It's another mile gone by,

04/11 Vcr-Vcr

2011-04-30T21:07:00.001-05:00

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Last time
I fucked up a tire and wheel .

27 days 11900 miles

After a reset in Vcr, daffodils in full bloom in the freeway divider.

Next am westbound traffic jam in Banff, Ab.

Road is still good enough for 65mph.

4wd is awesome for winter .

AWD is even better .

Love it when do a 180* on the highway.

Fucking was too lazy to park and then walk inside to fill up his water jug, he was trying to stop in the exit gate thus blocking it, then walk upstairs get a gallon of water then come down, he pointed at his jug with the quizzical face, I gave him the no face, he gave me the awww cmon face and walked back to his truck and got the fuck out of my way .

Sweet old Freightliner.

The sweet fuel optimization program that doesnt work, is now taking comments from drivers on how it can be improved, just email your comments how in the fuck do we email it??? The computers in the drivers lounges either dont work, or being used by some immigrant to skype with famiry back home or if we're in the lounge we're not in our trucks, therefore not able to get dispatched on time...just let us comment on it via the fucking satellite that you just communicated to us with????

So after 1hr of waiting for the fuel optimization program to tell me where to fuel up, I sent a msg asking where I should fuel, because I already used macro 25 and it was of no help. I got no answer so I called and the guy that answered the phone said to fuel at any Esso, whilst on the phone, this msg came thru.

So now Im confused, after all Im just a dumb driver and I don't know where to fuel, and now have been told to fuel at two different places, well which is it????

Off I go .

Those are the only authorized fuel stops in this province, the williams lake and 100 mile house are 50 miles apart from each other and on a route that ONE TRUCK A DAY TAKES....but on the transfuckingcanadahighway there is ONE fuel stop 1 hr outside of Vancouver in Hope...so thats where Im a goin...even though I know its 20 miles off route and not open the whole point of this program is to take decisions out of the driver's hands so I will comply with that.

Now, Im not the smratest person out there, but I can't figure out where to swipe my fuel card.

Well, their sweet new fuel program just made this load late to the Walmart DC, which cost them a $1000 fine .

Which were sent over 8hrs ago, don't ask me something that you already know the answer to, the computer is right in front of your face.

How dare you for doubting me .

So I was driving along, and passed a parked semi that was pulled over to get coffee at Tim Hortons across the highway...he pulled out maybe 10 secs after I passed him...I figured he'd catch up to me, it was a soupled up truck and sure enough 3 mins later once we got to the four lane section, around me he came...he pulled back into the slow lane in front of me and continued to increase space between us, then his red lights went all crooked then I was, holy shit he just rolled into the ditch...so I got close enough to him, but far enough off to the side, threw my boots on, grabbed the fire extinguisher, both for fire and to bust windows out if needed and a flashlight and ran up to the truck. The trailer was on its side, but the truck was only slightly tipped over, he opened the door when I got there, said he was unhurt, but asked me where he was to be able to call the cops/his boss.

Back thru Banff in lil bit worse conditions.

Elk crossing the highway.

Awww snowplow awww .

I guess he didnt notice the fucking river to the right of the highway , makes the road fucking slippery.

He pulled out of the brake check w/o clearing his taillights .

At the next brake check, homeslice does the deed .

Picking up my load back to Cgy, here in Richmond beside the river.

This the spot where that truck rolled over 2 days ago.

The trees that the last avalanche knocked over, these are 40+ yrs old.

The new Walmart DC was built out in the sticks, but right next to the motorcycle safety training place...its great to have n00bs riding out into the street into the paths of 100,000#++ semis .

HERE'S THE DEAL .

Couple days ago, silly woman in a minivan lost control in this corner, crossed the yellow lines into the path of a semi and dieded .

I was stuck in that road closure, too...

I dunno wtf is going on, but we're goin so fucking painfully slow .

Its a fucking truck up front....

35mph in a 60mph zone .

That splains it all .

Someone had too much time on their hands, and a welder .

Goats up on that frame are a tourist attraction .

Finished delivering to Walmart in Kelowna and en route to Penticton, had to take a detour, road was closed cuz of apartment fire, cop gave me detour directions for my truck and off I went.

Got this msg, which I thought was weird...

Cuz I'd already had this convo already...

Deer out on that point of the lake getting a drank.

Goin back thru Kelowna 3hrs later, fire still goin
.

Great googlymoogly, I so want .

Guessing I go empty to Vcr after I del in Kamloops, but axed just to make sure and got msgd by my dispatcher from a year ago .

Pretty blossoms in Chilliwack, BC .

2nd week of April, at the bottom of the summit, carny convoys are coming out of storage.

15mins later up to the summit, snowing pretty good.

The Dodge was behind the Honda, and I was behind the Dodge, I pulled out to pass the Dodge and he finally found his gas pedal, but he sucks at driving .

He fishtailed from the passing lane into the granny lane and SLAMMED into the jersey barrier and caught some air, I THOUGH FOR SURE HE WAS GOIN OVER THE EDGE (1000' drop on the other side of the barrier((Im overreacting, the spot Im thinking of is in a pic later in this episode)) did a 180* and ended up ass to the barrier, both front tires blew, and so did his rad and of course the slow fucking Honda, pulls out in front of the 100,000# truck (me) .

13 mins later, perfect roads, fucking dumbass Dodge driver all in a hurry....4wd is awesome for winter .

Jasper.

Big ass field truck on the lowbed.

Loading up cans of condensed milk, site requires hair nets .

Cars cost less in Wetaskiwin... dealer where I bought my 92 XJ that I still has.

Hay look, Injun reserve and stray doggahs, whodathunk???

Back thru Banff.

If you look closely, dude is behind the truck taking a .

New bridge (over to the left) is coming along.

Saw a bunch of cops and was they often has surprise inspections here...

But it was 3 cops to take some broad into custody
.

The faggot in the truck in front of me had to almost cut me off to get in front of me 1/2 mile prior to this pic, and now he his pulling off the road .

There was a head-on collision between 2 semis on this bridge, one of them got wedged into the bridge supports and dieded, so the bridge is weakened, so its one lane only and 10mph MAX speed...this is the TRANSFUCKINGCANADAHIGHWAY.

Dude is smokin his brakes goin uphill .

Not often does Abbotsford get snow.

Eatin her cheerios on her morning commute.

Road being widened, they all lost their backyards, jigs set up for the concrete fentsing.

Rare sighting of UPS broked down .

She was hot , early Tara Reid hot.

Boiling water coming out of the building, pouring into the storm drain and then steaming.

Fucking farm truck fucking everything up at the pumps by goin in the wrong direction .

That Dodge that spun out up here, this wouldve been a deadly spot for him to have done the same thing with a lil moar speed...

Holding the bridge together with cables until the real fix.

Off in the distance, watched a car roll over in the corner .

Shoulda been driving a 4wd vehicle, they're awesome for winter.

Meatwagon responding.

Here's this old couple out for a drive in their BMW with 40 series tires ...sure, its mid April, and snow for the most part is gone, but there's potholes galore, these dummies drove right thru a big pothole and flattened both front and rear tires on the drivers side .

Here comes their wrecker.

WTF ankles.

Repairs comin along.

From crashday.

Someone put up a Canucks logo up on the hill, silly rabbit, Luongo is gonna blow it for you.

Reset in Vcr, doin my laundry.

Bad ass security.

For a Canyon .

Even after I called the person in charge of updating this, its still not updated...but to be honest I only called them cuz I knew it wouldnt be updated, therefore I'd get to chuckle aboot it later...

Off to Seattle, Microsoft employee commuter bus on the left .

Boeing has a wide range of packing boxes and rigs, but wicker???

Lined up at the Starbucks warehouse, Im stopped HERE, cuz if I park IN the corner, the outbound truck won't be able to get out.

Numbnuts is passing me ...A) there's nowhere to go, its bumper to bumper all the way to the gate, B) there's also a truck behind me...

Numbnuts realizes what he has done, walks back to apologize, says he'll let me by him, I say dont worry aboot it, Im drop and hook, I'll be out of here before your dumbass anyways... on his way to truck behind me.

A little overdue .

Steerable rear axle group Boeing uses for the long loads.

Prius driver reading a book.

5t truck lost his front wheel...rolled 3/4 mile forward on I5.

Wait for it...

A daily fucking occurance...

$13k ???

SEXY fucking redhead in the convertible .

HERES THE DEAL.

Snow on his hood is a warning sign for me.

13 mins later...

3 mins later, just wet roads.

Bridge is done .

His motorbike wasnt making the signal turn, so walked over to hit the pedestrian button.

Delivering at this place in Vancouver, its way tight for a highway truck....parked on the street couple mins before my appt.

How did the license plate know?

Backed completely in and still blocking the road .

Hey now...

Good week.

Dude from CT takin a leak.

All these lil towns have contests where you guess when the car on the ice is gonna fall thru and you win the pot....

Salt mine in the distance.

Want a snickers?

I missed my fucking turn, ended up out in the sticks till I found a place that I could turn to the left, then back thru the road and turn left again to backtrack .

Backing across the road.

Making my left.

In Prince Albert, SK, was three drunk injuns jaywalking just as cop drove by...

Hopefully he takes them out for a drive.

Headed north.

Flin Flon, MB.

Delivering to the Walmart.

Its all rocks and lakes.

Road to Thompson, MB got a little wintery.

Fuck wolve shirt, wolve building >*.

Nice bloody shit.

Perfect spot for some Manitoba ditch fishing.

Hay look, injun reserve and stray doggah...

Theres a bunch of these hard case plastic boxes on the back of road signs, dunno wtf they are?

Still flooding outside of Winnipeg.

Dropping and hooking in MOOSE JAW, SK wish I had time to stay, gurl here gives wicked massages.

One of those trucks that haul grain one direction (this pic) then flatten the side boards down and haul lumber back from BC.

Like that.

Dude was working on the air conditioning with a Canucks flag on his service van, IN CALGARY...

Sigh.

Pretty straightforward answer, no?

So I splain it...

I just told him the earliest I could be there is 0515, he says ok be there 0500 .

Now thats a quality shit.

Glenmore finally getting four laned.

This guy missed the ramp onto the freeway, the road he is on dead ends, he's reversing back to the freeway ramp .

Good week, mpg and idle good enough for bonus.

Dropped the truck off at the dealer for downloads...$70 cab ride back to the yard and my car .

I saw signs for a tulip festival, so pulled over, saw you had to PAY to drive along the fields of tulips, fuck that.

That's all you get, deal with it.

In my town, parked in front of a sweet FJ at the grocery store.

The monsters .

Delilah LOVES the bed, Daisy not so much.

The spring at the top of the property.

Every year there is moar blown down to clear .

Creek is still high from snowmelt.

Still snow left to melt.

This is the ugly part of the year, snow is goin, but nothing new is growing yet.

Changed over to summer tires on the miata, storing the winters in the upper shed.

Maybe time for brakes.

Big gurls chillin in the shade.

Taking a break from the annual oil changes and delivering old glass shower doors to a neighbor that wants to use in a greenhouse .

In my haste, I drove over my oil collector thingie .

Daisy had to get her anal sacs expelled, so just got them both done at the same time.

15yo cedar planter coming apart, gorilla glue will solve that .

Trying to rivet the drainpipes of my greenhouse and failing, I think my rivet gun is bad.

Yeah...Daisy has a running away issue while at the house so is kept on a long lead....when I take her out for a drive and release her, she sticks close and comes when called, but at the house, not so much .

03/11 Cgy-Vcr

2011-03-31T09:32:00.017-05:00

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Last time I made it down to Yuma, Az.

28 days 12500 miles

Off to the killplant, 4wd is awesome for winter .

It’s days like these I’m glad I don’t work in the gas/oilfields, fuck outdoor work in -40 .

He’s stopped to chain up??? There is hardly any grade here .

Well, we’re all stopped to chain up, authorities have made the decision .

Goin down.

Got to the town at the bottom and finally got the word that we didn’t need the chains the rest of the way, so off they came.

Snowplow on the front of the train .

At the brake check, grader is pushing the truck cuz he’s stuck .

Spun out on the hill .

All stopped to chain up to climb Smasher.

My lil notepad has finally self-destructed .

He doesn’t have his trailer with him like last time.

Snowblower in the distance.

Of course when I reach him to get a pic, he stops .

He’s spun out on the hill, I've stopped here in case he backs/slides down, impatient fuckers behind me are all over me on the CB, fine go the fuck around me and have him slide backwards into you...he did eventually get chained up and rollin.

Mobile home got blown off the trailer .

Turnpike in the ditch.

So they axe me what my plans are...

I tell them...

So the plan ended up being sleep when I got to Wpg, get up in the am and take off with a Vcr load...I was up early, so brought my laundry in, laundry done, go back to the truck, can't find it, its in the shop getting APU installed...see the shop doesn't talk to dispatch, so now there's a load that has no driver on it...but shop's wishes trump dispatch so I sit and wait for dispatch to decide whether to put me in the hotel for 2 days or if they has a truck I can drive in the meantime...They finally decided to get me another truck, they had too many loads they needed moved...After aboot 3yrs my inverter finally died, so I has no electricity for laptop and stuff...but I'm not sposed to need one, cuz Im sposed to has a truck that has an APU, that provides AC power, and thats why Im here in Wpg to get APU installed, it'll take 2 days to install it, so Im getting a different truck in the meantime.

One of the things I don't like aboot this truck is how small everything is, very narrow desk.

How tiny the closet is.

My name got pulled for the random drug test .

Finally have a new truck and load, go out to it and the trl needs work and shop is backed up...

To top it off the safety dept hides these tags somewhere on the trailers to see if we are doing pretrips, if you leave w/o finding it, they call you up and you get into trouble...

They put a tag on a trl that wasnt roadworthy .

So I get a different load, so go look for that trl and got another problem, this aluminum tube is sposed to contain registration and insurance ppwrk for the trl, its attached to the trailer and is weatherproof, no ppwrk, no drive...

Awww Moose Jaw awww .

Mountain roads in great shape.

Canadian army setting up the artillery to set off avalanche.

The big empty space used to be moar of the red steel buildings in the self storage yard, but it collapsed under the weight of snow .

Ironically they sell advertising space to an inflatable avalanche survival vest .

This guy’s rear axle looks off .

CEL lights are on......HAD been on a roll of no truck problems....they went out after 10 mins though.

Have the day off in Vcr, starting with brkfst next door to the yard...what is with all the feet washing ashore on BC’s coasts ?

Smart idea aboot how to attach the sirusxm antenna to a truck that has ZERO steel in it.

Car sounded soooo fucking sexy .

Didn’t know where to go, so drove to the port to see the ocean and eat my pizza .

Canadian army still at it .

There’s the truck I moved out of so they’d put the APU on, its sitting in Calgary, IDLING, not using the APU .

Prarie winter sunrise.

Trailer burnt to the ground .

Mobile home still there .

Fuel truck out of control, crossed the TransCanada.

Still stickin out onto the road.

Straddling the concrete island to make the turn, was just enough snow so I didn't get high centered, broked down truck in the other lane.

After fueling up, and coming back, there’s the broked down truck.

I like this cabover .

Moving back into the new truck with the APU installed, this is the motor, 15l Detroit.

Turbo side.

One thing I did like aboot the truck I was using in the meantime, is the gladhand extender things, made it lot easier, moar torque to attach and unattach the gladhands
to the trailer.

Rolling in the am.

Weather warning .

4wd is awesome for winter .

See above.

On the curve, snow piling up on the slowlane.

And idiots losing control, I’m empty and doing just fine .

Never seen a plastic utensil dispenser before ...they has one each for forks, spoons and knives.

Windmill staging area.

Loaded with cattle feed made of beet waste from sugar factory, its a heavy load,
can't really get much closer to the limit as I did this time (pen is legal limit) I
don't have enough fuel to go anywhere, so fueling up will add weight, but I'm sure
that the one scale left in NDak will be closed when I get there.

I was right .

Sandbags surrounding the electrical substation for the floods coming in a couple months.

As I left Fargo, there were blizzard warnings on the radio, I was hoping to make it to Wpg before it really hit...everything west of Wpg is closed, so need a place to park and wait it out .

Next am, he’s stuck in the truckstop .

Not goin anywhere for awhile.

Glad to have not been out there .

24hrs later, finally rolling...wrecker bringing some casualties back to town.

There’s sposed to be a cover on the bottom as well, dunno why they didn’t attach it .

In Regina, Sk douchebag trucker parked on the street in order to walk inside to get coffee at Tim’s...cop nailed him .

Potato and jr cheeseburger from Wendys for dinner.

To conserve space, Im ditching my steel toe hiker boots for these steel toe insulated rubbers, good for snow and puddles and shit, and hell I'll wear them in the summer too, I'm only wearing steel toes 2hrs a month anyways.

Something new I'm seeing all over the place, instead of piling in gravel as fill, lotsa road construction is using big styrofoam blocks as fill.

Delivering at the Costco warehouse, someone crashed into their building.

That's the registration decal I needed to has on my reefer I took to Az last month in order to travel thru California .

On way to the house, coming to a bridge that at least 3 trucks go over every yr .

One of our went over last week, deadzeeola.

Out of the canyon, up into the ranchlands.

Got to town and these young punks were on their bikes using the ditch as a ramp and landing on the highway....its only 50kmh zone, but everybody speeds, and trucks come flying down the hill around the corner, and if one of the kids muffs his landing, truck will run him over...so I drove a block further to the cops and told them to clear the kids out, felt like an old man doin it, but its for their own good .

Daisy and Delilah in the snow .

Playtime!

Delilah.

The warm temperatures make the snow unstable, so you just sink in, so out come the snowshoes.

Snow melting off the jeeps.

Dinner time, ribeye from neighbors ranch .

Love me some Kiran Chetry .

Tried Daisy off leash, she immediately ran away up the property , so I waited at the other side, thinking they’d just copy THE WALK they get 4x a day, and they did, I just stood there as they were returning, she and Delilah saw me from a distance, barked, I called their names in a nice tone and just waited for them, I didn’t even scold her, she immediately laid on her back in submission, the fucking bitch knew she did wrong and just did it anyways.

The rock is much moar buried.

As opposed to December

Snow off the garage roof blocking my view.

Some patches of ground starting to show.

When the contractor built the retaining wall in the summer, they needed to use the garden hose to operate the cutting saw, I told them to NOT constrict the waterflow, as its a straight pump, no pressure tank, if left running and hose constricted, the pump will fail...the switch for the pump is ~1000ft away from the end of the hose, so its a PITA to turn on/off, just leave it running, its water out of the creek...but they closed off the end of the hose, and the pump overheated and melted the insides, I didn’t notice til end of season to winterize the pump, now its time to figure out what parts I need to replace.

Lower yard and garden.

Nothing started in the greenhouse just yet.

Nice and warm inside.

Automatic vent keeping the temp in range.

60 degree temp difference between greenhouse and outside .

My mason bees arrived in the mail, they don’t go outside til the temps are at least 55 degrees.

Until then, they hibernate in the fridge.

And goin back to work .

At the Coquitlam Walmart, they had a donation table for the tsunami victims, consisting of an aquarium of WATER .

Bought a down sleeping bag to replace the queen size down duvet Ive been using all these years, it takes up too much room and is a lil drafty....I did fuck up and bought the wrong size drybag for it, doesn’t fit, I’ll buy the next size up and use this one for something else...I can use the downbag and drybag for kayaking trips. Note the topsheet turned out properly, gentleman, it makes the ladies wet .

The down bag out, for truck porpoises, it’ll be unzipped and I’ll lay under it.

55mph is the limit thru Banff, everyone does at least 65mph, finally a cop out there doing some work .

DEF pump at the yard, so don’t have to use those 2.5g jugs all the time...I didn't splain the DEF last time...its Diesel Exhaust Fluid, gets sprayed into the exhaust to lower emissions at the rate of ~30g per 3000 miles or extra $200wk in costs per truck.

4wd is awesome for winter .

All backed up for something...all the idiots moving into the hammer lane and slowing down .

4wd is awesome for winter .

Help on its way.

On the road, like a bauce....I can’t stress enough that this is THE TRANS FUCKING CANADA HIGHWAY...THE ONE FUCKING ROAD TO GET EAST TO WEST ACROSS CANADA. ARE ON IT.

Trees piled up in the avalanche pile.

Finally cut off the hair .

I was watching this guy pull away from his trailer and saw he hadn’t disconnected his airlines and electrical, but he didn’t listen to my horn...everything was fine, they’re sorta designed to release at full stretch, just embarrassing.

USA Walmart trailer spotted in Kamloops, truck must be up at the International dealer getting worked on.

This motorcycle did a dick move to merge in with me, but after seeing his patch, I’m glad I didn’t overreact .

Turn signal is burnt out, shop doesn’t have any spares, why would a shop have spare turn signals? How silly of me...anyways, you can’t just replace the bulb, you have to replace the entire unit at $22 each.

Lotsa those funky scancodes all over the motor.

Taking a load of scrap paper to the pump mill in Tacoma, at the border, old choppah getting inspected at US Customs.

Entering Seattle.

Always a rockbus at this club next to REI.

So, at the pump mill, I fucked up . I turned too quickly when leaving the platform scale and sideswiped it with one of my trailer wheels...tore the tire apart too...no moar safe driving for 2011.

Canada Geese at the pulp mill.

Delivered then looked for a spot to park, all that I could see was a fuel stop with no parking, so just parked in the fuel island, moved when someone showed up, which wasn't often...While waiting for the tire guy, a moving truck axed me to stand on the scale while he weighs his load...you see, movers get paid by how heavy the move is, so extra ppl standing on the scale equals extra $$ in his pocket .

At the tire shop...you can see the fuel stop on the other side of that train overpass, had I known it was here, I'd have parked over here new tire and wheel installed quickly and I'm on my way.

Highway patrol doin good bidness on the hill.

Doggah needs a bigger truck .

Bad fucking ass its amphibious rescue vehicle for the arctic.

ONE MEAN MACHINE

- 15 metres long, 3.6 m wide, weighs 32 tonnes, with a fibreglass-composite hull.

- Can operate in water, on ice, in water and broken ice, muskeg, mud or quicksand for 12 hours on full power.

- Power provided by two 260 horsepower Cummins diesel engines that use jets to drive the vessel at 5.5 knots in the water or up to 16 kilometres per hour on land, although military applications could be modified to go faster.

- Can manage a 34-degree slope or incline.

- Carries 52 passengers.

This is a ~6 mile 4 lane section...at the pace I'm gaining on this guy, I'm not gonna catch him , and I'll guarantee you he'll slow down in the 2 lane section.

Only a mile left .

Sure enough, got close to him, but the passing lanes ended, he slowed down, but there was no one coming, so was able to get around him.

Sweet rally car.

Sorta hard to see, but these guys haul lumber east, then walls are folded up (the lumber is on top of them now) and a tarp over top and they haul seed/grain west...can sorta see hoppers under the trailer...ingenious.

Aboot 4yrs ago when they widened the road, they added that fents to catch falling rocks.

Like that .

Dingbat lost control going uphill .

Surprise inspection on the off ramp over there.

Takin a leak .

Never seen a coach pulled over by cops before .

4wd is awesome for winter .

Nice XJ .

Hipsteriffic car .

02/11 Vcr-Cgy

2011-02-28T15:23:00.010-06:00

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Last time got hung up with all the roads closed due to avalanches.

25 days 11000 miles

Dropping movies off at the rental place...Messenger is .

BC>*

Grocery store has onsite OB/GYN...

Yes, moar Me-N-Ed's for me .

Back at the truck, found my camera bag that I had forgot .

I don’t go anywhere w/o my laptop bag, so I attached the camera bag to the laptop bag to solve being w/o it .

Made sure I picked up some baking soda for the fridge smell and kitchen catchers so I can take shits .

Of course I stopped at Me N Ed’s for pizza , bagging it up so it fits in the fridge...all the times I got just pepperoni, I’d just leave it in the box and eat it for the next couple days...but the last time I got the BBQ chicken one, after a couple of days I was wondering if it was such a good idea to leave chicken out of the fridge for a couple of days, and aboot that time I got violent shits , dunno if it was suggestion or mild food poisoning, but playing it safe from now on.

My survival bag for the truck that I carry with me to and from the house as well, many days of food and water, jetboil stove and fuel, flashlight, candles, etc...

Bed freshly made, top sheet upside down so that it displays properly when untucked .

I wasn’t given a trl # over the satellite, so I ph’d to find out which was mine, the person at HQ had a heavy accent, I muddled thru it best I could and thought I understood it...then I found these 2 trls...see, 99% of our trls start with 823, so I don’t listen to that part, and like .01% of our trls end with OMT, so I just pretended to hear what he said on the ph and went to look for _______OMT....these 2 trls are too close in numbers and letters to remember what he said, so I had to call back and get clarification .

Up on the Coq, in the normal spot for accidents, truck in the ditch.

Roads aren’t that good, but better than the speed this guy is goin, but can’t get around him .

That opening to the left is the brake check for oncoming traffic...the jackknife to the right is a result of trying to slow down to enter the brake check .

Stopped at the top to clean my tailights.

Dunno why the scale let this guy thru with his taillights 100% covered in snow .

Got to Cgy, quick turn and burn, couple H+R trucks spunout on the hill .

Super B is spunout on the hill as well.

Cops have closed the hill off until all the spinouts are cleared up.

Stopped for avalanche control, the cute flagger gurl said it wouldn’t be much longer.

Hour later, rolling.

Dropped the trl in Vcr and hook onto my load to Edm and while doing my pretrip...

Those 3 holes are for rivets...pretty sure tying the light with pallet wrap (industrial saran wrap) to the trl wouldn’t eggsactly pass inspection ...how the fuck does the previous driver that loaded this not notice it, Oh wait, of course he noticed, he just didn’t give a fuck...

Wrecker guarding lumber tossed from an accident.

Stoppin for a pee, geezer's prostate must be givin him grief.

Thats where my clutch went out last week.

The trl they want me to take has a boo-boo...another driver that didn't do a post trip...

Rolling south to Calgary, lotsa cars in the ditch .

If only they were as talented and handsome as moi .

Dude is stuck on a jersey barrier....he backed up too far, backed over it, and now can’t get it out .

Elk gathering up to cross the highway .

Roads are in general winter condition.

Didn’t stop this from happening though...

Bullrack went pretty far up the hill....dude in the grand cherokee was killed .

Pulled off to clear off my tail lights...clutch didn’t give out .

4hrs later, roads in much better shape.

Wild turkey crossing the road.

Delivered in Trail, and now dropping into Castlegar...I spent many a summer and Xmas here as a kid, divorce and all...

Straight ahead you can see the airport...its a shitty airport...the pilots would train here to practice for Arctic landings...the place had no radar either, so if it was cloudy, no landie...so lotsa my plane tickets ended up being bus tix.

Due to the mountainous terrain impinging on both runway approaches, there is no possibility of a straight-in approach. The airport is therefore certified for day operations only, and the glideslope on approach is set to a steep 5% rather than the standard 2.5%. The instrument approaches to Castlegar are considered among the most challenging of any in use at a commercial airport in North America. This leads to frequent flight cancellations when meteorological conditions are unsuitable, and frequent travelers to this airport have given it the sobriquet "Cancelgar".

People parking in areas they're not sposed to and snowbanks piled up makes it hard to get into the Walmart dock...normally, you'd follow the yellow then back in, but now there's no room to do that, so gotta go red then back from there which is 50% moar difficult .

Climbing out of the Okanogan.

Dude taking a leak at the brake check ~15’ from the outhouse....pissing on the ground that we have to lay on to work on our brakes .

Snowblower at the summit.

Get to the yard to pickup a preloaded trailer, and I can’t leave as the faggot that loaded it didn’t close the doors properly ...they aren’t secure enough to drive down the road, and if its raining, the cargo will get wet.

I guess he couldn’t read ...had to call HQ and get permission to open the doors thus breaking the seal, close the doors properly and reseal with new seal...

Banff is pretty.

Warm outside .

Headed south out of Calgary, these roads were legitimately slippery, it was work to keep straight, but nowhere to pull off safely, so just kept goin .

Droppin into Osoyoos, BC.

20# of Ambrosia apples for $8 in Keremeos, BC.....Ambrosia apples are the only apples worth eating...and these are direct from orchards, no wax...

Road is closed cuz a logging truck lost it in the hairpin.

Thankfully the truck wasn’t loaded, made cleanup easy.

Satellite view.

Half hour later, there’s another set of hairpin turns, another truck lost it , this time a coal truck.

Because of those two road closures, I was late getting to Vcr and getting the trl to the barge for Vcr Island, so they had to come out to where I parked for the nite to grab the trl to get it to the barge....when I got up in the am, bobtailed to the yard grabbed a load and headed to Cgy, and am stopped in Sicamous cuz of avalanches ahead.

Next day, road is still closed, it opened for a couple hrs while I was asleep but has reclosed, I’ve moved to a different spot in the truck stop, this way no one is blocking me in when I want to leave....sweet and unique setup for this floral truck, only one of its kind.

How I keep track of what Stern and Ron and Fez shows Ive got and what I need.

Some commotion woke me up...that’s a trailer that has fallen off the back of a truck...he was parked beside me yesterday, he dropped the trl and drove off somewhere....so it looks like he came back, hooked up to it and tried to drive off, but forgot to check his connection...made it 60’ and the trl fell off the back of the truck ...its fully loaded and dolly legs retracted, so tow truck is here to lift it up to get the weight off the legs so they can be extended and the truck can rehook to it properly and take off.

6hrs later, the same tow truck is back ...this time for moi....truck won’t start, have full voltage, nothing happens when you turn the key....so tow truck is hooking up a chain to my front bumper and I’ll be in 4th gear and he’s gonna pull start me.

Pulled me ~30’ and got the engine fired up...just can’t turn the engine off for the next 400 miles and I’ll make it....I told the tow truck driver I saw him earlier that am with the dropped trl, he said that driver told him that someone must've pulled his fifth wheel causing the drop, I told him he had dropped the trl and drove off earlier, tow truck driver laughed.

Let HQ know what’s up with this truck and axe them what the plan is .

So, got to Cgy, there were 3 trucks empty...one had 7 days left on its lease, so drive it for 4 days, then take it to HQ in Wpg and get in a newer one, all the new ones are delivered to HQ for licensing/decaling, etc...a freightliner that had 6mos left or a '11 freightliner...couldn't find the '11, the one with 7 days left needed some repairs and wasn't legal to drive, so figured Id take the freightliner with 6mos left...then HQ said the '11 showed at a truckstop ~10 miles from the yard, and had been there for 3wks....I have no keys, shop has no keys, HQ still wanted me to taxi over to get the truck , so I did...it wasn't there...I brainstormed and wondered if it was at the dealer ~2miles away...HQ said to cab over there, so I did...it was there...sitting for 3wks, went in for heater core repair which they fixed the next day, and they called Cgy yard everyday for the 3 wks and nobody came and picked it up, truck was 3mos old and sat for 3/4s of a month, yeah, just throw $2000 in a fire

The fridge in the new truck is a drawer under the bed....this shit has been in here 3wks.

Got my stuff in it now.

The fridge takes up a shitload of room under the bed.

I like the cruise, jake brake and marker light light controls on the steering wheel .

Taking a load to Boeing in Washington, $1.3 million is actually one of the lower valued loads.

Stopped in road closure in Golden, BC...accidents up ahead, sposed to be cleaned up soon.

One of the participants.

Long backup because of the closure.

Snowbanks pretty high up on Roger’s Pass.

Snowbanks higher than the truck .

Couple other wrecks.

He hit the brakes too hard and slid into the ditch.

Someone lost their shit.

Snowplow getting towed.

So en route a trl tire blewout...its driveable to the tire shop, just not legally and I have to cross the scale to get to the tire shop and its on the side that the scale officer will see it from his chair...so I cant cross the scale, so I call HQ to get a mobile tire guy, and the shop tells me that the scale will let me cross as Ive reported it and they know the tire shop is just past it...Cool. Except when I get to the brake check/scale, there is a logging truck getting tire work BEFORE he crosses the scale...so Im WTF....so I call HQ and they still sell my the same story and Im not comfortable with it, so I walk to the scale and explain the situation, and sure enough, had I cross I would've been in shit but now that I HAVE informed the officer, I can cross the scale and park in the back and have the mobile tire truck come out....the stupid thing is if I got a ticket, the company gets a ticket too, so that they didn't know this shit bothers me...

Sweet shitter at the brake check.

Another wreck at the bottom of Roger's Pass.

This guy passed me 5 minutes ago, now he’s headfirst into the snowbank .

Theyre putting in a new bridge that's curved to stop the 5 vehicles a year coming down the hill too fast for the corner and go off the bridge and into the river.

Satellite trucks enroute to Cgy for the Heritage Classic outdoor hockey game.

Cdn army prepping the avalanche gun placements.

If you look closely you can see an orange moon .

I need to be rich.

is inside the fuel stop waiting for a fax, but meanwhile is blocking fuel islands.

Waiting at the USDA....HQ took too long to get me rolling out of Cgy and it took longer than usual to slide the axles of the load at the killplant, hard to find traction in an icy parking lot, so upon leaving the killplant, I had little confidence of making the border before USDA closed for the night, and then when HQ hadnt faxed the ppwrk they needed to me to the korean store just before the border, that sealed me not making the border...they didnt want to pay OT for the inspector to stay, as I'd get inspected at noon the next day..., dummies, USDA don't open til 4pm tmmw, fucking Presidents Day...then at 3pm, they ask what time I'll get to the drop in SLC, I tell them, they ask why so late, Im like...ummm, 20hrs sitting at USDA cuz you didn't want to spend $100 in OT for the inspector's 15mins, that's why...I'll get inspected at 4pm, drive 4hrs down the road, sleep, get up in the am and continue on, make a new appt .

Low on DEF and empty light for fuel... when I left Cgy, I left with enough fuel to get to the truckstop 30 miles across the border, that way, I'm not too heavy for the load as I dont know how heavy the load is until I get it, then I fill up as much as weight allows...so because I was low on fuel, Im even lower on fuel as this truck's tanks are smaller than previous trucks, and some trucks you get 3hr on lowfuel light, others maybe 1 hr, no idea aboot this one..

16oz Mountain Dew...I’m used to holding things this big in my hand .

I said something aboot being rich?

This shit can stop anytime now, please.

My sandal needs some moar shoe-goo .

Salt Lake City is pretty.

Off to Arizona....trick is, this reefer isn't allowed into California...recent emission lols need certain aged reefers to be retrofitted and registered... so I'm taking a route that avoids Cali...mostly .

Leaving Boulder City on US95.

That shiny thing in the distance is Solar One, a 400 acre solar collector to make steam to make electricity.

Instead of building bridges or using culverts under the road, they just make the road have dips in it so that during heavy rains the water just runs over the road .

Awww roadside jerky and honey awww.

How you roll your vehicle on a dry flat paved road is beyond me .

10 miles down the road, help is on its way.

Supposedly stranded, so selling off their shit for gas monies.

Closing in on Yuma, Az.

My staph infection in my nose is flaring up again .

They loaded me kinda late last night, so knew the truckstops would be full, so just parked on a sidestreet for sleep.

Rolling out.

Forklift doing 55mph.

Blimp, over the Yuma Proving Grounds.

This area is popular for RV'ers...sure its sunny and dry, but its a fucking gravel pit .

I forgot to stop at this guy's bookstore

Moment of truth...dispatch wasn't positive they wouldn't check the reefer for compliance, but then they also didn't even know this inspection site was here...it IS just an agriculture/border patrol checkpoint but sometimes they have DOT peeps at them.

Crop duster.

I like clouds .

Arizona/Nevada border.

Sweet mural.

Appropriatly, the town is named Searchlight.

Highway is dedicated to various wars.

They missed the war on drugs.

Utah brought winter back to me.

4wd is awesome for winter .

Poor guy couldn't handle his snowmobile trailer and went in the ditch.

Running low on DEF .

Adding DEF...30 gallon tank lasts ~3000 miles, this a 2.5g jug, aboot $20.

I like this feature of the truck too...lit stairs.

Montana.

I pulled over cuz there was some strange noise, I didnt know what it was, then realized it was my tire pressure gauge that was wobbling in the dash cubby .

At the border...this truck is broked down...gotta back up and snake around him to get to the booth and get into Canada.

1/11 Cgy-Vcr

2011-01-31T11:53:00.013-06:00

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Last time winter finally kicked in and started taking it’s toll

26 days 10500 miles...avalanches disrespectin me .

After having New Years Day off in Cgy, off to the Okanogan...4wd is awesome for winter .

Awww puppahs goin for a walk awww.

Climbing Kootenay Pass....BC>*.

Brake check at the summit, the brake check is sooo important they let all these backcountry skiers use it as a parking lot .

Flyin down the other side, awww broken bimmer awww.

Takin pics of the .

These loads are sorta retarded....HAVE to pick the load up at a specific time and HAVE to deliver to the stores at specific times...thing is that the times don’t work with each other....so here I am parking 1hr away from my 1st delivery at 4pm to sleep so I can wake up at midnite and then deliver, cuz if I got to the first store in 1hr, they wouldn’t take it.

I delivered to the 3 stores and now goin back to Cgy empty...this idiot lost control goin uphill ,but remember, 4wd is awesome for winter.

Goin thru Saskatchewan...there has been incidents of vehicles rear ending snowplows, so now there are pilot cars behind them with SUPER bright lighting to protect them .

Big truck went off the road .

Wrecker yanked him out.

This guy goin the other direction drove off the road, too.

4wd is awesome for winter .

4wd is awesome for winter.

Tiring on the eyes and makes you slide sideways.

Sweet fucking truck fueling up .

Always a problem getting annual permits for the trucks, they get sent to HQ, but I’m nevar there, so they try to send them to where yer gonna be, it just nevar works. This time I actually made it to HQ and guess what, the needed permits weren’t there .

So I just informed the person I’m sposed to inform when there is an issue and asked what their solution to this issue was, and get this for an answer .

So I try again to ask the obvious question.

I’m on my way to Cgy, maybe they’ll have some, buts let’s not hold our breath.

...and exhale .

4wd is awesome for winter .

Back in Cgy, just gonna hang here for a minute....

Moving a house down the road...

4wd is awesome for winter.

After delivering in Trail, BC I want to make this left to leave Castlegar, BC, but I can see a tanker stuck on the hill and the driver throwing his chains on...it’s smarter for me to wait here on the flat road blocking the left turning lane versus goin up the hill and then being blocked by him and THEN having to get started on the slippery hill and be in his way if he needs to roll backwards a bit, and it’s not like anyone else that wants to turn left is gonna get by him anyways....but the faggot in the white car didn’t like waiting behind me so went around my left side and up the hill, and guess what?? He can’t get by the tanker and now HE is spinning his wheels too and is stuck...

Five minutes later, faggot in the white car back all the way down the hill, but now this guy in the TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING truck had to go around me too, and is now stuck ...loader is widening the road for others to get by the tanker...he tried a pair of chains, all it did was spin...so he’s throwing another pair on, he should be rolling within 10mins...

Another blind, impatient faggot...

The faggotry continues...he’s making an illegal left turn there...and yeah, he got stuck and had to back down the the hill....

A city vehicle has shown up to block anyone from trying to go up the hill ...

After waiting at the bottom for 15mins, tanker is making slow climb up the hill.

I waited til he made it off the ramp and onto the highway, then gunned my way up the hill and past him.

Wtf time is that 4:2pi?

Delivered the rest of my Okanogan stores but had to stop here in Merritt, BC as the road to Vcr is closed cuz of accidents.

Walkin over to the Walmart next door for supplies, Meat Wagon in the parking lot ...

Half dozen employees hand spreading salt in the parking lot and sidewalk ...some geezer slipped and fell...hence the Meat Wagon.

The new jugs to hold the bags of milk now come with cutters to slice the bags .

And walking back to the truckstop....they were doing “ be careful walking in the parking lot” announcements every 5 mins over the intercom in the Walmart, .

After a 24hr delay in Merritt waiting for open road, rollin into the lower mainland...

Goin back to Cgy...was watching a helicopter do some work on the telecom towers up on the ridge, never noticed the towers up there before .

Wrecker towing a twisted up trailer down the hill.

There are 3 lanes here...$100 says it’s a that doesn’t know how to stay in his lane.

$100 please...and I had to back out of passing him once cuz he was drifting into me .

2 wreckers righting a semi....CN is the same company that had the road closed in my last post with the video of the CB Chatter....they're a menace out here .

I’m trying to deliver a Starbucks shipment to the warehouse, but the address on the ppwrk and booking doesn’t make any sense , its a residential area....bottom of picture....simple google query learned me that Unisource is their supply chain partner and the switching of the street and avenue is the issue, Unisource is up by the airport.

Letting them know to change the addy in the computer so we actually can find the place.

Can see his skidmarks, hit the brakes to make the left turn and just kept a goin ...now reversing...

Awww Banff awww.

Member I said something aboot CN...this guy decided crashing wasn’t enough, had to make sure that it went up in flames too .

Beautiful BC.

....My FAST card (a border crossing card for truckers) expired.

Took them 9mos to notice my FAST card was expired.

...the yellow sign says MERGE, with a YIELD sign right below it...

This little 5W spotlight is awesome, ac/dc charger, very small and very bright .

4wd is awesome for winter .

4wd is awesome for winter.

Is that ?

Yep, a tanker truck in the ditch, completely backwards.

4wd is awesome for winter.

The only grocery store in Canada with truck parking...got some cheesecake and ribs .

Woke up covered in snow.

Stopped for fuel and my reefer is spewing oil....

But the oil level was fine ...shop had me run it for an hour and re-check...level hadn’t changed so they let me continue and it was fine for the next 4hrs til I got to the Vcr yard.

Carnage .

To the right of my A-pillar you can see the truck frame and exhaust, but the entire cab and sleeper are torn off.

Motor mounts held.

Truck went off the road here, wrecker is guarding the load.

Brake check is in shitty shape.

15 mins down the mountain, no moar winter.

Lotsa melt leading to lotsa road washouts.

Weird to have the road so empty...but at that overpass ahead, oncoming traffic is detoured to that overpass and around the washouts.

Truck drove off the road on this treacherous straight stretch into the ditch .

Dropped the trl in the yard and grabbed a new one to head back to Calgary, ran into a traffic backup and this wise guy tried taking the frontage road to get around it, except the frontage road just dead ends at a farm .

The greyhound behind me stuck himself into the other lane to stop the creepers from passing everyone in the single file for the merge point .

The traffic control truck is broked down, getting towed .

Time to get the shiney side back up.

Detour for the washout.

Out of hours, my spot for the night .

Got up @ 1am, drove 4hrs to here, road ahead is closed cuz of avalanches, so steak burrito for breakfast .

Proper fucked as far as road closures are considered , hwy 1 has several avalanches to deal with, and the detour (hwy 5) is travel not advised due to freezing rain, travel advisory to me means ROAD CLOSED.

I’m in the red rectangle, and the red road is what is closed.

If the closest part of closed were to open, I could detour thru the yellow.

As the hours wore on, the yellow road also had avalanches and closed as well .

Idiot at HQ sends out a closure/detour notice....umm, the road is closed BEFORE you get to the detour .

Bored, so started looking at the free cars for sale paper...thinking aboot a Ford Expedition or similar, the Cherokee isn’t really big enough for the new doggahs.

Theres a couple hundred of these around here, they're way too small...

Might be the right size, just not a fan of the drivetrain.

Too long.

Deceptively tiny cargo area.

LOVE the price variances, Id be buyin in Tejas and driving back anyways, prices here are stupid high .

Do want .

Hadn’t considered...

Started reading the free real estate flyers and was at the glamour pics the realtor broads take of themselves, but this one is actually cute ...but I has a feeling this is her best pic/angle.

Yep .

I fucking love these triple berry (rhubarb, ?,?) bars....I eat too many of them .

Elle Fanning is keeping her looks .

After 48hrs in the truckstop, got permission to go the route that is 5hrs longer and its no longer freezing rain anymoar, so off I go.

Motorcycle trade show in Vcr, all the manufacturers exhibits getting routed this way too.

Couple trucks hit head on and shut the road down while they cleaned up the mess, I know 1 died, think the other dieded too, not sure though .

The other.

Its a National Park, speed limit is 55mph, lotsa spots for 45 and 35...NOBODY slows down, the spots that are slower are INFESTED with animals, hence the speed reduction....some fuck plowed thru a pack of sheep on the road and killed 4 of them .

My door lock was frozed closed so I couldn’t latch the door to sleep, so used tarp straps to keep it closed while I slept and waited for the shop to open in the am for them to fix it .

Moving the cattle from one pasture to the other across the road.

Good winter driving conditions.

Early am, up and over Bonanza Pass.

We have to blindside back into this dock at Westbank, BC Walmart....someone didn’t know what they were doin and backed the trailer into the wall...I was afraid to ask, but sure enough it was a that did it.

Some fires leaving smoke over Merritt, BC.

Cops at the freeway exit handing out seatbelt tickets .

This intersection is a pain in the ass...2 separate sets of RR tracks, 3 in total, so you cant get to the mouth of the intersection or your trailer hangs over the tracks, so they have 2 sets of lights, so I stop on red here, then all the cars go around me, THROUGH THE REDLIGHT across the tracks to the next red light.

There’s a cop hiding in the shadows there catching ppl doing that , which obviously theyre not sposed to do, its a fucking redlight.

Better pic.

It had been very snowy for the last couple hrs, I couldn’t see the taillights of the truck in front of me, so I was concerned aboot the guy behind me not seeing my taillights, so when I had enough of a lead on him, found a spot to pullover to clear the taillights...when I clutched in to downshift, I lost my clutch ...as in the pedal seized and there was no pressure one could apply to it for it to move...similar thing happened in OKC last yr, so it seemed like the air assist on the clutch packed it in...was able to start it in gear, and rev it up, but there’s no connection between the motor and transmission, so Im fucked .

No cell service here...and my satellite isn’t working either, Im shaded by the mountains.

A is where the town is, red dot is where I am....guess I’m walking a mile to town to find a phone .

The woman that worked at the Post Office asked me what I was doin walking around, and let me use the Post Office phone .

Walking back to the truck, my tracks covered by new snow.

Never seen a bug as a pilot car before, though sorta makes sense, TDI and all...though he did get stuck there for 10 mins .

The wrecker is finally here...the towing company also sent a tractor to take my trailer as BC doesn’t allow the tow truck to tow truck and trailer....the tractor was here aboot an hour before the wrecker itself...

Wrecker driver put an empty coffee can on the exhaust...I’ve nevar seen that done before .

Got towed back to Kamloops, 3hr trip, driver dropped me off right in front of my hotel...I was thinking it was gonna take ~4days to get fixed and I’m only 3hrs away from my house, so was figuring on just goin there to sit and wait vs the hotel, though I was excited aboot there being a White Spot across the street, hadn’t eaten there for years ...but they had a truck in Vcr for me and a driver picked me up and took me to Vcr...he was interesting, dude from Yugoslavia came over with nothing, ended up sponsored 1hr away from where I currently live and currently lives where I grew up, wife, 2 kids, house and 2 cars...bootstraps, son.

When I got to Vcr I moved into a different truck and took off for Cgy...Silly got high sided trying to pull into this parking lot...wrecker is off to the left pulling him out.

As I was getting in position to get a good pic of the festivities, I noticed some movement, there’s half dozen deer lying down in the dark.

Ironing, the sign says to secure your load....and there is something that fell out of someone’s truck RIGHT in front of it .

Goin over the connector, a couple of Great Pyr’s guarding the flock of sheep.

They're piledriving these pines into the river bank to shore it up so they rebuild it up.

Those that know me, and that number would be divisible by zero, know that I like routine, and like what I like and not new things...but for whatever raisin, I decided to mix it up and not just get the pepperoni pizza that Ive been getting from the same pizzeria for 30+ yrs and tried a meat lovers that I added pineapple to and a BBQ chicken pizza....the meat lovers didn’t work for me, but the BBQ chicken is fucking awesome ...eatin the leftovers on my trip to Seattle.

Delivering the Boeing load.

Big avalanche year, this spot had avalanches come from each side of the valley.

USA vitamin water and Canadian vitamin water...2 for $4 in Canada, 2 for $2.22 in USA, and the uhmerican bottle is biodegradable or something.

Get a warning aboot the road being closed, so call the road reports to find if a detour works...

And find out that Hwy 5 isnt closed, Hwy 5a is closed, which technically IS between the cities in the msg, but only a retard would be taking that route, its slower speeds, longer distance, narrower road, etc...so let the retard at HQ that sent the msg know that he is wrong to have sent it.

English motherfucker! Do you speak it?

The problem with being reliable, professional and sexy is that you’re always being called on to be the hero, but I’ve got big shoulders .

Slaughterhouse was late with ppwrk, sat for 5hrs waiting for it .

I’ve seen this gurl 3x in the last 2 mos I’ve been in Cgy, hottest gurl trucker in a loooong time ...11 for a trucker, 8 for general population.

Canadian army breaking out the shovels to clean up the avalanche gun placements.

Biggest avalanches in 25+yrs, can tell by the size of the trees...they don’t grow too fast at these elevations.

The guy that built this place built it directly in the path of avalanches and rockslides .

Idiot found a way to flip their car on a straightaway .

I got to the yard, trying to open the trunk, I bent the key and fucking panic went thru me , as the battery is in the trunk and I need to get in the trunk to get the car started as I has a battery disconnect...I gingerly got it out of the lock, gently turned it to unlock, then with pliers gently straightened the key enough to get into the ignition and drove the 5 miles to Home Depot to get new keys cut before the key broke completely.

On the drive to the house, I realized I forgot my camera bag....which has the spare battery and charger...

Pets and their owners...is her jacket made from her former doggahs?

Fucking chip truck (what’s that?) tsss, sawdust truck, not Lay's rolled off the road on a straightaway...

Coming back from the vet with the 2 fluffballs .

They’re happy to be out of the jeep...just went to the vet to weigh them and get them used to car rides and goin to the vet...they put on 20# each in the 3mos since adoption.

Observe and Report, great fucking movie .

Stop Loss was worth the $2...Abbie Cornish is way cute .

Robbie has gotten way fat.

Baxter and Webster in the basement.

And the doggahs upstairs.

In the backyard, haven’t gotten the normal snow yet this year.

Daisy is still on leash as she is stubborn.

Delilah is trustworthy though, so she gets her freedom.

That rock should be buried in snow by this time of year.

Playtime.

In the winter, this part of the driveway is a PITA...everyone that comes to visit, especially women, get stuck ...they get across the bridge and start the climb, then try to turn right (left from this vantage) to get up to the garage and lose all tracshun....all her sisters and friends that show up lose it...they all get told to park on the other side of the bridge and walk, and we’ll drive their vehicles up, but they get all uptight and try it themselves and fail.

Evening Grosbeaks have shown up, they migrate thru every yr at this time.

Maggie loves Elvis .

7yr old Mac N Cheese....

Greenhouse goin thru its 1st winter.

It’s January so that means the septic line is frozen , so snowblowing a path to the cleanouts for the guy with the steamer to thaw out the lines....fucking snowblower is spewing oil...

Where the roof used to be over the basement door, had to take it down to build the new retaining wall, will put a new one up in the summer.

This path is gonna have to be good enough, snowblower is fucked, either the rings are gone or the carb is plugged cuz really watery oil is spewing out as its running...too cold to take it apart and fix it.

Snow came off the roof while I was on the road and took out the satellite dish (yellow) when the guy installed it couple yrs ago I axed him if that would be a problem and should I set up a snow break above it, he said it’d be fine...so when they came out to fix it, they put it in a new spot that should escape the avalanche next time .

My electrical usage has doubled in the last 10yrs , but it’s still only $35/month .

Its fucking cold outside....my boogers are frozed...how cold?

THIS cold .

The top shelf in the closet has been droopy for the 12yrs I’ve owned the place, the weight finally collapsed the closet rod and sent it all to the ground .

The ironing is that I has plans to reno the closet to make it 4 rods and a center shelf unit, I just didn’t get to it ...its still in the plans and I still has the drawings AND sheet goods for what I want to do and itll cover the hole in the drywall so I’m not concerned aboot the hole right now and just slapped it back together until I actually get to the building of the new closet system.

In the truck my cell charger dangled down to the floor which was wet and it shorted/corroded out...

I’m cheap and tried to scrape it clean and soak it in electrical contact cleaner....no workie .

Its January and -30 outside, and getting a bag of fur like this off the doggahs every other week .

Walked over to the neighbors for Sunday coffee, got my sexy AO’s on .

I’ve got no idea how to weave these next 2 pics in, saw them on the internets and just want to share them .

12/10 Vcr-Cgy

2010-12-31T16:56:00.010-06:00

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Last time I met the 2 bruiser doggahs I adopted over the internet.

25 days 10000 miles

Had to have the car plugged in .

Pretty sunrise .

And I’m off.

Droppin off the DVD's I rented.

Finished listening to the Keith Richards audiobook on the drive down....good listen, while I was in a bookstore last week, I took a looksee at the pictures in it....holy fuck, his wife and daughters are fucking beautiful.... (She's 54 yrs old in the red dress pics)

Her and her and Keith's daughters .

Stopped at Mazda for a new battery, this one was dead every time after sitting 30days, and it was 9yrs old anyways...I brought a wrench with me and put the new one in on the spot, my old one by the wall (I did ask where they wanted it.)

Today is the start of my new fiscal yr...Last yr I managed to do 69,000 miles, even with the 5mos off in the summer .

Halfway to Calgary, nice lil jackknife .

She skidded off the road into the snowbank .

They pour a SHITLOAD of sand and salt on this hill, ends ups being like shortbread dough .

4wd is awesome for winter .

Truck and trailer burnt to the ground .

Didn’t get the pic, but dude was kite skating on the ice down there.

Wakin up in Cgy havin leftover Me N Eds for breakfast .

Mr Raven, this pizza is far too good to share with you .

Sheep blocking the road as usual.

This guy clearly got royally fucked up....ripped the cab off the frame .

Should only be another hour of this shit...up ahead the terrain will change and it’ll warm up.

See?

Pretty strange that the chicken house is closed .

1 hr later, weather has worsened.

Horrendously bumpy and slippery.

Like I said .

We are at the summit, its flat for another mile, then 10 miles straight down, but they made us chain up here....so threw a couple chains on, dude in the yellow doesn’t let you by unless yer chained up.

30mph thru here.

Crash on the 1st part of the downhill .

Other side of the median, there’s 4 wreckers towing trucks up the hill that had spun out .

Chicken house at the bottom of the mountain is closed, I guess all the officers are doin the chain inspections on the mountain .

Goin thru the park close to Cgy.

Goin thru the park on way back to Vcr the next day, conditions are a little worse.

Fucker in the Uhaul is doing HALF the speed limit on the flats where there is no passing lane , then magically finding the gas pedal on the passing lane which happens to be on the climb...if he would back off for 10 secs here, Id be by him and he’d never catch up with me again.

Nevermind, 15mins later, road is closed... jackknifed across the highway.

Sand truck preppin the area for the wrecker.

Wrecker pulled the semi out of the ditch.

My shitty friend txt’d axing where I was, told him I was in a road closure cuz of a crash.

He lives in Sk (Saskatchewan), seeee...Im making fun of where he lives .

His wife looks like Heather Graham .

2hrs later, road is opened for our direction.

After 22 mins, finally reached the end of the traffic backup goin the other direction .

After a road closure, there’s always a rush to get goin, and often another crash because of said rush, I prefer to wait an hour to let the riff raff fight it out, but there’s nowhere to wait it out on this stretch of road, so I just drove at a slower speed to keep away from everyone, but Ive finally caught up with the riff raff .

Road has been really bad thru here and this is the first plowtruck we’ve seen in 2hrs....gotta love privitized road crews .

There’s crashes at THIS spot of the hill ALL the time, its just before the curve, I guess they brake too hard and lose it?

This is the hill we had to chain up to get down 4 nites ago.

This intersection is always a clusterfuck, nobody obeys the DONT BLOCK THE INTERSECTION paint on the road, so its impossible make the turn....200’ to my right is a one lane bridge with a light and ~500’ to my left are 3 RR tracks and a light...worst part of it is that half the traffic shouldn’t be here, they just use this area as a shortcut...

This dumptruck driver has had enough ....cars keep coming over the bridge when their light is red and there is nowhere for them to go when they cross the bridge, so they end up blocking traffic goin the other direction and he’s pissed.

Up on the summit, its fucking slippery, trucks all over the road and ditches .

Hard to make out, but thats a truck with 2 trailers thats all twisted up.

Road is chain up, so Im parked and waiting it out, fuck chaining up .

After waitin here in Golden for 2hrs while the road was chain up its finally open...so rolling.

Seems good now.

Passing some of the trucks that chose to chain up at the bottom, and now they gotta take them off .

Gotta love getting load info that contradicts itself...

Finally getting the correct info for the load after I deliver this one.

Soooo, I got here to deliver YESTERDAY...Ive been backed into the dock for 23hrs so far ....the trailer is empty, but they haven’t signed the ppwrk, so I cant leave yet, even though my company keeps telling me that my reload FROM here is ready...no shit???

No immediate answer...

Crane is here to put up the animal overpasses.

Animal overpass under construction.

Crane is for this one.

Roads are in good shape .

Awww pretty Xmas tree in Kelowna.

Back in Vancouver, Ive got a couple hrs before my load is ready, gotta organize/condense the notes I write to myself while I drive .

Down to my last Mtn Dew, I need to get to the states soon....

Got something in the mail from my friend and big selling recording artist, Donnie Dunphy and his gurl, Brenda .

Thanks Donnie!

Had to get a trailer tire flat repaired, this washer was lodged in the tread .

BC is the most beautiful place in North America.

Cold thru the mountains.

2hrs later, 20 degree temperature drop .

4wd is awesome for winter .

One of the placements for the avalanche guns.

Down at the coast, its odd for ice/snow to be here .

Steak and egg breakfast burrito FTW .

One of the greatest recent inventions, screw that papery stick on Tootsie Pops .

Im sposed to take a empty trl to the place Im picking up my preloaded trl...and there are signs in the yard telling you where to put empty reefers, loaded reefers, empty dryvans, loaded dryvans, etc...so theyre all organized, but sadly the signs are in English, so they are of little effectiveness .

The trl Im sposed to take, the reefer isn’t working so I talked to the planner AND the call center (shop) to figure out what to do, Im short on time to be able to fix it, so was told to leave it where it was, they'd send a mobile mechanic out to fix it and Im to just BT (bobtail—no trailer) to the shipper to stay on time...I send this msg to my company so there is a record of all this to COVER MY ASS .

And I get this msg back....Jesus fucking Christ, I talked on the phone to THE ONLY FUCKING PERSON in the call center at this time of nite not 20 mins ago, and now he has no recollection of talking to me ???

There was no better answer than this .

and no better reply from them than this.

This passive aggressive *DO NOT BE LATE* bullshit will not stand..../Sobchak. I haven’t been late, if the load isn’t ready on time, it aint getting there on time, DEAL WITH IT.

So I turned it down......(Ive never seen the *DO NOT BE LATE* since that one time, so I guess I got my point across)

The heater that keeps the truck warm while the engine is off isn’t working, and the engine is programmed to not idle moar than 5 mins, so sleeping in subzero temperatures is impossible, so informing them it needs to get fixed.

Sooo, 3 nights and 2 days in the hotel in Edmonton to have them fix the heater...turns out they can't fix the heater, it has to be replaced, its $1700 new, and they don’t replace them with new units, but with refurbed units, but only do that in Winnipeg, 800 miles away...BUT, they don’t know if the heater itself is broked or the ECM for it is broken...you have to scan it in order to know that, but they cant scan it, it has to go to the dealer to be scanned....they are booked for the next 3 wks....so I'm obviously not goin anywhere in this truck ....there is a truck in Toronto, but they're trying to find a truck closer by 1st, instead of flying me and my stuff to Toronto. They called me at the hotel to check a truck in the yard, so cabbed over and...it was running...the curtains were closed...the driver was still in it ...so cabbed back to the hotel....next day they called me to check another truck, so cabbed over and it was unoccupied ...but its bunk heater wasn’t working either, now there are two major manufacturers of bunk heating units, TK and Carrier...I've had a Carrier unit before, but like 18mos ago, I don’t remember how to work it, I cant even get it to start, so I ask the shop for a manual, they aint got one, I look on the internet, find one, and still cant get it to heat, the 2cyl engine starts and runs, but the heat/ac/ac power do not work...again the dealer cant look at it for 3wks....so back to the hotel...they are still thinking of the flight to Toronto, but I told them flat out to fuck off with that idea, Im 0 for 2 for trucks you are telling me are good, Im not flying 2000 miles to a truck thats not gonna work.

While in the hotel, reading the free newspapers, checkin out the Obits, pretty gurl dieded. Made me .

Why Im not sleeping in a truck without heat.

On the cab ride back to the hotel, I told the cabbie I might be flying to Toronto, he was salivating at the chance of taking me to the airport, so gave me his card and cell# cuz he wanted the fare .

My water is frozed.

My piss bottle is frozed .

So the plan is to take a load to Vcr, it'll be warm enough to sleep there w/o a bunk heater, but if it isn’t or if I get caught in a road closure en route, I'd hotel it...but then from Vcr go to Cgy and then get a truck there...takin the cab to the yard in the am.

The trailer I hooked onto is having air leak issues, but its kinda common at -10f...

As it warms up, fittings will expand and seal up so off I went and at this temp, the shit stopped leaking.

Just in time for the scale....but it was closed anyways.

4wd is awesome for winter .

Tejas for Xmas...that'll do, pig .

Wtf is he hauling ???

Moar accidents.

The highway is closed cuz of an accident, so taking this route, its a teeny bit longer, but way twistier, its the original road so not really built for big trucks but fine in a pinch...Ive actually never taken this road, so something new is always a treat .

It was a fun twisty road, almost at the Jct to get back on the main highway, but we has an issue ahead.

Lumber truck went off the road.

I got to Cgy and looked at the 2 trucks they had for me to choose from and picked the best of the 2, and then couldn’t find my trailer for the Laredo load....oh, it got cancelled .....so now Im goin to Nebrasska ....Bobtailing to the killplant.

At the slaughterhouse, my load isn’t ready.... so taking some time to get the truck in order, 1st off is checking why the 12v turns off when you turn the truck off, this cannot stand, as I has the Sirius unit that pauses/records up to 90mins while Im out of the truck, this way I don’t miss anything, but all 3 12v outlets in this truck lose power when you turn the key, which then erases anything I have buffered on my Sirius...turns out a fuse is blown, stealing a fuse from the heated seats fuse position as there aint no heated seats.

Four of us still waiting at the killplant.

After waiting 8hrs at the killplant, load was ready, drove the 2hrs to the lil town 15mins this side of the border to spend my Xmas as its too late to cross the border.

Forever alone .

Mac N Cheese for Xmas dinner...and watching movies .

Great fucking movie .

Also got a bunch of Bored To Death eps to go thru...I <3 this show...laugh out loud funny, clever, tender, crazy, and this ep has Parker Posey .

I <3’d this jew broad back when she was the lesbo bitch that stole Ross’s wife away on Friends, and she’s still fuckin sexy in this show

Opening my Xmas presents, err, present...I bought it for myself, its a Xmas tradition even though Im the one buying them .

I don’t do (give or receive) Xmas or Bday presents cuz they’re prompted and not real...but for whatever raisin, I was moved to give a li’l something something to a guy I listen to on the radio ...but its my $$ and he’s made me LOL more than anyone the last couple yrs, so I said why the fuck not?? He has an Amazon.com wishlist for him, his wife and his runts, cuz I’m Canadian, its just easier to buy a giftcard and email him the pics of the giftcard and for him to order what he wants with it.

Merry Xmas to me .

At the USDA inspect, is stuck in the parking lot blocking everybody .

At the fuel islands, this was here BEFORE me and still hasn’t moved ahead after fueling and blocking the fuel island for the next guy, THB.

Le sigh, the british guy in this guy is doin the same thing .

Weather’s good in Wyoming.

Nebrasska sunrise.

(PS...I was on time, and they took 8hrs before they even put me in a door to U/L...so much for the customer really wanting the product, eh??)

Vietnam memorial in Lexington, Ne.

On way back to Canada, Wyoming weather still good.

Montana not sooo much.

Yeah, don’t clear off your tail lights or anything .

Meat wagon hauling someone away at the scale just south of Great Falls, Mt.

I get to Great Falls, and my reefer quits...its -20f outside, the load is beef that needs to be at 28f...and its worth over $150k....Im out of hours, so I cant go anywhere, repairman has to come to me, and the closest reefer place is HUNDREDS of miles away...so theyre sending out a local diesel mechanic.

Before I called the shop, I did what I could do, tried jumping it with the batteries of the truck, and no dice .

Because the guy isn’t a reefer mechanic, he’s getting confused with the codes, there aren’t 61 codes showing, its code 61 showing....tryin to see if changing the battery is gonna work...I can’t see how it will .

Them tryin to jumpstart the reefer.

Goin inside to warm up.

New plan of attack.

Reefer has been down for 6hrs, shop checkin in with me again.

Hour later, checkin in again.

Gettin desperate...., just after Midnite after 8hrs of being off, she fired up again...the box temp got to normal within 30mins, so the $150k of beef is saved.

Nice sunny clear sky day.

UPS truck broken down.

You can see his tracks....

My New Years Day breakfast, some honey nut cheerios and bologna in between cheese slices .

12/10 Laredo - House

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Last time I had gotten to Laredo .

14 days 6500 miles

Lol, on the way here, my dispatcher was asking me to lie on my logbook ...arrive night before then start my 36hrs off...Except that I have to DELIVER the load in the am, so that would interrupt the 36hrs CONSECUTIVE time off, so NO, the 36hrs doesn’t start UNTIL Im delivered the next am as per appt....theyre too cheap to pay the local guys $100 to deliver the load if we drop the trailer at the yard the night before.

Me telling him, NO .

At the truckstop for my 36hr logbook reset and just happened to browse the animal shelter listings in my province for the hell of it and saw this .

Daisy and Delilah, 3yo sisters, Great Pyrenees ....Now, Border Collies are the bestest doggahs ever. No fucking argument. But after 12yrs with a Border/Pyr cross, Pyrs are the 2nd best doggah ever....and Tibet has been dead for over 6mos, it just seemed like it was a good time to rescue these two, they're only 5hrs away... So I sent the link to my wife with a title, “whip down to Vernon and adopt these.” ....I didn’t know how she’d react as we hadn’t talked aboot getting another doggah or anything, so when I called the next day I didn’t know what to eggspect, but she had already called the shelter and got things rolling...

Bit warmer here than at the house.

When i moved into this truck the previous driver left behind a logbook....WHAT FATHER WITH THE LAST NAME ‘PETERS’, IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD NAME HIS SON, ‘RICHARD’ ???? Yes, lets name a boy, “PENIS PENIS” ...GREAT FUCKING IDEA.

36hrs reset finally over, at the drop yard to pick up an empty trailer.

Cool thing aboot Laredo is seeing all the vehicles that aren’t available in USA/CANADA .

Fuelled up and leaving the truckstop, gotta show gate ticket to the booth to get out, 4hrs parking is free, after that its like $12/day or free with $xx instore purchase or 50gallons of fuel.

Leaving just in time too, busses make the food lineups unbearable.

I gots my Taco Bell though .

Border Patrol vehicles ALL OVER the place.

Goin thru the Checkpoint.

Its a mix of cactus and grasses down here.

Messican taxi.

I like this ranch and the oak trees .

One of those new Fiat 500's.

My lolyer friends' flea market that he just bought .

Nice selection of cars here.

Stuck in traffic in Austin, big surprise ...here come the Bud Clydesdales.

No one movin over to let emergency vehicles through.

Car 1 of the accident.

Car 2 up ahead.

Cold Dallas am .

He overnighted that aero package from Japan, MAD TYTE .

Love it when they dont obey the painted lines, hope his front end gets torn off by someone pulling out.

Kansas sunrise.

Nebraska.

Ethanol plant.

Feedlot...thats what Im hauling back to Canada.

In Des Moines....he's losing his load .

Its Saturday am, and theres a shitload of Hawkeye fans headed east to Iowa City for THE BIG GAME .

They all have HAWKEYE license plates, window flags and wearing black and yellow .

He's got his grill .

Flag half staff in Illinois, never did find out why....there's even a website to tell you, but it didnt have it .

My new car is gettin delivered .

Chicken house is closed, which Im pleased aboot...Im a lil heavy, but I knew I could get across Nebraska and Iowa with no issue, just needed to be real low on fuel in Illinois, then no worries, fill the tanks once 30 miles inside Michigan for the rest of the trip.

In Detroit, just before the bridge to Canada, I was goin thru MY GREEN LIGHT, and a gentleman of the urban persuasion in a ford explorer ran HIS RED LIGHT, it was close .

Moar work on the Ambassador Bridge.

Solar panels installed in Ontario...theres shitloads of greenhouses growing tomatoes in the area, so I guess it makes cents to do solar electricity too...

Another crash on the 401.

Funeral for the dude that took me out for my 1st trip south with this company when I got hired...bit of a character...picture Yosemite Sam, 60ish retired farmer/sposedly owned a dumptruck company, and was just trucking for the fuck of it...and get away from his wife...he spent LOTS of time in the messican whorehouses and sposedly gave a Injun twins in Winnipeg....the trip I took with him was Calgary-Atlanta-Greensboro, NC-Toronto-Winnipeg...he made me tie my sandals to the outside of the truck as he thought they smelled bad ....he told me what route to take through Montana and went to sleep...he had told me to turn right at EDDIE’S CORNER...so im driving along 60mph and its just fields everywhere, then in the distance there is a gas station, and then like 1/8 mile before the gas station, there’s a sign saying EDDIES CORNER...I didn’t want to slam the brakes on to wake him, so I realized I couldn’t make the corner so kept goin, as the highway I was on would meet up with the other a little further ahead, then I saw a County Works yard, and saw it was large enough to turn around in so pulled in, turned around, and went back to EDDIES CORNER and got back on course....couple hrs later he was awake and said I missed EDDIES CORNER, huh?? He was awake back there and could tell what I was doing....we stopped at a shitty stripclub in Greensboro where he was looking for Pleasure, a black stripper/hooker he knew from previous times though the area, she wasn’t working that night, so he dropped me off at burger king and went and went to her house to get his mind straight...When we got to Winnipeg he told the company that I wasn’t good enough to be hired and went on his way, they sent me home with a woman driver (she still works here, see her 5x a yr) and I was so shitty that she slept while I drove thru the mountains ...after a week at the house, another guy came and picked me up and we went Calgary-Tampa Bay-Toronto-Winnipeg where on his recommendation I got my own truck and my 1st trip solo was to Philadelphia....so if the company has a problem with me, they shoulda listened to the 1st guy.

Some christian band playin at the church???

Aboot 3hrs N of Toronto, the temp dropped, the road iced up, and idiots went sliding, closing the highway...emergency vehicle sneakin up the left shoulder.

Now sneakin up the right shoulder cuz enough idiots didnt move to the right to give them room.

Hay look, 4wd pickup in the ditch, 4WD IS AWESOME FOR WINTER!!!!

Moar emergency crews.

5hrs later, after a nice sleep, we're rolling.

Awww moosah awww.

Yeah, dont clean off your taillights or anything .

Got a trailer tire flat in Hearst, On.

The shelter was VERY happy that we were taking both doggahs...they had been surrendered 7 days ago as the owner couldn’t afford to feed them anymoar ...their tattoos show they came from a breeder that isn’t cheap, but yet this idiot couldnt realize that 2 100# doggahs would end up eating quite a bit, even though he just fed them Walmart doggah kibble...the shelter had many inquiries aboot splitting them up, lotsa ppl just wanted one, but how the fuck do you break up sisters that have been together their whole lives???? The shelter is 5hrs away, so sent the application over the internet, then they wanted to send someone to approve the house.....bitch please...our neighbour is foster parent for kittens for your shelter, our vet has 12yrs of experience with us, one of the vet techs is a shelter muckity muck in this area, these ppl will vouch....so that passed. But then they wanted to see how our current dog would deal with them, so had to bring her to the shelter 5hrs away, and then have all 3 in the jeep for the 5hr trip back....maggie is a nervous car rider, but hates being left at the house even moar, so puts up with the car ride...and Maggie is a border collie, she’s the alpha dog, she’s NOT goin to like these two new dogs right away, when we got Tibet, we slept in separate bedrooms first couple nights to keep things in check, and Maggie 14yo and even crankier, so she’s not goin to like these two, but she’s gonna accept it cuz thats what her master says...but they wouldn’t budge, so borrowed a vehicle divider so Maggie could be in the passenger seat and the new gurls would be in the back.
Of course, Maggie was her non friendly bitchy self...but nothing out of the ordinary, nothing dangerous or mean, so the test was passed and it was time to load them on into the jeep, which they did NOT enjoy and at that point was told that Delilah is a very delicate passenger which loosely translates into she pukes her guts out in a vehicle ... And she DID throw up on the drive .

Concert coaches are behind schedule what with the road closure.

Cold am.

Speed limit is 45mph here, and he STILL couldnt make the corner

Winnipeg sunset.

Even moar cold .

Regina, Sk...up ahead there is a dip under the underpass then an incline to get to the turning lanes to go left and continue on the highway...there's a couple turnpikes (trucks with TWO 53' trailers) that are spun out on the small incline .

Minivan, bentley, cavalier...

Dunno if he didnt has his taillights cleared off or what? but that car rear ended the semi.

My txt was not answered .

So off I go...

Awww jacknifed in the ditch awww.

Sunrise in Medicine Hat, Ab.

Train of Canadian Tire containers goin back to China to refill with shitty products to sell here.

Fuel truck in the distance that is spun out and slid into the ditch.

Eastbound is backed up as they have to chain up to get up the mountain I just came down...I didnt find it slick at all...

Trucks tryin to park close to the donut shop, wrecker has to show up to get them unstuck.

He cut the corner too close, sunk the trailer into the ditch .

Truck switching trailers not taking care of his airlines that you hook up to the trailer (arrow) he could damage them dragging on the ground or run it over...its lunchtime, I goto sleep now and wake up at 8pm, then deliver to 4 Walmarts thru the Okanagan.

Overnight deliveries done, now just gotta go up and over the mountain to get to Vancouver.

This truck is a pain in the ass to fuel up, the fuel hole is angled up in such a manner that you gotta tuck the nozzle up and in to get it in the hole.

Its in good shape today.

Right around here everything should warm up and melt.

Gotta detour.

And here is the detour.

Normally there's the main route and this route goin thru here, BOTH routes have scales on them, but with ALL traffic goin this way, the scale would be backed the fuck up for miles, so thankfully they just plain shut her down .

Arrived at the Chilliwack Walmart, and of course Ive fucked up ...everytime you get to a Walmart you havent been to, you have to guess what direction the dock is...at one store its at that end of the building, the next store, its at the other end...I NEVER guess it correct, so I gotta turn around and go around the back of the store the correct way to line up with the dock.

Off to Edmonton.

Roads got a lil worse .

Jasper National Park.

Ive been driving this stretch of road (Edmonton - Jasper) for 20yrs, that Le Car has NOT moved once.

When its cold, the shit from the pulp mill hangs low over the city of Hinton, stinking it up.

Climbing the 10% grade that shortcuts from one highway to another.

Trying to deliver at this place is tough, its sloped and icy...backing slowly into the dock I lose traction and stop...If I back up from a long distance and gun it, I bounce off the dock...but after a number of tries, I finally got it stopped and snug against the dock, applied the brakes, and I just slid away ....so the guy started stuffing blocks of wood under my tires.

Finally got it in there all snug...he said it’d take a couple hrs.

Fucking love me some mincemeat tarts, lol @ my crusty jizz stains on my sheets .

In my continuing quest to carry less stuff with me trucking, I’m attacking my briefcase with all the shit I keep beside my seat.

I used to send postcards to ppl, got lotsa extras cuz theyre 50cents each or 4 for a $1, so I always bought in multiples...but then that got old , so I got all these leftover that I haven’t touched in years, so to the trash they go....though I should keep the NYC one with the towers on it...

Cards for playing strip poker with cornfed girls in the Midwest and a patch that soo describes me. KEEPERS.

Got her all organized.

Finally out of here...

7hrs to Vancouver, then slept then jumped the battery in the car and 6hrs to the house, just got 5 moar miles to go.

Listened to I Drink For A Raisin by David Cross on the drive, very fucking funny .

Droppin into the valley.

The new gurls are having a tough time adjusting to their new home .

Daisy.

Delilah.

Goin outside

Delilah is off leash lots of the time as she is moar obedient.

The town used to have a bookstore, then the bigbox grocery store opened a bookstore within the store, and that killed the bookstore. Over the years, several ppl have tried and failed to open another bookstore, the last one catering to the Christian types....it failed too, now these two broads are thinking theyre smarter than the rest.

I looked at the pic 1st and was why is this bitch wearing sunglasses inside??? Oh, she’s legally blind...there is a flashing laser on the broom the dude is holding to help her line up her shot.

Continuing with my interest in Obit’s, I was thinking this guy looks like a trucker, sure enough, he was...

Theyre sooo confident and comfortable, you just walk over them, they don’t even move.

Maggie on the couch, Daisy in front of the woodstove.

Taking the girls outside for one of the 3 or 4 walks a day.

Daisy taking a dump, and theyre big dumps!

Down in the lower yard.

Delilah.

Maggie and Delilah.

Daisy rollin in the background.

Daisy.

Took the galoots to town for their intro to the vet and get their weights, shots and overall checkup...they were a hit, EVERYONE loves big fluffy white doggahs ....on the way back, stopped at a pullout couple miles away from the house that sposedly the prick neighbour that doesn’t feed/care for his horses dumped one of his horses that thankfully finally died, of course it lay out in his field for a couple days before they noticed/moved it....which just happened to coincide with calls that were made to the SPCA and Conservation by ‘someone’...the call was made to conservation cuz you don’t want predators being attracted by the carcass....but no horsie here, but there are 2 deer carcasses....so I called Conservation aboot that.

Someone else had thought he had dumped the horse up a spur road behind his property (which is still too close to MY property) so went up for a looksee, these ARE his tractor tracks....

The snow got way deep, and I was forced to drive pretty fast to maintain any momentum through the snow, so the jeep was fishtailing and such, and Delilah couldn’t take it anymoar and puked.

Most of it was on the blanket they were on.

Was snowblowing, and the snow was pretty icy and I was goin too fast, so the auger got clogged, and the auger belt was thrown off the pulley ...so motored back to the garage and reinstalled it....30mins later clogged again, this time when the auger belt came off it took the traction drivebelt along with it ...so had to DRAG it ¼ mile back to the garage to reinstall the traction drivebelt and installed a new auger belt as the previous one was damaged....30mins later I popped a tire off the bead and my compressor aint big enough to blast it in, so sent it to town with the wife as she got her hair and nails did.

Evening Grosbeak hit the window, even with the cutouts on the window to make sure they see hit and landed in the snow.

Went to retrieve it, as most of the time if you place it in a box with a blanket, theyll shake it off and fly away, but this one was dead instantly.

Robbie was VERY interested in the birdah .

So im on dialup, 28.8K MOTHERFUCKER....I pay $19.95 for that, plus $5 for FAST DIALUP that basically pixelates the screen to load faster, if you really want to see something in full resolution you right click it and it appears...and then $3 for Caller Display to let you know someone is calling while youre downloading the latest episode of The Bachelor, the popup in the center of the screen appears....but they're cancelling the Caller Display, so now the options are get another phone line, they'll waive the installation on that, I just gotta pay the monthly fee or I can get voice mail, but I wont know if someone called until I make the effort of phoning to check my voice mail, so its looking like satellite internet is getting installed, its basically the same price as two phone lines and its faster, so minus whale.

Gurls pooped from being outside.

I ran out of plastic and insulation last time...

Cat got into the roof and fell through the soffit .

Didn’t realize my rootbeer schnapps would freeze, the Jager doesn’t, guess someone around 30% alc it wont freeze.

The bestest ice cream in the world , TIGER...orange and black licorice...eatin a bowl of it for breakfast before I drive back to work today, as I know there won't be any in the house when I get back .

11/10 Vcr - Laredo

2010-11-15T07:44:00.008-06:00

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Last time I loaded up the car and went back to work after 5 mos off.

25 days 9500 miles

Leaving Vcr, HWY1 still under construction, redoing all the overpasses to allow for moar lanes.

I saw this guy walking with his cart 36hrs ago when I came into town, he hasn't made much progress.

Cattle climbing the hill to get the really good grass .

This guy has quite the collection of those lil trucks, even a lil fire truck.

A spot with a lot of accidents, the surrounding mountains keep the sun out in winter and the mist from the river falls on the road making things fun...but this spot is bone straight, gotta be a moran to crash here.

But theres no shortage of morans out here.

Popping into Bestbuy to get a usb drive for my new deck.

Across the border...leaving the truckstop....note the yellow truck parked in the fuel islands, got there a minute after me, I fueled the truck, fueled the reefer, pulled ahead, went inside and paid and got some food and now as Im leaving, he still hasnt done shit except occupy a fuel lane.

Ive only seen this inspect station open 3x in 12yrs...they whip out their scales from the back of the truck and lay em on the ground....he already had a customer, so I was waved thru.

Looking down on Billings, Mt.

South Dakota, yawn.

Throwback Mtn Dew, have enjoyed it many times , and my 1st real sugar Dr. Pepper, cant wait to try it.

Cool old house in this dinky lil town...

Tried to get a google earth look at it...

Big backyard.

Wind

Nice log house, but pretty dumb to put it on the top of the hill right in the wind .

I like the new feature of the Qualcomm, its measures the mood of the driver .

Corn is all harvested.

3 sets of convict bus + 20 passenger van just passed me.

Waaay windy.

Truckstop getting paved, so cant pull thru the fuel pumps, gotta back out of them.

Accident near the yard.

Pretty good week overall.

Moosah.

Passenger wiper in every truck ALWAYS wipes bettar than the drivers side .

Snowing in Kapuskasing, On.

Driving thru an Injun Reserve, and shockingly there is a stray dog .

See that blasted rock to the right?, where I had my headon accident in 2009...blasting to make it 4 lane divided highway...my accident wouldn't have happened.

Newspaper writeup...closed the only road across Canada for 6hrs .

$25,000 damage to my truck.

Totalled.

The douchebag has the nerve to write a letter to the editor aboot being a good citizen and respect 6mos after his run in with the cops and me.

Without consequences
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Most people have kids because they want to see a little one grow up to be something good, something they will be proud of – honest and hard working rather than lazy and disrespectful.
When I was a boy I did what I was told to do without answering back and most elders will know where I am coming from. Although boys will be boys we always showed gratitude and respect to our elders.
In today‘s world many kids have no respect or gratitude whatsoever. Everyone seems to blame the parent but this is not necessarily so. If anyone is to blame, it is the system.
In school when the kids are bad they get to write a few lines as punishment. They shrug it off. In my day I would have gotten the strap and been scared to do wrong another time. When I was a kid there was censorship and we grew up with values. Now there are no values being taught in the system.
The belt as a form of discipline should be brought back in the school system and at home. Nobody wants to hurt their kids but with all the distractions they face every day, and violence all around, the kids don’t know what is right or wrong.
Everyone has a constitutional right to speak up. Forget about these goody two shoes social workers who coerced politicians to pass a law making spanking your kid illegal.
Last term my 13-year-old called his vice-principal a “douche bag.” I am tired of talking to my kids about respect. It is not working.
Kelvin Dindial
Thunder Bay

Stoppin in Dryden, On at the 7-11 to get a slurpee....these Reimer trucks are known as sheep fuckers as ~10yrs ago, one of their drivers crashed into a sheep farm 10 miles ahead, so all the time when a Reimer truck goes by, the cb gets noisy with “BAAA’s”...truckers are way mature.

SUV rolled in the ditch.

Racing the train, Im 90% positive he’ll beat me to the crossing .

Im gaining, but still sure Im gonna lose.

It was a short train.

Left Winnipeg at midnite and 4.5hrs in, the fog is killing my eyes, so pulling over for a 2hr nap, and by then the Sun will be up.

I like clouds .

Havent had an eggsalad sammich from Saskatoon in 8mos .

When i pretripped this trl, it seemed odd that they put NEW drive tires on it, Ive seen WORN drive tires put on trl’s that were too bald for drives, but still good enough for trl use, use up the rubber thats still there before sending them out for retreading, but during the pretrip I didnt notice how much taller one was...

When I lived here in Edmonton from 91-98, this bridge was under construction the entire time, good to see nothing has changed.

Big O+A fan .

Heritage Dr Pepper

One of the things I dont like aboot Macks, is the shitty lil door pocket, other trucks have it the full length of the door so its actually useful.

Ive got a long way to go, and a short time to get there .

Didnt know there was in Edmonton, he’s got every stick on auto accessory the store sells, even the Escalade style cooling vents, ON THE BOX.

Changing out the tires on the trl I brought in.

That was a coal mine couple years ago...sure to be photographed soon for propoganda use by the energy companies aboot how clean coal, and mining in general is....I mean its better than farming, but that aint saying anything.

Dragline in the distance.

I like how this looks like uphill, yet its steep downhill, steep enough to have a runaway lane to the right.

This will be snowcovered in a couple weeks.

Summit.

Stopped at teh brake check.

Stopped for a shower in Kamloops, thought the key was for shower 4...didnt work in the lock, thankfully there was no one in it .....then looked at it better and realized it was shower 7.

Sunrise in the rockies.

Dude got jumped on the side of the road...

OTTAWA – The Canadian Trucking Alliance has upped the ante in the campaign to identify the persons who allegedly beat up a B.C. trucker and left him for dead on the side of the Yellowhead Highway.
Last week, the CTA board unanimously agreed to match the contribution by the B.C. Trucking Association and kicked-in another $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the "evil thugs" involved.
Alex Fraser, a 67-year-old driver with Monarch Transport, says he will hang up his keys as a result of the attack.
He says he was viciously after he stopped his truck to help what appeared to be two men standing next to a stranded car on the side of the road.
Instead, he was hit on the head from behind by a third individual and beaten while down and unconscious.
The RCMP are still investigating the motive for the attack. Fraser claims he heard someone shout, "you truckers are all alike" before he was hit from behind.

Another rare day that Mt Robson aint shrouded in clouds.

Moose lake.

Bighorns in Jasper.

Heading out to the oilfields.

Billboard for reward for this old couple went missing in the summer, left their house in their motorhome for a trip, the motorhome was found like 150 miles from their house, but the cops being the idiots that they are couldnt put a burned-abandoned motorhome dumped in an isolated area and a missing persons report of a couple travelling in a motorhome together and figure out it was THEIR motorhome, so the investigation started out REAL slow...

Everyone knew they were dead as soon as they were reported missing, then when the motorhome is found but the tow behind car is missing, hey, its easy to put the story together...

Daughter of the couple, she's got nice eyes .

Ive got to take 36hrs off to reset my logbook hrs, my truck needs a bunch of work, so left it with the shop and went to the hotel...see the missing fan blades on the cooler unit of the APU, its so out of balance cuz of the missing blades, its inoperable.

Steer tire is all cupped.

While in the hotel, presoaking my laundry.

Just a Super 8 connected to the truckstop.

But its got what I need, wifi, fridge, lotsa hot water, clean room, kingsize bed 42” flat panel, cheap laundry downstairs, and a subway and slurpee machine across the street .

Watching “What Not to Wear”, this broad made a good transition, that I didnt see coming.

On the walk back to the yard and my truck and I see where my van ended up after the cops seized it .

Do want .

Well, my truck isnt ready ...they did the windshield, parts for the APU are coming and so is a leaf spring to replace a cracked one that they found, the leaf can be installed when it arrives, but on Sunday, there isnt a special mechanic on duty to be able to do the govt safety on it, so the truck wont be released til Monday lunch time, so back to the hotel.Not that far of a distance from yard to hotel, so I just walk.

Nice enough day for the walk .

Takin a shortcut...

Woke up to horrendous street noise, road crews replacing the signs....

Sobe pina colada, choc milk, strawberry wafers and kielbasa lunchables .

Get a free newspaper every am in the hotel, was reading the obits, I like to guess the death just by the picture, this one was too easy, went with suicide cuz he looked young and gay...sure enough he killed himself, family shame ?

Was getting bored, so called up and cancelled my Best Buy card, was tired of carrying it around in my wallet, turns out I hadnt used it in so long that they had killed it already....also called the BCSPCA and increased my automatic monthly contribrution by 50% . Goin thru all the notes I write while Im driving, I get lotsa thoughts, then when I get stopped and has interwebs, take care of them all.

Sunday rolled around and no sign of the leaf spring that was to arrive, on one of OUR trucks ...now its not gonna arrive til tmmw, then it'll have to get installed THEN the truck can get inspected, so now its looking like Monday afternoon....Monday afternoon rolled by and the truck was finally ready, just waiting at the tire shop while theyre balancing the new tires, Im admittedly weak for chunky hair streaks .

Off to Laredo...I seem to get these loads after a hassle, kinda like a here’s something for your troubles, its that and its also that with the 5 days off in the hotel, I got an empty logbook, so I can do the miles. $1,500,000 on that trailer.

Dont see many of those, especially in winter.

The Laredo load isnt ready til tmmw, so to keep me busy, just running an empty rail trailer to the pork plant 90 miles away and hooking to a loaded rail trailer from the pork plant back to Edmonton for another 90 miles...at aboot this point in the trip got a msg to call in...calling in is never aboot something they want to do for you, its what they want FROM you...Im NOT in a giving mood...why the fuck would I be??? So I call in, and they need to hook 2 guys up to make a team to get a load somewhere, I dont team, I dont like any of our drivers, theyre all smelly, know it all, done it all assholes, hell, I dont like people period, why else would I live in the bush??? He chuckles and axes if Im a smelly, know it all, done it all asshole, and I tell him that Im not smelly .

Piles of potatoes ready to be made into sugar.

Getting to the border, my phone plan is Canada only, so off it goes.

Hyrbrid tractor for the Walmart fleet, prolly was in Calgary for the presser for the new refridgerated 400,000 sqft warehouse they opened up, its all green, with solar panels and wind turbines and shit.

Eclectic mix on this parking lot .

Montana.

Harleys, giving men the excuse to play dress up for 100yrs .

1 hr later, back in the snow.

Commercial fishin boat in Wyoming....odd place for it .

Interstate closed, gotta detour.

All the poor slobs that got stuck behind the accident .

Dude is GPS marking where one of the vehicles ended up.

Can see the front tire at the back of the trailer.

Lost his front axle.

Hood in the back of the truck.

Walking down from the WalMart to the truckstop parking lot.

Couple sweet whips from my walk to Burger King .

Lil pink houses for you and me ♫

Grain storage.

Surplus army trucks in Lamar, Co.

Gettin my sausage mcgriddle on ...no fucking cheese or egg .

Small town Lamar.

Oklahomo.

Badass .

This guy is broked down, so gotta take it wide around him, I need to turn left here.

And yes, that’s snow in Amarillo, Tx .

Bolt in my trailer tire, its still holding air, but fuck it, Im here, they repair tires here, so Ill get it fixed so it doesnt blow somewhere on the road, itll be quicker and cheaper fix here.

Just getting to me now...

Took 4.5hrs to fix...so much for quicker...

Olde towne buildings.

Caleb and Ceth, faggot ass bible names for faggot ass Texas Christians .

Gettin closer to Austin.

Accident just as Im gettin to Austin .

Puerto rico license plate .

The IRS building that wacko flew his plane into last February.

Truck is covered in these asphalt rocks .

I hate to think aboot how the cars near me were getting sprayed with these rocks.

I need a USA cell ph ...I phd ahead telling them what time I would get to the truckstop nearest their house, and if I wasnt there, Id be at the Cabelas...there was no parking available at the truckstop, so off to Cabelas...I know from the past that there is no phone at Cabelas, but figured Walmart would have one, so walked over, no pay phone...so went looking thru the strip mall in front of it, and no phones...tried looking around for grocery store, they usually has a ph, and saw the HEB, looked there, and all the waaay at the end outside I saw a phone...it was mounted waaay low, as are short...but of course the phone didnt work...so started walking back and passed a cell phone store... How quickly can I buy one? he said 20 mins after he was finished with current customer who was all humming and hawing with his boyfriend aboot what phone to get, so I walked out knowing that Walmart sells cellphs, and gotta be cheaper too..so walked back to Walmart, then realized I hadnt gone to the back of the store where layaway and the restrooms are, most of the walmarts I shop at, I use those restrooms and theres payphones there, so boogie on to the back of the store, find the phone ...theyre already parked beside my truck at Cabelas , so tell them Ill be there as quick as my fat ass can waddle there.

Met my pals at the Cabelas and went to the Salt Lick, my favorite bbq in the world....the place seats 1000, and they do over 2,000,000 lbs of brisket a yr...Ive been like 6x now .

Belly full, went to sleep, then boogie on down to Laredo and got here 1 hr before my appt....but that does me no good, as today is a holiday, so no one across the border is working, therefore the forwarding company here in the USA isnt working today either...only 2 'staff' have shown up to do other things, and they speak ZERO english, so the keeps handing his ph over to me to have the english speaking person tell me whats goin on....

Aboot that time, another Transx driver arrived, and he speaks pretty good spanish, as he has been living 4 hrs across the border for a year or so, pretty cool guy, while decisions were needing to be made, he wanted to go get food, I said theres nothing really good here, so he went thru his GPS and found some restaurants, several of them hadnt been in bidness for years/months (so much for GPS, and this was after him spouting how awesome it was to have)...and the ones that sounded ok werent in truck friendly areas, so I said lets just walk to Whataburger, its 1 mile away, and I havent had Whataburger in aboot a year .

The geniuses finally decide we can drop the trailers at our yard on the east side of town, so off we go...I know how to get there, but he's got his GPS and says he has a better way of getting there, so I say OK.

I know he's already lost at this point, we're off the TRUCK ROUTE, so much for his GPS...he tried making a left turn at an intersection, I laid on the horn and got him to NOT, cuz I know the area, it gets worse where he was gonna go...we just need to go another half dozen blocks straight until we can make a left then THAT will hook back up with the TRUCK ROUTE.

Keep goin straight .

Rudys, a sign of good bbq is the gas pumps out front .

Awww duckahs awww.

Now I know that he knows where he’s goin.

Toasty.

And made it.

10/10 Summer Off V6

2010-10-31T18:57:00.000-05:00

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Last time I was enjoying the fall foilage in the backyard.

Made some weeny wraps and ran out of weenies, so filled a couple of them with jam...

Changing the dash lighting in the miata, left is the original bulb with green condom on it which gives the gauges the green glow, right is the new 220 degree RED LED replacement, cuz I want the gauges red for better night vision.

Gauges have a green film on the back of them, acetone takes it right off .

Completely apart.

Spraying the back of the gauges with red “ Krylon for Plastic”.

After spraying.

Fall foilage while driving to test that I put the needles on correctly.

Finished...the red is actually darker/richer than the pic shows, its as red as the red brake light on the dash...looks way gay pink during lowlight times like sunrise/sunset, but at nite, rich dark red.

I put red LEDs in the mirror light as well .

Coming back from town, accident up ahead....there’s easily half dozen accidents here in the winter as the road ices up from the mist from the water treatment ponds...and the average driver cant make that connection, dunno what the deal is now, cuz it aint freezing temps.

Robbie’s chilling.

Pretty colors during sunrise.

Movin Betty into her new place in the senior's complex, Ronnie’s truck full of her shit.

The red Jeep full of her plants.

The whole valley is pitching in and bringing her shit to her .

Floyd chillin.

Goin back to her house to get some moar shit, crews workin on the powerlines.

Windstorm knocked the tree onto their house, also knocked out the valley’s power for ~12hrs...thats why the electrical crews were out.

Trees were across the road here too.

Droppin into the valley.

Me and Ronnie are reloaded and headed to her new place, Jimmy just showin up, there’s still some stuff that takes 2 guys to load, so Im gonna turn around and help fill up Jimmy’s truck.

Highway in town getting a new intersection, the frontage road getting worked on too...but this is royally fucked up...I have a stop sign, the opposing traffic has a yield sign, and the road to my left or his right is yield sign as well...why the fuck do the two have to yield to the stop sign??? No one will fucking move??

Next am, at the house to do the key handover to the agent and new homeowner, was too emotional for Betty to do, so I did it...End of an era, ~12yrs ago, when I moved here, John+Betty had the whole valley over every Sunday 9am til ~Noon for everybody to get together, drink coffee and eat baked goods that everybody brought. I dont drink coffee, so they always had a can of coke in the fridge for me . The broads would sit at the table, the menfolk in chairs away from them, there were 2 Lazyboy type chairs, and Ron always sat in his, and I was always in this one....

Horsah barn.

Front of the house.

The goat fucker, errr I mean farmer has a Canada Goose that he raised from a chick, so its like a pet...when they go for a drive, it follows them flying low and just behind them .

...he's a crazy dude, raises goats with his gf who is normal (what is with women?) and rails on aboot society and 'progress', had the last party line phone in BC, goes to those renaissance festivals for 2 wks a yr and does ancient battles dressed up as someone from back then , doesnt have electricity except for the generator he uses to edit his films that he went to film school for, including one aboot local school closure etc, yet my Youtubes have moar views ...type of person that knows 1% of an issue and just buries himself spewing nonsense the other 99% of time, saying american beer has formaldohyde(sp) in it, but not canadian beer, and us dollar bill has had "in god we trust" on it for 200 yrs, etc...he got so worked up that I wasnt taking his bullshit as THE SPOKEN WORD that he walked out and came back and called me a psychopath, and I corrected him that I was a sociopath, but its ok, you're just a person that likes the sound of big words coming out of your mouth but dont care if you're even using the correct one, then he asked me so that the whole room would hear - "was i still killing and raping prostitutes?" didnt think he was srs, so answered that it would be silly to kill them first, I dont want them to just lay there when im inside them, he repeated the question and and I replied that if I said yes, my reign of terror would be over and I wouldnt be able to reach the high number and receive the glory for my achievement, then there was fire in his eyes, called me a fucking something(mumbled) and walked into the wall trying to leave the room, I was killing myself laughing, the four other men were giggling and saying I shouldnt have worked him up into such a lather, only 2 of the wives heard what was goin on and gave me the thumbs up for getting rid of him, lol...and then the ph calls came from people HE called trying to get support to have something happen to me as I am dangerous to the community , and he made sure to inform those he called that he was recording the calls and was goin to report me to the RCMP.....no cops have shown, dunno if neighbor talked him out of it or if cops told him to GTFO,

Went to the meadow next door to retrieve some horsahs for the neighbors. The people that own this live in Vancouver, only come up 3x a yr, will retire soon to live here fulltime, but in the meantime, allow others to graze horses, it keeps the fields under control for them, and its free food for the horsah owners .

Just sittin on the tailgate holding their reins walking them back to their real home.

Another Poplar in the backyard came down in the wind...

It JUST hit the edge of the roof of the upper shed....only because the tree broke off pretty high up the trunk ...any lower, might have caved the roof in.

WTF pigeon in the yard???? Never seen one up here.

Willow grew thru my chair in less than 2 mos ....I keep it up near the upper shed, cuz there’s a meadow up there and I keep a book up there and while walking the doggah, I’ll stop up there, read and tan.

Foggy morn.

Poplars turning yellow.

Sprayin the headliner of the miata, there’s a strip of it thats exposed when the top is down, so it fades....

See, this strip gets faded....the spray paint made the whole headliner nice and black.

WTF my eyebrows ?

Birds got to the wasp nest.

Finally got the soffit done on the garage...started in May, was able to drag it out to late Sept ...though there’s easily a month of that time where I didnt has supplies, lumber yard kept running out of soffit, I was just buying a box at a time, so I wouldnt have leftovers...I wanted the garage to be soffitted, so I could re-install the insulation inside, and now with the soffit, animals will quit goin into the ‘attic’ of the garage and knocking the insulation from the ceiling down....Im not ready to drywall it yet, gotta move some electrical around before that. But the soffit project was made to keep me close to the garage and listening to Ron + Fez in the morning.

Robbie looks interested in something .

SQUIRREL!!!!

He cant get into the roof anymoar....

Aside from all the plants dying off, this is the best time of year ...sunny clear skies, avg daily temps in the 60s, but then Sun has heat in it, and the bugs are gone.

Cut my foot, stepped on my jigsaw....

I was making a new garden cart for the wife, got it finished up....20” wheels I got from the dump, the small wheels make the bottom of it low to the ground for easy loading. Just made from 1 sheet of plywood, couple 2x4’s and couple feet of angle iron.

Bedlinered the interior, so it’ll last .

Though the 1st one I made ~15yrs ago lasted 13yrs without bedliner, before she set it on fire.

She shoveled ASHES from a FIREPILE into a WOODEN cart , then for some raisin, walked away and did something else...I heard a noise and looked over and found it in flames, I couldnt hose it off, as the power was out, trees fell on the lines the day previous, so walked the cart to the creek to put the fire out.

I made a replacement cart, re-using the wheels and angle iron, and this time made the cart bigger, thinking 99% of the time she carries light stuff, tall grasses, etc...so this way could haul moar at a time...it ended up being too wide to handle, so hence the new cart I just made....the handles are same height and width as the yellow one, but I made the sides higher, and extended the length for moar capacity, and that way used the full sheet of plywood.

I thought I had lost my shades, but noticed them in the back of the miata .

I closed the roof on them....but I was able to bend them back into shape .

Set up the game camera in the backyard...I was tired of the spec’d lantern 6v batteries dying after a couple days, so got a rechargeable 6v battery and a 6v solar panel ...the guys on the game camera forum, yes there is such a thing , say this is the best way to do it...

Its just a ~5yo 2.0MP game camera, but it does what I want it to do....the newer ones will send the pics via wifi.

I put it HERE, cuz I wanna know what is making this line...

The mystery will be solved soon.

Was watching TLC’s What Not To Wear ....I DVR every show then 99% of them dont watch when I see who theyre making over, I only watch the ones that has potential...This gurl Emily, is a PRIEST...she’s fucking cute .

Clint and Stacy ambushing her.

Clint and Stacy telling her that just cuz she’s a priest, doesnt mean she cant be feminine and get her thang on...I totally cant decide on Stacy...HATE her on her 11ty commercials that she does...and ya, she’s got a huge bull terrier honker, but her body is GREAT, and she dresses FANTASTIC and she’s sharp tongued and funny.

This girl is FINE....Alicia Silverstone-ish

They cut and colored her hair.

It over emphasized the size of her face...made her into a Lewsinski clone .

I DVR Dancing With The Stars for Anna...she’s the real life Little Mermaid...

Watched a great movie, “The September Issue” aboot Vogue editor Anna Wintour....and the making of the annual Sept Vogue issue, its the Xmas of the fashion world....

She’s a total fucking cunt, and I cant stop to her...I love cunty women.

Her hair is always perfect, and is almost always wearing sleeveless dresses, which women totally underrate.

Oh, who is this?

Love me a redhead.

Its her 2nd in command, 30yrs ago...time wasnt soo kind to her .

Guy that works for her, getting his exercise, all Vuittoned out .

Deciding whose pics to keep for the magazine...she’s arguably one of the Top 5 most important women in the world, what SHE decides to put in the magazine IS what is seen worn by women.

...making a cutting comment aboot someone then having a giggle....love me a cunty woman.

At one of the shoots, the documentary maker was axed to be in a pic, and Anna is commenting aboot how fat he is.

The pic in question...Anna wants it Photoshopped to make his belly go away.

Her assistant agast at what Anna said to the filmmaker and assuring him itll run in the magazine as it is.

Testing out my yard light, had to replace the bulb.

Well it was time , called work to tell them I was ready to work, they asked me when, I said I could be there at midnite, ready to drive 0800, they said c'mon down...so loaded up the miata.

Ive got less stuff than last time out, 1 bag in the trunk, I tossed the spare tire, just rolling with a can of flat fix, 1 bag on the psgr seat and two drybags inside the black bags in case it rains on the trunk....its my goal to eliminate 1 moar bag.

Goin the longway to Vcr thru Whistler, its a fucking awesome drive, and I got a convertible and Im awesome .

Well, the drive just become less awesome, cop up ahead ....gotta bring the speed down.

...20 mins later, hits the brakes, hits the disco lights and u turns for the car that whizzed by him the other direction.

One lane alternating up ahead for paving, but was talking to the sexy flaggergurl, and there’s gonna be a delay, couple dumptrucks clipped each other....and then when we get goin, I gotta get around this truck hauling teh trl, he’s gonna slow down my twisties fun.

This asphalt truck hit another asphalt truck head on, the other truck is worse off and is getting towed out of the construction area.

There he is.

Back to open road...this guy is HAULING ASS , actually faster than I wanna go, in the straights, but then slowing the fuck down on the corners , when I dont have to change my speed at all or just cutting the fuck out of them to keep his speed up.

I finally got around him .

1st Me N Ed’s in 5 mos ...I really should buy 2, one for now, one for tmmw, but Im trying to not be a glutton.

Get to the yard, and this is the truck they want me to move into ...its a quad truck...as in 4 axles...the lift axle makes it 4 axles, and allows for heavier loads in Washington State, this truck just goes Vcr to Wash and loads up shitloads of produce and brings it back...A) I dont want a dedicated run. B) I dont want THIS dedicated run (produce loads are notoriously late all the time C) truck dont has an APU, so no A/C or AC when parked...

I slept in it, and called in the am, telling them I wasnt driving the quad truck, they put me in a different truck and moved into it and waiting for an empty trl so I can go down to Washington to get a load of meat for Cgy...also told them that the APU on this truck wasnt working properly, so Ill do the run thru the states and to Wpg (main yard) where they can fix it or put me in a working truck, agreed on all counts.

14 days 6600 miles

Empty trl was sposed to be rdy 3pm but wasnt ready til after midnite , so off I go....good to see that nothing has improved.

At the border, 3 concert coaches crossing back into the states...was the Brad Paisley tour.

When I was using the bolt cutters to remove the bolt seal from the empty trl so it could be washed out prior to loading the meat, I didnt has the strength in my hands to operate the cutters, so laid the cutters across my chest and pulled them together into my chest, pinching my forearm in the process .

Columbia river is a major shipping channel.

Maybe one of the last times thru Sandpoint, Id.

Building a bypass around teh city.

Fueling up in Cranbrook, BC...was talking to this guy...he drives all over BC selling the raw pet food directly to houses for $4/lb.... picks the shit up at Mennonite farms and stuff.

Awww border collie awww .

Fixing up the road outside of Sparwood, taking teh twists out the road and putting in bridges that you dont has to make a 90degree turn to go onto.

Slow farm vehicles.

3 toilets here at our Calgary yard, this is the CLEAN one of the three .

APU is broken, so in order to watch some stuff on my laptop, ran my power cord that I use to plug in the engine block heater into the outlets in the parking lot and run it into the truck .

Leaving Cgy, I usually turn right here, but the road is closed....guess Im goin straight, gonna has to guess my way...

Sun coming up in Alberta.

Montana.

2 hitch hikers with doggahs, I always feel for the doggahs , but the doggahs prolly get moar attn than they would with most pet owners.

Still Montana.

Tried to take a pic of teh Northern Lights....didnt work .

Lol @ Fargo, ND.

Rest area in Mn is closed.

Cuz its flooded .

Doin my Walmart shopping, why the fuck would someone drink caffiene free Mountain Dew, caffiene is the point of Mountain Dew .

Backroading it thru Wiscahnsin.

Got my directions to the smokehouse, and when I checked them on the map, they seemed weird, but that has happened often, as not every highway exit is set up the same, you would think you gotta take a right to get to where you’re goin, yet they tell you left, and you take the left and it works, but you still have a funny feeling aboot it...so I was told to take a left at the light, and I did, and as soon as I did, I knew it was wrong , she gave me the directions if I was coming FROM the south, not HEADING south...purple shows how far I had to go to be able to turn around.

Finally found an area to turn around.

Taking awhile for my owie to heal, turning yellow in the process.

Delivering pork to a giant smokehouse, the receiver said I was missing ppwrk, the security dude at the front gate forgot it in his photocopier, so he drove up to give it to the dock.

This truck doesnt has EZPass transponder, so had to go thru the booths, mine had a state patrol trooper standing and hiding behind the booth checking for seatbelts .

Picking up my load in Joliet...produce that this trucking company brings from Cali, swings it onto our trl, we take it into Canada.

Imagine that, truck blocking the fuel pumps .

Ya, just stand there and yap, dont move your truck, there’s not other drivers wanting to fuel.

Fall foilage in Michigan.

Dont remember what pic this is of, the resizer program erases ~1 of 100 pics just for fun .

Got another Where's George dollar bill...it only went from Kalamazoo, Mi to Minnesota where I got it...I mistakenly spent it in Wisconsin...was planning to take it further.

My new winter toque.

Got this root beer in Wiscahnsin, tasty.. really creamy, though I still prefer Hires.

Dunno what this is a pic of, resizer deleted it ....oh its them axing why `I was late with the load`

And a legitimate answer.

Couldnt make it in the time specified, so declined it.

12hrs later, they still think Im on the load, yet, even if I left RIGHT NOW, I’d be 8hrs late, .

Don’t know why I bother .

Yay, Toronto traffic.

Sweet whip, glad he didnt scrimp on his system, Xplod .

Foilage on the way to Montreal.

Northern Ontario colors.

checking their trl out.

Moosah hunters.

Moosah hunters in the truck on the shoulder in the mirror...there was a Moosah in the swamp next to the road...they were waiting for him to get far enough off the road so they could shoot him.

Lunch from the cafeteria...i always get the clubhouse hold the tomato .

Lol, sign says TOP POSITION ONLY, and its on the bottom.

Snow geese gathering to go south.

Single lane for paving, 45mph limit, Mr Impatient pulls out and weaves thru the cones to get into the paving lane to pass .

Took a pic at texted it to my shitty friend as I went thru his town, ...no reply, FOREVER ALONE .

On the way thru BC, stopped at my fave truckstop, really the only one I sit down and eat, in all of N. America, and was on the phone when ~20 seniors rolled in, and I was ‘sorta’ in a weird spot, cuz IF I were to move down 2 spots, they could fit all their group together, but I was on the phone that is on the table dont bother me, and there is only a phone in THIS spot, hence me sitting here....but they ended up managing to get sit, and then after my phcall was over, the one guy started talking to me aboot trucks and music and shit and gave me two of his CD's, I was too weak to say no, so I just took them, besides one of my old neighbors might like them.

Got 36hrs off in Vcr, so got a buncha stuff to do, priority is a new HU for the truck with AUX IN....grabbed a $100 HU with AUX IN and USB IN and brought the old HU to show what harness I needed to hook up new HU to EXISTING dash harness, so when I move out of this truck, just reconnect old HU to EXISTING dash harness, the BestBuy couldnt do it, but they thought Visions could do it, so went there, they couldnt do it either, they said Ralphs in Downtown Vcr might be able to, so off to Ralphs...they couldnt do it either but said Japan Electronics could, so off to there...and they could do it, but it would take aboot 4hrs as theyre really busy, so I say ok, and go run around killing time. Went to MEC and saw this add-on to my UCO candle lantern, a LED flashlight that replaces the base of the lantern Went to MEC and saw this add-on to my UCO candle lantern, a LED flashlight that replaces the base of the lantern..

Installed, comes with a longer hoop hanger as it does increase the length by half-inch.

Gotta pay for parking at MEC, dunno how well a ticket on the dash of a convertible works , but it was still there when I was done shopping.

Passing by the Purdy’s chocolate factory.

1st Tiger Tail ice cream Ive seen in 12yrs...

Back at Japan Electronics, I love these people .

Small end into my new HU, big end plugs into the dash wiring.

Thats the piece that I had to drive all over town for...

Plugs into this in the truck’s dash.

Fucking A!

I got quite a bit of stuff done on my day off.

Grabbed some Saskatoon Jam to keep in the truck for my bottom , in case I get a load to Tejas, a new shower brush, its just long enough to reach the parts I cant reach, yet small enough to be compact in my shower bag, buncha baking soda for the smells in the fridge, and fruitcake.

09/10 Summer Off V5

2010-09-30T09:32:00.012-05:00

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Last time I treed a bear in my backyard.

Dead pine at the front of the property fell in the windstorm.

Cut it off, drag it off the road, always need firewood.

Tried a recipe for hazelnut shortbread, so ground up some hazelnuts...I didnt like them, they werent melt in your mouth enough...

Off to set up for the Garlic Festival, today is just put the tent and tables up, jsut to speed things up for tmmw, the merchandise shows up tmmw, help wife sell her jewellery shit...I basically just sit in the back just out of sight to keep any thieves away and cover for potty breaks, I like festival food and the people watching is fun, love to make fun of others to make me feel better aboot myself and realistically its the only social contact I get...I hide in the truck for 6mos and only see truckers and the like, then the other 6 months I hide in my house in the forest...The $$ made from these 2 days give me a month off ...lookin like a thunderstorm is right on top of us ...take not of the green Jimmy .

The broad in the green Jimmy has her tent set up, and the 4 walls on the tent, and all her fragile breakable ceramics that she's brought to sell in her tent...she makes a comment while giggling that we are gonna get rained on while setting up our tent and gets into her jimmy and drives over to the parking area...

STORM rolls in within 15mins and we're hanging on to our tent for dear life getting whipped with rain and wind, these Costco 10' x 10' tents are the standard issue that merchants at flea markets and festivals use and ARENT meant to stand up to STORMS, and the cunt that was laughing at us, HER tent was a rockin and a rollin as the four walls on the tent made it an awesome sail for the wind to catch...she DID have the tie-downs anchored very well, too well actually, the tent still went 6' in the air, just broke off its legs in teh process, tossing all her wares to the ground, breaking everything .

Early next am, to set up, the carnage that was her tent ....some would talk aboot karma, but those people are retarded...she didnt show for the weekend as she had nothing left to sell.

Cold and dreary morning, fog off the lake aint helpin either, forecast says sunny by lunchtime .

That'll be lunch

My tent, no not the one in my pants is close to the stage so I can watch all the acts .

I gots to get one of those jackets .

Takin a whiz.

Mini donuts .

Ron Weasely made it!!!

Some of the girls for the Cariboo Idol singing contest...

Capn Hillstrand!!!

Sweet jesus I love yoga pants .

Day 1 is over and Option 1 is pack up all teh wares and take them to the house just to bring them back and re-display them the next am which takes alot of time, or Option 2, leave it all here and camp overnite to protect it, I went with #2.

I lowered teh tent legs so it would be less likely to be affected by windgusts overnite.

6am, lake is foggy.

Pumpin out the shitters.

This local band was pretty good...forget their name...but bettar than the regular band that plays all these events, The James Gang...they sound ok, they just cant vary the beat, cuz the guitarist cant do quick solos, so they play every song at the same speed.

Artie Lange!!!! ...but srsly...he was volunteering for the SPCA tent next to mine...the 2 volunteers that were to show up didnt. So one of the higher up girls had to show up to cover for it, she works at the vets, so through Tibet and Maggie, I know her, she's cool cuz she's no fucking nonsense aboot everything, if you baffle her, you will know it....and this Artie looking motherfucker was talking aboot how he lets his female cats roam freely and have litters ...the conversation STOPS....long pause, and here it comes ..just goes into brow beating the retard and flatly tells him he's not welcome in the organization with an attitude like that .

He likes tuhtles .

Watch out for the badgers ....festival is over, much $$$ was made .

Back at the house, some strange dog showed up .

Pretty Elkhound cross...no idea whose it was, stayed for 5 mins then continued on.

Awww toady awww.

Patchin up my $5 sandals.

So I was doin some work outside, went to reach for my can of Mtn Dew, took a swig and a fucking wasp stung me on my upper lip .

Swole up instantly and my mouth was all numb for 2hrs .

I blew out the rivet in my chair at the festival, so used a bolt to fix er up .

Clearing out some willows.

Bought the magnetic parts bowl a month ago, finally gettin around to use it, dont know how I went so long without one...

1st week of September, fall colours are coming out .

Red ones are cranberries .

Been watching alot of Criminal Minds on A&E, wife thought it was a shitty Canadian show, seemed cheaply made, but I really like it ...then Im watching and Im wtf....so rewound it....sure enough, fucking camera man in the shot...

Love this commercial of a Detroit Lol office...family is fucked up

Robbie of course found the freshly laundered and folded tablecloths .

Bought some frozen horsdouveres bacon wrapped beef thingies, tried them out on the grill ....the dog enjoyed them.

Goin for a drive.

Pushpin shows my house, yellow circle shows where Im goin, red shows route.

Open range.

Its the last day of the long weekend, so everyone is leaving, thats why I'm goin, wont be any people .

Where i used to park trailers when I took days off and brought the truck to the house, Id give the guy a carton of smokes from the duty free ($14) and he’d let me park there.

Couple miles up the road is this fork, used to live up the road to the right (1300 road) at the top of the hill next to the airstrip.

But for now, we’re staying on the lower road along Poquette Lk.

Black bear.

Fatty scampering up the hill.

Crossing the bailey bridge over the Cariboo River....if you turn left, you goto Barkerville, go right to the falls, that nobody knows aboot.

Cariboo River at a pullout along the river.

Another pullout.

Back on the road.

At the bottom of a STEEP BUMPY SLIPPERY road, park here and walk to the falls.

Got Maggie on a leash cuz I dont want her getting too close to the river and could be bears goin for the salmon .

Woodpeckered cedar tree.

Cariboo river.

Rusty quartz.

Cedar.

This being September, the water level isnt at its highest like in Springtime what with snowmelt...during highwater, the water carves these bowls in the rocks .

Class 5 rapids.

Move her into the cave so I can take some pics.

Follow the tree root...

...keeps goin...

Spawning salmon...fucker swam 500 miles upriver and now has to jump this Class 5 waterfall...

Swam away when I put the camera in the river .

Pretty quartz vein in the rock.

Walking back to the truck.

Crossing back over the Cariboo river.

Downstream of the falls.

Taking the back way (2400 road)...

Lookin across to Black Bear Mtn and Spanish Creek.

Dont know wtf these are...rain gauges?? There’s nobody out here....

After a mile long drive down the hill, come to a cabin overlooking Spanish Lake....been comin here for 20yrs, never seen ANY activity in/around the cabin at all, in any season...no vandalism to it either...its a beautiful spot but the road maintenance would be a killer and in the winter there is ZERO sun as the the valley its situated in is way steep.

On the shore of Spanish Lk...father in law used to has water rights to the lake (for placer mining)

Great Blue Heron on the rock.

Lake water level is way down...

Lookin back to the shore that the jeep is parked on.

100yo dam...this lake was dammed and the water used for placer mining.

This 22000# steam shovel was used in the early 1900s to dig the canal from the lake to the mines....it was left behind, father in law 'found' it on his minesite, it now sits at a park in the town.

Another part of the dam.

Awww moss awww.

Downstream of the dam.

When I moved away ~12yrs ago, there was ZERO mining activity, but with gold up 400%, every part of this area is staked out and test pits all over...

Red metal tags are the claim tags.

Likely airport...used to be a phone inside, when I lived here, would come here to use the phone, we were on generator for power and didnt has phone

Wow, hasnt been vandalized .

Checking the logbook...Reno

Map of area, yellow is where I lived, airstrip on the other side of the little lake, red shows the road to Spanish Lk.

Yellow is where I lived, blue is airstrip and red is the road to town.

~12yo pics of where I lived (yellow) from Black Bear Mtn....the wasteland in the center is the in lol's mine.

House, lake and airstrip.

The shovel down at Cedar Point Park.

Goin up Mt. Warren to get to the firetower, Just able to drive under this blowdown...

Very steep road to the firetower.

Yellow is where I lived, red is road up to the tower.

Made it to the top....no firetower .

Parts of the stairs are here, these are the postholes for the chain link fents...

And the support blocks...but firetower is gone.

Pics of firetower from ~12yrs ago...

Goin back down the mountain.

If you miss the hairpin, off the edge you go .

Olde cabin.

Looked at buying the store/post office/gas station/laundromat ~12yrs ago...good thing I didnt, the contract with the post office and rural outlets changed and doesnt pay shit anymoar .

The Likely hotel, the pool table in the bar inside has a car jack beneath it to keep it level as the hotel is falling over.

The moar you know.

The falls I went to.

Whats left of the dam here in the town of Likely, another dam for gold mining 100yrs ago.

Doggah is flat out pooped .

Nice Toy.

Seeing the salmon spawn inspired my dinner choice .

Reading the newspaper .

All the green is continuing to disappear in the backyard .

Saskatoons turning yellow.

Moar cranberries.

Tiger lily going to seed....I love the whole world, boom de yadda

Contractor showed up and tore apart the walkway...gonna use this concrete waste as fill to raise up the floor of the to-be built new wood shed.

And digging out the north side foundation to fix the drainage.

Blocks for the new retaining wall.

One of the contests in the Fall Fair is to dress up a zucchini...

Inspired by my costume 15yrs ago, of course .

Takes forever just to get to this part, diggin way down and laying out the drainage, compacting the gravel and getting the first course level, afterwards, its cake...

$700 in polar fleece arrived in the mail, Robbie is happy aboot it.

Theyre still at it.

The 2 best jams on the planet .

Trollin the local news FB.

At the fall fair, dunno if its wrong or right of me to vote for it, but I did.

If they only knew how the zucchini was treated .

This won 3rd prize, lol....PROTIP- turn off the datestamp.

Judges laying the smack DOWN.

ONE word, PANNING.

Was admiring this display box.

The fucker Proenneke'd the latch .

Rest of the entries.

Leaving the fall fair.

Robbie hasnt moved .

Wife came home with a $7,000 sewing machine ...fucker has 3 USB slots, a mouse, 8.5" HD LCD touch screen, needle cam, 700 stitches and stadium lighting.

Put the winter tires on, store teh summers in the upper shed.

Testing out 2 products to restore the black plastic on the jeep, have the old stuff that Ive used before, black chrome on the rear wheel well, and 303 Protectant that I have for my kayak anyways, and 'Detailers' say is better on the front wheel wells, wait a couple months and see what has worked better.

Havent had Kinder Surprise in a long time .

I wanted something to build .

Last time I had a Kinder Surprise, the eggs weren't hinged like this.

Got an octopus in the 2nd one, and finally a car to build in the last one.

All built .

Saskatoons yellowing in front of the house.

HDNet has been playing 2 eps a day of Prison Break, I didnt see it when it first came out, so watching it now...I made it ~10 eps into S02...I was close to losing it couple eps previous, but the ep where the CIA guy was drowning Sara was just too over the top, and stopped watching...I didnt know Loco was on the show .

And Cap'n Sig .

I went back and forth on who was hotter, Tancredi or Veronica, but when they showed the doc as a heroin addict, that sealed the deal .

Watched the Miss Universe pageant, JUST for Natalie Morales .

Woke up to snow, Sept 20th, I think its my fault for putting the winter tires on 5 days ago ,

GQ Printed Something Worth Reading?

2010-09-27T09:42:00.008-05:00

Getting Made The Scorsese Way

Yes, indeed, The Godfather is masterful. The Sopranos? We never missed an episode. But you want to talk about a movie that leaves a mark? Twenty years after the release of GoodFellas, the good people behind it—Scorsese, Liotta, De Niro!—re-create the making of the truest, bloodiest, greatest gangster film of all time.