Hello eveyone. Just a few typed words today, feeling a bit lazy to do a photograph.

Just did a couple days of ridealong by way of learning how to do my glorious new job delivering boxes of stuff to the Family Dollars in the Northeast hereabouts. I was worried about not being able to lift the rollers. Turns out I can manage them. The guy who trained me on the account uses steel rollers and he prefers them to the aluminum ones, as the steel ones don't bend.

Joe my trainer is a pretty interesting character. He's two years older than me but a lot older in certain ways, he's got kids and a wife and an ex-wife and 18 years of experience driving the big rigs. Sometimes he sounds a lot like Jason Leigh's Earl. He's pretty unhappy with certain vexing things that have happened to him recently doing this job and is looking elsewhere for other jobs. I learned a new expression from him. If the directions to a store on its load manifest are accurate, they are said by him to be "Dead Nuts."

I have no idea how that expression came to be.

Myself I've been working on staying loose inside my head. Something Brad Warner's new book reminded me is that the negative impact various events in your life sometimes have on you are because of the fiction you create in your mind of how things are sposta be as opposed to how they actually are. When things don't go according to your vision, you get upset. Rather than blathering on about it I shall recomment Warner's new book Sit Down and Shut up instead. I'm trying to stay loose and to keep in mind that it is only own self that I can experience, and my own self I can fear to experience. And my own self is a construct.

Anyway, that's all I seem to have in my head at the moment worth writing about. Take care, my friends.

JBL