A day off is nice.  Especially after not feeling so well the last two days.  I mean, yesterday I finally started feeling better getting close to evening time.  And I just got done with 9 glorious hours of restful sleep, only waking up twice. The first time - dunno why, the second time, the kids this morning blowing a whistle.  Kind of got me irritated, they are up at something like 5:45 am for school.  Maybe a little later, they leave at 6:15 is all I really know about that.  

I have no tangible plans today. I'll probably go out and about and get some things, but as far as getting anything done beyond cleaning and some laundry? probably not.  I certainly don't feel like going and renting a jackhammer - if I have tomorrow off I may very well do it then.  Get that over with and get that pond going.  I was thinking I could just dig that thing out of there, but no.  The whole platform is also concrete.  The concrete platform is level with the ground so I don't have to get rid of that, thankfully.  

James? No clue.  They have been working every day on whatever the project is, but they are apparently no where near being finished with it.  He was going to stay up there 10 days, apparently that may get pushed out a bit.  I mean, he's earning money, it's something better than nothing at all. 

Ginsburg being remembered today.  I don't really get into all of that stuff where the media spends days "mourning" the loss of some "great" leader.  Lots of people die every single day whose faces and names aren't plastered all over the media everywhere, I would rather that all of these "news" outlets stick to real news. Oh wait, most of them don't do that.  They engage in partisan activism, promoting whatever their political preferences are -- usually democrat.  

And speaking of that, democrats continuing on with their petty outrage over the fascist idea that Trump will nominate another SCOTUS appointee! The scandal of it all! The shame! He's a racist! lmao  They can't stop him and they know it. They may be able to slow down the procedure in the Senate, but they absolutely aren't going to be able to stop the President from posting a nominee.  So Schumer threatens to alter the way the Senate is made up and pack the courts, pelosi threatens to impeach. These are the idiots that are running our nation.  The idea that a President is actually engaging in his duty being an impeachable offense? What is wrong with these people.  

Bloodlust for power.  To invariably change the fabric of our society, even the capitalistic structure that allows people to become rich - or stay poor - or everything in between - to some socialist/communist scheme that gives a few people power and riches and everyone living in poverty and even hunger?  No thanks.  I believe patriotic Americans would engage in an uprising at that point.  When they come for your guns, what are you going to do?  Because they'll have to get rid of the guns before they can achieve that kind of power. They know and those of us that own guns know it as well.  How amazing it is that so many Americans don't understand the history of Socialism and Communism.  Just take a peep at China or the former Soviet Union.  Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Castro, etc etc etc....lots of names I can throw up here.  

The sad part of this is that eventually they will have power again - the White House, House and Senate - and they will try to force this s*** on us.  

COVID-19.  I feel for all the people who have died. I am listening to Fauci right now saying some stuff about the after effects of people who have had it, even after they are asymptomatic, there are lingering issues in some people.  As much as I hate masks and social distancing, I have done my best to keep my hands washed, stay away from strangers and wear a mask where appropriate.  But I will not get the vaccine.  That's from my history of getting faccines and having serious side effects.  He is saying they are doing clinical trials on humans - which we all knew - but that it may be ready for distribution by the end of the year and are already producing the vaccine for widespread distribution.

Seems a bit of the cart leading the donkey.  What if it isn't good? Then you've wasted all that money ane resources for nothing.

Well, my manager just sent me a load sheet for tomorrow: Another Brownsville. So, providing I get back by Friday, that one may go on next week's check. Even without any detention pay, 2 brownsvilles and a oklahoma run will make for a decent check. I don't assume detention pay anymore now that our manager is back in charge and doing his best to get rid of that pay.  Always perplexing, I made my case and so did everyone else, had no effect.  

I'm a bit amazed that I got a B-ville run. One of the drivers that doesn't unload came back after at least a week off.  He always gets the best runs, period.  No one denies that, including the manager. The manager doesn't say it in that manner, but he agrees the setup is wrong - yet he does nothing to correct it.  As of yet, I have heard no plea for someone to volunteer to be a trainer.  I don't want the position for I have had run ins with two of these individuals.  Spending a week with them in their truck would be awkward at best.  Even with a hotel on any nights out, it just isn't anything I'm interested in doing.  

Well enough of all of that.  Dog bedding is already quite dirty again, time to get that stuff into the washer.