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Weekly Tweets for 2010-07-11

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Watching "Army of Darkness." Klaato Verada Nikto, indeed… #
Very discouraged right now… #
Things are looking up, just a little. My horror-scope sez changes are a-comin' around, and soon. Either a light or a train… #
RT @Gorillamonk wait, why ARE we calling it an oil spill? it's coming out of the ground! | its a oil ejaculation! [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-07-04

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I'm awake and rolling this morning. Wishing I was still in bed. There is just something… wrong… about mornings. C'mon caffeine! #
In my job as a trucker, I just made four little kids whole day because of my cargo… On to Canada! #
Back in the USSA, you don't how lucky you are, yay! Back in the [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-06-27

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NEWS: Phone call about taxes a life-saver for Ky. man http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15973/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=56B0o5i5 #
RT @Gorillamonk I want a vuvuzela! someone make that happen. | There's an app for that… #
RT @weselec: I forgot to put my kids under my pillow and now they're still here and Father's Day is RUINED. #
RT @iowahawkblog: Happy Fathers Day… to [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-06-20

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Indiana load diverted to Pennsyl-tucky. 500 more miles to go… #
Doing the "wait 4 freight dance" again. Actually, less like dance and more like "me laying around bored scratching my peculiars." #
When I let my hair grow out, it looks like a combed with a swirlee every morning. The parts that ain't bald pate. that is… [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-06-13

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Time warping thru today, naps keep sneaking up on me. Trying to keep an ear out for banjo music. Pennsyl-tucky is crawling with them. #
One of them NASCAR trucks (#88) pulled into the truckstop. A half dozen truckers ran out of their rigs to snap pictures. Race in Pocono? #
A line of #NASCAR car haulers, driving [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-06-06

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After my triumphant return to the fabulous HomeTown, I'm waiting for freight. Must get back out there and get some paying miles. Joy… #
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Picking up in Paducah tomorrow AM. I know I need to be back on the road to make money, but I miss home already. #
Troubleshot the strobes on my trailer. Last doofus [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-05-30

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Professor and Maryann are running the whole thing from a secret bunker. The ghost of Gilligan is the smoke monster, #lostspoilers #
The Skipper is the Man in Black, back from the dead and a unsuccessful European tour as a Johnny Cash impersonator. #LostSpoilers #
Bernard and Rose? Thurston and Lovey via the Witness Protection Program, LOST it [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-05-23

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Are there roadrunners in WI? I think I just ran one over accidentally. I feel like Wile E. Coyote… MEEP, MEEP mother-effer! #
RT @hoosiergirl: Never trust a mechanic with one clean finger. #
Camera Bag Twitter Contest from Lowepro and iShotYourBand.com http://bit.ly/9qbuph #ishotyourband #LOWEPRO #
Velveeta Shells and Cheese is the FOOD O' TH' GAWDS, and I'll go [...]

Weekly Tweets for 2010-05-16

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Back on the road, spending the night in Oh-Hi-Oh-my-farging-lawd-why-hast-thou-forsaken-me… For Sale: One Ohio, slightly soiled. Cheap. #
What could be more fun than loading a flatbed truck in a driving thunderstorm? Root canals, IRS audits, shytting your pants in public? #
Win a new Canon 1DMKIV or $5000 of photo printing/product from @WHCCPro & Scott Bourne. Pls RT. [...]

Three Wolf Moon

And oldie but a goodie, customer reviews for the “Three Wolf Moon” t-shirt on Amazon. My favorite review…

I have experienced many highs in my life. The scratch-off lottery ticket I purchased in lieu of a bottle of Boone’s Farm that resulted in $500 spending cash. The used black Camaro I bought with those winnings. Meeting Hulk Hogan. But nothing compares with the day my Three Wolves One Moon t-shirt arrived.

I happened to be at home that day, as I’d injured myself while shoveling manure at the local horse track. Sitting at the base of my tree house in my favorite resin Adirondack replica chair, I heard the distinctive cry of a lone wolf emanating somewhere on the other side of my parents double-wide trailer.

From around the corner came an enormous, weathered gray wolf. He approached me with a gleam in his eye, stepped off his customized Segway, and dropped a brown package from his dripping maw. I thanked the beast and bid him adieu. Before I could so much as lean over to pick up the package it rose into the air with a loud hum, split open and there before me hovered the Three Wolves One Moon t-shirt.

That was thirteen months ago. Thirteen months of adventures that I can barely describe lest I be labeled a lunatic. A few highlights for the true believers:
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