As I was saying...

Sitting in a fancy steakhouse. Fancy for me, anyhow.

(Between that sentence and this one, I had a nice steak with a salad bar and a baked sweet potato. Seemed rude to interrupt...)

If the steakhouse in question were anywhere but in the middle of Pedro's South of the Border, the biggest and most shameless tourist trap I've ever seen, I might feel a tad underdressed. As it is I figure they're used to it. (Their roof is a sombrero, for Pete's sake!)

This is not the usual way to end a day, believe me. But it was a very long and fairly frustrating one. And when it was over, here the place was. And I'll have to get up DARNED early in the morning, and I was in a mood.

Excuses complete. Now on to the next set.

Some of you may have noticed a gap between this post and the last one. Like, about eight months worth? If I was embarrassed before...

The reasons are many and varied, and a few have some validity. The original one involved about three MONTHS when it seemed every post would have started, "Well, the truck broke down again..." Never anything disastrous, and I was never out of action more than a day or two, but it kind of set a mood.

And I didn't really feel like dumping my moods on you. Between the three (!) trucks and their problems and the Company's clever ways of "making things better," I had a few. And maybe some aspects of my wife's death finally caught up with me, too--I don't know. No matter. Because one of the other reasons was a GOOD thing.
Business started to pick up. I don't know if we're in some kind of recovery or not, but I can say some people are shipping stuff. Enough to keep ME busy, anyway.

If you go back far enough in this blog, you'll find me saying if I have time to write, I'm not making any money. I still ain't rich, but one symptom of prosperity is definitely with me. Time is scarce, and the time time I have tends to come in scattered bits. Don't fire up the laptop, son--they'll be calling in a minute.

So I let the blog slide. A long way. Sorry.

Still don't have time. But the truck's running, more or less. And my mood's a bit better, I think. And I've got this fancy new phone I can type on! I don't have to wait for Microsoft to decide it's a nice day, anymore!

So we'll try again. The look may change--posting from a phone is bound to be different. And I won't always be this wordy with a phone keyboard. But we'll see what happens.

Tomorrow. I've gotta be up at 0400. G'nite.