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The week was marked by more waiting than I expected. Having delivered in Texas, I wasn’t surprised I was send to Laredo, but I didn’t expect to have to sit a full day for them to come up with a load to send me there, and then there was confusion over when the pickup was. What they wanted me to do with the load after I picked it up. Fun times. Then had to wait for my next load while they decided if they were going to give me the one going to Calgary delivering in 8 days (it’s a 4 day trip under normal circumstances) and deciding they had no choice because there was no one else heading to Laredo in time I’m guessing.

So I took it easy and made it to Cheyenne, WY by Saturday midday for my reset and had the disaster that titled this journal.

I might have mentioned before I have ADHD (I know I did)

Under normal circumstances I don’t mind it. I’ve learned to accommodate the idiosyncrasy it creates in me and I’d qualify it of an annoyance at most. The most annoying of the ADHD for me is how I can fixate on one thing at the expanse of others, but even that I’ve learned to handle, mostly.

Once it a while, though, it comes back to bite me in the ass.

Saturday, as I headed for my shower, I had my backpack on one shoulder holding the strap in place with one hand, and my French press in the other, because I was going to clean it and fill it with water in preparation to make the next morning’s coffee. As the backpack’s straps kept sliding down, I decided it would be best to just put it on like a backpack over both shoulder, so I let one strap slid out of my hand and swing the backpack around my back. I catch the strap with my other hand, not even remembering I was holding something in it until I head the tempers glass shatter on the pavement. To catch the strap, I had to open my hand and let go of the French press.

Obviously, the truckstop didn’t sell French press, and I was parked for a reset, so I couldn’t drive the ten miles to the closest Walmart for another. (technically I could have, but another aspect of ADHD is how my mind only goes in one direct and doesn’t considers alternatives unless that is what I actively set to do and it never even occurred to me to do that then)

That meant no coffee today. With a plan to stop at a Walmart on Monday to buy one, which might not happen due to a high wind warning. So I could be without coffee for a while.

It did affect my writing in the morning, I need to accept that coffee has become sufficiently baked into my routine that it’s impacted if the coffee isn’t present. But by the time afternoon came I was enough myself I managed to get some writing done. So that’s more chapter on Changing World, it’s becoming my go to story to work on when I have extra time.

And that’s it for now, so I’ll see you on the next one.