This is getting hard to keep up with when I'm running so hard. Working 12 to 14 hours every day 7 days a week, usually when I shut down I don't really do much. Been sitting awhile today and catching up on some TV shows on my computer. Glad they starting streaming the shows on their station web sites. Since they came up with all digital signals I haven't been able to pick up anything with my TV. Sitting in a parking lot, every vehicle that passes cuts the signal even when you have a strong one. And strong ones are hard to get. Time before last when I was home I took the TV out all together. I just use my computer to watch the shows on there that I like. Not that many of them anyway.
NCIS, Chuck, CSI NY, Bones, Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, Human Target (when it starts up again), Burn Notice on USA is good. That is about it with a few sitcoms like Two and a Half Men thrown in. Middle on ABC is also a good one. At least on the computer when I am shut down I can catch up with them when ever I have the time. They keep them on the site usually for about 3 to 4 weeks after the original air date. Now, as long as my computer holds up. If I get in an area that has a weak signal then I won't be watching anything. Has to be a good strong 3G signal to work.
That is my idle time. Don't really do much surfing on the internet anymore unless trying to find some information. Use Google Earth a lot to view customers that I am going into, especially if it is for the first time. That is a big big help.
After NC I went to Valdosta, GA with a load, then from there over to Austin, TX. Out to Uvalde, TX for the first time and picked up a load of deer corn going to a Walmart DC in south Louisana. Then picked up load from Georgia Pacific going to Georgia Pacific in Palatka, FL. Then a load out of GP there going to New Albany, MS. I was offered a load to Omaha, NE which I really wanted because it was good miles, but I did not have enough hours to deliver it legally, so had to turn it down. Don't get offered 1400 mile loads often.
Picked up a load near Tupelo, MS this afternoon and going up near Indianapolis, IN to deliver tomorrow. Having to wait until 2 am to head that way to build some hours. Have just enough to make it up there tomorrow around noon then will have to sit until Wednesday to move again.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Hometime
After Nebraska I took a load to Knoxville, TN and then one over into South Carolina, then back to Jackson, TN, and then one out of Memphis to Houston to get me home for hometime.
Spent some time trying to get Pat's computer working. Since Windows7 jammed things up, I tried formatting the drive and reinstalling Win7 to free up some space, still froze up on scans. Even after cleaning Norton antivirus out of it. Then reformatted the drive and reinstalled Vista back on the machine. Thought might be the Win7 program, but not the problem either. Still freezing up now and then. It picks its own time to do it.
Will probably try to get a new hard drive for the thing next time in. One in it is 2 years old, and I'm beginning to believe that is the life expectancy of HD's. One in my laptop is little under 3 years and it is getting blue screen couple times now over 2 weeks. Last time it did that, hard drive finally gave it up a month or two later.
Rebuilt some fence around back yard by moving the gate off a couple of untreated posts that had rotted out at the ground. Still suffering after using those post hole diggers. There was a time that I used them things all day long. Still suffered, but got 10 times as many holes dug. Only dug 3 holes this time. Although the first hole could count as 3 since I broke one blade hitting a root and didn't know it. Dug for 5 minutes and wasn't getting very deep with it until I looked at the end of the digger. It was split up the middle and one side curled under. Dry as the ground was, it was like chipping at concrete with a plastic spoon, except the diggers were about 10 or 15 lbs. The second set I started using were a lot better except they were about 20 lbs because they were the ones dad had welded steel handles in to to keep from breaking the handles. Just need a gorilla to use them.
I left back out this past Saturday and had to go up to Ashdown, AR to pick up a load of pulp going to a paper company in Canton, NC. Was a long way to go to pick up a load, right at 200 miles. Not even a high dollar load. Low on loads where I was I guess. Sitting near Asheville, NC and will deliver at 6 pm tonight.
Spent some time trying to get Pat's computer working. Since Windows7 jammed things up, I tried formatting the drive and reinstalling Win7 to free up some space, still froze up on scans. Even after cleaning Norton antivirus out of it. Then reformatted the drive and reinstalled Vista back on the machine. Thought might be the Win7 program, but not the problem either. Still freezing up now and then. It picks its own time to do it.
Will probably try to get a new hard drive for the thing next time in. One in it is 2 years old, and I'm beginning to believe that is the life expectancy of HD's. One in my laptop is little under 3 years and it is getting blue screen couple times now over 2 weeks. Last time it did that, hard drive finally gave it up a month or two later.
Rebuilt some fence around back yard by moving the gate off a couple of untreated posts that had rotted out at the ground. Still suffering after using those post hole diggers. There was a time that I used them things all day long. Still suffered, but got 10 times as many holes dug. Only dug 3 holes this time. Although the first hole could count as 3 since I broke one blade hitting a root and didn't know it. Dug for 5 minutes and wasn't getting very deep with it until I looked at the end of the digger. It was split up the middle and one side curled under. Dry as the ground was, it was like chipping at concrete with a plastic spoon, except the diggers were about 10 or 15 lbs. The second set I started using were a lot better except they were about 20 lbs because they were the ones dad had welded steel handles in to to keep from breaking the handles. Just need a gorilla to use them.
I left back out this past Saturday and had to go up to Ashdown, AR to pick up a load of pulp going to a paper company in Canton, NC. Was a long way to go to pick up a load, right at 200 miles. Not even a high dollar load. Low on loads where I was I guess. Sitting near Asheville, NC and will deliver at 6 pm tonight.
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