STRAYCAT’S DOGGONE BLOG

Life Day 21856: Warding of Boredom at the WWW

May 15, 2007 on 12:58 pm | In On The Road |

Saturday May 12th:
Shortly after I awoke this AM, the driver of the truck next to me on my right hand side approached me and said that last night when I had backed into my spot, I had dinged his left fender. I got out and looked, and sure enough, I did it. It was more of a “scrape” than a ding, but his fender was scraped and his fender mirror had been shoved through the top of his fender. There was white paint and parts of blue decal from his truck numbers on the right rear corner of my trailer. I was totally unaware that it had happened. It must have happened on my initial backing maneuver just before I pulled forward again to get straight into the parking spot, because the scrape was barely 18 inches long. It was a “Swift vs Swift” accident meaning that the other driver drove for Swift as well. We did the appropriate accident reports, and he went on his way. I have no idea why he waited until the morning to contact me.
The rest of the day was pretty mundane. I just loitered around the Wild Wild West and vegged and geeked. I’m getting pretty good at Video Blackjack. I won $63.00 (pocketing my initial $20.00 investment plus $43.00), but then piddled it away at the ‘live’ Blackjack table.

Sunday (Mother’s Day):
The WWW had an excellent Mother’s Day Special in the Gambler’s Grill (cafe). I’ll get to that a little later. My load scheduled for delivery at 1800 this evening, so I just geeked most of the day. I made a couple of CD’s. I again tried my hand at Video Blackjack with much the same results as yesterday. I doubled my $$$, so I quit.
I drove to the consignee about 1600 (2 hours early) just to avoid some of the traffic. I was able to do the drop/hook delivery as soon as I arrived, so that was good. When I was moving from one trailer to the other, my air lines became entangled with my driveline, and one of them snapped, so that was bad. I had to drive to the Pilot truckstop (about 20 miles one way from the customer) and buy some replacements (I replaced both because the one that didn’t snap was so stretched out). That cost me $70.00 plus a couple of hours. I arrived back at the WWW about 1930 and miraculously got my “pole position” parking spot back.
Now it’s dinner time. The Special was a choice of a Shrimp Caesar Salad or a Strawberry Spinach Salad. The choice of entree was Poached Salmon or a Petite Filet Mignon with Crab Legs. I opted for the Spinach Salad (which was excellent) and the Petite Filet. It too was good, but it took them 2 trys on everything. First the Vegetables were cold, so I sent them back. Meanwhile, I started on the Crab Legs. By the time I was ready to eat the steak and baked potato, they were cold, so back they went. I ate the vegetables in the interum. When the steak and potato returned they were just fine. (GEEEEEZE, why not just do it right the first time). After dinner, back to the Casino for more Video Blackjack. This time, I lost my $20.00.

Monday:
Today, nothing untoward happened. I geeked, went shopping, and visited the Casino for yet another round of Video Blackjack. I went to the Vegas outlet mall and bought underwear and socks, and a pair of boots. I again doubled my $$$, but piddled it away at the ‘live’ table.

Tuesday, May 15th:
I spent the morning waiting for a load. About 1300, I recieved and accepted a PrePlan that picks up tomorrow at 1000 AM in Tolleson, AZ and delivers in Salt Lake City, UT. That is a 280 mile deadhead, but at least it gets me out of here. I’ll drive to Tolleson this evening after it cools down a bit.