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.