Horse Cave, Kentucky: Loves

It has been a while since I added to this, mostly I have been doing shorter updates on Facebook. Right now I am on a load that picked up in Jackson, Alabama, and is heading towards West Carrollton, Ohio. I think it is the messiest load I have carried to date, at least it should be fairly easy to clean out the trailer afterwards. My trailer is loaded with bales of scrap paper, so there are pieces of paper that have fallen out of the bales all over the place as they loaded it. I know there will be even more when they unload it. Hopefully they will have a leaf blower available to just blow out all the paper, but more likely it will be me and a push broom.

This week has been slightly better than than the last several weeks, I actually might clear two thousand miles for the first time in a while. I just don't know what it takes to get loads out of this company, it seems that after I have been sitting for a while, (this week it was about 35 hours after unloading, closer to 43 if you count when I actually got down there) if I send an email with just the right tone of insulting and questioning their intelligence, I get a load. This last one I asked if I should put in an application at the Loves in Loxley, Alabama, and put as my address the blue truck in the back row.

Currently I am going slightly crazy while trying to get to the closing of a house using a 203k FHA loan. We have made it past the first bunch of hurdles and are basically now at the contractors mercy as to getting estimates in. Once we know about how much everything will cost, we can move forward to signing some contracts and getting everything off to underwriting. The part that is driving me nuts is that I am having to do this all by cell phone and laptop. I would rather be there for each contractor to make certain we are on the same page. We also have to get a quote for appliances, and I haven't done any research at all about those yet. I have just been too busy working, looking up home improvement tax credits, how to claim my first time home buyers credit and half a dozen other things including trying to relax a bit here and there.

Now to find out if I can get rid of this load early or if I really need to get it there at midnight tonight.