone, it can take up to 24 hours to cure fully, but it's dry in one hour.
Still, of the two, who's opinion would you trust more? The guy who works with the stuff everyday, or some office not even in the same state?
Anyway, want to piddle around enough so that we get this load to its destination as close to 5pm on Saturday as possible. That's the cutoff time for getting paid on the following check. Think it would give us like a 7000 mile week or so. Whoohoo for that! Don't think I've seen one of those in years.
In the meantime, laundry.
Current Location: Atlanta, GA
Current Music: Whirrrrrr go the driers...
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| 12:32 pm - Writer's Block: First Things First
Usually check my email. Not much more than that, 1st thing.
Current Location: Atlanta, GA
Current Mood: weird
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November 18th, 2009
| 03:22 pm - Run like the wind, Rog!
Holy crud. Pulled off two 600 mile shifts two days in a row. I is tired! At least tomorrow I only pick up 4.75 hours, so can't do that again.
And just WHEN can we get this windshield replaced? Shees, we tried to get to get sent to Atlanta so it could get done tomorrow morning (I'm out of hours today!), but noooo. We're going to...California?!! W T F?
So now we either need to sneak it into Dallas or Fontana, praying all the while the DOT doesn't spot us or we're dead in the water. Thanks guys. Thanks a frickin lot.
Current Location: Tipton, GA
Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: Shadowfax - "Shadowdance"
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November 17th, 2009
| 06:08 pm - Oh for Heaven's Sakes
Well, a new red Dodge Charger threw a rock at our passenger's windshield today, and put a lovely star pattern about four inches wide into it.
Now that part's not so bad. These things happen. The bitch has been trying to get it fixed.
First they wanted to put this too tight Fed Ex load on us which we didn't have the running hours for in the first place. And it has 30 hours to go 1750 miles. Ain't gonna happen bro!
So they pulled us off that one(whew!) but we're STILL under a second load, and we still need to get this thing repaired. So WTF guys? DOT sees that and we're dead. It's way out of compliance.
Current Location: Dallas, TX
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November 15th, 2009
| 01:24 pm - Still Raining, Still Dreaming...
Bit of a hangup waiting in Lyman, WY waiting for chain laws to be lifted along I80. Yes folks, it's that time already. Sittin time. Thankfully it only lasted about 90 mins and I was able to get rolling, with enough time left still for on time delivery. So yay for that. Cept in NV I have absofrigginlutely NO cell reception. And probably won't until Reno at best. Bah.
Current Location: Battle Mountain, NV
Current Mood: peeved
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November 13th, 2009
| 09:31 pm - Experiment failed.
Well, it's not the battery causing it to crash. Took it out, worked fine for a while, then one moment I looked over and...it crashed. So now I'm not sure WTF to do. Guess try another OS is about it now.
Current Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Current Mood: annoyed
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| 07:04 pm - Here we go...oh boy!
Well some good news, some okay news. Good news is we made over 5000 miles for the week. So yay for that!
Okay news is that our next consignee at least isn't in Hell-A. Thought we were gonna have to go through the dreaded Eisenhower tunnel towards winter time, when you can only sneak through during daylight hours most of the time.
No, we just get to deal with Wyoming and the Snow-Chi-Minh trail. Yay.
Current Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Current Mood: meh
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| 06:48 pm - So maybe that's what's wrong with this thing?
Well shoot. Old laptop bluescreened on my yesterday. However, for all the freaks and geeks out there, it gave me the message "IRQL Not less or equal". Basically means a device is acting up somewhere.
Now I already know this thing needs a new battery with how the power's been acting. So I'm wondering if that's what's causing all the crashes. I've removed it and I'm now just operating this thing on AC power only. If it stops crashing, then it looks like we have our problem child out of the way. We need a new battery anyway, and if this fixes the crashing problem, all the better. Then I'll slip one of the old DIMMs back into the free slot and give it just a bit more RAM as well.
Current Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/confused.gif) curious
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November 12th, 2009
| 02:22 pm - They better NOT!
This is getting more and more upsetting. My TAH sounds like it's being screwed around with yet AGAIN. I originally put in for getting home one the 24th and leaving back out on the 28th. Now there's a rumor going round everyone on the west coast (that's me btw, and many others), will only be getting off the 24th to the 27th. So not only have my days home been reduced from five to four, but the dates have changed as well.
Pardon the language, but how the fuck can I trust these people to keep their word any more? How much of this is due to freight load, and how much is simply because they can?
Current Location: Dayton, OH
Current Mood: furious
Current Music: Supertramp - "Blood Well Right"
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November 10th, 2009
| 02:12 pm - I think I may have prevented a load theft today.
I was at the shipper for this load when this black guy came up to my window, and asked if I could go in and get his paperwork for his load. Why he couldn't go in himself I don't know. I did say "That seems a little odd." At this he thanked me, got into his bobtail and promptly took off. Yes, quite suspicious.
Other than my back hurting, not much else to report. I'll be home in two weeks for Thanksgiving. So there.
Current Location: Winchester, VA
Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Seal - "If I Could"
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 | 02:08 pm - Writer's Block: Famous last words
Right now, two words. "Shit happens" to everyone. Including you. Including me.
Current Location: Winchester VA
Current Mood: weird
Current Music: A Split Second - "Backlash"
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November 8th, 2009
| 01:26 pm - Looks like it's that time.
Thinking the battery on this laptop needs replacing. After it says it's charged fully, you take it off, it falls to around 85% in about five minutes, then suddenly plunges to around 8%. This, as they say, will not do. But it can wait for now. At least I have places to plug it in.
In other news, my back will not stop hurting for some reason. It's been like this on and off for a while now.
Current Location: Laredo, TX
Current Mood: distressed
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November 7th, 2009
| 02:07 pm - An Unhappy Sight
Went traveling over US80 through GA today. Everything was fine until I came across a log truck whose trailer had hit a ditch. Found the trailer on its side and the cab tipped up, but not over. Driver was fine, but it held us up for 75 minutes while they cleared the mess out of the way. At least I got out of the truck for a while, so that was good.
Current Location: Montgomery, AL
Current Mood: moody
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November 6th, 2009
| 03:02 pm - Computer Annoyances
Last evening on the old laptop IE got hijacked by an obvious malware site, claiming to have antivirus applications it wanted to install. Yeah right. First of all, if it really WAS an antivirus site, it wouldn't hijack my browser, NOR would it keep trying to get me to download .exe files. Dumbasses. If ever there was a legitimate candidate for DDOS attacks... Anyway, the only way to get rid of it was to go into Task Manager and kill IE totally. Try and infect MY laptop will you?
Anyway, immediately updated the antispyware programs and started running them. But for some reason the antivirus updater keeps saying "Error in WinInet library." whatever that means. Tried pinging the update site with no success. Perhaps it's gone down for a few days? I dunno.
In load news, looks like we got the next load after this one, going westward. Let's see what happens.
Current Location: Roanoke, VA
Current Mood: aggravated
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November 3rd, 2009
| 05:33 pm - Back on the road.
Well, now that my connection's gone away, guess I can bang out some copy. Got back in the truck yesterday evening, and headed up northwards to pick up a Nintendo load. Then of course(of course!), things get switched around and we drop that one in the Seattle yard so we could pick up a different load in Sumner going eastbound. So this morning, that's what we did.
Gods, winter feels like it can't wait to get here! I just hope the passes are...passable. We're gonna find out.
In other news, you'd think it wouldn't take me 42 years to figure this out, but I've decided I'm on the high stress/high strung side. Some of you may look at that statement and go "Well, duh!" but at least I know what to do with myself regarding that anyway. It usually shows up mostly when there's a deadline to meet, which is enough pressure in itself. Then again, maybe that's what I need to motivate myself some more, some self-imposed deadlines.
Current Location: Northern ID
Current Mood: blah
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November 1st, 2009
| 02:00 am - So far
So far the old laptop rebuild is going along fine. Did what I threatened to do and removed the smaller memory module, then switched the 1gig module to the other slot. No hiccups, burps, belches, or vomiting yet for Nebt-Het. So was that the problem all along? Only time will tell for sure. I'm busy install Quicken 2010 right now, so yay for financial software!
One bit of mildly disturbing news is I went looking for our old Ouija board this evening, and failed to find it. There's still plenty of ways for me to contact the other side, but being that this night was so special, I wanted to try this method once more, but no dice.
We only got two trick or treaters all night! Boooo! Though I did do as threatened and carved three pumpkins. Took daytime and nighttime pictures of them all, which will be forthcoming as soon as I can get the pics off the camera.
Speaking of which, we have film we need to pick up, and I need to uninstall the scanning software for that wonky HP scanner I bought at Freegeek. While it does work, it takes repeated coaxing before it decides to do its job. Don't need it at all after buying that Canon MP160.
Looks like I'll be taking both laptops back on the road, though I'll continue to pound away mostly on the old one as a stability test before leaving it back with the mate. She can use the desktop, even though it is slow as molasses and I'm not sure why. Maybe more RAM will help, maybe not. Can't hurt to try though.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
Current Mood: tired
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October 31st, 2009
| 10:17 am - Writer's Block: Would you talk to the dead?
Matter of fact, I did participate in helping to send one spirit on its way to the other side.
Of course we can get messages from the dead and other discarnate entities. I do it all the time. Shees.
Current Location: McMinnville, OR
Current Mood: tired
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October 29th, 2009
| 02:39 pm - Well how annoying can you get?
Love it when they fricking do this. We're sitting at the dock getting unloaded. So far, all's looking good to go home. So what do they do?
Put a load on us that picks up at 5pm local time, and take it to the Portland OC. Thanks a frickin lot guys! Nevermind we could have just deadheaded home and still been paid empty miles.
It also brought up the issue of our current trailer has a DOT fixit ticket on it. I was planning to just let them know at the OC, but nooooo, now I had to take it to a repair shop in Pacific, WA which wasn't too bad really, but still would have preferred to just take it back home.
Now regardless of when I get back to Portland, I still have to clean out the truck of what I want to take home, and drive back to McMinnville. Think I'll be back around midnight. Blech.
And I so wanted to get to Freegeek to pick up another desktop. Now I can't even do that!
The only hope I have as far as that goes is that they'll do what they did last time and I wind up sitting at the OC for 24 hrs when I come back. Freegeek store opens at 11am, but closed on Monday. Sheet sheet sheet.
Current Location: North Bend, WA
Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Me yelling at my connection to quit dropping!
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| 01:01 am - Writer's Block: Nature or nurture
Since it's never been proven one way or the other, at this point it's probably some of both at least. It is said that feeling the same mood over and over does affect the brain chemistry, and in a sense almost addicts it to that particular feeling, making it more likely to happen.
I would also say that one can be born predisposed to certain temperaments, but to what range and extreme will certainly be shaped by one's experiences.
Current Location: Tacoma, WA
Current Mood: tired
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October 28th, 2009
| 10:31 pm - Game over dudes! Game over!
Phillies just won Game one of the World Series 6-1. Take THAT you lousy Las Vegas oddmakers.
Current Location: Tacoma, WA
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/dwaggins/bouncy.gif) delighted
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