Thursday Oct 27th Diary

at work
Quiet...notable in that the trainee with Al took off on another 45 minute lunch (on his 5 hour shift)...
Watched  TWW 7:5--11.
At 5:50, a VERY reliable driver called in saying "my alarm didn't go off"  (bullpucky... alarms don't decide to not go off. He didn't set it, or he set it for p.m. or he slept through it) so he wasn't going to get to base in time to get an car and get to Rosemead by 7:20.
That was an easy fix.  Had another driver sitting around waiting for 8:15. So I sent that one, and gave the over sleeper the 8:15 job.
By 06:00, Samuel, the morning dispatcher ..and I, came to the conclusion that the guy who had a 6:30 pick up downtown was NOT waking up, as both of his known cell numbers were going to voice mail. So we decided to send a driver with a 7:00 job in Westchester, to the 6:30. Sent a driver who had a 7:30 in Malibu to the 7:00,  and sent a driver who had something much later to the 7:30.   
Later, Samuel sent me a text, saying that the MIA driver woke up and called in at 6:55.
Out 6:24  and home  7:10
Fed animals
Unlocked back gate for pool guy
MDM   chicken-n-bean soup, and quesadillas
Contacts out
Watched TRMS Wednesday until falling asleep 1/3 of the way through
Up 10:30
UP 14:00, and Merry told me, she got a text from mortgage guy, saying he would call around 17:00
I couldn't get to sleep after that.
Well, I know I did because of weird dreams... one that involved being on the 110 freeway, and it coming to an end at the top of some dirt hill, with no path to get down.   I got out to walk and look around, returned to look for the car, which I couldn't find, then my dad came along and started to help me look, and he looked inside one of the parked cars on the freeway, and said, "Oh it's a bomb, and I hear it ticking..."
Another dream was at the office of MusicEx...   with a coffee kiosk as you walk in, then to the left was a huge combo reservations/dispatch center.   
Awake 17:18  Alarm off 17:20, and up
Fed cats
Tlt
Showered and dressed  and contacts In.
Prepped
Kissed Merry goodbye
To car...
Rolling 18:03, and at office 19:18.
I had told Denny, that if THIS Thursday was anything like LAST Thursday, which was a sh*tstorm because of the amount of work to get covered, due to the idiocy and incompetency of the lead dispatcher who works Thurs--Sunday, I would turn around and walk out.
I entered, and before logging in, I looked over "Thing 1's" shoulder, and saw that every job for the night was either tagged on a driver or dispatched out. 
Serenity prevails.
I checked our accounts online.... update my diaries....
Watched TWW 7:12, 13. 

Aug 25, Thursday Diary

Heading to work...

The on ramp from LBB to the n/b 710 was closed.  

I continued on LBB thinking to take the 91 E, but I was in the right lane...there was no onramp onto the 91 E and couldn't get over to make the onramp onto the 91 W.

I continued...

I thought about taking a couple alternate streets  east to catch the 710  but I kept on truckin' north.  

Finally found the..and got on the on ramp for the 105 East

And onto the 710 North.  

More freeway destruction/construction...  

Onto the 101  and finally at the office  00:30.

DB departed...

I settled in.   

One driver was still out on a job.

The work for the next day was assigned..  

Started watching "House".  6:19-22, Then 7:1-2.
Car 6:14 to 6:55 home
Fed em all
MDM Pot roast and tortillas
Watched TRMS -- Wed.
Waited for a phone call from WF, wherein I pretended to be Stitch, authorized a check-by-phone to make a large payment on Merry's WF loan...
8;30 sleep.
10:45 up to pee
17:30 Up.
I rarely remember dreams  but this one...
  I was in a large dispatch room that seemed to be a cross between taxis and sedan/limos.  One guy was there from my cab days, another there from  my current company.
I had brought a couple bags like I was getting ready to go jump in a car and start driving...taxi?  Uber?  
Leaving, I was handed a room key, room 32.
Then I started wandering around, looking for the room.
It was supposed to be a college dormitory but it seemed like a very large spread out hotel.  The rooms I looked in, seemed like hospital beds.   I looked in one room, where beds where stacked like bunks, triple high.  
Room 32 was not where it belonged, with the other 'thirties' so I went back to the beginning, looking for it.  
I ended up so tired, I was on my belly, crawling, pulling myself uphill, clawing for hand holds.
Then I woke up.

Showered  dressed    kissed Merry good bye
Car 18:17,  work  19:31. 
The night was under control...I did pm set up for the next day....