Monday - afternoon

As usual, the only day off per week doesn't fit well. 2 days off minimum. Here we go with another 6 day week.  Another driver is off on vacation - he takes a lot of them and they aren't short in nature.  He hasn't been in the company a lot longer than me in terms of vacation pay, he's a nice guy so whatever. He's getting up there beyond my years in age and has been going through chemo treatments, another, oh, let's cut him some slack moments.

Welp, Hegseth is apparently headed towards and impeachment vote and apparently some Republicans don't like him and want him out. The sentiment is that there is a real possibility that he could be impeached/removed.  They're blaming Hegseth for Trump's decisions? This makes no sense to me.  And what do the left and right Hegseth haters think is going to replace him, some sort of person that loves lefties?  He's acting on the will of the President, that's it.  Impeach Trump again, lmao, I'm sure that'll get far.  

Sure, they can impeach Trump again, but there aren't enough votes to remove him.  Perhaps this is why they are targeting Hegseth, they CAN possibly remove him and it would be some sort of triggering agent for the left to declare some sort of victory! It is amazing how much energy they have wasted on targeting Republicans instead of ACTUALLY making this nation a better place to live.

But, Democrats are the party of a powerful, centralized federal government, wanting to increase the numbers of justices on the SCOTUS so they can bypass the constitution, absolutely enamored with taxation! The more the better! Their ideology is the antithesis to what the patriots who founded this country envisioned and really, led this country into at least initially.  I mean, I may lose sleep but it isn't over this stuff.  They're going to do what they're going to do and I am powerless to stop them from doing it.

The voters voted, they want communists and socialists.  They'll eventually regret that decision but by the time they actually see what's happening? It will be too late. 

A certain religious sect and socialism are taking over this country.  That's it. It is by design and they are making great progress at it, I'll give them credit for that.  

Woke up a little early this morning, looked at the clock and realized not worth trying to go back to sleep for 20 minutes worth. But, I DID sleep pretty well otherwise.  

I'm still on Keto and probably will be for  a long time. I'm down 34 pounds now sitting at 207 pounds.  I had a thought:  why not see how far I am from getting back into 34's?  Waist size, blue jeans that is.   I was almost shocked that I actually fit into them.  A little tight and not quite there yet, but it wasn't a stretch to button them up! 

Long ago, I was at 32's.  I don't have that goal now, it's really skinny and I doubt I'll ever get back there but then again, I don't necessarily want to be that skinny.  34's, fitting comfortably, would be good and would have me below 200's weight.  I'm only 7 pounds away from that 200 mark!  That would be a psychological booster to get there sometime soon.  

Work was relatively easy - tho there was a greater concentration of idiotic driving and most notably, people sitting at green lights after they switched.  Like for several seconds, I honked once but I sort of regretted it. The horns are on the side of the truck a little below head level for people in the driver's seat of a car. And there was someone sitting right next to me, innocent bystander that had to have the shock and awe of literal train horns blaring into their skull. 

At least it got the first place driver in the turn lane moving.  

 Friday - mid afternoon

So, the election has occurred and republicans got  their @$$es kicked.  Quite literally.  One of the worst repudiations of the party I have seen in quite a long time. But why? Most are attributing it to the Iran war.  Look people, I don't know how old you are - well a few of you I do - but I've been around long enough to have heard Iran wanting to annihilate both us, the US and Israel for many, many decades now.  I remember Iranian students coming to this country and going out onto the streets chanting Death To America! ...

...but they chose the wrong time and place. That was back when Patriots had balls and they didn't take kindly to the anti-American shit and beat the crap out of those people. They didn't chant that shit for long as memory serves.  

But here we are electing people who are the antithesis to what America was founded on by the patriots who fought and won our freedom so long ago.  These socialists do not want your freedom.  They do not want a Constitution. They are elitists and they are power hungry.  What amazes me is the history of both socialism and communism - extensive, exhaustive history you can google or go to libraries and check out books to read up about. You can pull up old news footage.  There is a plethora of information about it's history and the inevitable outcomes.  

There are NO good outcomes.  NONE of it.  Death and starvation.  People - everyone excepting the elitists and possibly the people directly serving them - living in poverty.  Stalin is a great example.  Cuba/Castro. Venezuela more modern versions of it.  The Russian empire.  China.   And yet here we are with a multitude of the modern version of Americans wanting this shit.  Propaganda abounds. This "new" version of it will work! Everything will be wonderful! Eutopia! 

BULLSHIT. Listen to people who have migrated here (legally of course) coming out of such conditions.  They see America turning towards and it and giving stern warnings of the future to come if we embrace this ideology and understand the horrors it will eventually bring. Once enough of these people are in power, we are screwed. 

Or are we....the problem the Germans had was that people had firearms. Well, the people that they thought would and probably have offered substantial resistance if they had access to them when Hitler started his chaos with the Jews and WWII.  Now, that is a different political ideology but the substance is the same: the people were armed.  

You wait and watch.  The left have been trying to disarm us for a long time now, but once enough of these people get into positions of power, they will have the ability to make laws to do so. Or try anyway.  They will stack the Supreme Court with "justices" who care nothing about what that "piece of paper" says.  Couple that with religious zealots who are also getting into positions of authority and power.  I am not going to go into those rabbit trails for it is insanity to think what might happen. Hopefully and prayerfully not, but God's will be done. Evil is here but it's NOT here to stay!  God is still on the Throne! He is the CREATOR GOD and that is the only thing I need for my inner peace. Whatever happens around us? What He says will happen, will happen!

But you're not going to have country folks just give up the ghost and go along with this.  There will need to be another civil war at some point, it will happen at the very least when they come for the guns.  I mean, when gun control gets to the point they can revoke citizen' right to bear and carry firearms.  This will be a law but can they enforce it? Can they go into people's homes and just take them? At first, probably. Then people will say screw this, they aren't doing this to us and it's going to be an all at war.  But against who?  Mealy mouthed people who are big behind computer monitors and Apple/Samsung screens?  The nation's military, who is highly likely more on the conservative republican and God fearing side than not?  Sheriffs, many of whom are also   God-fearing people?  

It isn't going to be pretty what we are going to watch happening in LA and New York.  These are openly Socialist mayors.  Abbot was voted out and a leftie voted in for Texas governor. I don't see this particularly surprising.  You have Dallas/Ft Worth, Austin, Houston which is I believe the 3rd largest city in the nation, San Antonio and I believe El Paso is also a staunch leftist post.  You couple that with all the Californians moving over here and taking residence all over the place, not just the big cities. I know this for a fact for I have discussed this with local realtors. I don't live in a big city and the nearest one is Dallas, some 160 miles away.  

I fear that if they can get away with it, democrats will attempt to initiate state income tax. Dems love taxation.  This is how it works and this is the blueprint to a centralized, highly powerful federal government that can invoke it's powers over the people.  It will be interesting, actually, to see how all of this is going to play out.  But look at Mandami, no rich person is beyond his grasp of financial control. HE wants to tax the hell out of them and they are fleeing the entire state.  

I'm sort of all over the place here, my thoughts are everywhere as I've studied and debated these subjects for many years now.   These people still want to impeach Trump yet again! Trump doesn't give a damn! lol!  They don't have near enough lefties in Congress to remove him, what a waste of time.  Trump says he has the ability to veto their nonsense and I hope he will.  He'll probably cave at times to give the elusion of a stable government and economy. Trump is no saint, I voted for him yes, but he's a billionaire and many rich people are as corrupt as it can get.  He loves money, gold and glitter.  But there was no way I was voting for a Hillary, Biden or Harris, lmao.  

"The lessor of 2 evils".  

Oh let me backtrack here. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH WHAT TRUMP AND THIS NATION'S MILITARY HAS DONE IN IRAN AND I WOULD PREFER THEY FINISH THE DAMN JOB.  If you don't like my views on it? I ... DON'T....CARE. A nuclear Iran would be terrifying to the entire world!  These people exalt their own deaths as some sort of promotion to eternal glories. I'm not going to bother going into the history of the Iranian government, IRGC, the proxies and all the rest of it, waste of my time and mental energies.  They will kill us if they can and you give them the ability to do that, they are going to try it.                                                                                                                         

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Enough.  I could go on for hours writing my thoughts about this but I don't have that much time and whose mind is it going to change? No one's.  Social media is the demise of this civilization.  Facebook groups especially. People just speak out their trash and post memes full of completely false information.  They live off of memes! It's unbelievable. If you bother to take the time to not only tell them the facts but list citations (proof) that they are wrong? THEY DON'T CARE!  There are no consequences to disseminating lies - well take that back, Facebook was banning people for speaking the truth according to the right and this has been verified in congressional hearings that included the redhead testifying.  They will live in their denial to their last breath.  I gave up on that a few years ago. Debating with the left is a total waste of time. They certainly are NOT going to change my mind and I understand they are unwavering as well.  This is the roots of civil war, I'm telling ya, it's going to happen if this trajectory of opposing thoughts and the inability to discuss them continues on.  

The oldest has been sick so day 2, but he seems to be doing much better now. The youngest - has been in trouble. Nothing new there.  

The old man is gone, I think I wrote about that last time but the peace that now prevails over the park?  I went on the walking trails today, I haven't done that in quite a while. His cigarette butts all over the place. Even thrown into piles of pine needles. Thank God he didn't burn down my forest. Trash - coffee cups, I"m not talking in the RV park portion, I'm referring to the trails I had made 3 years ago, aluminum cans, it's ALL this dude.  Good riddance.

The weekend is here, mom is off doing something with people near Dallas, I have the house and all that entails.  I enjoyed the walking trails regardless of this guy's absolute bs.  Unbelievable.  I'll get the kids out there helping pick it all up and get that man's footprint of stupidity off of my land.  I have to work tomorrow, probably going to get up earlier than normal.  Just want to get the day over with and not have kids having to be with people too terribly late in the day in case they have plans, which they probably do.  

Oh, and yes I'm going to start walking again.  I was doing bicycling but I enjoy the beauty of the forest on my land.  20 minutes directly after returning from a run will be great. It's not hot out, will it kinda gets warm still but nothing horrible.

I dunno what else, the current political landscape has me a bit preoccupied.  Nothing else going on today, no where we have to go and just have to make dinner.  

 Tuesday - evening

Yes, folks, we went trick or treating. I'm sure my Christian friends will not like that, but I can tell you something here: I am slowly having an effect on these people that we hang out with. Many of them never went to church and now are going - yes because they see me doing it and they have seen me taking the kids for the last several years.  I'm telling you, even the 9 year old is showing change and I believe at least part of that is the teachings he's receiving at church. 

They are going to a Wednesday Bible study group directly after they get home from school and then off of the youth fellowship afterwards.  Basically they are at church from 4:30 to 7:30 and I think it's doing them a world of good.  I do not worship devils, ghosts, demons and I'm not a fan of those costumes at all or the ornaments in people's front yards. They go to great lengths to decorate for Halloween, many of them MUCH more than they will for Christmas, if at all. We are to be in the world but not of it.  

We can't help but be in this world but we can do whatever we can to help people change. See the truth of the Gospel and the reality of Jesus Christ, my Lord.  

We only went for about an hour and a half, we had a late start so I was glad to get it over with and go home. 

 The old man is gone.  He actually left without my having to call law enforcement out there. He's seen my booting others before, he knows I'm quite serious about it once I get into that mode.  I really dislike throwing people out, but there are instances where it's more than just needed, it's basically mandatory.  I'm amazed at the immediate effect. The park has no dog running all over the place doing whatever the hell it pleases. Apparently it was literally shitting EVERYWHERE. I've had people come up asking about his departure and I tell them bluntly I threw his ass out. 

NO ONE is unhappy about that.  I should have done this a long time ago and I am trying to make myself do better.  People ignore the rules? Give them an ultimatum and get them OUT if they decide they don't want to follow them.  They can go somewhere else where they likely have the same types of rules and won't tolerate it there, either.  

The lot is rented and paid for, albeit no one is on it. Yup, a person called, said their son is going to the state college in town, starts next month but they want to ensure they have a space for him and yes, they are actually going out and buying him a brand new rv trailer.  Hey, rich parents aren't all bad.  The kid picked a good school, this college is renowned for not only turning out highly qualified graduates, but placing them in high paying jobs before they even have their diploma. 

 Thursday - night

Another long day.  Work, come home and do dishes by hand - the dishwasher is not working and they can't come until Monday - gag - take  a quick nap and then off to downtown with the kids for the annual Trunk or Treat.

A bunch of businesses show up, put up tables or operate out the back of their vehicles and give out candy.  The kids scored this time around, we got there early and were ready to go the second they opened up.  It's always the same: the first people that show up, they give out handfuls of candy, then when they realize they goofed, they get very sparing with it with the rest.   

This was the main downtown street and there were a LOT of businesses that showed up..  their basket and bags were filled up. We were done quickly but by the time we finished, there was at least 1,000 people out there.  Probably a lot more than that, I'm not a real good estimator of crowd sizes but it was way more than just hundreds, that was obvious.  Off to Whataburger but then I remembered that an assisted living home had it's residents wanting to give out candy.  

People tend to forget about the aged in such living situations and I told the kids we were going to stop there and they could help brighten their day.  I've spent a lot of time in the past in those places, you rarely see anyone visiting them.  It was just as I thought: No kids, no one there. Excepting the residents all sitting in the main entrance room, bowls of candy in their laps and no one to give them to.  They welcomed us right in and we spent a bit of time there, as much as feasible anyway before we had to leave.

It kind of made me feel good that I took the kids and the kids were happy to do it.   They understood about not having visitors and thought it sad no other people weren't there with kids.  I showed one of the attendants a pic I took of downtown and she was shocked. Can you show it to everyone?  Well can you? I gave her my phone and she went around to every single person - probably about 25 of them there - and they all looked with surprise.  I'm getting old too, I hope I never have to end up in one of those places, not because I would be against getting the help I need to live everyday life, but because you become the forgotten group of old people that no one seemingly cares about.  

The old man I'm kicking out.  Yea, he went off last night.  Tried to use one of the 10 Commandments about the people that reported his dog for aggressive behavior.  Said his dog "has never pooped" in the rv park, "only out in the woods". My reply? That is a bold faced lie.  No it isn't.  I didn't feel like going back and forth with him, I am done with him and I told him as such.  I told him about the pic I had seen posted online from a security camera awhile back with HIS pic on it, HIS dog and a vehicle he used to have parked at his trailer and the caption that he was wanted for some sort of burglary I think it was. It was a while back, I don't remember the particulars just that he had done something illegal, he was leaving a laundromat in the pic.  

He had nothing to say about that, of course, which to me was the same as admitting guilt.  Anyway he went on and I said to stop messaging me. He wouldn't quit so I told him I was blocking him on my phone and that's exactly what I did.  He IS leaving whether he wants to or not, but I did get out of him yesterday that "I will leave". Good luck finding a place that allows you to get away with the s***  you've been doing here.  

I'm hoping tomorrow I have time after work to get some more stuff done on the sewer line. I still have to finish blocking it up. Yes, I got it all blocked up at the right slope but I still have to put more blocking along the line to shore it up.  After that, the mower man said he'd come and start backfilling it.  I need it done by hand if possible so I know that the line isn't coming off the blocks and is shoved underneath it as it's filled up.  I"d like to get that finished tomorrow if possible, tho I don't know if I have enough wood blocks to do it.  

Well that's it. Time to get ready for bed.  The manager called today and asked if I had already left the plant? Yup, 10 miles away. DARNIT! I was going to have you ask them if there is going to be a shutdown next week?  He hadn't received any work from the plant and usually by now he's got work going through next week from them.

Well that answered my question. I usually have work assigned into next week from my manager by now as well.  So, I work tomorrow and Saturday and he said I have Sunday off regardless and that's all I know.  One thing I DO know is the plant was full of big wigs today and the plant manager up there was called out of his office to go deal with them - he was in the middle of something.  Maybe they are going to shut the thing down. They do so annually but never the same date. All maintenance stuff.  I figure my manager will just call him and ask him directly, that's what I'd do in his position 🤷

Oh, and I'm still lamenting the non-working dishwasher.  Like, I haven't had to do entire loads of dishes by hand in forever.  Endless silverware gets very old.  Not to mention pots and pans and everything else.  I think I will just try to find someone else to come out tomorrow instead of waiting clear until Monday. It's not under warranty - it's not terribly old either.  But it's a brand I never heard of - Midea.  Why didn't they buy a more trusted name in appliances?  No clue.  

 Wednesday - night

Goodness it's been a "minute" since I lasted posted.  

I have a few things going on but it's getting late so I can't really get  to detailed about  much of anything.

First and foremost, however, is the old man and his dog.  He has been violating the rules in my park for quite a long time, namely with never leashing his dog and me asking him untold numbers of times to leash him and him - ignoring me.  Numerous complaints from various tenants throughout his tenure here culminating with the dog accosting a guests' grandaughter up against a car at  their place, the dog running free of course.  

I issued him a notice yesterday and he has until Monday to get out.  If he doesn't I'll trespass him, call the sheriff's office out and have them escort him off of the property.  A giant headache will be permanently off of my hands.

I have been working on the sewer line project, but it's slow progress. I think I finally have the west to east portion of the line sufficiently raised up, now I have to backfill it.  And Ill have to do it "gently" as to not disturb the line and it's symmetry per the fall it needs to have waste flow freely down it.  I need help out there so I'm going to ask that mower guy again. He disappeared for quite a while but finally resurfaced. 

I woke up one morning about 4 days ago with a severe pain in my left elbow.  I have no idea what happened, but I figured I must have slept on it wrong because it wasn't like that when I had gone to bed.  Well, here it is 4 days later and it's actually getting worse.  So, I'm going to go to urgent care and see if they can help, if not they can refer me to whoever.  

I took the kids to church tonight for their annual Fall Fest.  It's their version of Halloween without all the demonic crap.  It's ok, they just have fun games and they give away candy once you finish the short game.  

Lots of other stuff going on, I need to write more often I just have been slipping on this blog and I'd like to get back into some regularity on it for the sake of having things in writing in case I need to revisit it in the future. 

Which reminds me, somewhere in this blog, I wrote about that water line I'm going to need to find eventually for the new lots. It would have been in 2022 is all I can say for sure, I'll be going through it but after thinking about it for a while, I know it's running along directly to the east of the power line running into my property.  Still a bit vague, but I have an approximate idea of where it should be. 

 Saturday - evening

 TBH - I slept in. It was cool/cold, I was under the covers and I was relishing in the idea of not getting up at 5:15 am for work.  I was going to go work on the sewer project but I quickly changed my mind and...didn't....get....out... of....bed...until 10:00 am! LOL!  

I spent the money, I got the tickets, I'll be flying out November 24 and returning the 27th. We aren't talking an elongated stay and I didn't want one. It turns out mom isn't getting that much help from brothers.  She is relying on a service to come out and help her with meals and such.  

I am appalled.  If I were living there I would be there at least every other day.  Maybe every day depending on how much the situation needs it.  It almost makes me want to move back there.  I will have to assess the situation once I get there and see if her needs are being taken care of. If they are not, I will do whatever it takes to see that they are.  

I don't want to move back there, btw, nothing to do with my mom, I just don't want to live in big cities.  I can visit them, I can't live in them.  

Oh and these tickets? I am tired of having my rather long legs in pain by the time even a 2-1/2 hour flight is over with. I paid the extra money to get the "Exit" row - where the middle of the cabin doors are - to have leg room.  Kick back, buy the internet and play my game.  I didn't spend anything extra on the short flight from GGG to DFK.  It's not worth it. It's amazing that they will have all of those empty seats but they will force everyone to sit all crowded together in the back of the plane.  

They tell you you can move to one of those seats if you will pay more. Why on earth would I do that? It's 140 miles, I don't even think they get up there at 35,000 feet or so, they just go up and right back down. I have a 2 plus hour wait at DFK so I can stretch my legs, get a bit to eat, have a coffee and then sit on that exit row.  I'm absolutely willing and able to assist with any emergency, opening the door, getting people out and in a very timely fashion.  I can do that.  I doubt it will be needed and I hope and pray it won't be needed, but you never know.

I still watch a lot of videos from various streamers such as Captain Steeeve, Hoover - they are both obviously very knowledgeable pilots or in this case, Captain Steeve forced into retirement via FAA regulations per his age for flying commercial jetliners.  I still watch a little of Mentour Pilot with Peter - he does not pronounce it as the normal PEE ter, it's pet (like petting a dog) er.  Weird but his is from over the pond. 

And I watched the movie made from Sully's miracle on the Hudson landing yesterday.  It popped up on my phone so I decided to see it again.  

Anyway, I have the generator, it's in great shape.  My weight was down to 208 this morning - the lowest it's been in quite a while. The kids are still gone with the grandparents and allegedly not returning until Monday.  I am going to church in the morning, the lady of the house is gone with a friend, I just got done eating crock pot ribs I made - not bad, not bad at all - and that's about it. 

Thursday - afternoon

Odd day.  

Started out normal enough, was in a deep sleep when the alarm went off. That was unfortunate, I probably would have slept another 2 or 3 hours otherwise.  Got up, got my coffee, yada yada yada, samo samo, same routine every day I have to get up trucking.  Which reminds me and I need to do this now: I ran out of coffee grounds. Had to use K cups - I FAR prefer a fresh brewed pot of coffee over those, but in a pinch? It'll do. Ordering that now, no way I'm going to Walmart today, I get free delivery so that will be that and doing it right now so it will arrive today.  

Yes, coming tonight, now that that's done...

So I start driving down 43.  Southbound, I go over the Interstate and drive about 7 miles before I come around a curve and see tail lights.  It's dark, it's on a curve and just past the crest of a hill, I thought someone pulled over on the side of the road.

NOT!

Traffic stopped. Boy did I push down on that brake pedal pretty hard!  I turned my flashers on, there was another truck behind me - a portable parking lot - and he was heavy, I wanted to make sure he saw me for I didn't need a truck rear ending me at 70  mph - the posted speed limit there.  

We sat there for a long time before anything moved and when it did, it was 50 feet and then we sat again.  Then we moved maybe 200 feet and sat again.  This went on for an hour. I finally got up to a curve and there was a person holding up a stop sign on the curve.  I didn't even know they were metering traffic, I just saw a semi-constant flow of traffic coming from the other direction.

Why were they making us wait so long and the other direction just going through? Well, finally getting past that stop sign there was no good reason at all. I mean, yes, there was an absolutely HORRIBLE looking accident there, but if one way can go, the other can too.  Made no sense to me. 

The accident?  A semi truck rolled over.  When I saw rolled over, I mean the entire trailer was upside down blocking the north bound lane.  This is a 2 lane highway with some passing lanes, this area wasn't that at all.  To further shock and awe you, the tractor (semi tractor, the front part that does all the pulling with the engine in it) was detached from the trailer and smashed up against pine trees well off the highway!

Why is that shock and awe? You never see a 5th wheel and kingpin departing ways from each other. I have seen trucks with most of the tractor hanging off the side of a cliff and the 5th wheel and kingpin never gave up, never backed down, never surrendered. They both held on and the truck was eventually pulled out.  Or the infamous NYC bridge accident where the truck goes smashing off the side of the bridge, the trailer holding it from falling completely down into the water.

And what was holding the tractor on there without ever letting go?  The mighty kingpin and the 5th wheel plate. I have seen so many accidents personally where the combo refused to separate that I thought it impossible or at least near impossible for them to detach from each other simply because a giant amount of force was thrust upon them forcing them to let loose.

Today was the first time I had ever seen that. 

To add to this morning's chaos, it was quite foggy out, extremely limited visibility.  I had to drive much slower than normal just to be safe that some nitwit didn't stop their car in the middle of the blooming highway because they couldn't see. It happens ALL the time.  Not to me, people just do stupid stuff in poor weather conditions.  

Never-the-less, I arrived at the washout around 8:50 am, a full 50 minutes later than normal, but they got me in and out of there and amazingly enough, the plant also immediately started loading me and I got in and out of there in near record time!

I did not go back my normal route for 2 reasons. First, the accident, even many hours later it was still showing yellow on the GPS. That means traffic is slowing but not horrible. Doesn't matter, I am not going to test fate on that one. Second? My heater is fixed! I stopped at a shop on the outskirts of my town, the guy went through stuff and then had a thought: do you have shutoff valves on your heater hoses? Huh? I don't know.  Never gave that any thought.  

He had seen it many times over, we opened the hood and low and behold! Peterbilt in Bossier City had them shut off for some reason and that's why there was no heat! I never even thought about that. I don't think they even put such things in newer trucks now, this is not a newer truck. Back in the day, trucks had shut off valves for literally everything. Drivers were assumed to have to deal with a certain amount of bs out on the road in doing some things themselves.  

This was a 20 minute deal here and when it came time to pay? You can leave.  Huh? Yup, we aren't charging you for that. Are you sure? Yes, you can go. The guy was really cool, we had hit it off right off the bat.  I pulled out a stack of cash and handed him a $20 and a $5.  I'm not going to just leave there without at least leaving a tip and he was agreeable to that.  I informed my manager - tho I didn't ask for the cash back I did inform him I had paid it and he immediately fired back he would include it in my shop pay.  Yes, I get paid for going to repair shops. Most company drivers if not all do.

The real nice part about today? I still got back at 2:00 pm after all of that!  And I don't have to worry about the cold tomorrow and next week, I will not freeze me ass off driving in a cold truck.  The main page of the forecast says it's going to get down in the 40's tomorrow, but going through the hourly even well into tomorrow? It says in the 60's?  Weird. Well, it's fixed regardless and cold weather is definitely coming so I am glad it is done and over with.

Last I heard about the generator repair is that the parts were coming in yesterday.  Haven't heard from him since, but, I didn't necessarily expect to. Parts may not have arrived, he may not have been feeling well, who knows.  

The mower guy finally contacted me back and said he had been going through some stuff and it's also been hard since his car died that his family only has one running vehicle.  I wasn't mad at him, but I had wondered what happened to him. I had messaged him several times asking him to come out if he was available and he never responded.  

I have to deliver tomorrow and then I'm off until Monday.  I basically demanded it.  I am not going to miss church forever for any job.  

And as for now? Well, dinner is in the oven and I have things to get done.