Every week, it's SOMETHING.

[Nick Burner]

DOT got me this week. They had a massive trap setup at Texas Motor Speedway pulling in every truck that went past. Easily over a hundred cop cars there. Texas state cops, as well as commercial vehicle enforcement from every town for miles. Fort Worth, Midlothian, Melissa, just an ocean of cops.

They got me for the slack adjustment being an inch too loose on two of my brakes. Put me out of service for it. Our lead mechanic had to drive all the way out to fix them and get me rolling again.

Doesn’t seem like an OOS violation…but this guy IS the law!

 

[llazy_llama]

Doesn’t seem like an OOS violation…but this guy IS the law!

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Yeah, it even felt like he was doing some gray area shit because he told me it would be fine for me to drive to the disposal a few miles away and offload. Then I asked if I could drive it back to the yard like that for repairs, and he said that would be fine too without even asking how far the yard was. But that's DOT blitz week for you. Every year like clockwork they go nuts so they can say to the taxpayer "look what a great job we're doing. We found 29 trillion violations this time. Keeping you safe!"

 

[llazy_llama]

So much crap happened over the past two weeks that I didn't even bother recording it all. But something much more light hearted happened that stuck out to me. I was wading through a flooded containment to get to the tanks when I saw a jumping spider floating upside-down in the water. Didn't stand out to me at first, there's always drowned bugs in these thing, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, etc... but as I walked by this spider, it's legs twitched. I scooped her up and returned her to dry land. She spent a few minutes cleaning herself off, walked on my hand a bit, and then ran off and hid under a log. I know most people don't much care for spiders, but I've always thought jumping spiders in particular were pretty cute. Plus they're incredibly intelligent. Just thought that was a fun little moment.

 

[rbbrock]

Jumping spiders are cool. I always enjoy finding one and watching it for a bit.

 

[80s Rocker]

So much crap happened over the past two weeks that I didn't even bother recording it all. But something much more light hearted happened that stuck out to me. I was wading through a flooded containment to get to the tanks when I saw a jumping spider floating upside-down in the water. Didn't stand out to me at first, there's always drowned bugs in these thing, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, etc... but as I walked by this spider, it's legs twitched. I scooped her up and returned her to dry land. She spent a few minutes cleaning herself off, walked on my hand a bit, and then ran off and hid under a log. I know most people don't much care for spiders, but I've always thought jumping spiders in particular were pretty cute. Plus they're incredibly intelligent. Just thought that was a fun little moment. View attachment 109805

Good on you. Who knows what kind of butterfly effect you just triggered by saving that spider on the future.
Great job.

I like to do these sort of things I once saved a rattle snake from my swimming pool. I won't go into detail but my wife and kids thought I was a nuts for doing that.