When Friday came, I was rolling from Detroit, Michigan, right to the Louisville, Kentucky yard, and was excited. This weekend ended the calendar period of a contract; which was drawn from an originating three-year contract. All This for a truck, right? No, I did it for the time period. The truck was originally the bonus, and was to become a studio of sorts. Still, there is the remaining figures, and getting the title…all in good time.  The fight really was to accomplish three years of records keeping, and developing workbooks and database projects, and most importantly, do it all on computer. Others do it, why not me? These three years was to be able to keep all records in tact, and except for building a summary workbooks on all the paperwork a driver gets to acquire, I surpassed the period I set myself up for.  The contract was the second, but just as important to complete, since much time and money went into the Lease to purchase.

The two-year period was the hardest to get through, since the ambition was not into this career area, but to obtain all I could and see it as a market for other services and products that involve the computer. Something changed though… I don’t know if I was looking for an earlier cut-off period, but I think I had got accustomed to this lifestyle. I thought making it through this contract would leave me with a feeling of accomplishment; instead, I feel it is “just another fun-filled day in paradise.” I do know that over this weekend, instead of seeing the routine built on a daily basis, I started wondering why I could not get past the “switching gears” concept. Now, I need to take it further, and work on that concept. Besides, with the ownership of the truck, the levels of Leasing it back or full ownership made me realize, I still have so much more to understand and master. Plus, it gives me opportunities to continue building workbooks of “real time” data, to be used to learn from later. Have I become a Professional Driver? No. Because the love of this work was never built inside of me, I’m more like a computer Geek, who so happens to have a CDL [and truck]; in fact I am not a truck driver, although, I have played the role daily, for the last six years.

     These Blogs have challenged me to go back and update the 100 day countdown project, that never was able to be done weekly, let alone, on a daily basis. I actually  have considered “scrubbing” the project all together.

With the remaining winds of Hurricane Isaac working its way through Kentucky, and a change in scheduling for the trucks quarterly service, it gave me time to complete DVD backups, and remove other files off external drives, and start focusing on 2013. More videos, more pictures, more Blogs, more social networking, and even work on seeing family again. Maybe that is where the lost excitement went; I haven’t seen family.

I took all day Saturday to complete the moving and elimination of old files, while preparing my records for the month of September. I also got laundry out-of-the-way.  I keep thinking how I wish to approach the unfinished project. Should I just move everything over to the Driver’s Log, or do I make another 100 day trial of the site it continues to be on? The truck finally went into the garage to be serviced, my files backed up, and my spreadsheet ready. The time now is on the fate of a countdown I could not do while rolling daily, and if it would hold the same impact. I think I’ll try moving it over to one location. And that will finish this day. So much got done this weekend, so much planned for the future.