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OK, thanks!

the first part of this is hilarious...

no, but I probably would if I knew where to get one...

I went to the physical getting place in Lynchburg this morning because my DOT physical expired yesterday. I passed another one, but it gets harder every time...passing the physical that is. I went into an examination room with a smoking hot twenty something nurse practitioner named Alexandria. She checked my blood pressure and it was 158 over 88, I think. So she told me to lay on the table on my left side and she'd come back in 15 minutes to check it again. She came back and checked it again while I was still laying down, in my right arm this time- and it was higher than the first time. So she said we'll wait 15 more minutes. The next time the door opened it was an older, and not near as hot, nurse who came in and said "let's try it again- think about being at the beach...take a deep breath...ok, you're good. You were only two points high at first, so you're ok." The BP is the main thing that had me worried, it had been a little high the last couple of times i'd been to the eye doctor. But, i'm good for 2 more years now. I've got a load of pipes at the yard going to somewhere on rt. 135 just east of Oakland, Md. for Monday. I delivered that van load that I picked up in Columbus to Slocum Adhesives in Lynchburg Monday morning. Pretty tight spot up in there... Picture from Afton Mountain, looking to the south. I did a google image search for "old fart" and this came up first- I was passing through Colonial Heights the other day on the way to Petersburg from Milton and thought I saw a C model Mack. I also got a new shed. It's bigger than the old shed. Cooled off some too. Nice pickup!

Yes, that's a good store too- I was thinking of what I was going to get to eat from the deli all the way up there, the food is great. When I got to Keystone I slogged across the wet alfalfa field in the pouring rain over to the store. My feet were soaking wet, even in my "waterproof" boots, and I was just soaked from the waist down. And the store was closed. They had a sign on the door saying they closed at 5 that day so they could have their Christmas banquet. So, I slogged back across the field in the pouring rain and had beany-weenys.

Hard to read, but I just noticed the fine print at the bottom-

...After I unloaded in Schaefferstown and went to Wellsville and got the load of aluminum logs that I unloaded in Prince George, Va. I saw this nice looking Ford truck in Crewe, Va. I didn't even see the voting booth there until I put the pictures on the computer. Then I took a van load to Chester, W.V. Had to go all the way to Columbus to get a return load, coming right back to Lynchburg. I-70 was shut down around the 2-hunnert mile marker because of an accident, so I got off on rt.40 to go around. I knew 40 was all good, because i'd delivered some wooden crane mats over there a couple of years ago...except that now the ramp was closed where you got back on I-70 because of construction. The guys at the construction site said to "turn left, go down to a crossroad where you can turn left, right, or keep straight, and turn left and it'll take you back to rt. 40." So I did, and found myself behind two other trucks. And when we made that left at the crossroads we were on a dirt road. There was a Deka truck, a Keen truck with the loader, and me- with a 53' 13-6 van- on a snow covered dirt road, trying to get back to the big road. We finally got back to rt.40, then went back to I-70, and got in line about an hour or so behind where we were to begin with, and sat there for another hour. The only good part about it was that Dolly Parton happened to be right beside me. These folks were behind me- ...and since seat cover season is pretty much over unless you're in sunny south Florida, here's a girl in a car picture from the interweb- and here's another girl in a car picture from the interweb- And here's a big Mack truck I used to drive, I scanned the picture from a photo album- digital cameras and the interweb hadn't been invented then. another big Mack truck I used to drive- And a bike I used to have, A 750 Kawasaki. Pretty bike,eh? I traded it in on an LTD1000 Kawasaki, which was just an awesome machine.

I've been working on cleaning up where my shed used to be, so I can start on getting a replacement shed- I borrowed this magnet on wheels from work, it's got a super-strong magnet on it, i've been rolling it to and fro trying to pick up as many screws, nails, wrenches, sockets, etc. as possible. So, I get to the shop last Sunday and some jackass had dropped a trailer right in front of my truck, in the middle of everywhere. No problems though, plenty of room to get out- Saw this mud bogger in S.C. somewhere. Saw this BJ and the Bear looking truck in Charlotte, N.C. I took a load of steel to Columbia, S.C. then went to Earhardt,S.C. and got a load of posts going to Schaefferstown, Pa.

fine then...

That's why randyp hasn't been on here lately, everybody makes fun of his fleet.

more deletions, more distractions-

I've been deleting some of my attachments from the site, but I get distracted by girls in cars a lot. for example- that's some nice ones! I took a few pictures this week too. Sandstone mountain- Brought 20 pallets of buckets of nuts and bolts from Itasca, Il. to Norfolk Southern in Roanoke. I saw a chrome building in Chicago. ...And the Sears Tower. A big rodent. Billboard advertising a gentleman's club- maybe the best name ever for a gentleman's club!

that's funny Bob! And no Ed, I just saw it on the facebook and thought it was hilarious!

No Vlad, the tarp is real. I got it Friday and draped it over the corner until I can get the siding replaced.

I agree 100%

You're exactly right about that, I was spraying the siding on the house with the garden hose the whole time the shed was burning to keep it from igniting. I was just sitting here going over my list of what was in there, and looking at Northern Tool, Lowes, True Value, and Wal Mart websites trying to figure out the value. I'm up over $2500 already and i'm sure I forgot some things.

I've never heard of anyone having anything bad to say about the man.

I had three plastic gas cans in there too, along with the metal one. One metal one was empty and was outside the shed, I just kept it because it was old.

The crew got it on the road pretty quick-

I went over to the shop and got a tarp yesterday- Stopped by the store in Winfall on the way home...

As a matter of fact, they're inspecting things now!

I'm out of likes again, but I agree 100%!

If you can save the picture to your PC instead of posting directly from your phone you can resize the picture first, that's what I do. Well, I put them from my camera to the PC, I don't take many phone pictures. I don't know if you can resize them with a smart phone, or change the settings to make the pictures you take smaller, I still use a Motorola flip phone.

Overnite was a non-union company, the largest non-union co. I believe, and just about everybody that worked there talks about what a great company it was to work for before UPS took them over. They have an Overnite facebook page for former workers, have reunions, etc. but I haven't seen or heard any of them say anything about it being great after UPS.