I will make my confessional.  My manager called me this morning and I intentionally did not answer the phone.  I sat there and thought, I'll cal him back in about 20 minutes and let him deal with his "emergency", get someone else to do it.  Hopefully by the time I call him back, I was surmising, he'll have someone else lined up to take that run. 

What run? Another Cheniere.  Suddenly, Cheniere wants all of these loads taken down there.  It's they way it goes with them, they'l order mega numbers of loads and then you don't hear from them for a long, long time.  How did I know that's what he wanted? Cause' he sent out a mass text to everyone asking for a volunteer to take the run today at 3:30 - 20 minutes from now lol.  Literally no one responded lmao.

I told him yesterday that not a single driver likes this run and everyone hates it.  He knew the reasons why - too many layers of security asking you for the same information and waiting too long to get into the plant to unload. It's like they want to run your 14 hour clock out so you can't make it back the same day.   

It was actually 35 minutes before I called him back, he was busy and said he would call me back later. I replied I was just responding to a call I missed from you. Oh, well no worries, I got that covered.  Yayyyyyyy!!!! I didn't say that of course, but I'd rather stay home and not work rather go to that hell hole.  I haven't heard back about a run tomorrow.  Not concerned, my activities today have left me needing to continue on tomorrow if possible and attempt to finish this project I started this morning.  

I don't mind getting last minute calls - for decent runs - but not this garbage after I just got done doing one.  And finding out fully 4 drivers do not go to Cheniere - or anywhere else with driver unload.  4 drivers - gravy runs, every single time. Outrageous and unbelievable.  

Anyway, I did as I said I was going to do this morning: Got started on the new pond project.  I realized I would have to drain the existing pond first, attempt to save whatever fish and get it out of the ground so I could shovel the dirt from the giant, built in planter into the pond hole.  That took quite a while, a pain in the @$$ and was cleaning up yet another 2 weeks worth of leaves from the next door neighbors, stuff was decomposing, attracting flies and mosquitoes, looked and smell bad.  I got as many fish as I could find and dumped them into a 5 gallon bucket, put an aerator in there to keep them alive.

I got stuck however, at a cement post that whoever put in this planter. It's about 16 inches diameter, solid cement and isn't budging. It's sitting right where the new pond is going to go.  I was already over 3 hours into this stuff when my legs told me it was time to take a rest.

Funny how your body tells you about yourself.  Truck driving like I do now without the physical exertion I used to have has made me rather out-of-shape.  I have myself to blame. I just need to get out there and do yard work and stuff every time I come home, even if only a couple of hours.  

The back yard is a tragedy.  Just no other way to put it.  I cleaned up the leaves around the pool area at least.  But there is so much to do back there, just to get it nice looking.  Just so much work, it seems, with little satisfaction. Now that the neighbors cleaned up their pigstye in their back yard I"m hopeful our side of the fence can stay relatively clean now without the rain washing all of that s*** onto our property every time it rains. 

Anyways, I left after hours of doing that this morning to get stuff.  Met up with Taylor at the local coffee shop, then to Harbor Freight for a sledge hammer, off to Walmart for a bunch of stuff I have been needing, especially for the truck but for the house as well, over to Chili's for lunch and then back home. Back out back, I put up 2 fly traps - the flies are unbelievable back there. They attract them all quickly, I'm guessing if I went back out there right now there would be dozens in there already.  

I did not try to bust that cement thing down. I'm toast for today, enough is enough.  No run sent to me - yet - if I don't get one I'll be back out there in the morning attempting to bust that thing down.  If I can't get it out of there with a sledgehammer, I will have no choice that I can see but to go rent a jackhammer setup and bust it out of there.  Whatever the case, it needs to go. That planter set up was ugly, I wanted ridded of it but they only agreed on it recently when Taylor was happy to be seeing the end of the inground pond and also happy to allow having the horse trough setup.  

As for now?  Out to the kitchen to make dinner.