 In Manitoba, just about at the Ontario border, headed east. I gotta pick up a load of lumber nearby here, and bring it on down into Minnesota. It's already the afternoon. I went home for the night, and slept a little bit longer there, planning to at first, but no regrets. We have all day to pick up this freight, well, all afternoon yet, and then I'm delivering it tomorrow morning in Brainerd, Minnesota. The scale house is open. The Ontario border here on the Manitoba side, they want to see how fat you are before you leave the province. They want to make sure that you're well-fed going into Northern Ontario. Here's on the side of the truck, make sure that everything's up to date with my ifta, got insurance, and make sure that there's nothing loose on my trailer that could fly off into traffic. You know, the basic stuff. I don't know if they want to see me closer, they'll pull me in, but let's hope that just getting a good look at me will be enough. I don't really want to waste time, be a waste of my time. Five that are being loaded right now, and then I got three trucks in front of me, and then me. So it's going to be a little bit of a wait. They usually load us up pretty quick here, so it's not going to be all afternoon. But the earlier you get here, the better. I came here a little later today, it's my own fault, but head straight down to Brainerd. I know that there's been some issues with our customs papers today and yesterday, I think. I think they got that all sorted out though. If there is going to be issues, the load might not be able to cross through here in international falls tonight, but I think they got it all resolved and figured out how the broker, I think, is having an issue on their end. I think they got it all worked out that once I leave here, I should be able to go straight down there. I'll get down to Brainerd late tonight and then unload tomorrow. What we can do to get ourselves home from there. If I've got to come home empty or if there's a load nearby there, I can pick up and drag home. It's been a bit of a slow week. These weeks happen, especially this time of year. I mean, we're coming up to Christmas, so it's going to get busier and busier. And then right after Christmas is when it just usually, I mean, just from my own observations, I'm not an industry expert when it comes to when it's busy and when it's not. All I know is that they always keep us busy. They always find us something to do. Sometimes they just got to look a little bit longer or harder, but I've never had to sit anywhere anywhere waiting for an excessive amount of time. I usually know what I'm doing before I even get to the destination of the load. I'm currently hauling. Very rarely do I not know what I'm doing next when I'm dropping off a load already. So that's very good because then you drop off the load, you roll up your straps, put all your equipment away and then, boom, you can shoot off to your next delivery or your next pickup. You know, waiting. That's usually how it goes. But you're going good up here anyways. I hear that in some areas of the U.S. that they keep saying freight's slow and the rates are low, but honestly, people have been saying that for as long as I've been driving since 2006. They've always said, oh, freight rates are low and it's slow. And I think that in certain regions, it may be slower than others. Maybe that's why it's just different regions slow down at different times. But we're always busy, always busy. Even today, when I say, oh, it's a bit of a slow week. And I'm still moving. I still got stuff to do. You're still got freight. I guess it's just sometimes you don't have like multiple people throwing freight at you when you sort of get a pick and choose. Sometimes you just can't be as choosy, but we're still doing a good. Hopefully they get these guys loaded quickly in front of me because after I'm loaded, I forget my paperwork and then I have to send that into the office yet so they can get it cleared for customs before they go home. My dispatch goes home at, well, between four and five p.m. That's when they go home. It's after that time, I might be delivering it tomorrow then. Like later tomorrow. But the receiver only receives till noon as far as I know. So we might not even get it off tomorrow then. Might be a Monday delivery then. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. We'll cross our fingers, cross our toes and everything on my phone. Gives me a notification. And I turn all the notifications off and somehow they get turned back on. Like all my games that I have downloaded here. They're always like, send me a notification. Oh, don't forget to come back and play some more. Oh, we've lost our sunlight, but that's no surprise. It is wintertime or late autumn. It's almost wintertime. Ready to go. Not too cold out tonight. Sean, what your threshold of cold is? What does cold mean to you? When someone tells you it's cold outside. What temperature do you think it is? Let me know down below. When I say it's cold, it's minus 30. We're still waiting for confirmation that my load is cleared at international falls to cross the border. But I usually don't know by the time I leave here anyways. The goal is to get down to Brainerd tonight. Because the customer down there only unloads between 7 a.m. and noon tomorrow. So I'd like to go right to the customer and sleep there so that I'm in the door first thing, right? And it looks like it's late outside right now. It's only, it's just before 6 p.m. Hopefully it'll be smooth sailing all the way down and no issues. Usually my load would get cleared for the border. It's a couple of hours down to international falls. By the time I get there, it's usually cleared already. So if anything goes wrong and I can't get across the border tonight, I'm not getting this load delivered tomorrow. We'll deal with that when that issue presents itself if it does, hopefully not. I'm looking forward to the daylight hours getting longer already. December 21st, shortest day of the year. And then the 21st, 23rd, 24th and on Christmas day, the days start getting longer again, daylight hours. Change of plans. Unfortunately my load didn't get cleared tonight for the border. Little issue with the broker or something out of our control anyways. That means that I wouldn't be able to make or get this delivered before they close down tomorrow at noon, because they close at noon for some reason on Fridays. So the next available delivery appointment is Monday morning. So I turned around at a U-turn, came back home. We're gonna go park this trailer, bring all blue to the shop. Out on Sunday. So that I can deliver this thing first thing Monday morning. It's kind of a bummer. Kinda wasted a bunch of time today. I could have been sitting at home already. But that's trucking, right? It just doesn't always go the way you plan. It was out of our control. So I'm glad that we at least realized that at a point where I could still turn around and come home. Because if we would have only realized this when I got all the way down to the border, I would have been stuck sitting there all weekend. Or I would have gotten through tomorrow, but I would have been stuck down in Brainerd all weekend, then unable to deliver to Monday morning and I would have missed the weekend here at home. And Britt and I have some plans this weekend. We're going to another Cirque du Soleil event in Winnipeg on Saturday. And we have some family get-togethers. On Sunday we're setting up a Christmas tree for Britt's aunt and uncle. On a special weekend. Getting close to Christmas every weekend is special. So I turned myself around, here we go. It's the way it's gonna be. We'll leave Sunday afternoon. It is what it is. Well, I took a gamble and I lost. Gambling's bad, okay. They told me that my paperwork might not clear at international falls at the border on time. And if the paperwork didn't clear, like the broker was having some issues with their systems. So everything was sort of backlogged and behind and wasn't our fault. But they said it might not clear. And I knew that if it didn't clear that night that I wasn't gonna make my delivery for the next day. I had to be there by noon. And if I had to wait there until, you know, sometime the next day, I wasn't gonna make it. And then I'd be stuck down there for the whole weekend. So they gave me the option before I even left, saying, you know what? You could just take it home and you could deliver first thing Monday morning. Make sure your paperwork is cleared. But I sort of wanted to get a head start on next week. And I wanted to deliver it this week. So I said, you know what? I'll take the chance. I'll start heading towards the border and I'm sure it'll clear by the time I get there. Well, I got down to Finland, Ontario. Yeah, we have a Finland in Canada. It's a very small town. I got down to Finland and I was talking with them and they said, no, you know what? The paperwork's not gonna clear tonight, man. So I pulled a U-turn and I came back home and I'm still under the load or it's still a sign to me. I'm gonna be leaving Sunday with it to deliver Monday morning. The paperwork is now cleared, but it only got cleared today. So today is Saturday already and that was Thursday. So it didn't even get cleared the next day. It got cleared today. So it's a good thing. I would have been waiting down there at the border at international falls till today to cross and then have to deliver Monday morning anyway. And I couldn't miss this weekend at home, right Chevy? We're gonna see Christmas Cirque du Soleil. Big date night. Well, me and mom got a big date night. You can hang out here with the boys, right? That was a bit of a bummer, but whatever. We'll get it done next week. That's why I'm at home. I'll show you what my projects are for this weekend here at the house and we're painting. I painted these doors. There's one here. One here, I gotta paint the other side of these yet and the closet doors. We're doing the whole house eventually, but we're starting with all the doors, painting them white, painting all the trim, because in many places here there's paint chipping. It's getting old, you know. We wanna update everything. And gonna paint the living room here, but first I'm getting the nursery ready. That room that I just showed you back there is gonna be the baby nursery when the baby's born. So getting it ready. We're painting it, I believe, a light gray. Britt knows the exact color. We went and bought all the paint yesterday. So I gotta start it on that. Anyways, thanks for hanging out with me. Sort of didn't get much done today, but the next day's another day. We'll see you later.