Down Time

DATELINE: KNOXVILLE, TN, 11:00 p.m. EST

Miles Today: 383
Miles Yesterday: 0
Miles Saturday: 404

Oops, missed a couple of days, there. Sorry 'bout dat. (Then again, I didn't see any reader comments to my last update, so we're even, eh?) Wasn't much exciting going on over the weekend. On Saturday I drove from Caddo Mills, TX to the West Memphis, AR terminal. I had added up my hours and discovered I didn't have enough left to take my load all the way to its final destination, so dispatch had me drop the load there and take a 34-hour break to reset that 70-hour counter.

So I spent Saturday night and all day yesterday working on my Poker prowess. I played exclusively in tournaments (no cash games), single-table sit-n-gos and big, multi-table tourneys. Things went pretty well on the virtual felt Saturday night, as I increased my bankroll by over 10%. (Sounds good 'til you realize just how small my bankroll is, even after the increase.) Then Sunday came along. Fortunately, my skills are fairly decent. Unfortunately, I had one he** of a run of being card-dead (not getting good cards at all) and, when I did get a decent hand, I took about every bad beat imaginable. So by last night I was in a pretty foul state of mind, in no mood to compose a report for y'all.

This morning I got up early and sent in my "back to work" message to trigger dispatch to send me a load assignment. It took a couple hours before I got one: Grab a loaded trailer at the terminal and take it across Tennessee to the town of Loudon, just south of Knoxville. Delivery is tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11:00 a.m., so I've come to the TA on the south side of Knoxville for the night.

I got here just after 5:00 in the evening, so I had some more free time to see if the Poker gods would be willing to smile on me today. I started out with a couple of multi-table tournaments, and found results similar to Sunday's. Then I went back to 6-handed sit-n-gos, played in 2 of those, and won 'em both. So my mood's a little better now (though I do have quite a stress headache from the earlier frustrations).

It's just about bedtime now, so I'm gonna wrap up and hit the sack. Thanks for dropping by. Drop me a question and/or comment and, as ever, keep on truckin'.