Hello everyone
yesterday I took a chance and spent $750 an a 1994 olds cutlass ciera. you know what they say about always having a mechanic check out a used car for you . . well i just don't have time to do things like that.. . .
well, the car runs all right but is has a bad vibration problem in the front end...
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yesterday I took a chance and spent $750 an a 1994 olds cutlass ciera. you know what they say about always having a mechanic check out a used car for you . . well i just don't have time to do things like that.. . .
well, the car runs all right but is has a bad vibration problem in the front end...
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lizzi:
I wish I could write you more, but all I can say, is thank you so much for your advice! I really appreciate you taking the time and thought to write me! It was very touching to know that you care! I knew you cared anyway, but really taking the time like that makes me feel better about what I have to do....ick. 
salome:
Not to mention Chicago traffic is abysmal, and construction on the major highways is totally fucking with traffic patterns. Nonetheless, if you pass through, we'll have a drink.
Hello everyone
time for your basic saturday update I spose.
Need to head out and look around at some cars today. Was stopping at dealerships between school and work this week. Found one place that has a couple of cars I like that I could handle the down payment and finacing on. Yesterday I blew off trucking school because when I awoke the rain was...
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time for your basic saturday update I spose.
Need to head out and look around at some cars today. Was stopping at dealerships between school and work this week. Found one place that has a couple of cars I like that I could handle the down payment and finacing on. Yesterday I blew off trucking school because when I awoke the rain was...
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fredericka:
yes, I am back, heehee, thanks for noticing and wondering if I am alive! xo
midnyte:
But I can't have them in MY house. I love my cats I have had for the last 10 years too much to let them get it. I did put an ad out for the others. So far I have 2 responses but no one has actually come by to look or get the cats.
Achtung, meine Damen und Herren
Well hey, 'tis saturday again. If you hadn't noticed already, 'tis and it's are the same word with the letters rearranged and pronounced differently.
It's raining out which is rather puts a damper on my plans, so to speak, of getting out and looking around at cars. I'm going to set myself up as a seller on ebay and see...
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Well hey, 'tis saturday again. If you hadn't noticed already, 'tis and it's are the same word with the letters rearranged and pronounced differently.
It's raining out which is rather puts a damper on my plans, so to speak, of getting out and looking around at cars. I'm going to set myself up as a seller on ebay and see...
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salome:
I disagree. I use far too many emoticons to be intelligent and articulate.
lizzi:
Fly that Geek flag! Fly it high!!
Well hello boys and girls
Feeling really lazy today. I did however go out a bit, wnet to the bank to see if you could get a home equity loan against a trailer. No. So I applied for your basic car loan. Also did a couple of online credit apps for those places that sell cars to people with crap credit. One instantly preapproved me...
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Feeling really lazy today. I did however go out a bit, wnet to the bank to see if you could get a home equity loan against a trailer. No. So I applied for your basic car loan. Also did a couple of online credit apps for those places that sell cars to people with crap credit. One instantly preapproved me...
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mneylu:
ha a "100,00" zombie would be a crazy number.!! 
lizzi:
No, it's bad, I've been wearing a hat for 3 days.
Good Evening, Ladies and Germs
Well, as of yesterday I'm done with the classroom portion of Truckin school. It is a fine thing indeed to get out of that classroom with that bunch of morons. Not all are morons, but there are plenty of them. Yesterday they seemed to find it necessary who whine for an hour or so about how unsatisfacorily they felt that...
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Well, as of yesterday I'm done with the classroom portion of Truckin school. It is a fine thing indeed to get out of that classroom with that bunch of morons. Not all are morons, but there are plenty of them. Yesterday they seemed to find it necessary who whine for an hour or so about how unsatisfacorily they felt that...
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salome:
I agree with you about Steve Irwin, although I think that in the media at large the sentiment has been overwhelmingly positive. Poor guy.
lizzi:
I didn't read any of the threads about Steve Irwin, but I think he must've died a happy man. He died doing what he loved and that, as the great Elle Driver put it, "is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded".
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lizzi:
Well, according to several Mexican sources, Parese means to stand, as in stand up. Hopefully they were not misinformed, you know, being from Mexico and all...and it's permanent.
jormagund:
What an evil question. Heh... the two main halves of my heritage competing for meatball supremacy!
I suppose the answer is mostly a matter of preferance though. I mean.. the actual meatball itself is more or less the same ingredients. It's more a matter of how it is served... what kind of sauce, most specifically... that differentiates the two. So I guess it really just depends on one's taste and mood.
I'm picky about tomato sauce. So many places have mediocre, uninteresting sauce that when you find someplace or someone that does it in superior fashion it tastes like the best thing ever. For example, there is a place in North Providence called "Pauly Pentas" which I go to once in a very rare while. Pretty much the best Italian food anywhere there.
I guess I'll have to vote Italian when it comes right down to it.
Glad to hear the classroom portion is over. Getting behind the wheel will be a welcome change I'm sure. And after all... the practical application of all that knowledge is what really matters.
I suppose the answer is mostly a matter of preferance though. I mean.. the actual meatball itself is more or less the same ingredients. It's more a matter of how it is served... what kind of sauce, most specifically... that differentiates the two. So I guess it really just depends on one's taste and mood.
I'm picky about tomato sauce. So many places have mediocre, uninteresting sauce that when you find someplace or someone that does it in superior fashion it tastes like the best thing ever. For example, there is a place in North Providence called "Pauly Pentas" which I go to once in a very rare while. Pretty much the best Italian food anywhere there.
I guess I'll have to vote Italian when it comes right down to it.
Glad to hear the classroom portion is over. Getting behind the wheel will be a welcome change I'm sure. And after all... the practical application of all that knowledge is what really matters.
Did it again. Hit some wrong key and lost what I'd written. Was just starting though. No new photographs taken this week.
Haven't been doing a whole lot besides work and school. Thinking about a few odd things, like I do.
Ken, the crusty old trucker who's my instructor at NETTTS, got me to dwelling some on the matter of personal security when you're on...
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Haven't been doing a whole lot besides work and school. Thinking about a few odd things, like I do.
Ken, the crusty old trucker who's my instructor at NETTTS, got me to dwelling some on the matter of personal security when you're on...
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temper:
Your comments are always such an ego trip for me. If that's what you wanted to get across, you succeeded. 
sjanett:
thanks for the support, I'm in the proces of posting the set, hope you'll like it
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kythe:
Wow.. thanks for the comment lol 
jormagund:
While it isn't a perfect solution in itself, I almost always spend the night at truck stops. My personal preference is for Flying J. The fuel is priced well, and MOST of the locations are clean and very well lit. If I'm not in a truck-stop parking lot, then I'm usually at a trusted customer location.
I -never- go to NYC. I pass through it on occasion but I never pick up or deliver there. My company doesn't take any freight there so it is mostly a non-issue. Occasionally Jersey City (which is practically NYC but across the water). I'd never spend the night though. I'll park somewhere else and then do the last hour or whatever it might be in the morning before my delivery. NYC isn't the only danger-zone though. I would also not spend the night in Miami (for instance). Miami is a unique pain in the ass because the closest real truck stops are over a hundred miles away. Conventional wisdom blames this on the cost of real estate. So the only real strategy is to get a parking spot ASAP at one of those truck stops and then do the last couple hours right before your delivery appointment.
My company is FAIRLY consistent with giving morning delivery appointments. That allows me to more-or-less stay on a routine where I'm working during the day and sleeping at night. I complain in my blog whenever I have to break from that routine. I have worked for other companies where there was no rhyme or reason to schedules. Each assignment I got had seemingly random pickup and delivery times and that truly sucked. Very difficult to manage hours even when that was back during the days when we were allowed to split our working and sleeping times a lot more flexibly than we can now.
Anyhow, this company I am with (Pohl) is a small carrier. Just over a hundred drivers. The entire home office and garage staff knows me by name. I like that. There are places that could pay me a few cents more per mile perhaps... or give me a fancy Pete. But as for being strictly a company driver, I'm pretty happy here. While I'd never say never... I think the only change I would make... assuming I were to remain a company driver... would be to go to work for Wal-Mart. That is pretty much top of the game for not owning your own truck. 5 days out, 2 days off. Mostly running from distribution centers to stores. All drop and hook. Very high pay.
Aside from choosing carefully where I park... I have a couple of knives (one with a 3.5 inch locking blade, the other is really just a Leatherman). And... straight from Half Life... my handy crow-bar. I've never had a hijack attempt to date. I'd love to carry a firearm but I'm equally afriad of being busted for having it... so I don't. Pepper spray is actually a decent idea that hadn't occured to me. I may look into acquiring some.
Regarding sliding tandems and bridge formulas and all of that (my current tractor doesn't have a sliding 5th wheel. Some do, some don't. I've never found it to be THAT useful, frankly). Just remember that the lesser of two evils is likely the bridge law. If it was a matter of one or the other... either having my tandems stretched out a bit too far OR being overweight on an axle... I'd accept the former. It's a lot more likely a DOT officer or scale-house will pull you around back for a ticket and / or full inspection if you're overweight than if your wheels aren't quite where they ought to be.
I -never- go to NYC. I pass through it on occasion but I never pick up or deliver there. My company doesn't take any freight there so it is mostly a non-issue. Occasionally Jersey City (which is practically NYC but across the water). I'd never spend the night though. I'll park somewhere else and then do the last hour or whatever it might be in the morning before my delivery. NYC isn't the only danger-zone though. I would also not spend the night in Miami (for instance). Miami is a unique pain in the ass because the closest real truck stops are over a hundred miles away. Conventional wisdom blames this on the cost of real estate. So the only real strategy is to get a parking spot ASAP at one of those truck stops and then do the last couple hours right before your delivery appointment.
My company is FAIRLY consistent with giving morning delivery appointments. That allows me to more-or-less stay on a routine where I'm working during the day and sleeping at night. I complain in my blog whenever I have to break from that routine. I have worked for other companies where there was no rhyme or reason to schedules. Each assignment I got had seemingly random pickup and delivery times and that truly sucked. Very difficult to manage hours even when that was back during the days when we were allowed to split our working and sleeping times a lot more flexibly than we can now.
Anyhow, this company I am with (Pohl) is a small carrier. Just over a hundred drivers. The entire home office and garage staff knows me by name. I like that. There are places that could pay me a few cents more per mile perhaps... or give me a fancy Pete. But as for being strictly a company driver, I'm pretty happy here. While I'd never say never... I think the only change I would make... assuming I were to remain a company driver... would be to go to work for Wal-Mart. That is pretty much top of the game for not owning your own truck. 5 days out, 2 days off. Mostly running from distribution centers to stores. All drop and hook. Very high pay.
Aside from choosing carefully where I park... I have a couple of knives (one with a 3.5 inch locking blade, the other is really just a Leatherman). And... straight from Half Life... my handy crow-bar. I've never had a hijack attempt to date. I'd love to carry a firearm but I'm equally afriad of being busted for having it... so I don't. Pepper spray is actually a decent idea that hadn't occured to me. I may look into acquiring some.
Regarding sliding tandems and bridge formulas and all of that (my current tractor doesn't have a sliding 5th wheel. Some do, some don't. I've never found it to be THAT useful, frankly). Just remember that the lesser of two evils is likely the bridge law. If it was a matter of one or the other... either having my tandems stretched out a bit too far OR being overweight on an axle... I'd accept the former. It's a lot more likely a DOT officer or scale-house will pull you around back for a ticket and / or full inspection if you're overweight than if your wheels aren't quite where they ought to be.
Hmmmm. can't seem to figure out how to add a pic, once having edited off the wrong one.
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lizzi:
Quit making me blush!
sjanett:
well that's what we're also here for aren't we... looking good with no clothes on
thanks for the compliment
thanks for the compliment