I never got time to get on the 'puter yesterday, and that should tell you something.

What you might not know is that it started Thursday morning. Truck 20 came in to load seed and while he was loading the truck developed a throttle sensor problem. It wouldn't come off idle. Add to this the fact the driver over loaded and had to back inside the storage building to off load and when he began to pull out, the clutch went out.

Jake sent me another truck and when it arrived several hours later, we had the task of unhooking a disabled unit from a loaded trailer. This is often tedious when you have mobility. Thankfully, we pulled this off without incident. We hooked the replacement truck up and I made my rounds to return and find the truck still sitting. The driver said he had an air leak and the brakes wouldn't release. This driver is pretty taxing and I just wanted him gone! I began to look and check things out and first thing I discovered was air coming from a dispersal valve on the back of the truck where the trailer lines attach. I messed with this a while until Cowboy, another driver who once was a mechanic. arrived and began helping me. We finally determined that the valve was bad and I removed one from the first truck and installed in on the replacement unit. No luck. Air was still escaping. We chased over and under this unit from one end to the other until about one in the morning. Long before this the driver had disappeared.

I went to the trailer and ate supper and showered before finally laying down about two. When my eyes sprang open it was five-thirty and I was dreaming of the truck with the problem. I finally decided it had to be a brake chamber leaking through and I began trying to isolate which one it was. No luck. Jake and their shop man arrived and the man began doing the same diagnostic things I had been doing. Finally he determined it was a dispersal valve on the trailer that rather than charging the trailer storage was bleeding directly into the service side of the valve causing it to bleed back to the truck. He removed the valve and I gave Jake directions to a trailer place in Midland.

For several days Krl and I had been trying to get into Midland and Odessa to pick up parts for trucks and forklifts, and by yesterday we even had a few grocery items we needed. We weren't too far behind Jake going into town.

We got our parts, Jake got his. Highlight of Krl and my day was going to Chili's. We love and miss civilization. It was great. While we were running errands, Jake called and told me the truck was fixed! Hallelujah! Before we got home Jake called and told me the truck was in Lamesa and had a blowout!

Sometimes you can't catch a break.

I gave Jake the information for a tire service in Lamesa and he relayed the info to the driver.

Now I have to reassemble the broken down truck sitting on the yard.

One of the parts we picked up on our trek was a control board for a travel trailer water heater. Once shift change had occurred, I went into Delfino's trailer (he was on duty) and I removed and replaced the board. Dang the luck, the heater still doesn't want to light. Next repair will be to replace the thermostat but our supply place didn't have one yesterday.

This morning on my rounds I found we are enjoying a tremendous inventory of product at every orifice of the plant. In other words, we are behind!

Oh well. I'm just not going to stress.

Thankfully we are having a maintenance Sunday.

Today I will spend working on the computer! Driver and truck settlements.

IF things go well, either one or both of us will make the mad dash to Abilene tomorrow.

I need a day to decompress.

Rian called me and said he and Erica and the boys were going to Dallas to see one of the youth from their church who had a brain tumor removed. Before the day was out Rian and his next door neighbor (behind him) and the youth minister were making the trip instead of Rian's family. When Rian called it had already turned into a man trip. They were deciding where to eat and had even thrown in a football game. Ma Allen's buffet in Sweetwater for supper and the Abilene-Permian ball game in Abilene. We even had to make a bet on the outcome. I took Abilene and seven and a half points. Permian won by seven.

I have big plans for that dollar I won, even though I know it won't have the impact that the $100 I won from Rian had a couple years ago on the BCS Championship game. Heh. That year Krl and I put another nine hundred with the hundred and sent it to healing hands for disaster relief. Heh. I have his number! Of course that is a drop in the bucket for disaster relief.

I better close. I have calls to make and keys to punch. If you are fortunate enough to get a weekend, enjoy it!

Pray for us, that this mad frenzy will fall in place.

FATHER, my body aches, it is tired and sore. My mind is frizzing. My soul needs a recharge of YOU. Renew and refresh me. Make me new, make me what YOU want me to be. Give me YOUR peace, YOUR patience.