Workout

Lifting.

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Nasty boy

These are sardines.

Yes they look disgusting.

Gotta get that postworkout protein from something.

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Wow

I smell BAAAAD! Shower for sure tonight.

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Workout

3.7 in 30 min. Pittsburgh is a nice lookin city.

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Workout

3 in 24 min. Damn rain made me stop early. Still got soaked.

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Workout

Lifting near Gary, IN

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Katie and her fiance Casey

I think they're cute!

Slacking...

Well I've kept up with my workouts but not with my posting. Kinda geeked that I've worked out the past 7 days. I am currently in South Beloit, IL enjoying my breakfast. My driving since Little Rock, AR has kinda looked like this.

Deliver Little Rock Monday morning. Wasn't a very difficult delivery. Used the lift gate to get the freight off. My hired labor guy was very competent. Apparently he used to be a communication guy in the military. His girlfriend and him had moved there to go to a small college for nursing. Chris was his name I think and I wish him the best of luck. Made one more delivery in North Little Rock then dispatch sent me down to Dallas for a load to Austin, TX.

Tuesday, made it down to Dallas the night before, dropped my trailer and grabbed an empty one. Dropped the empty at the customer and grabbed the loaded one. Drove down to Austin and made my delivery. The customer was one cool dude. He looked exactly like Kenny Rogers. Snow white longish hair and a beard. He said, "no, Kenny Rogers looks like ME!" Gotta love it. We talked beards for a bit since I still have mine. Apparently he has had his ever since he could grow a beard. His wife has never seen his face but after looking at an old high school picture she said, "I see why you have the beard." Ouch!

Dispatch sent me back to Dallas and told me to check in the next morning. I got a shower in Waco and got a leaky brake chamber fixed on my trailer on the way back.

Wednesday dispatch assigned me another load out of Dallas(same customer as the Austin load) headed up to the Twin cities in MN. I grabbed it and boogied up to KS where I got an oil change for the truck the next morning.

Thursday I continued up to the twin cities for dinner with my friend Katie again, but this time her fiance, fresh off proposing, was able to join us. Katie wasn't sick this time but she had laryngitis so she couldn't say a word, which was VERY funny.

Friday I made my delivery from Dallas and shot up north to Siren, WI for a load headed to Harrisburg, PA area. I made it about 400 miles down to the J here in South Beloit. I only have about 700 miles left and two days to do it in so I should have time for more workouts. Rockin. Gotta drive now.

Workout

3.6 in 29 min.

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Workout

Lifting in Des Moines

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Workout

3.4 in 28 min today.

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Workout

Lifting yesterday

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3.4 in 28 min

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In case anyone is interested...

Bathroom walls are fun.

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Workout

Lifting in AR

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Well then.

Haven't had a detailed post in a while. After my delivery in Cleveland area I headed down to Columbus, OH for a pickup and then down to Dry Ridge, KY so my boss could have a look at his truck. I'm out on the road most of the time so he hadn't seen it since September I think.

Got some new steer tires and new shocks and a clean bill of health for the truck. 'Twas nice to see the home office and such. The truck I drive is owned by a husband wife business. He owns about 14 trucks or so and leases them on to another company. I really don't have any complaints about working for them. My boss and I are completely different people and we'll never actually understand each other, but he likes the way I drive his truck and that's all that matters to me.

The past few days I spent making deliveries to 8 different HH Gregg stores in VA and one in MD. Maneuvering a 70 ft truck in parking lots designed for cars can get interesting.

It's done though, and I made a pickup out of Durham, NC yesterday. I am now in Knoxville, TN headed for Little Rock, AR for a Monday morn delivery. I really have plenty of time to get there so I'm chilling and following the Cleveland playoff game on my laptop. GO CAVS!

Workout

3.3 miles in 27min. Bloody westerrn NC hills. Kill me.

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Workout

Lifted yesterday. Damnit, keep forgeting to post workouts.

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Forgot a workout

lifted weights on Monday.

Workout

3.2 in 24 min

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What is wrong with me?

Went for that jog and showered up here just outside Toledo and now I'm coughing and my nose is running. Do I have allergies? I've never had them before. Whatever.

I have a dellivery tomorrow morn near Cleveland. I have to get some laundry done and clean my truck up some. I've been too much of a slob recently. 

Visited briefly with a friend last night. Crazy girl waited till I got into Toledo at 1am. She's kinda awesome like that. 

Was supposed to try and see a friend near Cleveland but I don't think I'll have time. My fault for being lazy the past few days.

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Workout

3 miles 24 min

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Lazy and melancholy.

Had a lovely day with my Aunt and she and my Uncle brought me back to my truck that night. I picked up a load yesterday out of Denver but it doesn't deliver until Monday near Cleveland. It's only about a two day drive so I basically had time to kill. I ended up finishing a book and reading oodles of news stories on the internet. I should have worked out but I just don't care about that right now. I didn't even get enough sleep. Stayed up to late. Bleh

Waiting for food in North Platte, NE currently.

Must break out of this psychological malaise.

Visiting an Aunt and cousins

So my Aunt Susie lives just south of Colorado Springs in Pueblo. After dispatch told me I was off for the rest of the day I gave her a call to see what she was up to. I figured she would be working but it turns out she had the week off. After I had lunch at a Joe's crab shack she came and got me.

I ended up having dinner down at her place. I also got to see her 2 boys which was nice as I hadn't seen them since I was 13. Really nice to see them.

The next morning I was all about getting to my truck as soon as possible, but Colorado Springs was hit with a snowstorm so we were gonna be delayed some. I let my dispatcher know and she seemed fine with it. Then she called me back later to let me know I didn't have to load until tomorrow. So now I have a day to kill in Pueblo with my Aunt!

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Pike's Peak

Say hi to the mountain.

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Colorado Springs...

Delivered in Colo. Springs. Got to use a liftgate at the destination which was lots of fun. Still had to lift heavy things. Not fun.

Thankfully the cust had 3 very able bodied guys to help. I'm about 5'9" and 165 lbs. I'm not the best guy to move heavy things.

The past three days have been, well, a lot of driving. 500+ miles yesterday, 650 miles Sun, and 689 miles Sat. I have a ton of pads to fold as you can see in the pic. I am also right next to Pike's Peak. A 14k ft mountain. So that's nice.

Hopefully dispatch keeps me running.

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Ugghh...

I'm tired. Like dog tired. 680 miles from Boise to Laramie, WY. The last 80 miles or so sucked. Old man winter made another grab at me. Blowing snow, slick spots, all sorts of fun. My drive tires lost traction going up a hill so I stomped in my clutch to keep the rig straight.

Gah, last update I made was a while ago. I did make it to Boise that night. Then up to Seattle for a delivery and another pickup bound for VA. Wed I headed down to Portland. Thurs morn pickup bound for WI. 

I'm not delivering though, dropping the trailer in St Louis and grabbing a loaded trailer bound for Colorado Springs. Hence why I'm headed back the way I just came.

I don't feel 100% but I've started working out again. We'll see how that goes.

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Workout

Lifting session in ID

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Workout

3.2 in 28 min. Back on the wagon again.

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