I'm drinking beer and posting random shit.

• Today started out so promising. One delivery, one box, a place in Livermore I could find blindfolded.


• So why did I end up making overtime?


• Well, after making my delivery, I called in and told the rather shocked purchasing person that I was ready for pick-ups. She said she needed some time, and would call me back.


• Twenty minutes later I get told that we know for sure that there is a pick-up at Simpson.


• Problem. I was in Livermore. Simpson is in Stockton. And the highway that runs between the two was closed. Because of an idiot.


• Luckily, I am awesome. I knew that the Old Altamont Pass Road existed for just this reason. Got me past the closure and back on the freeway just outside Tracy.


• Then I find out I need to go to the Vendor in the Corn. By this point traffic was fuxxored all the way back to the 205/I-5 interchange. I had to back road all the way to Brentwood.


• Here's where I got mad. I make it back to the warehouse around noon. Harry was loaded and just about to pull out for a stop in Danville (which is normally part of my route.)


• His truck was moving, OK? He was driving towards the exit. And then he stopped.


• Because suddenly that load was mine. Because "I know the area." Fine. I'm taking lunch first. Harry takes my truck (L1114) to the shop to get a headlight fixed. I park the truck I had been using (KL1001) and move the stuff I was going to need to the loaded truck (L1089). The rest goes in Darby. I take lunch.


• Lunch ends, Harry gets back. Originally he was going to take three hot shots for San Jose. In the meantime, a Fremont stop had been added to my drive. Fine. I load the pallet.. and see Harry getting in his personal vehicle to go home.


• WTF, over? As I said, he was pulling out when I got in! This crap has to stop. I've been sent to San Francisco, Gilroy, and places I had no clue about on hot shots. The rule is you get what's up when you get in.


• Just because a stop is up 680 doesn't mean that I'm the only driver who can drive it. We're all supposed to be able to read maps, after all. Not blaming Harry, just bad decision making.


• But this stop... several hundred feet of strut. No loading area (it was an extremely upscale shopping center in Blackhawk) and the strut, weighing over 1,000lbs total, had to be lifted up onto a balcony.


• By the time all that was done. I was well on the way to overtime.


• Been reading The Poetic Edda. Just getting into it, but so far completely enthralled. Currently in the Hávamál, which is a bit like Proverbs in the Bible, but focused more on practical advice on things like being a good guest and host, how to handle food and drink, and other topics.


• This book should be required reading for anyone doing world-building for a FRPG.


• Once we've dug out the apartment, I'm planning on running a GURPS Traveller game.


• This one will be a little different. It will be a troupe-style game surrounding His Imperial Majesty's Light Cruiser Gordon Greene serving along the Solomani border in Alpha Crucis Sector.


• Each player will create one Senior character (the captain will be a NPC, but XO, department heads, the Command Master Chief.) 3 or 4 junior officers or mid-level Petty Officers, and several ratings or Marine enlisted men. That way we can have a variety of adventures tailored to different characters.


• I'd be in charge of overall plot development over the long term, but encourage others to take the chair for a session or three.


• Dibs on the Gunnery Sergeant for the ship's Imperial Marine platoon.


• The NFL continues to prove it is the No Fun League. It sent cease-and-desist letter to several small merchants in New Orleans for selling shirts saying "WHO DAT?" Who dat dates back to vaudeville. It certainly pre-dates the NFL's licensing attorneys. Then the league claimed they were only going after merchants who infringed on the Saint's logo. This is the Saint's logo.


• It's a freaking Fleur-de-Lis! One of the most common symbols in the world!


• Is the NFL going to sue Quebec next? How about the Sisters of Battle?


• The league is back-peddling faster than Brett Farve after announcing retirement.


• In shocking news, I'm actually doing something social. Going to a Super Bowl party.


• Your moment of absolute wow. Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium


• Pitchers and Catchers Report in 13 days! GO GIANTS!!!