Saturday - early

Not my idea of a Saturday - the getting up early part - but whatever.  I got up early so I could enjoy some coffee and see what's going on over in Israel.  Nothing has really changed excepting they are reporting that Hezbollah has decided to fully involve itself in this war theater and so, I assume, a lot of them are going to die as well.  

And watching the politicians going full tilt meltdown.  I consider the Squad to be anti-Jew trash and they can go jump into an icy, cold lake. I don't say such things often or lightly, you can't take the side of terrorists that kill innocent civilians - or even if they did vote the Hamas in, you still don't take the battle to the civilians unless they are engaging in a guerrilla style warfare.  

If citizens in their districts keep voting them in, they are also anti-Jew trash, at least the constituents that voted for them.  If you are one of those people, yes, you are a pile of trash.  I don't suspect anyone that reads this journal takes sympathy with Hamas, but if you do, you have an idea of what I think of your viewpoint. 

This reminds me once again of the situation with Iranian students in the US protesting against our nation.  That didn't last very long if memory serves correctly as Americans had more balls back then and weren't putting up with this nonsense.  I could say a lot more, but this is as far as I go with it on the internet.  

Yes, I find this situation insufferable with so-called American citizens taking sides with evil, is what it boils down to.  

As hoped for, the current power bill, which just came up this morning, is lower than the last 2 months at around $1,300.  It's still high, the heat has lingered, AC's have still been pumping out the cold air during the daytime excepting during some days where the temps didn't go too high.  

Today slated to hit 90 degrees.  2 Mondays from now, if the forecasters are correct - which they more-often-than-not are wrong, the temps will go down and pretty much stay down.  The next coming week is low to mid 80's, after that we are going to be in the 70's.  

As an example of what I am now assuming is just taking guesses at what the weather will be like, a very high percentage chance of rain for tomorrow, Sunday, is now gone.  3% chance tomorrow and then 42% chance Monday.  The 4 day swath of pretty good percentage chances of rain this coming week? Down into the 20% range.  I could put up a dart board and then write in the little separate spaces on the board things like "90% chance of rain", "Cloudy with some blue skies", "Rain likely", throw a couple of darts and there ya go.  That's the forecast and about as accurate as what we get with these people that work at the national weather center, or whoever these people are and whoever is paying them for ridiculous, errant, wrong, zilch, nada, bad, incorrect weather forecasting.  

On a lighter note, the dog is doing well. He didn't wake me up last night, he does want out right now, lol.  But I'm fixing to leave so he can go out for the entire day, or at least until I get home. If I get home at a decent hour, I will take him to the property and take him for a nice, long walk.  Get some energy out, get him running around. He runs around the back yard tho.  He chases the Shepherd, they play together a lot.  I think it good for dogs to have other dog companions, especially when the humans in the house are gone for the day, which is basically every week day around here. 

Oh, I also slept fairly well last night. That is an amazing thing in and of itself.  It's around 5 hours total of driving today, 2-1/2 hours of total unload time including weighing in and out and finding the dude to indicate which tank he wants the product dumped into and signing off on it. That can take some time in and of itself.  I have my methodology down in my mind at this point at least.  I'm no longer worried about it, I made it through the first day alone without any issues and even had my work checked by a plant supervisor. He is welcome to check it whenever he wants, actually, doesn't bother me at all.  I just wish it wouldn't take so long to pump out the product.

It didn't take near as long to pump out similar product in Oregon. Maybe 45 minutes.  This is 2 hours and I have a gauge on the truck that shows the suspension load in terms of air pressure. It is at 70 right now, when it gets down to 22, I know it's almost done.  The 22 is the weight of the trailer itself pushing down on the air suspension.  I also have the pressure setting down pretty good.  I monitored it closely last time and finally figured the angle for the valve handle to leave it at to keep the pressure at 30 psi.  

I was initially told 25 psi, then I was told by the trainer that he goes as high as 41psi.  Others say in the 30's range, I'm just sticking with 30.  I don't want to do 25 because that will just make it take longer to offload. Mostly what I learned is to make sure the dome lid is on very tight so it doesn't leak any pressure out, that will cause offload times to go into overtime as well.  

I think the training was ok, not great, but ok, considering the wide disparity of ways these drivers do it.  They all end up getting it done without any problems but the lack of an actual method that is followed by everyone is - strange.  The driver I trained with the other day doesn't use the velcro straps.  I asked him about it, he just gave me a strange look.  I said, well, the company wants us to do it so I'm doing it on mine.  It isn't likely those arms would just fall down on their own, but if they both did at the same time, you would have a disaster.  You could turn the valve off - there is an internal valve you just hit a lever and it closes almost instantly. But you'd still have product on the ground and you'd have to report it and who knows what actions the plant might take against you.  

IE: ban you from their plant.  It takes 5 seconds to put the things on there, it's a safety net that I am willing to continue using just to have that peace of mind.  

Anyway, it's time to get out of here.

G'day