Update

Been a little busy over last two weeks. I got home and had nothing but doctor appointments. I had to travel to Houston on Tuesday to have a CAT Scan of my ear. I had one last year and discovered the ear canal on my right ear had started closing up again. The doctor wanted another this year to compare the pictures.

Had a visit to my family doctor on Wednesday, hadn't seen him since last year and he figured I better show up before he rewrote my prescriptions again. Then back to Houston on Thursday to see the ENT. He was pleased in the fact that the pictures were the same as last year, so it wasn't any worse. Still don't hear very good out of it though. Nothing much to be done, going through that surgery again would not be much fun.

I spent rest of the day Thursday and most of Friday trying to install Windows 7 on the home computer to upgrade it from Vista. It upgraded fine and did some installs on new drivers. Had 31 updates from Windows that downloaded. Then shut it down and went to bed Thursday night. Got up Friday morning and computer wouldn't boot up at all. Just sat there and beeped at me. Got on line chat with HP tech and after a bit he told me the Windows 7 needed minimum of 1 GB RAM to boot properly. So off to town to get a 2 GB RAM to stick in the computer. Plugged it in and still didn't work. I had to go back to work so like the sucker I am, let Pat call Geek Squad to come out and get it started. They said on the phone would be $130 to come out and get it going. He came out on the following Wednesday and since I had pulled out the 2 GB RAM with the intention of taking it back, he stuck it in the computer, started it up and then informed Pat that since he had installed hardware it would be another $20 charge on top of the $130. So tax and all he got $160 left and the computer froze up. Every time Pat turned it on it froze up again. Got Pat to call Microsoft and they ran through a custom install, lost the programs but got it started up. Complained to Best Buy and Pat got a $20 gift card since no one informed us they were going to charge extra for the 2 second installation of the RAM chip until after he installed it. Then I spent a couple of hours on the phone with Pat last night talking her through reinstalling anti virus and a driver for the printer and now, finally, the computer is up and running with Windows 7 on it. For all I spent upgrading it, I could have added $100 and bought a new tower that had Windows 7 already on it.

I left out on Saturday going back to work. Got a load out of Tyler going to Knoxville, TN and got to stop by and visit Mom at Charlie's. Got fed.

Delivered on Monday and they surprised me by sending me all the way to Kennesaw, GA to pick up a load to deliver Tuesday night to a grocery warehouse in Brookhaven, MS. I made it to Meridian that Monday evening with the load. I got up early and drove on over to Brookhaven. I did not deliver until 11pm Tuesday night so I had to set all day. Another one of those time where I lay down in the afternoon and try to nap before a late night delivery. Never works and didn't work that day either. It took them saps until 5:30 am to get me unloaded.

They sent me over to Monticello, MS about 20 miles away to pick up a load at Georgia Pacific going to Springfield, MO. I drove up to Harrison, AR in the northwestern corner before shutting down for the night. I was up 38 hours before finally getting some sleep. Don't like doing that, but since I can't take naps in the daytime, it happens every time I get a late night delivery.

I delivered the load in Springfield the next morning and was sent up to Meta, MO to pick up a load of dog food going to Tractor Supply warehouse in Waco, TX. Meta, MO is just south of Jefferson City, MO and there is no easy way to get there in a truck. Forty miles of very narrow curvy Missouri roads.

I delivered the load in Waco Friday afternoon and then got a real good load. I was sent over to Ennis, TX to pick up a load of vinyl siding going to Utah with 4 drops. The first on in St. George, UT. This is at the very southern tip of Utah and I had to drive over to Flagstaff, AZ and north on US-89 up to Page, AZ where I crossed over Lake Powell. Beautiful area that I had never seen before. Not much green, but a lot of red and grey rock. This is the heart of the Navajo Nation. There are roadside stands every 10 miles or so where they sell their wares.

Taking a lot of pictures, which I do more of when I see new things. Will post these in a few days.