Sourmash in the woods

One thing about living in 'Keg County', the aroma of cooking sour mash occasionally wafts through the woods. Yesterday afternoon I know someone was cooking up a batch. I wish I could get my hands on some!

If you ever were near or inside a brewery, well that's what cooking mash smells like. I mean there's nothing out here in the woods what else could it be? It crossed my mind to go out hunting for it but several good reasons held me back, first of which is being shot! Second is I ain't got the time and third is I didn't feel like getting all covered with ticks.

As a trucker I've been in quite a few breweries. Lots of Annheuser-Busch for sure. Even as a teenage truck washer we washed the R-model Macks at Schaeffer Brewery in Fogelsville back in the 80s. I tell ya, after a heavy night of tossing back Schmidt's returnable 16 ouncers the last thing you wanna smell early Saturday morning is old beer kegs. At Schaeffer's they were piled at least 20 feet high outside. One neat thing about that place though was that we were allowed to start the tractors and drive them to the spot we set up at to wash them. That was pretty cool for a teenager.

Wow, I just realized that was over 30 years ago. It's just flabbergasting how uptight our society has gotten. Can you imagine a corporation letting kids move their trucks around the lot today? Lawyers and liberals is who I blame. Law suits and political correctness. And where those two meet is the corporate world. And I am proud to say I will never be anything more than just a one-man-band doing it old school.

As they say in old Mexico, AMF!

I'm back and I own my old blog again.

When Google gobbled up Blogger I lost control here because I refused to join Google.

Well flash forward to August of  2011 when I buy my first smartphone. Of course half the Android shit doesn't work unless you open a Google account.  So yeh, I succumbed to the giant corporation, privacy be damned. I think they know more about everyone today than Nixon's DCI Richard Helms in the 70s!

Of course all the good email names were taken already that I wanted.

And..... one year later I actually take the time to claim back my blog.

I've got all kinds of stuff to post. Truck stuff, puppy stuff, food stuff, music stuff, so good things are on the way.

As they say in oooooooooold Mexico, AMF!

Turbo Fuck Up!

Well, I thought I'd have a good weekend. Got home Friday afternoon with a new turbine housing to put on the old CAT. Sounds easy, right? I should say that the exhaust leaking was beyond what I could stand or considered safe. Leaking between turbine and exhaust pipe and also cartridge side too. Once apart I noticed the flex pipe broken and leaking also. No wonder I was so tired and feeling weird all last week...carbon monoxide and diesel exhaust...wonderful! That damn galvanized flex pipe is crap. Gotta stick with the stainless. So the old turbine was so rusted and pitted it wouldn't seal anymore which is why I picked up a new one from Taylor Diesel in Nashville. Almost four hundred fucking dollars! Later I found Turbo Supply from Joplin, MO on the internet and their price was $286.00. Oh, well.
So I got the turbo off and tried to separate the cartridge from the old turbine housing and the motherfucking son-of-a-bitch fucking cracked! Jesus fucking H. Christ! After calling all around this morning and finding that everybody's out of stock for a Schwitzer 198264 I found J & H Diesel Service can get one the cheapest even though they gotta charge me more cause they're buying it from some other supplier cause they're out of stock too! $703.50 delivered to my door. Should be here by Tuesday or Wednesday. That sucks cause I was hoping to haul some good paying government loads out of Ft. Knox this week. Now I'm sitting at home. Nice weather though, 60s all week.

Truckin' Blog

Alright, I'm starting this blog over since I only made two posts since May of 2004. I deleted them. It's going to be mainly my trucking blog since that's about all I do. This should really get going when I get a laptop and wireless access. Right now I only can post when I'm home, which is not often.