Flannel Sheets

Listening to the wind smash icy rain against the side of our house isn't doing much for making me want to go hunting.

It is making me want to remain in the flannel sheets Melissa bought for our bed.

In-a-gadda-da-vida

Went to visit my grandfather just now to catch up on some BS and thank him for giving me his pickup truck.

The radio doesn't work that well, but I discovered that the tape deck works just fine.

I was very pleasantly surprised to find an Iron Butterfly tape in a junk drawer of mine...

Daewoo

I'm getting rid of my 2001 Daewoo Nubira today.  I've had this car for 4 years now, and paid $2000 dollars for it.  That comes out to roughly $1.40 per day to own.

I don't think I could have owned a better piece of shit.

Bundled

My daily blog was postponed by mechanical issues at work yesterday when I teceived a call at 5am that a truck was broken down.  I had to go in and get an old 1970s International box truck started and everything unloaded and then swapped and reloaded.  Then after deciding that I was a little manlier than I thought I drove my standard transmission truck to work for the first time after I got home from the emergency call.  Everything went smoothly.  Then I had a meeting with our main freight company's managers to discuss interrelationship efficiencies.  Today brings a managers meeting within our own company to discuss efficincies internally.

I've always worn responsibilty well, and these days I keep fairly bundled up with it.

Now it seems, I should take a moment to contemplate what I'm doing for Thanksgiving...

No More Parties

Halloweens over, survived my buddy's 30th, and for the next foreseeable future there are no more parties upcoming.

As fun as it is to party, I am looking forward to a little tranquility in life.

Better Living Through Technology

Today (hopefully) my pickup truck will be ready to be picked up at the shop after two weeks of being serviced from a decade of sitting outside.  They fixed all the lights and blinkers, replaced dead fuses and belts, and cleaned up all the filters and other myriad issues.  One thing they told me that they could not fix was the broken speedometer, it sits dead at 85mph no matter what speed the vehicle is moving.  Not to worry though, with better living through technology I have downloaded a gps operated speedometer app onto my smartphone that I can place on the dash to track my speed.

When the truck was born in 1984, Im sure nobody ever thought that it would have satellite assisted speed control.

Birthday Party

This weekend, one of my best friends will be turning 30.  A few of my friends are already 30, and soon I will be as well.

Holy crap.  'Doesn't feel like we've grown up at all,' he told me last night.

'No it doesn't,' I replied.  'But you are an electrician and I run a warehouse, thats kind of grown up, right?'

'Yes,' he said, as we fired up some video games.