Wednesday - mid afternoon

I had second load today, so when my manager called at around 8:00 am and I was already on my way to the truck at the yard, I wondered what he was wanting?  "Are you on your way to the truck yet?"  I'm assuming he knows I am, I have the tablet with me and it is GPS activated and traceable.  But I played along, yes I'm almost to my yard.  Well so and so called in sick today, someone else is at such and such a place but he's not even ready to leave yet, I am switching you to first load.  

Why can't these stupid drivers call in the night before and proclaim their sickness? If I had known about it last night, I would have just done the first load run at the first load run hours.  I would have been pulling into the washout station instead of just starting.  I don't believe this driver tho, he has been calling in sick a lot lately.  

I didn't get to the washout until almost 11:30 am, tho that was by design.  The actual appointment time is 2 pm, I don't want to get there too early but I also want to get the day over with. 11:30 is ample time for first load to load and I can get in and out of there - if I"m lucky.  

As it stands, it's 3:22 pm and I've been home since 3 so I won't call it an extremely long day.  I texted the manager a while ago, since you switched me to 1st load, I'm guessing I have that tomorrow as well? No reply. I texted him again: I am assuming that I am 1st load and will deal with it appropriately.  Meaning, I'm getting up at 5:00 am and getting the day started and over with early - if it works out that way. 

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Many hours later.  Kids came home from school, one did his homework, the other didn't have any (or so he said). Tonight was kids church night, just kicked off again for the school year season.  The caveat for them if they wanted to go is that they were to eat all of their dinner.  We're talking some soup with meat in it, some sort of Olive Garden replica - very delicious actually. They had it last night and asked for it again tonight, just enough leftovers for them to have a delicious meal.  

So, the one that asked for it? Wouldn't eat.  It turned into a full meltdown ordeal with him being sent to his room and - all of that kind of bs.  He was attempting to negotiate his way out of it.  He'd "eat some now and save the rest for later" - which literally means he will eat none of it. He knows there is going to be junk food at church. But, we know that he knows and we know what's going through his head, he is completely predictable.  "You can either eat your dinner or you aren't going to church".  

This was 30 minutes of this nonsense. When he finally came back to the table? He wolfed down the soup as if it were his last meal.  Unbelievable. This is really good!  I looked at him in awe. Why didn't you just do that in the first place instead of engaging in all of this ridiculous drama? I was having none of the bs after that.  I told them after they get home from church, you are going straight to bed.  I don't want to hear NOTHING except yes sir and go get into your pajamas, brush your teeth, go pee and get into bed.   

Amazingly, that is exactly what they did.  

So, tho it started off on the wrong foot, it ended up ok.  

I'll have to be honest with you here: I am pretty much waiting for cooler temps, which are really just right around the corner, to do the majority of the rest of this expansion project.  When the high's are in the mid 80's, that is going to be much better working conditions than what we had today, which was ridiculous.  I sat in the truck sweating and baking while getting loaded at the plant.  I'm just tired of this heat and I want it over with.  

I'm not saying I won't do anything before then, I'm just saying I'm tired of this humid heat and I don't mind waiting a few weeks to start really digging into this situation and trying to get some lots up and going.  I dunno. I won't do anything again before cooler temps until I get a weekday off.  Can I work on Saturday? Sure, but I am guessing this weekend is going to be all work.  Who knows with this company?  This is the nature of the trucking industry: drivers get to know what's coming up next when it's given to them.  

I am motivated to get this done, yes, just because of this trucking crap.  But I don't feel like baking in the sun.  There is a lot of work to do so I will have to do some of it before then, not just the expansion project.  

One other thing.  I have no idea why a lot more people suddenly showed up at this blog.  I mean, I don't mind it or anything, it's just a curiosity.  Maybe politics.  I didn't write anything about Trump in this blog but there's plenty going on.  For another entry, maybe tomorrow. 

Anyway, it's time to go to bed.