Sunday - evening

Done with working the entire weekend, the dispatcher, bless her heart, has me also working Monday and Tuesday.  That's 6 days in a row working and only a day off before I started this 6 day run, I am do and need a couple days off.   She has no idea what she's doing. She just fills the slots and has no clue about driver's desires for particular days off or how they want to handle things and she doesn't care, it's not normally her job.

The manager is back and I will be having a discussion about this coming weekend. There isn't anything particularly important going on, I just want it off.  I worked this entire weekend, last weekend I worked Saturday and I don't even remember the weekend before that.  I lost track of all of it. I know I had 5 days off being sick and they accommodated for that, so I try to keep things like that in mind when they are working me to death. 

We do have a new driver, he just started yesterday. I saw him coming into Gurdon when I was leaving.  Someone gave him my phone number for a little while later I got a call from him.  He had no idea what to do.  Which outlet do I pump the fluid into? Probably the east but you need to go into the plant, find the on duty manager and have them sign off on your paperwork first and also have them determine which tank they want you to pump into.  It's all up to them. I go into the glue pit and look at the levels of both tanks so I can tell them where it's at when I find them, they are usually very busy and don't have time for it. 

In other words, you will wait.  He "got it" and I just told him if he has any other questions don't hesitate to call me. At least he didn't try to show up before me.  He was told to arrive at 11:00 am and it was 10:30 am when he actually arrived. I'm all good with that, I got there at 8:30 this morning. 

It's taking longer to get weekends done up there for a very disgruntled employee who was fired called in death threats (this was a month ago) and was going to "shoot up the place". Who knows when they will lift that, but until then? I have to have them come and unlock the main gate to let me in. But it doesn't matter, that's where the scales are so they would have to come anyway. On the weekends, the scales aren't open, the security people have to weigh you in and out.  

I'm hopeful this new driver both works out and isn't a total jackass. He sounded ok on the phone anyway. 

Strange things happen on the highways - every single day actually.  I was driving up to Gurdon on I-30 - east bound in other words - had caught up to a truck and put on my signal to come over. There was a group of motorcycles coming up on the left lane - they had been sitting out there forever - I wasn't going to cut them off but I was seeing if they would let me in.

They did not.   So I slowed down behind the truck, let them pass and then got over.  I passed 2 trucks actually, there was one right behind the other. I got back over pretty quickly, I try to be a courteous driver.  A pickup pulling a trailer came up beside me, I woman opened the window, leaned half her body out the window and had both middle fingers glaring at me, lmao.  I just laughed at them.  What on earth?  

They passed me and got over and then another pickup with a trailer came up and yes, another female got her head and upper body out the window and was also flipping me off! LOL! .

They got behind the other pickup who was following behind the motorcycles.  I didn't cut the motorcycles off, lol, I won't do that regardless. Did they think I was somehow provoking the motorcycles by putting my turn signal on?  They were not following closely behind the motorcycles I didn't even know they were with them.  

Whatever. I pulled out my phone and aimed it out the windshield, they were likely going to cut me off and possibly brake check me.   They didn't even get over.  I make it plainly visible that I have that phone aimed right at them and if they pull anything, it's going to be recorded. Honestly? I didn't even have the thing recording, lol, I just do that when I want to trick people who are acting erratically out there to see that they are not going to get away with anything, or at least think they aren't  and just move your ass on, get out of my line of sight and take  your idiotic wrath and rage elsewhere. 

I really want out of trucking. That desire gets stronger and stronger.  The park is - well it's supposed to be full. Some sort of company that finds accommodations for corporate people had called me several times reserving a lot for someone coming in - for an entire year.  I had said yes, they said he was arriving on the 6th.  That was yesterday and a no show.  I told them today I am losing money - I literally turned someone away assuming this person was showing up.  

The point is that it is possible that I could fill those 4 lots I have been wanting to get going.  Very possible.  I am going to go buy the stuff I need to give to the man tomorrow - it's glue and stuff to put the pipe together.   And someone stole my stepladder - $150 worth gone.  That was quite a while back, I never replaced it.  Other than that, I have most of the pipe I need to finish the sewer line portion of it. 

He has a buddy that has some sort of mini trackhoe he says he'll ask about trenching a line for the water line.  I gotta get this going, it's been idle long enough. I'll get my @$$ down in there if I have to, I'd just like some help with it.  It's pretty hard work.  Not impossible for a lone person to do it but  an extra set  of hands and eyes makes it  soooo much easier.  

Well, the day is gone. Almost anyway. 8:00 pm.  Oh, well this company told me to hold the spot. Yeah, I"m gonna start charging them the nightly fee, I have their credit card on file. I will be telling them tomorrow that I am going to start doing that and if they don't want me to, immediately drop their reservation and I'll just let it go. But I ain't holding it forever.  IF this person does show up, the start date will be Saturday - yesterday and I will charge accordingly.  I don't mind this kind of setup, I've done it before and it's quite convenient getting that money monthly without any hesitation.  

I'm starting a 3 day fast tomorrow.  I'm going to force myself to lose weight. It's getting ridiculous and I'm just ready to do something about it. I don't want to take pills - you've seen those pills and now you are hearing about some serious potential side effects.  I have adverse side effects to lots of common drugs that don't give other people any problems. Doctors think I'm making stuff up or something,  I don't tolerate that stuff. I will take your pills if I don't feel like I'm dying while I am taking them.  I get testy right back with them, is there some reason I would just make stuff up?   

Fasting? The only side effect is hunger, lol. I'd love to make it 5 days but I'm only shooting for 3, 5 is really hard, I've done it but barely made it through it. After that, I'm back on Keto but this time, no or very little diary products.  In other words, that high fat stuff.  Not good for the cholesterol count I found out the hard way.  

I think I'm going to take my leave of this, go watch tv for a while and then call it a day.