8/20/23 Sunday

5😮8 am young lady just emptied my night bag and we had a short nice conversation . She likes my thunderstorm that I play on my laptop to sleep to as she is from the mid west .

This is Nevada ,,,, nearly every one here is from some where else . Myself ,,, I was born in Yuma Arizona ,, A native son , To those that don't know , That means that my mother was also born in yuma arizona . I lived and worked In Salinas California from 1968 to 1980 , The Company I worked for ,,, Garin Co. went belly up . I went to Sonoma Calif . at the suggestion of my second wife Barbara , Lied my ass off and got a job in high rise construction .

Yeah I walked and worked 8 to 10 stories up . The high pay for high rise work isn't enough to live in Sonoma so I started driving tow truck in my off time.

even then needed more to pay the rent . started driving an adult newspaper route of 58 miles for the San Francisco Chronicle ,,,, 600 papers . No days off .... No sick days..... No I just don't want to work today days . 7 days a week you drag you're tired butt out of bed at 1:30 am you drive to the drop off ,,, drink coffee with the other drivers ,,, The truck shows up ,,, and you're day starts . You get home at about , 3:00am . you go in and start cooking breakfast . at 5:30 you wake the kids to eat and get ready for school . At 6:00 am you wake you're wife , feed her and get her ready to go to work .

7:00am you are out the door on you're on you're way to Division 7 water proofing to start you're 8 hour day . Then on my way home I stop at Rays auto wrecking gab a tow truck and a list of junk cars to be towed ,,,,, I might get home about 6 or 7 pm . Call Bonos Shell and report that I am available ,,, I will get calls during the night and will need to drive tow truck when the C.H.P. calls that there has been a wreck or a drunk driver arrest .

That was my life for 11 years . You have no idea how pissed my wife could get if I wasn't ready for sex when she was .

I road a motorcycle to my different jobs , But for the papers I drove a vw Baha bug . first nothing around the engine , open access . second , striped inside to just a drivers seat . Third , two kc day lighters on the front and Fox halogens over the doors to find new addresses in the dark .

One night I had 5 or 6 new address's to find in the El Verano district ,,,,, It was foggy ,,,, it was dark ,,,, all the papers had to go in plastic bags ,,,I was running late ,,,,, my stinger exhaust was "growling" ,,,,, my lights were punching holes in the fog ,,,,, Someone called the cops ,,,,, An airplane had landed and was throwing bags of dope out ..... I was surrounded .... They had a good laugh .....