I am so tired. For the life of me I cannot sleep for more than a few minutes at a time. Usually my shoulders wake me, but I have learned that if I take a different medication every night I can get some relief. Advil, Excedrin PM, Aleeve, Night time cold and flu, and Percogesic. If I will rotate between those listed above, I get much better results than taking the same thing repeatedly.

One of my co-workers asked me yesterday if I thought it was possible that my sub-consciousness won't allow me to go into a deep sleep because of what happened with Fred and Tj.

That's interesting.

Just had a call from Rian. He and Erica had been to the doctor this morning. They had scheduled taking the baby December 20, or two weeks from tomorrow. This morning the doctor moved it up a week to the thirteenth. So, Drew Degan knows when his debut will be.

I'll bet he's born naked.

Rian said he thought Colby and Courtney were having their baby on the thirteenth as well.

I couldn't resist kidding Rian about what is their deal with the thirteenth. Reid's birthday is August 13, Drew will be December 13. Of course Holt's is January 12 as is his mother. Rian is probably pretty lonely at August 23.

I'll make it double or nothing that Colby and Courtney's baby is born naked too!

Things are looking up here at the jobsite. If things go well, we will finally be at our max with seed trucks. Before the season began this year, the GM and board told me they wanted me to cut the number of trucks delivering to the oil mill. I did. Then the board and the GM discovered that all of the seed they were selling had to be delivered to the oil mill for pickup. Duh! I wonder if they read these contracts or if they hear the dollar amount and nothing else. So all the sudden they wanted more trucks. I had tried to notify all of my sub-contractors that the number of trucks would be down in order for them to try to find other work. By the time I knew I needed them back many had commitments they needed to fulfill. But, by the end of day. I think we will be on top of things once again.

On the bale dock, things were not so rosy. One of the night drivers didn't go home and rest yesterday, he went to Abilene instead. I had a call telling me he was only going to do one load last night because he had an upset stomach (which is his usual excuse when his performance has been sub-standard).

Lucky for me, a former driver walked in wanting a job.

That man now has a job and the other driver has been relegated to backup role.

The sword is two sided.

The craziest thing happened yesterday. I sent a trailer in with a possible wheel bearing problem. It is one of the newer trailers that does not use tapered bearing which run in gear oil. It uses sealed bearing that are pressed on. We discovered a broken hub cap day before yesterday and engineered an emergency fix, notified Mr. Harris of the trailer coming in and our need for a replacement trailer. He told me bring it on because we had an extra on the yard. LM dropped the problem trailers, picked up the replacement and returned to the compound. This morning the problem trailer was back on the yard. One of the night drivers brought it back.

I get the feeling one hand doesn't know what the other is doing.

In the beginning it really aggravated me, then I could almost hear Fred laughing about it.

So I guess we will temp fate once again. It went a hundred eight miles in without incident and then returned those same one hundred eight miles empty without incident. Now we will look at trying to do it once again. At least a half dose.

What are the odds................... of it making it without problems?

What are the odds................... it will come back again?

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for laughter. Sometimes it is all that keeps me from crying!