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. 

 Tuesday - evening

Just another day of work.  I reminded my manager today that the heater in the truck was broken by the Peterbilt repair shop in Bossier, City, LA. They fixed the AC - for the most part - and broke the heater. The reason I brought that up is because on Friday? It's slated to be down in the 40's. That's very cold weather to be driving an unheated vehicle in. Yes, I can layer up but that isn't going to cut it for me.

So, we decided to see if a local repair person could come and figure out what's wrong - or - I can take it over there. I don't want to take it over there, I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if they're even interested in trying to figure out what, exactly, Peterbilt did to it.  One thing is for certain, I will never recommend Dobbs Peterbilt to anyone, ever.  Not only did they  mess that up, but at this point I am 100% certain that they messed up something underneath the cab on the drive train that is causing the issue of the truck jerking around.

All of the bad parts on the steering and alignment have been replaced. This issue started after I got the truck back from them. I did not drive it in there in that condition. They, of course, denied everything and got upset with me when I suggested they might have done something to it and please check it out.  Wait, so you are saying that we intentionally....NO, I did NOT say that, but something is wrong and it didn't come in here in this condition.  They allegedly checked it out - I don't think they did anything and it's been screwed ever since. All of that alignment work helped a little. Just a tiny little bit.  

I'm kicking the old man out of the park. This is the dude that came in a few years ago with a dog that he refused to leash.  I asked him on multiple occasions to put the dog on a leash, he can let it run free in the woods and to stop throwing cigarette butts all over the place. He simply wouldn't listen and would start arguing. First with me and then he'd find the person that made a complaint about his dog and start getting in their face/s.

The issue came to a head the other day when his dog accosted a lady in the park and was growling at her. She was doing nothing to it and the man was going to shoot it.  I don't blame him. At the same time, another couple started complaining that his dog was coming over to their place almost every day pooping on their yard.  I got sick of it, issued him an ultimatum which he ignored, STILL gave him another chance, he ignored that and kept letting the dog off the leash. 

I let loose on him yesterday and told him to get OUT of my park. "This is a conspiracy" blah blah blah.  NO, it is NOT. I have seen this shit with my own eyes, you will leave the park.  After he realized I was dead serious, he said he'd leave at the end of the month. Oh, no you won't. You will leave within 3 days after I give you a notice.  I haven't gotten around to the yet.  I guess I need to do that tonight.  

I did nothing else on the project after work today. I was tired and simply didn't feel like it. Much cooler weather is coming, I will likely do a lot more work after that occurs.  I need to cut a bunch more blocks, get that pipe elevated to a nice slope for a good fall and then start filling it in. Then I can go around the corner and pick back up on that.  I am so glad I checked the fall on that before I got much further.  

At this point in time, I am pretty much sold on that 30X70 building. But I need to get these 4 lots done first and get an area set up for a cement pour.  This building will be just that, I think they put some electrical outlets in it, it will have 5 walk in doors, 2 roll ups and 5 windows.  It's just a starting point.  The first order of business if I can get it will be to put electrical in it and load it up with security cameras and go ahead and put my valuables in it.  

Well I guess the first order of business is to design a layout for where I will want bathrooms and laundry so I can run water and drain pipe under where the foundation will be and up through the concrete foundation.  That will be new territory for me, I have seen them doing it at construction sites but me doing it? And attempting to figure out exactly where all of that will need to go? I'll have to do some major research on that one.  I want a men's and women's bathroom and something like a 3 of each machine laundry area right next to the bathroom.  

I want a living type of room that is set up like a hotel room.  I need the storage and work areas of course and then an office combined with a C store.  Oh and a kitchen. So I have to design the layout of where all of that will go. I know the storage/work area will just go at one end of it and probably devote around 30 linear feet to it, so 600 square feet of a place to park the tractor and zero turn and have a work bench and tools lining the walls.  Nothing fancy, doesn't need to be.  Mostly just a safe place to store my stuff

The hotel style room will be at the opposite end on one corner.  I figure 15X20?  What's a standard hotel room in square footage? One moment and I'll look it up lol. It says and upscale room is 300-400 feet. So, 300 feet will work.  The room will have it's own external door and a bathroom with shower to boot. This is futuristic type stuff, I am not saying it would be done immediately. The kitchen would be next to it in the other corner, the laundry and bathrooms with showers would be next to the hotel style room and the c-store/office with whatever is left.  

I don't see 2 bathrooms taking up a lot of space, they don't have to be huge and will just have shower stalls in them, nothing fancy or huge. A toilet, a sink and a stall.  Probably have to install sound proofing type of insulation between the hotel room and those showers.  Or, figure out a different layout but I don't see how I can install those bathrooms without it butting up against the hotel room. The bathroom and adjoining laundry room will have it's own entrance door so it can be open even when everything else is "closed", replete with cameras in the hallway for monitoring would be thieves attempting to access the rest of the building. 

But I don't want to get that building until I get more revenue coming in.  I also want a swimming pool but do I really need a 110k version of one, built in?  I've seen plenty of above ground pool layouts that are functional, get the job done, ie: making guests happy to have a fun place but cost a fraction of the price. The decking costs more than the pool itself!

I have a crew of people that are happy to build one for me and are friends of the family, do quality work and won't attempt to charge me an overly high price tag. Wood is not cheap right now, that's a fact and I doubt prices will ever come down unless supply-demand dictates it, ie: people can't afford the stuff so they don't buy it.  An above ground pool is highly likely going to be my choice versus years of payments on an expensive in ground pool.  For example, there is a 22' round pool listed at around $400.  

I have to start looking ahead now that I am fully into this expansion project.  It is going to take quite a while to get those 4 lots up and running, I can tell ya that. If I get it done in two months I"ll be happy.  This sewer stuff alone is ridiculous.  Then there's water, then electricity, the pads, the gravel, yikes.  And the money! If I could get some help over there I could get a lot more done in a short amount of time but the only person I trust to actually work hasn't been answering my texts. His phone is off - he is broke apparently - but he gets access to messages through internet.  He says he'll help me and then he disappears.  

I'm paying him "well", just not as much as he wants.  They wanted $300 to clean weeds around the septic system and I totally balked at that.  A few hours work?  Bleh.

Anyway, that's some stuff lurking around in my mind, I'd like to get this thing going towards an end goal because as I frequently say, I ain't getting any younger.  At some point I won't be able to do this work and I need to get busy while I can.  Now mind you, once I get the first 4 in, the rest of it will be much easier. Well, a lot easier to some degree. The water will already be there, the sewer line will be ready to be tapped into - damnit.  

I just remembered that I want to put 2 90 curves where the future lots will be on the other side.  On the sewer line that is. Well I can still do it and I am going to.  This is to avoid having to attempt to access it when there is poop and pee flowing through there when I finally get to it, if ever.  We aren't talking a lot of money here and it's really not that big of a deal to do it now since I'm still just trying to get it all blocked up to a good fall.  I even have the fittings for it so yeah, I'm going to do that while I'm getting it all blocked up.  I will be backfilling all around the blocks, it won't be the only thing holding that pipe up, I just need it positioned where it needs to go. 

It isn't getting terribly late yet but I want to end this one and move along here.  I need to get that notice printed out and I want to get to bed a bit early. OOOOHHH and on another note, I almost ran the truck out of fuel today! I had completely forgotten to fill up in Arkansas a few days ago.  I was at the washout, got that done, left there and looked at the fuel gauge and thought, oh, I still have almost quarter tanks. 15 miles later it dropped down to just above the empty mark.  I decided I best go to the fuel station first before loading for who knows how long I"ll have to wait there and it will get uncomfortable with the truck shut off. 

Sure enough, both tanks were almost bone dry.  There was only a few gallons separating me from driving and being stuck on the side of the road.  In a semi, a few gallons ain't much folks.  Near $1,200 worth of fuel later, it was filled back up and won't have to do it again until Friday.  If I"m correct, I'll have the weekend off, I've been working a lot of weekends and basically demanded sunday off to go to church.  

With that, I bid you a good evening. 

 Monday - night

 I slept in this morning. Until around 8 am versus the 5:00, sometimes 5:30 am, I am normally getting up at. Made a huge difference. 

When I started thinking about a 1.5 inch rise per 10 feet on my septic system, I realized that I would need to end up propping up the end part where it turns to go to the lot up by at least a foot!  

I got out there this morning and started at the septic system side with the wood blocks and went up the line.  Until I got to a part where I was adding wood and nothing was happening?!!

I stood there and though about it for a minute but ahhhh yes: the pipe further up is flexing down and causing this side to rise up.  

My theory held true, long story short.  110 feet up, it's  over a foot in the "air" - on top of the blocks and I still don't' have the line right. Why? Because I ran out of blocks. Went to Lowe's to get more wood to cut up. 

It's unfortunate that Lowe's is the only player in town. It would be nice if Home Depot would move in here.  Lowe's repeatedly has bad service and today was no exception.  They rarely have cashiers running the checkout lanes, instead, you either have to go through the self checkout or the "Pro" lanes on the other side of the building. 

I was on the Pro side for I was buying stuff over there. The line was long. There are only 2 registers over there and only one of them was open. I was standing in line when an employee came up with a man in tow,  holding  a small box.  The man wanted to check out now, the employee said he would have to wait in line  - pointing to the end of the monstrosity. 

There was  some low pitched mumbling going on, so the employee took this man to the other otherwise closed register and checked him out and then proceeded to leave after he did that. 

No, no and no.      I called Lowe's. I was polite, could you please get another checkout person over here to help out with this long line? That ended up going nowhere.  Then I got up to the cashier and politely said the line is really, can y'all get another person running that other register? She giggled and did nothing about it. 

I got out into the parking lot, disgusted.  I called Lowe's from the parking lot and asked for the store's general manager. This took a while. I can't remember his exact verbiage, but he stated that they cannot man that checkout because they don't have the manpower to do it. It was a total lie and I called him out on it.

You had an employee walk over there with a person, bypass the line and go to the unopened register, check him out and then he left ... I detailed his bs for a minute and he ... hung up on me. I filed a complaint with Lowe's corporate.  

I dunno where that will go and I would write about that conversation but I am getting tired and I have work in the morning. It is amazing how fast a day or even a week off can just disappear like it never happened. 

        

 Sunday - night

 I have no idea what's going on here, the numbers of people reading this have jumped a few thousand percent.  This is just my daily blog, I don't do much of anything but discuss what's going on in my daily life?  You're welcome to read it of course, just not sure what happened here.  

The lady of the house came home - but the house is otherwise empty.  And no, we do not have any kind of "romantic" relationship, contrary to the ongoing assault of accusations that I am engaging in sinful activity outside of marriage.  We never have had that kind of relationship and we never will, we are close friends, that's the extent of it.  If you believe otherwise, you can go jump in an icy cold lake and you can also zip it.  I don't want to hear about it because I AM NOT ENGAGING IN SEXUAL SIN, thanks.  

That isn't necessarily directed at anyone reading this blog, I have no idea beyond a few people who actually reads it.  

Tomorrow off. I had my friend look at the tablet to verify it for me, that I am not seeing things.  She said yup, you work Tuesday. Thank you.  I didn't ask for Monday off but since I have it, I will be going to the property and elevating that sewer pipe with those blocks and see what I can potentially get done.  It's kind of irritating me that it is being so difficult to get even this portion of the project done. I would have like to have hoped that I would have had that done and moving on to finding the water line, which will be yet another headache.  Why or why didn't I mark it.  I know approximately where it is and I know how deep it is, 2-1/2 feet.  

But you get a shovel and start digging "approximately". Back breaking work. The alternative is to get a ditch witch but the likelihood is that I will accidentally rip the line open and here we go with yet another headache.  If I have to do that, I will.  But, I will be fully prepared with everything to fix the break immediately.  I have plenty of pipe already, I would just need to go buy the specialized fitting to slide onto it plus a T plus a shut off valve .. PLUS MARK THE DAMN THING THIS TIME.  Knowing exactly where that T is plus having a marker directly over the top of the line will erase this kind of problem with any future issues.

It's actually starting to get late and I want to go to bed. I had NO inclination this morning for getting up and out of bed.  It was a chore, I didn't sleep that well and driving 300 miles didn't seem particularly appealing.  I did it and the offload went quick at least. Stopped at the grocery store for some stuff to make my rather thick pork steaks. They came with the butchered hogs.  Seared them in a pan and slow cooked them for about 2-1/2 hours.  Made a sort of gravy with mushrooms to dump on it, it was quite delicious if I do say so myself.  

I'm actually quite glad I have tomorrow off. I will not be pushing myself too hard on this project, I'll get done what I can get done when I have the time to do it. I've got the ball rolling again, that was the important part.  

Work Tuesday through Friday and presumably the weekend off for I haven't been to church in a while now because of working.  I mean, they could have had me working the next 6 days in a row and get a decent paycheck and still get Sunday off - but they didn't. Of course, that could all change as it often times does?

Oh, yes, I'm going to go through all the notes on my phone looking for that pic of where that water line is. I am 100% sure I took a pic of it for future reference and I remembered that I had put some of the pics of the project in my notes and not anywhere else. Whether I put THAT particular pic in there, I have no clue.  And there are a LOT of notes I'll have to go through, I'll try a search first but I remember that sometimes I just threw pics in with generalized notes about the project.  At least I have a time frame for it if nothing else, I don't have to do anything but go through 2022 notes.  A lot of them, lol.

Time to crawl in to bed and go to sleep.  

G'nite.