back to work for me! Well, almost (Patreon)

the week was not overly eventful, but still interesting. With my physio ending last week, and my truck dropped off at the shop Saturday, but without an appointment, of course, it became a question of waiting and calling the shop to get updates. To make things easy on me, I called at 4pm, local time, for one thing, it made sure they had time to work on it, and for another, it’s 6pm for the scheduler, and he leaves the office at 5, so no one telling me to rush, rush rush.

After dropping the truck, I emailed my manager to 1) let him know it was at the shop being worked on and 2) get the email for the scheduler since my manager was on vacation. As part of that email I said that 1) I had no idea when the truck would be ready and 2) that I would call the shop on Monday.

ON Monday, my manager forward the email to the scheduler telling him to hurry to find me a load since my truck was ready. The scheduler replied telling me to have the stuck ready ASAP since he did have a load for me. 

After calling the shop Monday at 4pm, to be told the truck wasn’t ready, I emailed my manager and the scheduler telling them it wasn’t ready, still no ETA and that I would call Tuesday for an update. Tuesday morning, I get a reply from my manager, “the truck probably won’t go in before Thursday since it didn’t have an appointment, but make sure to call tonight in case we’re lucky and they start working on it early.” The Scheduler replies “the truck must be ready on Wednesday because you need to drive on Thursday to do the pickup Friday morning.”

Don’t you just love the ready capabilities of my coworkers?

Tuesday, I call and I’m told it will be ready at noon on Wednesday. No, I do not rejoice. I don’t even call at noon for an update. I call at 4pm as usual. The truck isn’t quite ready, but it only has a couple of hours left on it. This is why I didn’t bother rushing.

I did get in the truck Wednesday evening and hit the road Thursday morning. I made it halfway to the customer, where I stopped at a Walmart for supplies, and found out the load had been cancelled. I parked at the truckstop across the road, and on Friday I was told to return to Calgary, where I spent the weekend at my friend’s place.

So yeah. It’s been interesting, but it meant time to write. Protecting the Line got chapters 30 to 34. And I cut one entire chapter out. Changes made to Albert rendered the motivation behind the chapter unusable, and ultimately, there was no vital information given to the reader so I didn’t bother reworking it to make it work. Wyatt’s story got the last part to chapter 3, so that’s going to be on the Patreon today. And 2628 got chapter 28.

If you want to read any of that, it’s only 1$ a month.

Editing of Taking the Line is happening, if a little slower that I’d like, but that’s my fault. I have the file, just need to work on it.

Movie of the week!

Can I make that a think? Should I?

I watched Maleficent, Mistress of Evil. This time we aren’t retelling a fairy tale, we’re continuing a few years down the line and exploring greed, belonging and being a parent. It’s a fun movie, better than I expected for a sequel and avoids falling in the trap of this side is good and this side is bad by giving us more nuanced characters, with a few stereotypical ones. there’s love, action and a curse, of course. The story doesn’t try to fool you as to who the bad guy is, but puts the question mark on Maleficent’s reaction to what is done.

And that’s it, I’ll see you on the next one.