The saying goes, “some days are diamonds, and some days are stone”. In five years, I see periods of busy times, and slow periods in the transportation field. Mostly, a day of a holiday is the time to catch up on unfinished paperwork, and writing out thoughts. Importantly, it is a time to wind down, and find that second wind to roll hard, until the next low period. Still, it is hard to forecast those slow periods exactly, so like you work hard, you play hard.

It is a chance for me to catch up on my computer records, backup my files, and Clean the truck. The bonus is to have the television on, and challenging myself to stay focused on the task at hand. In a sense, although I am utilizing my time to catch up, I still note the true purpose to relax, and set a steady and comforting pace to this “down time”. I was even going to make time to catch up with this blog, since the day before was the first day of my 100 day countdown to finishing a contract, with the ownership of a truck being the primary goal of others who get involved in this program.

By now, you know my goal is to boast the point that during a six year involvement with a CDL, I was able to build a business, and record, on computer. To many it is not much to boast about. But if you realize that a personal computer can be fragile as glass to extreme weather, and the rugged travels of a truck, this is not reasonable to even try. My focus was to get the most out of a personal computer, and show the expanding possibilities to others, but to suggest it would be dismissed as a waste of time. Going through this lead to finding strengths and weaknesses, not only in a common machine, but within myself.

Anyway, there is already the originating blog to make that boast on.  This one just records the day’s struggle and completed work. With all my paperwork submitted to the company, and backed up, and the floor and interior walls of the truck washed by hand, I was making real progress. By noontime, someone knocked on the door of the truck, and pointed out that I had a flat tire. That turned a “diamond day” to stone. It took time to try to dismiss that lousy flat, and I never could get back to my list of tasks to do. With the television on, I eventually took a nap.

I never got a chance to write a blog, and this was part of my next down time (making it two days late). In some sense, I really am having trouble with the concept of “switching gears”. But taking in account that I am making the effort to be “up-to-date”, it is a rough start.