Generally speaking, I like what I do. I enjoy being on the move and having a schedule that keeps everything interesting. Each day a different place. It keeps away that boredom that causes me to do things like seek other jobs due to simple tedium. But the hours genuinely suck. I work more than ANYBODY else I know. Typical work weeks are 80-100 hours if you count all the time I spend waiting around for people to load or unload or otherwise waste my time.
So, it is a real treat when once in a great while fortune shines brightly on me. I'm 34 years old and I do believe I've been a James Bond fan for nearly as much time. I've had my eye on "Casino Royale" since I first heard about Pierce Brosnan being sacked from the part. While I've held the opinion that he was excellent in the role, I kept an open mind about the change. After all... Pierce IS getting on up there in years and the last thing we need is another decrepit old man (read: Roger Moore) playing the part.
Anyhow... tonight two good things happened. The first one was that I had about 40 miles to travel without a trailer. The significance of that is simple... it allowed me a lot more flexibility in where I could drive. In other words, a movie theatre parking lot.
The second good thing that happened was that my lack-of-trailer coincided with opening night of "Casino Royale". Schwing! So I pulled on in to a cinema in Wherever, Kentucky and got myself a seat for the bargain price of $8.75. That actually IS a bargain for an evening showing since movies in the RI area are usually over ten bucks. (Plus parking if you're enough of a sucker to see movies at Providence Place Mall).
The movie was interesting to say the least. Different from most others in some ways. I've read a number of the books by either Ian Fleming or the other authors who have carried on the Bond tradition after Fleming's death. This movie is much more true to the Bond of the books than the sensationalism that the movies have sorta turned into over the last four decades. Colder. More calculating. Perhaps even brutal. It was refreshing... if I can say that without sounding like a psychopath. It also presented itself as Bond's first assignment... after having just become one of the double-O's. Fitting perhaps, since "Casino Royale" was his first Bond novel. (Incidentally "Dr. No" was the first movie but Fleming's fifth book in the series).
I wont give any plot details away to those who haven't yet seen the movie or read the book. Suffice to say that I approve of Daniel Craig as well as this new direction for Bond films. I think anyone who is familiar with the novels would probably feel similarly. This is Bond the way he was always supposed to be.
So, it is a real treat when once in a great while fortune shines brightly on me. I'm 34 years old and I do believe I've been a James Bond fan for nearly as much time. I've had my eye on "Casino Royale" since I first heard about Pierce Brosnan being sacked from the part. While I've held the opinion that he was excellent in the role, I kept an open mind about the change. After all... Pierce IS getting on up there in years and the last thing we need is another decrepit old man (read: Roger Moore) playing the part.
Anyhow... tonight two good things happened. The first one was that I had about 40 miles to travel without a trailer. The significance of that is simple... it allowed me a lot more flexibility in where I could drive. In other words, a movie theatre parking lot.
The second good thing that happened was that my lack-of-trailer coincided with opening night of "Casino Royale". Schwing! So I pulled on in to a cinema in Wherever, Kentucky and got myself a seat for the bargain price of $8.75. That actually IS a bargain for an evening showing since movies in the RI area are usually over ten bucks. (Plus parking if you're enough of a sucker to see movies at Providence Place Mall).
The movie was interesting to say the least. Different from most others in some ways. I've read a number of the books by either Ian Fleming or the other authors who have carried on the Bond tradition after Fleming's death. This movie is much more true to the Bond of the books than the sensationalism that the movies have sorta turned into over the last four decades. Colder. More calculating. Perhaps even brutal. It was refreshing... if I can say that without sounding like a psychopath. It also presented itself as Bond's first assignment... after having just become one of the double-O's. Fitting perhaps, since "Casino Royale" was his first Bond novel. (Incidentally "Dr. No" was the first movie but Fleming's fifth book in the series).
I wont give any plot details away to those who haven't yet seen the movie or read the book. Suffice to say that I approve of Daniel Craig as well as this new direction for Bond films. I think anyone who is familiar with the novels would probably feel similarly. This is Bond the way he was always supposed to be.
dr_lizardo:
Thanks. Sfik can always be bought; 130-140K for a nice Kenworth or Pete. From what I gather from the older instructors here truckers used to be a much more highly regarded group of people than they are now. Culture changes and there's not much you can really do about it, except to be gracious and professional yourself.
dr_lizardo:
That's pretty much what I've thought about whatever they govern your speed at, just get up to that speed, set your cruise control, and go. Some guys are real committed to using the gearbox though. I woud imagine that it might be rather disconcerting at first if you've always been using downshifts to slow down, to then rely on the automatic transmission to do that for you, and to not know exactlly what it's doing and not be in direct control of it. On the other h and if you have to stop real quickly maybe it would be better to have the transmission taking care of those downshifts.