OKC.. heh heh. Home of the Unibomber among other things. Or was he from somewhere else? Yeah, anyway... Thor and I stayed here last night. We're headed out to California with a load of tires we picked up in Alabama the other day. This load delivers to Sears out near Bakersfield on Friday.
There were problems at Michelin during the pick up. I didn't get a pickup number which was needed to secure the paperwork. I called my company and got the run around as usual. It took about an hour but I finally got it. Then I went to drop my empty trailer in the back of the lot and it wouldn't disengage from the king pin. I worked at it for another hour trying various things to knock it loose but it was jammed.
I ended up calling for on road service to come out and help me. They took another hour to show up and charged $275 to get it unhooked! I'm in the wrong business. Whatever. Anyway what should have been a 15 minute drop and hook turned into a 3 1/2 hour ordeal.
Oh well. I'm on the road now and will be able to see my punky kid at Christmas so I guess it's not that big of a deal. I'm used to things like this happening by now anyway.
The weather is fair. It stays about 50 - 55 during the day and drops into the upper 30's at night. No rain or snow though. I've been watching an episode of 24 (The season 4 DVD) each night before I go to bed. It's a great season. Although I'm a huge fan, I thought that season 3 was beginning to head downhill. It was good but I think it just wasn't as good as it could have been. Season 4 makes up for it though. I also saw that season 5 will be doing a 4 hour premiere in January!! Kewl.
My kid is looking forward to seeing me at X-mas... or maybe she's just looking forward to taking possession of my Jeep... hmmmmmm....
We're heading to Albuquerque, NM today and then Wednesday we'll drive to Needles, CA and finish up on Thursday to Bakersfield. After this drop I need to stay on the west coast until after the holiday or I may not get back in time. I anticipate a load headed to Washington.