02/01/07

Hello I'm back to all that are still reading this, if there is anyone.

I lot has happened in the last month.  I've had 3 hard drive crashes and ended up replacing my main HD and finally have a computer that is working like it is supposed to.  Unfortunately, no matter how much you back up there is something that is lost, if from anything else but bad timing.  Despite that I think I have everything back on-line again.  I have also had to deal with not feeling to well.  About 3 weeks ago I had my first body system shutdown.  I don't really get sick but if I push to hard and don't get the rest that I need, eventually my body will say ENOUGH and just shutdown and the only way out is to sleep.  Fortunately for me it happened during a home time and it didn't effect a load.  Well I got through that one and was drained but was off and running again.  Well I had a particularly hard push to get back to Utah for a family event and I had a relapse last Sunday.  It's not fun suffering through shivers that are bad enough to cause cramping to sever sweating and back to the shivers again spanning a 15 hour period.  I'm now taking it slower so as to prevent another episode.

So now that is over and I'm on the mend, I should be able to keep up my journal and my website current.  As for now good night.

02/15/07

Not a whole lot has happened since we last talked.  Freight is slow so I haven't been moving as much as I would like to be but that is the time of year we are in.  I was fortunate in that a big snow storm passed through while I was with my kids so I didn't have to fight it aside from local driving.  

Something that I haven't told you about happened on Jan 01.  I was dropping off the Christmas present for my ex from her sister.  Well after 3 years of driving into the subdivision with a trailer.  Well I don't know if it was bad timing or a bored Sargent but I was pulled over after exiting the subdivision.  Well he decided to weight my truck and as a result I found out about an Illinois law that limits weight on those roads to 73280 lbs.  Well I was at 77000 lbs and change which cost me $682.00 in fines.  Needless to say I have learned a lot from that very expensive lesson and now know what I can and can't do.  So now I have to drop my trailer on a street with a class 2 rating before heading into the subdivision.  A small inconvenience, but if it is going to save me money, I will do it.