Michael Jackson dies
Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. When paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.
I can not begin to explain how Michael has had a place in my life. Even though we never met, I have always enjoyed his music. Yes, he did have a lot of strange things in his personal life, but his music always survived and will continue to do so.
This is a sad day.
TWJ – Elkmont,AL to Woodhaven, MI
After I unloaded from the load to Huntsville,AL, I started heading back to the house. There was a van ahead of me down there and it was REALLY hot and humid. I figured I could sit in the a/c at home and it was only about 5 hours away.
I crossed into Tennessee from Alabama 
and then fuled up at a Loves truck stop. 
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After I fueled up and started heading north again, I got a call to go back to Alabama and pick up a run going up to Woodhaven,MI. Good run, so I didn’t mind turning back around and driving another 77 miles back the way I came. hehe
I got loaded with four small boxes of auto transmission sensors for Ford that weighed about 50 pounds all together in Elkmont,AL.
After getting loaded, I started heading north again and ran by this guy who was driving his oversized load in the center lane 
instead of the right lane. Sure caused a back up and most people had to actually go out of their lanes to avoid this guy.
I made it through Tennessee and here is the border into Kentucky. 
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After this photo, I started having a lot of trouble with the van shutting off while I was going down the road, so I shut off all my electrical stuff and finally made it up to my drop off point around 5 am. After I brought them in my little boxes, I drove to a truck stop right next door and got a few hours of sleep.
When I got up, I charged up my battery. I then hooked up my small laptop to a deep cell battery so I wouldn’t use the van battery and drove home with just the laptop, no radio, no fan and no air conditioning. Boy, it was a LONG and HOT drive and I made it all the way home about 20 minutes before dark. If I would have had to turn on the lights, it probably would have died again.
Now, the van is in the shop getting a new alternator put on. I sure hope that solves the problem.
TWJ – Evansville, IN to Huntsville, AL
I picked up a run monday in Evansville, IN and was to drop it off in Huntsville, AL. It was a large 8 foot long package with fence parts inside.
Along the way, I ran into a lot of lightning and some strong storms.
I couldn’t drop off till the next morning, so I stopped at the Alabama welcome center and slept for a few hours.
Notice the large rocket at the entrance to the welcome center.
The next morning I delivered the next morning at a fence company.
Farrah Fawcett dies at age 62
Farrah Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and “Charlie’s Angels” stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, has died. She was 62.
Fawcett, who checked into a Los Angeles, California, hospital in early April, had been battling anal cancer on and off for three years.
Ryan O’Neal, Fawcett’s romantic partner since the mid-1980s, recently told People magazine that the sex symbol was declining. Her official website made the following statement:
I am sorry to say our Farrah has passed to a better place and left the pain and confines of her bed behind. She is free to be the woman we all knew and loved. So Few have touched so many. You all keep Fighting the Fight.
