Let’s start this post out on a bright note with some great news;  my request to move to the Home Run team has been approved!  Tenatively I begin on 07/24 with a week off, and then go on the “two on/one off schedule”.  I can’t tell you what a lift that has been for my sagging spirit.  I’m out for 20 days this run and the prospect of a week off afterward (not to mention that I’ll not have to go out for this long again) has made the first few days fly by.

At the moment I’m in Graniteville, SC awaiting my next load, having just made a run to Paris, TX and back since Thursday.  And I wouldn’t mind a few more of those, ’cause it was a nice drive out and back.  It was wet in TX, as has been reported on the news, but I was fortunate enough to miss any problems with high water and/or washed-out roads.  There has been rain most of the way out and back though, and I suspect the rainy weather might be finally moving to the east.

There have been a couple of comments recently that I want to respond to at length, but that will have to wait until I have more time.  Until then happy days and good health to all…