Happy T-Day

Well no truck today.  Might get it Friday.  This place is closed tomorrow so no bars dammit.

Hope you guys have fun but stay safe on the road.

Kate said she wired the 1k out of 4 she made me insist on.  My bank will put a hold on it.

I'm down to (after deducting my bar tab/tip/dinner) about 105 cash and 27.00 in my secondary account.  And some quarters I piled up for laundry.

"Friday" often means Monday for me, so with the hold on the wire I could get in trouble.  But the girls have trained me to sandbag and lie a lot, so BEFORE I get in trouble paying rent I'll tell them I'm already getting kicked out in order to get 50 bucks.

It's like pulling teeth.  But again, I get it.  Korena covered ALL of my repair bills.  The 3k she got off the truck sale left around 2700.00 outstanding.

She wouldn't tell me, but I know: she caught me up with the carrier to get her back commissions; essentially buying my note to clear it.  That's what I would have done.

When I get 50.00 advances, they're from her, out of her escrow.  Kate keeps reminding me, along with how unfair it is to her.

I resent being implicitly blamed for it, and being reminded as if I'm mentally challenged, but check myself because being underestimated has often been my one and only edge.

Indulge my ego here: I used it as a boxer.  A LOT.  

The towtruck driver was the greatest.  He brought the truck here for me to get the most important stuff out of it.  If I'd had a gun I would have shot Herbie in the head.

Theyll take him apart and get over 14k out of the parts, but I'm still just grateful to get 2.5k more than the crook would have paid me, and don't begrudge the guys who bailed me out their profit margin.

I truly am glad to get out from under my dying truck.  My new lease truck will be a volvo t670.  Repairs will be covered.  Payments can't total much more than the oil I've been adding to my gusher (net-net a lot less if its an i-shift I can get 9mpgs out of).

If I can run unfettered for 3 weeks, I'll be in decent shape again.  Another 3, and I'll have my new laptop and fuel additive (add .2 mpg) and some savings.

I can't leave my current carrier, but Korena can stay with me even though all her other drivers will have moved to the new company.

The reason I can't go with them is because of my csa score.  While with Northern Steel over 2 years ago, an airbag on a trailer I was hauling popped...

You don't feel or know this when it happens, ok?  (Well NOW I might, because in retrospect I recall subtle symptoms that didn't register at the time).

Anyway, I crossed a Michigan scale that caught me overweight on one axle because of this, and was pulled in back.

A complete inspection is automatic here.  The storm troopers duty is to screw you as severely as possible...

OK so the trailer brakes' slack adjusters were all bad, and of course they did the old reliable let's stick him with the brake lights thing on my tractor, and I was shut down pending repair, see?

There were csa points attached to each and every one of these actions, and I instantly became public enemy number one OK?

Less than 2 weeks later, something similar but not quite as bad happened at the same Michigan scale.  I got out my cellphone and told one of them to go push the brake pedal this time, so I at least avoided the brake light bullshit that time...

But I'm uncontractable AGAIN!!! I've put off rereading that csa travesty these assholes designed, but assume these points will fall off eventually...

Inexplicably, they stay on the driver's record longer than on the carriers, despite the fact that the carrier owns and maintains the equipment.

Anyway, I hope you're safe, since you are related to and consort with a dangerous menace to society like me.

BULLSHIT.

Anyway the good news: this place makes you buy food to get more than 3 drinks, but I found out the meatball sub and mashed potatoes delivers 2 meals for me, and that I can open the bathroom window to refrigerate stuff, and that this is cheaper than anything else I can buy here, and was able to talk the bartender into a to-go order, so I got that goin for me...

The critical stuff I recovered included my memory foam mattress cover, my 12v  heating pad, my as-seen-on-tv magic pillow, and the cannon printer I gave the hotel guy in case I needed some slack........

That heating pad has saved me at least 500.00 in fuel, ya no?  As long as I'm covered up good when I fall asleep, I never have to fire up the engine, and it barely dents my batteries.

But right now?  I'm in a bar drinking beer, c?  I also added 2500 more to my draftkings account recently, c? I just ordered the meatball sub...

Hey I'm at this steakhouse in Bedford pa only like 270 miles from you hurry up!

Anyway maybe you, my intended recipient, finally found me off my strong suggestions and links I sent by now, so I hope you actually read this before tday:

I hope all of you have a good warm/fuzzy time because you all deserve it.  I can't think of anybody there that I don't absolutely love...

Well OK maybe Matt...I dunno...but he's above my Donald Trump line and I get that Bev was his mom okok--

I hope you miss me drilling down into the browns until you change the subject or just avoid me til I do.

Oh yeah I forgot David.  Well he's a good person, which matters most, and which I hope you remember should I go bad before my own expiration date.

I think I could take him too.  I know how to exploit my reach advantage and keep him off me, c?  But if he got close I'd rassle him and stuff too...

Don't matter, just screwin around here.  This part was mainly for Bev, in case you read this.  

Yeah Bev seems to like watering my ego down a lot.  Not sure why, but I guess it's good for me.  Anyway tell her I said I could take David and also I used to look different but just as good as Matt and that Sarah Palin is great and that she is a poopy-face OK?

I'm all kerflempt talk amongst yourselves...