When you can't find what your looking for

I got another change today, the Sydney driver is sick of the city, and so today I got to go to the city instead. I had found everything but one box and thought ok I might just jump in the back of a few trailers and see what I can find. As I got out of the back of one and was walking away I felt a drip and thought whats this. There was a gush of blood sliding down my leg.


I thought perhaps I better see what I've done here and go find myself a bandaid. The first aid room was close to the office and I soon found what I needed and headed for the toilets. After a few minutes of towelling off, I was able to get it to a trickle and patch it up. The boss goes someone will try anything to get out of work, no sympathy there, another guy just goes to me and you didn't find the box either.

The day was pretty good, Only 8 deliveries and 3 of them were up the shire. I had time for a haircut and visited my favourite shop there Sugar Fix



I was able to get myself some peanut butter cups and some reece pieces :) quite a good afternoon if you ask me for my humble opinion

When bro in laws go to War

Do you remember the big saga a few years back about Nancy Kerrigan and Tanya Harding? Poor old Tanya couldn't beat Nancy, so she got some hit men to club Nancy on the knee and knocked her out of the ice skating trials.

I'm feeling a little like Tanya tonight, Last time round in the finals we were beaten by Hawthorn to end our year, but more importantly Buddy kicked the goal. This week it's only a NAB game but we've drawn them again and I'm wondering if clubbing Buddy might help.

A fine looking specimen


Good luck Aaron, but even though I think we might lose, I'm backing the Crow boys in.

nothing to report

Ever had one of those slow news weeks? If I had to report the news, channel7 would be broke and then we'd have no home and away and what would I do when I got home?

It was quite a boring work week really, apart from the bilpin trip. I did get to go to homebush and see Gladiators, but alas Gladiators was no more, horrified I wondered what happened to those fine looking creatures. They were replaced by a home show, the type most of you bloggers would love to go to and spend hours browsing around and filling in your time with.

I found these joyful creatures at darling harbour, at this time of year just about all of drivers for our section have to come in early as we have two big shows at Darling Harbour and HomeBush where we send about 10 semis into and we need to get it sorted out. I had to do a few runs in with lost and late goods. Was fun to have a browse without having to pay.

This was the scene on friday as I came back to work and it wasn't even raining. You would think he just went off the road, which he did but he was driving the other way to where he ended up.

I need a Cow

I heard my family are getting a few cows to share, just thought I'd show Dad my grass that is finally starting to grow and offer the use for agistment if needed :)

You see we have had a little struggle to try to get the side lawn to grow since i've been here. Dad had a crack and I've had a couple of goes, but the rain hasn't been here for ages and water restrictions means watering on wednesdays only. Since Lisa and Aaron came up the rain has come, and so one morning I ran outside and threw some seed down and raked it in. Oh the beauty of a blade or two of grass. The things that amuse us these days, what can I say Sometimes you just get in the mood and want your house to look decent like the next door neighbours

Drive in the country side

Sometimes you wonder why your getting paid, then realise because you clocked on :) This morning I was given my work for the day and it was only like 5 deliveries, but as per usual we were waiting on Melbourne freight to turn up. There was like 6 of us guys standing around, then sitting around waiting and waiting. Luckily for us, we had a barbecue put on for us this morning. I started at 6am and at 11am I had my 5 deliveries and I was off.

Just waiting for a guy who pushed in front of me wanting his motorbikes first

After my lovely motorbikes at Windsor I headed up the mountains, well the kind of mountains, I drove and drove and drove until I came to lovely Bilpin. Bilpin reminded me the Huon, they have all of these fruit orchards and little shops and side carts selling the produce. I once went through a few years ago but paid no attention as my focus was further up in Lithgow.

I had a delivery to this guy and when I arrived the Sherriff's were on his doorstep, they were booting him out of the house and the locksmith was there changing the locks so he couldnt get back in. He came running down and was unsure of himself and goes can you do me a favour. I didn't realise what was happening and thought maybe he wanted the goods around the back, but he wanted me to deliver it to a local store for him. I said what about your car, but it was chockers with clothes and bags and he still had to fit the dog in. The sherriff was asking him what he was going to do with the guinea pig and he told them to tip the cage over and let it go free, they weren't impressed with his answer. I felt kind of bad for him, so I told him I'd follow him back down the road and deliver it there.

My little country town servo and they were out of fuel, luckily for me I had enough to get me back :)

I thought I need a new fruit bowl, but alas there was just fruit, false advertising if you ask me :)

The swing sets looked nice and enticing though, but should I risk playing? I thought you might get to enticed and stay the arvo, so I quickly turned my back on the fun

After an exhaustive search I was able to track down the elusive Bilpin Mountain Apple, it put up a fight, but with my powers I was able to break it's back or should I say stalk? It was Red and it was delicious
The lovely Hawkesbury valley, it felt like I was nearly back to civilisation once again

Back to it

Well the alarm went off too early for my liking this morning, after a week of getting up at a decent time, I had to drag myself out of bed and pull on the fluro orange top again. My eyes were burning, not just from the pretty star track top.

I think I was missed, everyone gave me a good old welcome back. I was given a different truck again, and when I pulled up, it seemed to have a pool in the back. I thought, umm, nice and i opened her up. One of the guys grabbed his broom and a few minutes later, the pool was no longer in the truck, but on the concrete floor. Water Restrictions I hear, let me fill the dam with whats in my truck I was borrowing. Never mind, things can only get better.

One of the bosses was back, seems as though my own truck was just as bad, two dams filled up. :)

I gather my connotes and go and look for my freight, everything is going great guns, I grab a sticker of the connote to sticker the freight, I grab the fork and go and grab more, I come back, I wonder where did I put that connote. Lost!! I jump in the back and pull the freight around to see if I might have dropped it under one of the boxes or pallets, no luck. I explain my loss, but it hasn't been found. 30 minutes later no sign of it, a subdocket might be good, but I remember the Return Authority number is on the connote. I look at the garbage where I threw all the extra stickers, not with them, but I notice a little ball further along. Ah, I unscrew it and hey presto, all is well. Good job Christian, I am thinking.


I'm ready to leave for my first run, and one of the offsiders comes over and says I'm coming with you now, puzzled why I need him. I sign out and the boss tells me I need him for the afternoon. The morning is easy, just 7 deliveries, though we will cover distance. I was amazed at how many planes were lined up on the far runway, at least a dozen ready to go, Looks like a great day for it, to just take off and go.

The second run is seemingly easy, just the two deliveries, I grab a couple more connotes so we dont finish too early, the first drop is a wheel off, I'm loving it. We arrive in chatswood for the next one, a truck park just for me, very easy, i've done something right :) We go to see what the delivery will be like, we can't get to the floor. The boss is called and we get him to ring the guy, we wait for a return call from him, the sun is warm and the breeze just nice, I have a little snooze, 30 mins later we get rudely awoken by a ringing phone, the boss asking if someone had turned up, nope is our reply, but there is a guy strolling towards us and eyeing us off. Contact, we have the right guy, we wheel our goods off, I look and say I don't think it will fit in the lift, we shall try it though.

Hmm, you know how they say about fitting a square peg in a round hole, or vice versa, we thats how we were feeling, we tug it here and tug it there and think it just might go, alas, no a little long and tall, if only those fluro lights weren't there. We should probably leave those intact.

After some complication and alot of hesitation might I add, we decide to strip off as much as we can off the computer rack, we just want a bare shell, all up it weighs close on 130 kg. We get it down to about 100kg and off we go. Three stories to get it where it needs to go. This is a joy. We bend our backs and push on, 1st flight we need a break we have to jiggle it to get it upright. We get it up the three flights and the guy is happy. we go back down and grab the rest of the rack, he's not impressed with the rubbish, but it's all his.

One drop to go, I look at my directory and realise we drove straight past it coming to the rack, just two blocks back, just a measly printer to wheel on up, but the connote has two man job written on it. I go and survey and it seems easy. While the offsider is locking the truck I roll it down the gentle slope on the road, a little up ramp and I'm there. I wait for the offsider and we take it up in the elevator. It wont fit inside the office, I Put on a big smile and say to the four people watching, " You will have to unpack it here to fit it in" They look at me and ask do you take the pallet, nope I reply it's all yours, we dont unpack graysonline, we just dump and run.

Thats it for me were unloaded, I need a little break now, we head to westfields. Pizza and mountain dew for $3, that will do me. We spend sometime sitting and then after the day I've had I think I need something to

Me

A tropical storm, my favourite


Well this was my adventure for the day, hope you enjoyed coming back to work with me.

Time of Year

This time of year has got to be one of the best times of year. The weather is still pretty nice(apart from the rain we've had lately) and we have the cricket and AFL and NRL all coming to the end or starting, so you have a smorgasboard of viewing.

Last night I set my alarm on my phone for 1am, Crazy thing to do, but up here You don't get your AFL on tv, until close to midnight most games, unless it's the swans. Well this morning it was the Crows and Pies in the NAB cup, so up I got. Luckily for me, I set it when I did, The Crows were down at quarter time by a point. I was soon on the case and my support soon paid off, a half time lead of 47 soon ensued. The boys were firing, at three quarter time with a 3 goal breeze the way of the pies, we only dropped 2 points. The last quarter was a classic, we pumped them. Crows by 81 Quite satisfactory for a preseason game, but will hold the applause for the new boys for later in the year.

The Kings in the NBL are going great guns as well, wrapped up the minor already games ago, and have only lost 3 games all year, it all abodes well for a fine year.

Yes I admit it, I'm a Sports Freak