Tuesday - night

It's been a very long day, mostly occupied with truck driving stuff.  5:30 am up, out the door at 6:15, off to Gurdon, incredibly long offload time - there is a huge air leak on the line.  I contacted the manager, the truck is done can I come get it? Absolutely.

Not that I wanted to add 3 hours to the day, but the piece of junk I have been driving - that thing needs to be retired to a junk yard or scrap metal.  It's got too many things wrong with it.  So, I got the leak taken care of (I think) on the trailer and the truck was ready, switched my stuff back to the truck and left. 

30 minutes later? Same problem with the AC. Mind you, they had that truck for a week this time.  I texted my manager, I got a call from the head mechanic.  "I replaced everything!".  But after questioning him, he did not replace everything, in fact, he didn't do what he should have done and said he was going to do, which was to tear out everything in the truck to get to the evaporator and take the thing out and inspect it.  

Instead? "I cleaned it out!".  He didn't take the thing out of there, he didn't even get at it, I don't know how he cleaned it out if he didn't get to the thing to begin with. Lame.  Lame. Lame.

That is the third time it's been in there for AC. How many times do I have to take it to the same mechanic before they say, well, we're stumped, take it somewhere else?  Now? He's going to order a new evaporator and install it "next time" I take it there.  So, I will have to through this ordeal yet again. 

I got home at 5:35.  Volunteered to take the older kid to the soccer practice, the younger was being take to his baseball game, they are at different fields at different locations.  Wolfed down some spaghetti and headed out to that.  Done, we went to the baseball game and then done with that? Home at 9:00 pm.  

Oh, the AC. Well, it works for a while, then the evaporator freezes over, then of course it stops working cause the air isn't able to blow through the evaporator, which is where your cool air is generated. I flatly told him on the phone that I wasn't fixing to go through the summer in a hot truck.  I didn't say I would quit, I won't make threats like that anymore, well, I will kind of allude to it but not say it specifically. Today I didn't say anything like that at all. But yes, I will quit a trucking job over that.  I will give them one more chance to get this fixed at their shop, after that? It's going to go to an actual AC repair shop or they can keep their truck.  They can find someone else to drive a boiling hot rig.  Good luck with that. 

If you think I'm joking or not serious or won't quit, you don't know me very well. It takes a while to move me to the Exit sign of any given company, but when I get there, I'm leaving.  It's a PITA to find and get a new job.  It's just a lot of work and I'm not really wanting to have to keep going through that.  Every trucking company has it's version of orientation, it is almost always out of state somewhere, tho usually it's not near as hellish as the orientation this company made me go through is.  

I'm too tried to do this tonight, but tomorrow I will get into my rewards and check out what flights I can get for when. Then, contact management, tell them I am going to Arizona (it will be a request but it's non-negotiable, I'm going regardless) and I will be gone probably 5 days.  Visit mom for 2 or 3 days and then drive home.  If I'm hearing this correctly, this may be the last time I will see her alive.  So yes, there is a sense of urgency about making this trip, even if at last minute.  

Today was the last day to buy a John Deere at the zero interest - well the salesman said "it may go away" to that might have been a pile of lies, who know - and the sale they were having.  The TYM isn't on sale, it's just what they charge, I would end up with about the same payment as the Deere but a lot more tractor in terms of size and horsepower.  

Who is really behind all of this rioting at these universities? That's what I want to know.  I'm watching live footage of a entire busload of people being taken to jail at Columbia University.  Why did they even wait this long?  Ridiculous nonsense. Not the first time I've watched college kids engaging in this kind of thing, it IS the first time I've seen these idiots doing it in the name of a damn terrorist group.  I watched an interview of some young lady at one of these protests with a whiny voice, "Well I don't know why I'm here protesting, but I support them". Them who?  

Yup, all over the place.  It's time to go to bed.