Friday - early

Quite frankly, I'm ready for a day off.  That isn't going to happen until Sunday and it's only going to be one day and then I'm slated to work through Thanksgiving day.  After that? I dunno, but I think I'm going to ask for the weekend off since others are getting Turkey day off.  Or not.  My paychecks have been crazy bad and today's was no different. It's next paycheck that will be awesome.  So, I guess I best keep working like that while it's available for we definitely go through dry spells where we aren't working much or get many days off in a row.  The nature of this particular setup, especially relating to the plant in Gurdon.  It would be nice if they could keep that place up and running for a while. 

As it stands, one of the giant tanks up there was full when I got they yesterday and the one I loaded into was near full when I was done. Other drivers had loads cancelled, oddly enough none of mine were.  So, you "suck up" to the boss, apparently, you'll get the work.  No, I don't suck up to people.  I do my job, yes and I do it well if I do say so myself. 

Yesterday's DOT inspection was proof of that.  No Violations Found.  My manager said "good job!", I'm waiting for the safety director to say that as well, he's been complaining in system wide messages to all drivers about CSA points (you'll just have to look it up, I'm not explaining that again here, excepting to say if the driver gets points, the company also gets assessed those points and no, it's not good). Ok, but when we get no violation inspections, it reduces the points on the company's profile.  There are legitimate reasons you'd get points, but most of it is illegitimate.  Still, if you just had a light go out that day and they pull you over, they can (mostly will) write you up for it even if you tell them: "That light just went out". They either don't believe you or they don't care.

I saw a video a while back where Troopers were going through a truck stop parking lot doing inspections on trucks that were parked.  One of them, the dude had a flat tire and he was waiting in line for his turn to get the tire replaced. The troopers didn't care and they wrote him up for that. That's a situation where I'd be calling their office and talking to as many people as I could get an ear from to tell them how messed up that is.  

Like the time I was going through a newly formed construction zone in Arizona.  There were temporary speed limit signs on either side of the road, but I didn't see either of them for one sign was laying on the ground, face down on the left and didn't see the other sign at all for I was passing another truck. So, I was going the normal speed through there and got pulled over by a Trooper saying I was speeding. Huh?  End of story? When he was through writing me up, I zipped back around and drove back through there and both signs were laying down, flat on their face. Yes, I called to complain about that trooper and made a huge issue out of it. If you are going to write people up for speeding, at least KNOW that the damn speed limit signs are even visible!

Enough of that.  I have turned the news back off for the most part. I have been watching videos of leftist melt downs tho.  These people are insane. They literally are sitting there in front of a camera crying, saying their getting their passports ready to leave the country for they "know" that there are going to be concentration camps. They're coming to take away! Ha Ha HO HO Hee Hee!  That's an old song, look it up lol. 

I have seen some of Trump's intended appointments and I bust out laughing at some of them. You know there is going to be a plethora of "news" stories from the alphabet news outlets decrying such picks, yada yada yada, blah blah blah.  I absolutely adore watching some of MSNBC news content right now. Not for the news content, but for the irrational, ridiculous commentary coming out of those people's mouths. The leftists in this country are still bewildered by why Harris lost. Well there are many, many reasons, but "never Trump" obviously didn't win this time. The loss of autonomous rights didn't win over enough women (abortion, women having control of their own bodies to be able to choose to kill their babies still in the womb type of thing) - show me where that was ever a Constitutional right, please, and all the other lame crap that people said nope.  I predicted people were going to vote with their wallets and I'm still believe that.  The economy may be "booming" by the numbers, it's irrelevant when the price of literally everything is so bloated, all that "extra" money is meaningless.

What did I say during Covid when they were voting in trillions of dollars worth of budget packages? Inflation is going to hit. Well, it eventually hit.  Blame whoever, I blame Biden-Harris because that's convenient, that's what the left does with anything if a Republican is in office. You can't tit for tat with them tho, if you say, well it happened during Obama's regime, they immediately start cussing you out, calling you names, belittling you and talk down to you like you're a 5 year old.

And these people have the audacity to say that the right has been causing all of this division? I don't go around cussing people out because they believe something different than me. In fact, after I dropped one of the kids off at guitar training yesterday, I went to the local brewery. It's like 2 blocks away from the arts center.  A man was sitting there going off about how Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.  Sorry, Charlie, but if you're going to sit at a bar and say that stuff that loudly, I am going to pipe up  and pipe up I did. 

This dude stopped in his tracks looking at me funny. I said those words right to him, if you're going to speak that loudly so the entire place can hear you, don't think it odd when someone with a different viewpoint says something back to you even if they aren't a part of your conversation. You are forcing the conversation on everywhere.  Oh, well I can see you have very strong views about this. Yes,, the same as you but the on the completely other side of it.  Oh, Israel has the right to defend itself, but it has limitations.  Oh really? We went back and forth and I asked a simple question: what do you think America would do if Mexico started lobbing missiles into our homeland?  

They couldn't comprehend the point I was trying to make.  Not that difficult to figure out, Israel was attacked by Hamas, 1,500 of their innocent civilians were killed.  

Anyway, I have to get offa here, time to get ready to go.