After getting at most 4 hours of sleep last night, I ended up driving all day long.
A call came in late - late for deliveries anyway, after 11:00 am, that a contractor needs pipe and materials. The continuance of that was that if we couldn't get it there today, they were going to call someone else. My manager is asking me if I want to do it. Umm, I'm not used to management asking me if I want to do something or not, I just get it done regardless of whether I feel like it or not.
Admittedly, I was tired but my mouth spoke completely opposite: Let's get it done. Downtown, then off to Florence, otherwise known as prison town. I believe there are 6 prisons in that town (at least). LARGE facilities, all of them, included a Department of Homeland Defense "detention facility". A nice drive even if tired, I left there and took the back way back to the yard - much faster.
Umm, excepting the fact that there was a serious accident on that road further down the way and DPS shut it down. I ended up going around 20 miles out of my way to get back. It's all farm land out there. 2 lane highways and a lot of back roads. If you know the back roads, you can beat everyone else by far. I know ALL the back roads in that entire area - I have spent considerable time out there over the last 6 or 7 years. So, I'm toodling along and finally get to I-10. I'm on there for a minute and come up to another accident. A semi, rolled over on it's side, in the middle median. There was another semi parked next to and and a huge crew of people transferring material from the wrecked truck over to the "good" one.
Wow, is all I can say about that. An eerie site to see a semi rolled over on it's side. There was a huge tow truck that, from what I could tell, had tried to upright it and couldn't, it was sitting idle waiting for them to empty the contents of the trailer. My mind imagined what could have happened to cause that. In that area, huge wind gusts come up unexpectedly and that kind of accident has happened many times before out there. But, it could also have been a cutoff. Or perhaps a shutdown. Who knows.
Umm, as usualy with my entries, long interlude. I get distracted by something and hours pass before I come back to this.
Probably sometime this week I am going to buy all the items necessary to build my new computer. This is really what's on my mind right now. I just haven't decided whether to buy the stuff online from Newegg or Tiger Direct or buy it from Fry's electronics. I'm the kind of person that will wait for a while and see if I can find some other venue to get what I want at cheaper prices. So far, the pricing is marginally different from all sources and in that case, having the personal interaction at Fry's with someone who really knows what they are talking about and will spend the time is far better than blindly and coldly buying it online.
Whatever the case, it is my bedtime.
G'nite.
ben
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I saw an entry by you on the JS page. When did that start up?
Tuesday
Tenant issues. Always. Lol. I had to leave a notice for the newest member of the household to not make so much freaking noise in the morning. This at the request of the Army reservist. The guy gets on a conference call with a company he is working for and talks VERY loudly and has that speaker turned up JUST as loudly.
That is done. Whatever the results are, I have no clue. All I know is that it tends to get complicated when there are 3 renters living in the house. I could probably live off of two, but the third gets me caught up plus helps to get to fixing things, replacing things, whatever needs to be done around the house.
Onto the Koi. I bought I think it was 10 small ones from a seller a while back. They all died in short order - they had been subjected to high heat in transit from NC to here. I had lost his email address but then found another one of his ads. I wrote him about the dead fish - no great loss at only $20 but I wanted to see if the dude would make good on bad fish.
Nothing at all the response I received from him. Bug off. Get a life. Go F yourself. This was from a simple statement about the dead fish. I didn't even ask him to do anything about it, ie: replace them, I just told him they had all died. This guy has a freakin' COW. I mean, talk about person who needs to get a life.........I wrote him back and told him if he's going to be that pathetic about this situation that I was going to start flagging his ads. The cows turned into whales - didn't know humans could put out anything that big, but this guy did. Told me he would SUE me if I flagged his ads!! ROFL!!!
Well, I will take it further than that. His business ethics being questionable at best (if it were me selling the fish, I would have simply offered replacements), I wrote up an "re:" ad telling everyone my misadventure with this individual. I also told the guy that I doubted he had a business license or was paying taxes on the proceeds from the fish.
I haven't heard back from that one, though, I am not holding my breath, I don't really care WHAT kind of threats this guy comes up with. Sometimes, this is what you have to deal with on CL. Not for the feint of heart, I'll tell you that right now. The fish are a loss, they were $20, not like I lost hundreds, but still, I did want to see if he would offer anything.
I am trying to get the bravery up to go into Fry's electronics and buy everything I need to put together that computer system. The problem is this: I go, spend the money and then some emergency comes up and I don't have the money to deal with it. Been around the block a few times now, it seems things like to happen that way. I was also considering taking this money and paying off the 401k loan and then getting another. Why? Then I would have a couple of thousand for backup emergency funds instead of - almost nothing.
Let's say the AC went out again right now and I had to replace another $800 compressor. I could come up with the money, but it would put bills and such into "jeopardy".
I dunno. Making these decisions sometimes is very difficult. To pay off the 401k loan, I would have to wait 30 days to get another one.
Well, whatever. I'm sorta sitting on this deal until I get some peace about it one way or the other.
Work day approaches, albeit there is nothing in the truck routing system to do......
G'day.
ben
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