Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

I don't suppose my Pee-S-A post went over very well, huh? Only two comments? Geeze... oh well. I hope that if you took the time to read it you got a good chuckle. If not, the perhaps you actually learned a little bit of common courtesy that you will use in the future. Either way, my job in public potty's is done... for now. Things have been crazy as all hell this week. As some of you may have been aware, Kenny has been misbehaving lately. It started out with small nuances with shifting from the low to high gears, missing a gear here and there. But his problems gradually got worse with each passing day. Late last week he started something new and completely annoying. Empty or loaded, when it was time to pull up an incline he would throw a tantrum and decide that he didn't want to be in cruise control. "Fine, be that way," I told him. "I'll just stomp on your throttle pedal and show YOU who's boss." Well he didn't like that very much either. Ev...

Okay. Listen up folks. This is for every one's benefit. Consider it a Public Service Announcement . If you walk into a public restroom to find the stall doors closed, you should do one of two things before barreling into the first closed door you come to: 1) Knock . This was probably a lesson your mother and/or father taught you at a very young age. A lesson to be applied where any and all doors are concerned. It protects you and whomever might be behind said closed door(s) from any embarrassing situations. 2) Check for feet . Doing a quick crouch to check for just feet inside the stall is simple and less invasive than just pushing or pulling open a door to see if a whole person is sitting on the toilet. Either of these options are acceptable in any public restroom at any time of day. Use of both options doubles your chances of avoiding embarrassment. If for some reason you feel compelled to forgo either of these preventative procedures, do not... I repeat DO NOT get pissed off ...

I'm still alive. I've just not felt like blogging. My momma always told me, if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. So that's what I've been living up to for the past few weeks. I haven't had anything out of the ordinary happen, nothing new and special I felt the need to blog about or share. I've been truckin' my happy little butt off and relaxing in the time I'm not stuck behind the wheel. I've read a few books, caught up with friends and family, and just enjoyed the autumn evenings as much as I can. In a nutshell, I've been enjoying some ME time. I'll get back to regular blogging before too long I suppose. In the meantime, check out some of the blogs I follow (over there on the right of the page) and enjoy them! I'll be back... :o)

Well I've been sick as a dog for the past few days, sitting at a terminal in Illinois trying to get well. I visited a doctor, who I swear was younger than me and who had never seen someone suffering so much from a simple sinus infection. Honestly, I've never suffered so much from a simple sinus infection either. I thought I had contracted some mutant strain of the H1N1 and was sure to die. But nope, just a sinus thing that antibiotics will cure. I'm on my way to recovery. yay As I sit here this morning waiting for a work assignment to get me moving again, I figured I'd take some time to filter out some of the junk I've let sit in my e-mail inbox for only heaven knows how long. And have so far deleted over 200 messages. I don't know why I keep them in the first place, if it's important information I move it to a special folder... the rest just ends up sitting in the inbox taking up space. And that's what I'm going through now. It's intere...

I think that one of the worst things to deal with as an over-the-road truck driver is getting sick. Right now I'm in the midst of a nasty-wasty head cold that is really bumming me out. I have sinus congestion, a mild cough/sore throat, and maybe even a low grade fever. And it sucks donkey balls! Plus, I don't have anyone to tend to my needs.... you know, to bring me chicken soup and tell me I'll be ll better soon... and that sucks too. But I'm tough, and I'll tough it out like a "real trucker". Speaking of real truckers... what is it exactly that makes one a real trucker anyway? I was told during my company provided driver training course that until you hit the one year mark of being over-the-road, you were merely a "driver of a truck". And that you didn't earn the title of "truck driver" until after one year's worth of real-life experience. I considered myself a truck driver from day one, mysel. I had chosen a career path...

Seems that things in Dell-land are doing much better. My computer even seems to be running a little smoother since getting rid of that icky Trojan virus. Hooray! Not only is my laptop kicking butt, so is my new Apple iPhone 3G. It's not the newest, biggest and bestest iPhone, but it's good enough for me. I bought it this past weekend! Although I'm still having some trouble figuring things out. Heck, the gal that sold it to me at the AT&T Store showed me all sorts of helpful things as a sort of mini-tutoring session. The one thing she didn't show me.... how to make a friggin' phone call! haha I had all of my contacts transferred over from my old phone's SIM card so when I went to try to make a call to one of my contacts I kept getting a simple info screen for the contact I'd selected. And I kid you not when I admit that it took me a full 8 minutes to figure out how to make a call. Once that was accomplished, things were going great. That is until ...

Last night my Dell Inspiron 1521 was very ill. I had been surfing the Internet all afternoon with no problems. Then all of a sudden, it just shut down in the middle of what I was doing. I let the computer turn itself off, waited a bit and then turned it back on. I keep my desktop password protected and after I logged in, things started loading up as usual. But about 15 second in, it decided it didn't want to do what I wanted it to do, and it shut itself down again. Bugger. This continued to happen four more times before I gave up and called tech support. The FIRST call to tech support got me nowhere. Dell's tech support is located in India and while they speak English, some of them don't speak it very well or very clearly. The representative and I had a very hard time communicating and he seemed fit to be tied with my problem. He said he was going to place my call on hold and get someone to assist him in figuring it out... but he never came back. After a few minute...