September7 - aaaah, a fine dinner

could get home. Instead, Aline met me at the Flying J and we had dinner together. All in all, a very nice evening.

Not quite enough time to get the load to loveland and still have time to drive back to the yard or some other place to park for the night, so opted to spend the night in Watkins. With the weather folks on the radio making “thunderstorm” noises, this could be an incredible night.

Appointment is for 16:00 tomorrow, so I can sleep late (like I never get that chance) and still easily make the delivery.

I think I'm going to talk to Mindy tomorrow and see if I can be moved to the reefer fleet. I'm fairly happy with my shifting – which is why I wanted to work W11; the mountains give lots of practice moving that big-ass lever around. I've not ground the gears in a long time, now. Seems I now need more practice trip planning. I really muffed that nursery load. The current load, I could have driven a lot more easily than I did, and timed my arrival for tomorrow – but I'd rather do it this way. If they take me early, fine. If not, fine. But I'm not late, and THAT is important.

Who knows, I may talk to Danny and see if that trainer position is still open...