I got called for a dog catch at 7:17 am on Friday. I was stil in the middle of my first cup of coffee. We were supposed to go to Summit and relieve the Z LACMEM. So, we got in the van and headed to Barstow. On the way there we found out that they were having problems with one of their motors and would be adding another one onto the head end in Barstow. When we got to Barstow our trian was in I1. They had just coupled the new motor onto the head end but they couldn't lace the main hose because thre was something wrong with the gladhand on it (it came out of Diesel Service that way) so they were waiting for Mechanical to come out and fix it. We relieved the crew. I went to the rear of the train to arm the ETD. When I got to the head end Mechanical had been there and fixed the problem. I didn't expect them to work that fast. The hoses were laced up and the cable was connected. We did the locomotive air brake test, my engineer did the Class III, and we departed. It was a good trip. I tied up around 6 pm. This is what we call a "flip," so I lclaimed the flip rate of 341 miles. The next morning I got called to take a grain train to Barstow at 9 am On duty time was 11 am. We had a student engineer. The trip was about 7 hours. We tied our train down on Main 2. I only had to tie 3 brakes. I checked in the hotel around 9 pm. I woke up around 1:30 and and tossed and turned for 2 hours. I got up at 6:30 for the free breakfast and went bck to bed. I got called for a stack train at 1 pm. On duty time was 2:30 pm. I had the same engineer and student engineer. We relieved the inbound at the steps. There were hardly any trains ahead of us. The radio ws dead for the second half of the trip. It was a 7 hour trip. I rolled my train by and tied up. Last time I looked I was 18th out. I made the union meeting this morning. This evening I'm going to drive my 57 Chevy to a meeting of the "Arizona River Cruisers." It's a classic car club that I want to join. It looks ike I will be able to go. I have attached a photo of our leader, the 7204