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RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Rhubarb - 04-21-2011
8.20am and I should be ready for work.....so why am I not even dressed?
Another hot day so it is summer dress day for the first time this year (so it will be raining and freezing cold by 4pm)
To hurry>
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - LKTraz - 04-24-2011
Ah the life of a truck driver.
I get a chance to take a decent long run for a change of scenery and I jumped at it. The trip is to just the other side of Statesville, NC. Dispatch told me earlier in the week when I grabbed it that it won't mess up my Easter Sunday because it's an 11 AM Monday appt and I can run it however I want to. That would entail pulling out around midnight Sunday night and running straight down. After I made delivery I could run 2 hours back toward home and then I'd need to go off duty for 10 hours (as required by federal hours of service regulations) and then boogie the rest of the way back and essentially have Tuesday off.
THEN on Friday morning they tell me I will also be picking up cracked eggs across the state just off of I-95.
The first delivery is as I said near Statesville which is over by I-77. The pick up is 235 miles away from the delivery and due to the time I deliver there's A) no time left for me to drive all the way there (can only run 11 hours) and B) even if I could make it there I would get there after they are closed. Bottom line......it will be a Tuesday morning (7 AM) pick up. If I run down....deliver...run across as far as I can...take 10 hrs off then run the rest of the way to the pick up, I'll likely not make it all the way back and have to take ANOTHER 10 hours about 1 - 1 1/2 hours away from home!!!!!!!!!!
Now this also messes me up because on Friday afternoon they tell me to call from the delivery site and find out if I WILL go get the eggs or just come back!!!!!!!!
WTF?
SO..........now to facilitate this POSSIBLE clusterfuck and not shoot myself in the foot for the rest of the week I have to leave TODAY, run down and take 10......deliver Monday and then run across the state, take another 10 or more hours off and pick up first thing Tues morning then run back to the plant.
:gah2::gah2:
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twitchin Kitten - 04-24-2011
Why don't they let you bring a co-pilot for such things? You can do it all in one run with no rests then. It'll cost them the same in pay really.
Are you posting this from home or the road?
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twilla - 04-24-2011
I bought myself a cute little Capricorn charm, isn't he adorable?
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - twisteroo - 04-24-2011
That's kinda neat Twilla, but now I gotta go look up Capricorn, what the hell is that, a goat with a fish tail?
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twilla - 04-24-2011
More than you ever wanted to know:
The constellation is usually depicted as a goat with a fish's tail. One myth says that when the goat-god Pan was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish.
Capricorn is sometimes depicted as a sea-goat, and sometimes as a terrestrial goat. The reasons for this are unknown, but the image of a sea-goat goes back at least to Babylonian times. Furthermore the Sumerian god Enki's symbols included a goat and a fish, which later combined into a single beast, the goat Capricorn, recognized as the Zodiacal constellation Capricornus.
"The symbol of the goat rising from the body of a fish represents with greatest propriety the mountainous buildings of Babylon rising out of its low and marshy situation; the two horns of the goat being emblematic of the two towns, Nineveh and Babylon, the former built on the Tigris, the latter on the Euphrates; but both subjected to one sovereignty."[3]
On the other hand, the constellation of capricorn is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos (in Greek mythology). The goat's broken horn was transformed into the cornucopia or horn of plenty. Some ancient sources claim that this derives from the sun "taking nourishment" while in the constellation, in preparation for its climb back northward. As such, it is a symbol of sovereignty.
(from wikipedia)
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twitchin Kitten - 04-24-2011
Oh I like that charm! Where did you get it?
You know I think I still have my good luck Capricorn on my saddle. It was a necklace my godmother gave me when I was 14 and I've had it on my saddle as a good luck charm ever since.
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twilla - 04-25-2011
An English woman on ebay has a bunch of unique and super cute charms and her shipping isn't very high.
http://shop.ebay.com/charming_ladies/m.html
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Twitchin Kitten - 04-25-2011
Wow, her prices are nice too!
RE: The Completely Pointless Thread - Rhubarb - 04-25-2011
I never knew that about Capricorn.
My mother-in-law liked to assess people by their star sign. That's why I was approved of- ideal match with a Gemini.
Forget it if you fell into the Aries sign- she had little to do with you, including grand children!