Was dispatched for a load yesterday going to Brownsville today. 30 minutes later, I'm sent a text saying that the plant is shut down again, no load tomorrow, don't know when we are going to be back up and operational.
Several hours later, the dispatcher calls and asks me to be available today, the plant hopes it can get up and running today but they don't know for sure. Way to put a person's life on hold! Hope....yes I do understand. These plants we deliver this product to cannot produce the products they make without the chemical we take to them.
By now, they are all shut down. I have no idea what is wrong with the plant over in Longview, I asked and my dispatcher just agreed, yes it's something serious. I'm guessing the pump is screwed. What else could take this long to fix? Well, there's lots and lots of processes this chemical goes through, I will eventually find out for it certainly has my curiosity piqued.
Well, anyway, we went to Chuck E Cheese's today. I took my vehicle with my gear, had no idea whether they were going to get the plant up and running or not. Turns out - not. Not only am I not working today, there is no clue whether it's going to be up and going tomorrow. Or when, for that matter. I just know that as of tomorrow, I'll have been off work for 12 days.
Played a bunch of games with the boys, then we went to the Harley Davidson dealership - not for me, not for me. I haven't been on a street bike in a very long time and at the moment, I have no desire to. We hung there for a while and then went to Bubba's so they could have the wait staff sing happy birthday to the 5 year old.
Now, I just have to wonder whether there is going to be anything going on for work tomorrow. They can't just keep us off work indefinitely. Or yes, they can actually. Up to drivers whether they want to stick around or go find a new place of employment. I'm not interested in looking for another job right now unless I'm forced into that position.
Still watching the Russia/Ukraine stuff, but something tells me that Russia shelling these cities is only going to go so far. i didn't realize that there are vast underground subway tunnels under these cities where the Ukrainians can hole up. "Experts" predict that guerilla style warfare could go on for a very, very long time. At least the Ukrainians are getting military hardware from all kinds of sources all over the planet.
Don't want to get too lengthy with this. Hoping Addler gets past this - very soon. He is totally crashed out right now. He hasn't been sleeping - that cone? He just sits there staring at me half the night, not sleeping, head held up. I'll wake up at 5:00 am and then he'll finally have laid his head down with that thing on. Poor doggy : ( He somehow got the cone off his head today - destroyed it actually - after we got back. I just thought, oh well. If the wound opens up and he starts bleeding again, he can go to the vet and stay there until he is past this.
