I talked earlier with Memama at the hospital. She said Pepa had a pretty good night. I asked if they were making any headway with the treatments the doctors chose to do over doing surgery and she told me she didn't think so. However, the family Medical Revue Office (Pat) called me to ask me to do a task for Memama and she told me she thought Pepa was much improved and the treatments being very effective. In fact pat thinks we could be moving Pepa home possibly Tuesday. (Of course all this is guess-timation).

Pat reported that Pepa had another very lucid day, so maybe they have figured out what meds he can take and what he can't. She said they have had a steady flow of company. The weekend doctor took Pepa off his lasix yesterday and this morning he had gained five pounds. Wow. Pat said the weekend doctor would probably correct that today.

I have been trying to figure some things that are kind of out of the ordinary for my weekend to do's. One driver is having money difficulties and he just finished his first year and wants to draw vacation pay instead of taking time off. (It sure is early in the year to make a commitment like this. He may regret this later.). Of course one thing in the back of my mind is that he could quit and just be trying to max out everything. This driver is the one we had so much trouble insuring. He is a good driver, but has an abrasive demeanor and personality. Last week his truck went down and I told him we would fix it in the shop. He told me he wasn't going to work in the shop for wages, he would rather draw unemployment. I told him it might be a problem to draw unemployment since he had rejected work. After four days he showed up for work.

I am no longer a fugitive from justice. I got my inspection sticker on the Explorer yesterday. I have put about a thousand miles on the vehicle since it came out of the shop. It had a hole that was the result of corrosion of the lower intake manifold. It was about a five week project to find one. Guess where I finally found one? Arrow Ford, right here in Abilene. They had special ordered it for someone and they never picked it up. Lucky for me! I was concerned that the engine might have gotten hot enough to do some damage, but so far absolutely no oil consumption. In fact the only thing I can gripe about is there is a vacuum leak and the cab blower doesn't move from defroster.

I am planning on moving a driver out of one truck into another one tomorrow. I am hopeful this proves to be a good move, for us and for this driver.

Krl has this driver coming in today at 1. She is meeting with him to try to straighten out a few problems they had last week (his first). He was supposed to come in yesterday but chose to go to a birthday party instead. No phone call or anything he just didn't show up. Biggest problem was his paperwork was due in yesterday. (If I get paperwork on Saturday I can get billing done and in the mail, two days up on Monday!).

I am fixing to get around and go to Regional to check on Donal and Maretha. Hopefully they will have him on the floor.

This afternoon I have to get together the IRS and SSA copies of 1099's and 1096 and W-4's and W-3 to go in the mail Monday. Thankfully the end of February fell on a Sunday!

Have a day!

FATHER, thank YOU for turning my week around.