Well another day off.  I guess.  I don't need tomorrow off tho, this paycheck totally sucked and I need to get back on track.  The Illinois run was worth a chunk of change yes, but I need another one at least and a short run to make it a good paycheck.  The fact that this truck breaking down was none of my doings is what is fueling my current feeling about finding a new job on top of everything else. But, during that time I was not feeling well at all on this Keto diet so it kind of, sort of equalizes it.

Speaking of diets, I lost no more weight today.  Which is fine, because the mirror is actually starting to show a change.  In other words, I can actually see change, which I really hadn't until this morning.  My belly is definitely shrinking.  And I slipped into size 34's this morning.  I tried that last week but I still staying in 35's, but now I'm back in 34's cause 35's just aren't staying on me.  34's are just a tad tight when sitting down, but other than that they fit fine.

My firewood didn't show up yesterday, it was pouring rain and the guy asked if he could bring it sometime today.  Knowing that, I put a couple of huge logs over that fire last night hoping there would still be some good coals this morning to get another fire going. I have no small wood now, it's all just big logs. There are twigs laying all over the property from the trees, I've been cleaning those up quite a lot lately.  Anyway, there was quite a bit of smoking coming out of what was left of the 2 giant logs last night, flipping them over there was bright red coals.

And walaah.  And hour and a half later, it finally fired up the hot coals and even soaking wet wood is quickly dried out and burning.  It's cool outside today and predicted to get down to 31 degrees tonight. I got my greenhouse up but there is no sun shining so that isn't really going to help anything.  I'll have to bring the plants inside tonight if I want them to survive.

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Saturday. Finally got my cord of wood delivered.  Was completely out excepting a few very large logs that are impossible to start a fire with without anything smaller to get it going.  It was still smoldering this morning from yesterday and yesterday from the day before. I was able to keep it going by the nice hot coals that were still going and today was no different.  But now I have a large amount of nicely chopped wood - unlike the last load from the other source who not only brought me a lot of uncut logs, most of it was also unseasoned.  This wood appears to be seasoned, they claim it is, I'll be finding out soon enough.

I'm at 209 pounds on the diet.  I was there a few days ago, then up to 211 and now back down to 209. It isn't really any big deal to me, I won't get unhappy unless I go for quite a while without losing anything.  I got some good exercise today unloading that cord of wood at least.  The thing is, on my daily weight gain throughout the day as is normal, it's not going up near as high.  Maybe 215 to 216 at the most.  So that's coming down as well which is a very good sign.

I'm off to Brownsville tomorrow so I'm going to make some food today to take with me.  2 days worth if there is no detention pay, I'll probably take enough to last 3 days just in case.

I'm still stuck in the other guy's truck who is on an extended home stay apparently.  I have no idea whether they took my truck in yet.  I didn't ask yesterday when I was talking to my manager.  Work is slowing down for whatever reasons that I didn't ask about either.  There were only 2 loads going out today which is quite unusual. Should be at least 5.  And those 2 loads were going to Cheniere and she wanted to have a trainer go down with 2 new people to teach them how to unload.  How quaint.  Would have been nice if they'd done that with me.

I rather hate going out on Sundays, the only good thing about it is going through Houston should be a breeze, no slow downs at all.  I'm hoping I get another run after this one coming up that is short so I can get it on next paycheck.

Well whatever.  I've got to get my recipes together and figure out what we're eating this week. It was sort of dumped on me to deal with, but I'm still motivated so I'll do it and get it over with. Probably a lot of cooking today, not exactly how I want to spend my Saturday.  But it's that or go out on the road with nothing but keto snacks and that won't work for me at all.  I'd be starving and then I'd have to go to fast food, order a burger, strip it of everything and eat the meat patty.  Or chicken, take off the skin and eat that only . I'm sure the day will come where I'm forced to do that tho.  Restaurants serving fajitas would work as well.