jormagund

Owwwwwwwww!

I have a pretty decent regard for Occam's razor. I study buddhist and especially Zen buddhist thought with a lot of comparable objectives, to clear BS out of my mind so as to leave me clear to just see what's there. Harder to do than you might think.

Kind of vexed that the old POS car that I bought to replace my defunct POS has its own issues. Any car purchase unless you have money for a seriously good car is going to be something of a throw of the dice.

Theoretically I could test for my CDL in three weeks If I were ready and had the cash to pay for the test. Who knows.

Managed to give myself a fairly annoying trucking unjury. Popping out the yellow tractor brake takes so much force and it snaps out so violently that I've manage to make my right index finger swell up from the impact.

The training trucks are mostly International single axle day cabs. There's also an old freighliner that they take the newbies out for shifting drills in.

Random thought- you did your test in a pup trailer. In mass and Ct the trailers have to be at least 40 ft long to test. Mass tests in flatbeds, I think because all the equipment on the truck has to be working and they can't necessarily get at a running light that's out and situated on the top of a van.

I changed my knob pullout technique to using the first joint of my index finger to pull. It's a lot less vulnerable; the tip of my index finger is still swollen actually.

I definitely find it preferable to be wandering all over the place and seeing things, rather than just running some fixed route over and over again. In 2001 I was doing school photography, and one of the things I liked about it was that every day was different.

well i'm a student, so the idea of dvd tv programs has great appeal - timetables are not user friendly (lectures at 8pm - what's that about?!)

thanks for your comment about the panorama, if you're interested i have the photoshop template available.

Tmc gives all their trucks a wash every week or two. According to the rep the supersingle tires are there to save weight, but when they go flat, you're stuck until someone comes out to change them out for you. I have tow cats but they are ferocious furniture destroyers and I would probably have to have one declawed If I were to bring one along. My neighbor has agreed to take care of them for me. I emailed one of the tmc reps about just how heavy the damn tarps actually are. I dont' mind getting dirty but i'm not built like a rhinoceros and I have some limits as to how much weight I can realistically throw around.

Have fun in Fin-town. Where you delieverin too?

It's amazingly sad that there are still people who think it's ok to do that.

Hye. Got to grind some gears for the first time this week. Slow start but I'm getting it.

I'm inclined to think that GHWB out to have dispatched Saddam the first time round. At the time we had a pretty good reason for being there and the Iraqis were showing considerable willingness to abandon Hussein's cause. I also suspect that an Iraqui civil war has always been inevitable, given the menas whereby the Baath party was hodling onto power. Whatever; opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.

Libertarians rawk! nuff said...hahaha

How have you been anyway? I've missed talking to you. Haven't been around much myself to write in journals and such but I still check in here at least once a day to check out the new pics and such.

And horray for microwaves on rigs!

Was that proper trucking lingo?