Twelve bells and all is not well. That is nothing new.

Both docks are behind. I began calling for additional units shortly after seven this morning. We have one seed truck without a driver, the wrecked truck is out and one of the lease contractors broke down night before last. We are hubbing it at all fronts. Temporary help should be in route by now and help for the remainder of the year should be here between now and Wednesday!

The broken down truck lost a turbocharger. There was one parts store in Lubbock with one in stock. Their price $3400. Or the trucker could order one in this morning for $2100. To me that is a no brainer!

I had a really productive Friday morning preparing hourly payroll and moving right into bale spreads and settlements. By Twelve noon I had completed both. That left seed settlements, but I usually don't rush on them because tickets aren't turned in until mid afternoon, especially if the drivers are running predominately nights. I had built all my models, spread them into the different units and had very few holes to fill. Finally about three I went into the office with my laptop to enter the final data. By three-thirty I was back in my trailer tabulating and entering deductions. I was about fifteen minutes away from saving and printing when my computer blinked and the excel file was gone. Try as I might I could not resuscitate it. Crazy thing was my computer kept telling me the file was still open but it was no where to be found!

About five yesterday afternoon I began re-entering all the weeks data. Thankfully, it was not a really big week. Seventy-six loads I believe, and that was enough. This morning I got up and began spreading them into different unit settlements and finally entering all the fuel and or driver deductions.

You have no idea how frustrated I was!

I have been told I need to change my storage media. I am in a habit of saving to a floppy. I thought I would save to a CD this year but when I tried it I experienced some problems so I went back to the floppy. Greg, another contractor out here told me I need to go to a USB key. I think I am fixing to do something.

This morning I am saving to floppy and hard drive. I guess I need a flash drive for my old printers to tell my floppy disks and my laptop how fulfilling it was when I hauled all my old HP printers out to the driveway and held them overhead to punish them before depositing them in our dumpster!

I have talked a couple of times with K.O. this morning. We are bouncing ideas off one another, trying to develop a plan that benefits my program and his and also would provide some help (either trailers or complete rigs) for Fred's bunch. This year it is either feast or famine, I don't think it matters what plant you are at.

Have a day!

FATHER, expand me!