Another LTL post

Once again it’s an LTL post cause I have stuff to say but not about any particular subject. I guess the first thing is that I decided to get rid of Driver’s Lounge at least for now. As it turns out it was a lot of fun to create and figure out how to set up but not fun at all to update. What with already having one job I don’t like and all, I decided to just take it down. No big deal.

Another thing is that I remembered that we have a Road Pics page that I haven’t updated in forever. Not that I haven’t been taking tons of photos, just that I usually post them here and forgot that I was supposed to be updating that page until Belledog reminded me. So there’s a new set of pictures over there on Road Pics taken at a shipper we were at yesterday in New Jersey. You might be able to guess before you even click the link that those pics aren’t going to look much like this pic of the receiver we delivered at in Arkansas before we went home. Except that they each have a bridge and they both have train tracks, they could be from different worlds.

View from the docks of our receiver in Arkansas

Let’s see… oh you’ll be happy to know that Belledog is in the process of setting out on her trucking journey. There are already a couple of posts over on Road Test and I’m sure more will be coming soon. She is busy getting ready right now to head off to trucking school in a couple of weeks so lots of exciting experiences are heading her way in the near future. I’m sure all of you old pro drivers can remember how nervous you were when you started out, so I hope you will all pop over and visit her. Your insights and advice could make this transition period go as smoothly as possible for someone who really wants to become one of us and to become a credit to the craft. If nothing else remember that in a couple of months she could be the driver backing into a tight space next to you at the Flying J in the middle of the night and think how much better you’d feel then if she were as knowledgeable as possible.

On a different note, have been having a ball with the stock market. Was up a couple hundred dollars until the other day when I was forced to enact a new rule. If you were awake all day and then up all night driving an eleven hour shift… no more buying stocks the next morning until after you’ve slept. Seriously. Only lost a few bucks thanks to pretty tight stop-orders, but what a bonehead move, huh? On the other hand, I got bumped out of a couple of stocks I wanted to hold because my trailing stop orders were too tight and they got hit during a drawback. I’m going to have to keep working on where to set my stop orders for maximum protection but still loose enough to let winners run. On the bright side, I’m getting a lot better at reading the chart indicators which is nice. You’re all starting to nod off right now, aren’t you? I can feel it. Ok. Ok. We’ll just move on.

"I've been everywhere, man... breathed the mountain air, man..."

Well, we can’t just move on because I can’t think of anything else to say. And besides, how is it that no one but me finds the stock market interesting? I mean fortunes are made and lost… battles rage… traders pit their wits against each other in a zero sum game. What’s not to love?

Oh yeah, I took this wild photo in Jersey. I was trying to get a shot of the guy backing right by the nose of the truck because he was having to cut by us so close but the map reflected in the windshield. That is his tandem tire showing through the map on the right hand side. Seriously weird looking, huh?