 Good morning, everybody. We're here getting unloaded in Brainerd, Minnesota. Just about finished. From here, we head to Duluth, Minnesota. I have a load of some manufactured steel to pick up there. As soon as we get these two lifts off of here, I'm out of here. It's that messy season. And we're gonna be in this for a while yet, so it is what it is. Still having fun. I'm gonna be there around two o'clock. Let everybody know I'm coming out. You have a little quack of the horns, ball of fire, doing its thing. Close that door for them there. They're remote inside there, but just in case I go close it anyway. So some bad news. The shipper we're going to closes at 2 p.m., not 3 p.m. I knew they closed early, but I was really hoping it was 3 p.m. I thought that's what I remembered. So we're not gonna make it. It's already quarter after 2, and I'm about half hour away, a little over a half hour. So we're gonna go park right at their gate and be loaded first thing in the morning. It's kind of too bad. More than a little too bad, because I wanted to get reloaded and get home tonight yet, or at least back to our yard. But that's trucking, you know, just the way it is. Some days are disappointing, and some days are exciting. Other days are boring. I need to sort of clean up the inside of my truck here anyway, give it a little detail. I'll have plenty of time for that tonight now. I didn't have any time to do anything to the truck, really, besides the steering wheel and shifter over Christmas holidays. That load takes us back to our yard, be back there tomorrow night. Then that'll keep me busy through New Year's, but it's our slow season right now. And most of our customers, well, most of our shippers or receivers will be closed for New Year's, right? So there may not be anywhere I could actually pick up a load or deliver a load until the New Year anyway. And we'll see what they got for me. Oh, give them a call tomorrow. Gonna get to Duluth. Hopefully we'll be first in line and just park right at the gate. We're at three o'clock, fast as I could go. Got unloaded and came straight here. Going up at six a.m. Why do shippers and receivers close in the middle of the afternoon? They just work a normal work day until like five o'clock. A lot of places like this though. Nice people, they started at six a.m. They're done at two. So six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, one, two. That's eight hours. Must be nice to work part time. And then work till four or at seven 30 and even work till three 30. That's close. Three 30 is better than two. But I'd say they should be open till like five, five to six, five o'clock. A lot of places that close down early. They go home in the middle of the day. And that's just the way they do things. And so the rest of us that are working regular hours are sort of forced to, you know, lost revenue for today. I mean, I could have picked this load up and been all the way back at our yard tonight and been picking up another load tomorrow morning. But now we're stuck here for the next 15 hours or so so we can start getting loaded. Oh, well, we'll make the most of it. I'm going to clean off the truck here, get some work done on the vlog and stuff, detail the truck a little bit here, watch some YouTube, maybe some Netflix five time. We'll see. Got to get the work done first. And I got work to do. I got to organize this truck. It's been a while since I've, you know, I like to take everything off the shelf, take everything out and purge, which is something that I don't usually do in the house because I'm a pack rat at home. But in the truck, this is a very small space. And I only want what I absolutely need in this small space. If I don't need it out, get it out of here. It's too small of a space. I hate it when everything's just packed right up and then I bring like a new thing in, like my new kettle, right? And then if I don't have space for it, what's all the stuff doing in here that I don't need? Speaking of which, I've got some hot water here right now. I'm going to make some soup. Only 14 hours left to go so we can get loaded. I've gotten caught up on all my videos and stuff right here. They're just rendering. That's why the truck's running right now because I got to be able to power the computer. I was also making food just before I had my new kettle working. Thing works awesome. Heats the water up way faster than the other one and it heats it up way hotter, if that makes sense. Cause the other one got it to boil too, but this one just seems to make it even hotter. It is definitely a lot faster. I really like it. Kettle is working great. I don't like waiting. Tell me if I wonder, what do you do in the truck when you have to wait? Exactly this, right here. Exactly this. Look, my jeans are all dirty from rolling up those tarps earlier today. Tomorrow's a new day. We'll start a new day all clean, ready to go. For tonight, this is what we do when we have to wait for our loads. Nothing. I mean, I'm going to organize the truck because I haven't even started on that. I wanted to get my videos caught up with first. We didn't film anything through the Christmas holidays. I was selfish and kept all of that time just for me and my family to enjoy it together instead of having a camera in everyone's face. And that's sort of a habit I've gotten into. I've got to be able to separate work, logging and family. And when it's family time, it's family time. But we'll see. Maybe in the future we'll include a little more. I mean, this coming year will be very different. I know I keep talking about it a lot, but there's a baby coming. Couple of months, it's crazy. Now it's going fast. It'll be in our third trimester next weekend, I think. We're gonna have a little baby running around and that'll be a big part of the vlog too. I mean, I'm still gonna be out here on the road doing my thing, so there's still mostly be a lot about trucking and traveling, but I'll probably want to include a lot more when I'm at home. Because there's gonna be so much going on all the time. Every day is something new, right? But we'll see. Sometimes when I'm at home, I just wanna just be home. You know, relax. Unlike now, I don't wanna just be sitting here relaxing. I'd like to be working. That's why I'm at work. I would like to be working. But no, I am forced to relax. How long am I? Oh, under 14 hours now. Some projects I have to do when I get home. Like I've been repeatedly telling you, the marker lights, they've been delivered now. So they're waiting for me back at home. Gotta replace all of them on top of there and on the fenders. My, I'll have to show you tomorrow in the light. The center, place where the license plate is, where the lights are, not the mudflap hangers, but the, where the original lights are set the backup lights and the license plate is starting to break off. So I've got it like strapped on there real good now. So it's gonna stay there. But this is my excuse to replace that now with the matching chrome centerpiece that'll match my mudflap hangers. So I plan on going to pick that up when I get home installing that so it'll all match right across. That'll be nice. I gotta always say when something breaks, you just fix it and you replace it but you replace it with something better. That's the goal. The old blue is getting a little old. I mean, we're nearing three million kilometers or two million miles. The motor isn't nearly that old though. The motor is doing great. But you know, little things here, cosmetic stuff and other things, fall off or they break or you know, they get old and you gotta replace it. So I've committed to myself that when I do have to replace parts, I just replace it with something better, something that looks better. So that centerpiece in the center of my frame that had my taillights, backup lights and license plate on it, it's gonna be replaced with like a square chrome piece. It's exactly like my mudflap hangers that'll have the clear LED lenses in there. I have a license plate holder built right onto it there. It'll look really nice. Let's see. You'll see, trust me, trust me. So there's that that I gotta do, gotta fix that. This is there. Gotta paint the house, gotta continue getting that nursery ready. So far I've gotten the door done. Got a few doors done in the house. I wanna finish, I have two more doors to do plus our master bedroom closet. Painting all of that. And then I'm gonna start with the baby's room, paint that whole room, ceiling and everything. And then I'll move to the master bedroom and then I'll move throughout the whole house. I wanna get the whole house painted this winter if I can. Projects, projects, projects. There is never a boring day. There is never time to be bored except for right now. Cause I can't do any of my projects here now. I don't have my shop here. I don't have all my tools here. I have some tools, but not all my tools. And it's cold outside so I'm not gonna start fiddling around with wiring and stuff out in the cold and the dark. Wait till we're at home. And you know, after this, my videos are all caught up with. This is one of the few times where I can actually say I'm bored, but that's not gonna last long because you know what, I've already told you I gotta organize this truck. So there's no time to be bored. No time to be bored. Gotta get up. The longer you let yourself sit and be lazy, the more lazy you are. I'm smart, I like that. So thanks for tagging along with me on this short day. We drove from Brainerd to Duluth in Minnesota. This wasn't the plan. The plan was to get loaded today and get out of here and go all the way back home. So this was a short day for me, but I guess we'll get it done tomorrow then. Tune in on tomorrow's vlog. If you haven't already, hit that subscribe button down below. Go check out my playlists on my main page. Tons of videos from like 10 years, all nicely organized to playlists for you there. So the big thing is, leave me a comment down below. Hit the like button if you liked it and we'll see you tomorrow.