Okay, well run to Brownsville was down and up. Got to the yard down there and found 3 empty trailers. Seems like the days of detention pay are over. I hear some getting it occasionally, but nothing like the glory days of padding your checks with sitting around and getting paid for doing nothing on most runs going down there. Just means more drive - a lot more of it - to get the paychecks.
Whatever. Jaxon had the stomach flu before I left so I was not surprised at the feeling of need to throw up on the Beltway 8 loop in Houston coming back today. But then, I thought, perhaps it's that place I stop at and sometimes get queasy stomach? It's a quick in and out, get food and go. I'm going to have to reconsider that place, I've gotten a very upset stomach from there several times now. Just habit, pull in, go in, leave, eat while driving.
The feeling went away after an hour or so. The manager called during that period, I completely missed that, I was busy feeling sick to my stomach, literally. I didn't have the ringer on lol. He then sent me a trip sheet and requesting to know what trailer I'm bringing back. He could just check my Quaalcomm, I always update it with current trailer.
So tomorrow, I'm headed to PA. Didn't want that run, didn't know it was coming up, can't turn it down. I probably have more hours than anyone else and hence I get that little lovely. It's less than 1,400 miles, so I will be up there early Sunday, getting a room and spending the entire day waiting for Monday morning to show up so I can deliver and get out of there and headed back. I don't have to get a room, obviously, but I have no desire sitting in a truck some 24 hours waiting in a truck.
That's the other concern, that wild storm going through there, but hopefully it's gone by the time I get up there and the aftermath on the highways is dealt with. Because right now? It looks pretty wicked and PA has a ton of highways shut down to trucks right now. But again, I won't make it up there for a couple of days.
Well it looks like the weather is fairly clear until Sunday, lol. I'll be getting up there Sunday. I have to look it up, but I know the hotel I want to go to. Decent, cheap enough, nothing fancy, but good enough. The truck can sit out there and idle if it's too cold to allow it to be shut off. I don't need problems turning it on Monday morning.
Coming home today? Weird. The boys were put to bed at their normal time, but shortly after I arrived, Taylor headed to her bedroom, James followed her and I heard nothing from them since then. I dunno, I get different signals from them sometimes and I sit and wonder if my time here is over, should I be finding a new place to live, or is it just them being them, or what. Oh well, I'll be gone 6 days - at least, they can have the place without me. Kind of cast a cloud over my holidays tho. James came out to the kitchen apparently to shut off lights the same time I was heading out there to check my food cooling down. He walked off quickly, said nothing and disappeared into his room.
As I said, that was kind of weird. This isn't exactly a normal household, I could be reading more into it than is actually there. But I'll not try to text them for several days and let them have their space? I guess lol. I've made a few friends arounds town, but if I were to leave here, I'm not sure I would want to stick around here excepting that I have gotten myself involved in real estate and would have to figure out some way to get rid of it to get out of here.
Whatever. I'll just go with the flow and see what happens.
Well, it's time to go to bed for early rise and a bunch of grueling days of driving - with a reprieve in the middle of it.
G'nite.
