Friday - afternoon

Not much new here.  Just had a load of SB2 driveway gravel dumped for $500 and I thought, what a great deal! Boy did they dupe me with that ad.  It's 12,000 POUNDS, not 12 tons, somehow my mind said it was 12 tons and that's really good! Which it would be, if it were 12 tons.  Oh well.  I've been patching potholes with it, but it's an incredibly small pile of rock for such a hefty price.  Tuesday I am having 15 TONS bought out by the local people who have brought their prices down. They were near a grand, now it's $825.  Not especially great in my view but a FAR better deal than this place I had deliver today. 

I'm toodling along in the semi this morning on a 4 lane state highway going around 73 mph.  The speed limit was 70 but going up the hill and cresting it the truck speeds up.  A car passed me going WELL over the speed limit, I'm guessing 85 anyway.  And there it was.  A state trooper coming up the opposite direction, did one of those swerve maneuvers to face oncoming traffic to try and catch the speed of oncoming traffic. 

He did an immediate turn through a crossover and I didn't really know who he was going after, but he lit it up and came speeding up behind me.  Fortunately, he kept on going and cut directly in front of me behind the car who had seen the trooper, slammed on the brakes and cut me off coming back over into my lane.  I just smiled, got in the passing lane and went on by. Have a nice day! 

Thanksgiving approaching fast and I'm off to to mom's house for that one.  Apparently the lady of the house is dumping the kids on grandma the entire thanksgiving break.  I kind of didn't really agree with that, but they aren't my kids. Thanksgiving in my view is a family holiday, not a holiday to get rid of them to grandma's house.  They just  spent 11 days with them.   I'm going to be gone 4 of those days, I didn't want to take too much time off of work, I already had that earlier in the year when the truck was in the various shops for some 45 days.  

I"ve got the mower man and his kid out there working on that sewer line. Had them finish blocking it up and now having them hand shovel the dirt underneath the elevated pipe. I don't want to dump bucket loads of dirt off of the tractor for I am afraid it will knock the pipe off the blocks or knock the blocks over and then I'm going to have an issue to deal with.  I don't think they did anything today, they did yesterday. 

It's going to get down to 33 degrees tomorrow morning where I'm going to deliver. Good thing the truck is loaded up with jackets : ) No, I take that back, it's now showing 31 degees when I get there.  So wonderful! Actually I don't really mind the cold, at least not for now.  It will mean, however, that it will take a while to offload. Winter temps chill the glue making it thicker/viscosity and of course meaning it flows out slower.  I'm used to it, it's already started doing that anyway, actually. 

What I'm not liking is the fact that another company's truck was loading ahead of me this morning.  What's happened is the plant didn't order enough glue.  The plant manager was lamenting to me about this, that the ordering person is "conservative", obviously TOO conservative.  So, all at once we get inundated with more work than we can handle versus looking at the tanks on a daily basis and ordering more freely. AS the plant manager said, it's not like they can't just cancel an order if there's too much.  Oh, well the other company truck? Who knows when they're getting up there? They usually just take it straight up there after leaving the loading plant, so that may not even be a factor tomorrow.  

I don't particularly want to sit behind another truck for however long on a Saturday - I have Sunday off so the sooner I get done the sooner my free time begins.  If I can get them out there tomorrow, I will help with getting stuff done.