Sunday

I"ve got several entries in past many days that were never input. 

I was sick for 7 days to the point that I missed 6 days of work and regretted it - not at all.  I'm finally getting better, just a bit of a cough, went to work on Friday, they gave my Sunday off for whatever reason, I didn't ask for it and they had asked me to work the entire weekend.  They did, however, call this morning early and I did not answer that call.

Mainly because I was sleeping and the ringer was off.  I don't care, we have had a busy day today and it's not over yet. In 45 minutes we're leaving for a restaurant to meet with the group and then going to a Passion play at a different church than what we normally go to. This was a suggestion from a member of the group, I initially said yes while the rest of the family said no. 

We are all going now, lol.  

Considerable thought to my current dilemma.  

The dilemma is getting endless phone calls for long term and having nothing available.  To the point I finally contacted the contractor and asked what just installing the septic would cost. I can't do that myself and wouldn't want to, frankly.  Out of my expertise, I'm not even a novice with such things.  My idea atm is to install it near the other one and build on the other end, towards the main road.  This is not optimal but that's what I am thinking, so that I can eventually expand the back portion. I was looking and I think I can dump 14 lots up near the front without too much grade problems. Even if it's a bit more than what I have on other lots now, I am looking for long term. They can block one side of the trailer up as high as they need to, this bothers me not. 

It's really where I am thinking of going with this right now.  It's less than 10 grand to install that septic system and then probably - $1,500 per lot if I'm doing it myself, that's less the mini-ex rental. I think that covers everything else. We're talking sewer line, water line, power lines and pedestals.  And rock.  Maybe a little more than that, 2 grand per lot? I don't have to build all the lots all at once.  I can do whatever I can afford and do-it-as-you-can-afford-it type of deal. 

What I really need to do now, if I can qualify, is to get a credit card loan to pay off all existing high interest debt and get that taken care of, plus a barn loan and a new riding mower.  I'm tired of that old thing I have, it's worked well enough but I keep needing to dump money into it and when I want to use it and it's not working? Not good. 

I'm going to have to pay someone now to mow everything again, the grass is getting long. 

Trust me when I say I don't want to do lot installs myself.  I don't have the energy I used to, I'm looking into that. Not that I think I can de-age or something, but certain supplements and drinks you can take and losing weight that will at least increase energy levels to the point I can do the trucking, come back and do everything else.  

I think the point here is that I am not going to go through all of that loan process to have them potentially deny me the loan.  I won't need a loan to get the septic system installed and then I will have to find a way to get a dozer to level everything out.  

I wouldn't mind installing a couple of 100 amp outlets as well this time around for mini homes or even small mobiles. Well, mobiles might need a bit bigger amperage. We're not talking old junkie garbage, we're talking new rental units, job required, proof of income, sizeable down payment, back ground checks, the whole 9 yards. Industry standard, in other words, people know that landlords want to know about the people they are letting into their rental units. 

How are you going to do that? Let me work one thing out at a time, please.  

Credit is basically the key to running most businesses.  I have been looking into that.  I don't have the reputation with any local banks I need to basically get what I want when I need it.  When I say I've been looking into all of this, I mean I've spent time trying to figure this all out. If there's anything that is true, it's the fact that I freely admit I have waded into unknown waters and at times it feels like it's been full of predatory sharks waiting to pounce at a moment's notice.  

Whatever the case, work and life plods on.  I am unhappy with my current situation and I am slowly growing motivated to change that, permanently.  14 more lots probably wouldn't eradicate the need to keep working a regular job but it would come pretty close to it.  It's the health insurance that I worry about, it is costly.  65 is still years off for Medicare.  Caid? I can never remember, or even know the difference.

Anyway, don't be shocked if in the near future I post pics on my Facebook wall showing yet another septic install.  It's that or a large tank and for the cost of large tanks, you might as well just get a septic system for only a bit more money.  

There are many other things going on, of course, I haven't written in quite a while. Guess I really just got burnt out on writing blog entries when it's the same old stuff, day in and day out. Just seems extremely repetitive and monotonous - read: boring.  

We went to church today, of course, I always do that if I am off on a Sunday.  We are so busy today that I don't have time to work on taxes, they aren't done yet and I really don't know if they will be in time.  It is what it is.  I'm not going to stress over the IRS and their threats. I haven't received any threats, it's just this existential state of continuous dark mode over the country with the IRS looming over anyone they want to target and subsequently, ruin their lives if they desire to do so.  

The government can ruin your life without legitimate cause, that's a fact and I dare anyone to attempt to contradict that statement. I try to do nothing to upset the government, taxes are a thing out of my league, at least when you're talking about a business and a full time job.  Paying a CPA is extremely expensive.  I prepared my taxes last year and received nothing back from the IRS either negative or good.  You don't really want to hear from them at all, if you do you can expect that day to be a "Monday" type of day.  

I'm sort of all over the place with this post.  I wrote in a previous post that I want to be with my mom at her 90th, I don't think I posted that entry.  That's in September and Lord willing, I want to be there for that event.  

I don't know about you, but I've been watching the news quite a bit lately. More than I have been for a while.  Trump is going at a lightning-speed pace with everything he is doing with the southern border, tariffs, etc, lots of stuff, lots and lots of it. DOGE uncovering unbelievable amounts of waste, abuse and fraud. I just read this stuff in awe. I am not surprised that there's fraud, but the level of it is unreal!  150 year old people on SS?  Checks being written by computer generated nothingness with no accountability?  Endless nonsense! Yes, let's fire a bunch of people that aren't serving any useful purpose and well beyond the need that the federal government has to keep it's doors open. MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT. I remember the days when a government job wasn't highly desirable because it didn't pay that much and you really weren't going to make a career out of it.

Now?  

I'm going to end this and post this one before we have to leave, in a few minutes.