On a 34 hour break!

[rah]

They pretty much ran me out of hours so now I have to take a 34 hour break but it has to be more than 34 hours because of the new hours of service rules. Won't be available to run until 05:00 Thursday morning.

Sherry and I bought a new bed room set. Queen size sleigh bed with two large drawers in the foot board, dresser with mirror, mens tall boy dresser, and two bed side tables. One of the tables has a hidden multi-plug hook up for charging stuff. Very good quality stuff. Walnut. Drawers are all real wood with cedar bottoms except the top ones in each dresser are felt lined. Bought an excellent mattress for the bed which uses a slat foundation without box springs.

We are repainting and doing some things like changing the base boards and trim on the widows and repainting the registers and inlet duct in the bed room that was my daughter's and we're turning it into the master bedroom. Our bedroom now will become the guest bedroom and we're going to buy a new mattress for it's queen size bed. Ever so gradually we're renovating this house. Now that Sherry is retired She has the time to do some things.

The kitchen is done and after we get our bed room the way we want it the next project is the dinning room. Repaint it, trim out the windows, new ceiling fan/light fixture. It has a hardwood floor and we're still on the fence on that. We may just refinish the existing oak floor and put a new area rug down. Anyway this desk I'm sitting at here in the dining room is going away and a new desk will be set up in the small bedroom which will be converted to an office.

After years of searching I have found a two drawer fire proof locking file cabinet that is in great condition. I really is more like a safe and is so heavy no one is going to break in and walk off with it. It will have the room I need to secure and protect our important papers and valuables.

[rah]

Well I thought I was on a 34 hour break. Didn't turn out that way. Kurtis called Wed at 15:30. Needed a load taken to Etna, PA (North side of Pittsburgh). I had 7 hours of duty time left and gained 11.5 at midnight. It only takes about 6 duty hours to do it so I did. Arrived at the place in Etna at 22:00 Wed night and then took a 10 hour break. Then this morning I headed back west on I-70 to Vandalia, OH (right beside Dayton International Airport. At the Carter Terminal there I dropped the empty dry van I had and then hooked to an empty refer trailer to bring back to the terminal here. After fueling the trailer and sweeping it out I parked it. Then I parked my tractor and plugged in the block heater and came home.

Now I'm really done driving the big truck for the week. Friday and Saturday is dedicated to getting the bedroom painted and hanging new blinds so it is ready for the furniture deliver that we set back to Monday.

I think that the one weak sister we have among us five guarantee drivers is digging his grave right now. Twice when he has been on call and it wasn't his time off he has failed to answer his phone resulting in another guarantee driver being called during his time off when he shouldn't have been. Both Charlie and I refuse to team with this guy because we don't trust him and can't stand him. Now he has pissed off all four of us other guarantee drivers. The other guy that I wrote about before being a problem has straightened up and is doing his job. So it is just this one weak sister and we all know he won't change so I think this is going to come to a head pretty soon because the other four of us have been working our asses off.