STRAYCAT’S DOGGONE BLOG

Life Day 22379: Sedentary in Salt Lake City, UT

October 19, 2008 on 1:01 pm | In On The Road |

While I am able to get a connection, let me update this BLOG. Not much to relate, but I’m feeling productive today.

Yesterday, Saturday the 18th, I had a Black Bear breakfast of bacon, eggs, hash browns, a grilled biscuit w/ honey, and hot tea. Then, I drove here to Salt Lake City. I stopped in Winnemucca and Wells, NV along the way. When I checked in at the consignee, I discovered that I was ahead of schedule. They said that I couldn’t drop the load until Monday, so I took it to our terminal and T-called it there. I set my PTA for this morning at 0800 because I used all of my available hours yesterday getting here.

Today is going slowly. Little or no freight. I requested ‘home time’, so I may be here until tomorrow. So far today, I have replaced all of the lights on my truck (marker and tail) with LED lamps, and figured out how to change the read-out on the thermometer in my driver’s mirror from Celsius back to Fahrenheit. While driving in the rain in New York a couple of weeks ago, I hit a bump, and the read-out changed to Celsius. I’ve been ‘doing the math’ ever since. A real pain. I asked a few of the mechanics in the shop how to change it back, but none of them knew anything about it. As a last resort, I consulted my Owners Manual. The process was quite convoluted. It involved blocking the light source for 5 seconds, then exposing the light source again for 5 more seconds. This process had to be repeated 5 times within 1 minute to make the desired change (3 times to let the computer know that you want to make a change, then 1 to turn the display off, then 1 more to change to Fahrenheit). See what I mean by convoluted. It took me two tries to get it right. The only other option was to disassemble the mirror to access the reset button.

Later, I may remove the insect collection from my windshield. This I’ll probably accomplish by washing the truck, if I can get motivated. May as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The automatic truck wash here at the terminal is out of service today, so I’ll have to go elswhere if I decide to wash it.

In case you’re curious, here is the formua for converting temperature from degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit:
Multiply by 9,
divide by 5,
and add 32.
To convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius:
Subtract 32,
multiply by 5,
and divide by 9.
Zero degrees Celsius is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the freezing point of water at Sea Level.
100 degrees Celsius is 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the boiling point of water at Sea Level.