Stuck in Almost Mexico
Been awhile since I’ve made a proper post here and for that I am truly sorry. Been stuck in Laredo, Texas since Thursday night (it’s now Tuesday morning) and I’m bored as hell so I just went through and categorized all the old blog posts here for your browsing convenience. Isn’t that swell? So now if you want to, say, find a ROBOFAN story. You can simply click on the appropriate category button to the right and it should take you to all of the things I have tagged as such. Hooray!
So I suppose I’ll let you know about Laredo. We got here Thursday night and had to wait until Friday morning to deliver. That wasn’t too bad just sleep in the truck and wait for morning. Do that all the time. Of course no wait until morning load is complete without a bobtail to a restraunt for food. This time the food was Whataburger which neither of us had eaten before. Wasn’t bad could have been better. So we deliver the load and come back to the dropyard and we are bobtail because the load is going to Mexico. We decide (if by we I mean Paul) that we need food so we bobtail down the street to Wendy’s. And that was fine but on the way back we discover that the clutch has gone broken and that isn’t good. Take the truck to the shop, they tell us that they close in a few hours, truck won’t be fixed until Monday, and we can’t sleep in the truck. Fantastic. So we get a hotel and here we sit for the weekend.
Didn’t do much since we are broke and it’s hot here. Ate three times at Golden Corral which is awesome if you’ve never been there. Went to Walmart and picked up season two of the Boondocks. Also browsed Guitar Center for some sick axes. Saw two RR5’s like Brandon’s and for cheaper. Wish my government stimulus check would have been bigger. Other than that pretty much wasted all weekend sitting in a hotel watching tv and playing on the internet. Bored Bored Bored.
In sad news we lost George Carlin who lost his long fight against life this weekend. He was old. And a genius. We’ll miss you George. No sappy tributes for you. You deserve better. You said it yourself, everything is funny, cancer is funny. Well so is death. I’m sure we’ll all miss you more than you’ll miss us. Too bad you won’t be around to see the downfall of man like you hoped for.
Speaking of that, man has Iowa gotten beaten up lately! We lost most of Parkersburg to a “Finger of Sinatra” EF5 tornado, lots and lots of things to the flood of 2008 including the Sutliff Bridge, and evidently a couple of boyscouts who should have known better than to camp out in a tornado. lol
And boy can I not wait to show off what I bought for myself with my stimulus check! Happy birthday to me!
Speaking of that, we will not be home for my birthday, dad’s birthday, or fourth of july this year so I’m sorry I’ll miss out on my own birthday party. Our hometime was denied. So now it will likely be the second weekend of july we will be home for. Which is convenient due to it’s falling on the Iowa Guzzi Rally weekend! Which has been cancelled due to the flood. Boo! But I am still planning on making it to the WMGR rally in Wisconsin so hooray for that. But that’s in August. We’ll get to that later. But sadly this hometime debacle will also make me not able to go to the Cavalera Conspiracy show I have a ticket for so I’m not happy about that one at all. Anyone want to go?
Well anyway, this is all pretty abbreviated for what I wanted to post but it’s 2:30 am in Texas and I’m tired and cranky. I want to make some freaking money so that truck had better be fixed when I wake up and we had better have a load hooked up and more loads after that.
So until next time, Ciao kiddies!
BoBo