November elections take place Tuesday. The "hot" ballot item appears to be the proposed "Career Tech High School" that civic and district leaders are pushing.

I kind of feel, this was rushed to get it on the ballot. Both sides have been very active promoting their stance.

I have decided to vote against it.

I will back up and give you some of my reasoning. $25 million dollars in bonds will raise annual taxes less than ten dollars for each home owner in Abilene, so the issue is not necessarily money. My first inclination is to utilize some of the facilities that sit empty.

Or, if I may be allowed to back up to the last bond election. I supported the single high school. I still do. Combine the single high school with the career tech school and I would come on board and support both

I won't delve beyond that at this point.

My stint on the big truck was hard. I am out of road and driving condition. I left Sunday morning, picked up the truck and laid in sleeper berth until the time I was supposed to come on duty. Notice I didn't say I slept in the sleeper berth. And, luckily the driver logs only distinguish between driving, off duty, on duty not driving and sleeper berth.

Monday when I came off duty, I was ready for some sleep. I took a shower and laid down to be wakened by my phone after only five minutes rest. That disrupted the remainder of my afternoon.

I finally decided to go back to the job site where I could turn off my phone and yet if they needed me early I could come on duty. Thankfully the plant did not run to0 well the second night and I slept a portion of it. It all worked out because I did twenty-five percent more than the plan called for the first night.

We are at the verge of needing to add an additional truck to the haul. K.O. and I talked about it and a driver doing an extra load once in a while is one thing while having to do an extra on a regular basis will wear them out quickly.

I have lots of little screwy things I do, especially until I get use to working nights. Use to be it involved lots of nicotine, caffeine, and sugar. For almost nine years now, the nicotine has been left out. But you could always count on me to have Diet Coke and peanut M & M's.

I will not allow myself to get too comfortable. I will keep it a little too cold in the cab, and I won't eat until I am ready to sleep. A full belly seems to be connected to my eye lids!

Long story short, I got way to little sleep and didn't eat or drink enough and by the time the regular driver relieved me, I was getting on the weak side. It has taken the remainder of the week to recover.

I'm not as young as I once was.

I returned to the parts store Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I brought the other truck driver in to do some maintenance on his seed trailer and also to help finish out some other projects. We finished up the prep work on the last forklift we had leased out and it left Friday for its seasonal home.

Saturday morning me and this driver went to Anson to do a little more checking on another of the leased out machines.

My Saturday afternoon was spent doing the quarterly reports. I drove them to the post office a half hour before the mail went out.

I spent part of my evening surfing between the world series and the UT/OSU ball game.

Today will be NASCAR and driver settlements and billing.

Hope your weekend has been a good one!

FATHER, thank YOU for the safe travel and safe work. Thank YOU for renewing me.