The last thing my manager sent me in texting today: "I'm checking". Well I dunno what he was checking, but he never got back to me, didn't give me a run for tomorrow and that will make 5 straight days off.  2 of them would have been a run admittedly, but for the truck breaking down.  1 of them - yesterday - I had asked for off.  Today was not asked off and neither was tomorrow. I didn't even get word back if there is some issue going on with the truck.  I mean, who knows, maybe TA was wrong and the issue was much more severe than what they said it was. Who knows? They said they couldn't fix it.  It's really the only reason I can think of that my manager wouldn't be giving me a load after 4 days off. 

Whatever the case, I intend on putting some pressure on tomorrow and finding out what's going on, what his plan is and how he intends to get me making some money.  If that means going to Vermont, let's go! I need to get to work!

Meanwhile, I tried to start my Keto again. I stopped for a while during Thanksgiving - leading up to it as well.  I was ready to start today, but dinner time came around and the folks here wanted me to call in the promise of the manager at Chicken Express to pay up.  That was the deal when I bought everyone here dinner from them, got home and was missing a large thing of coleslaw.  I don't get chicken at any of these chicken joints without getting coleslaw.  It was on the receipt.  I had called them, a manager answered the phone right off the bat.  I told him what happened, he said "I don't know I just got here".  Nice, I thought AND said, pass the buck, get on the phone with a customer and just deny any responsibility because YOU weren't there at the time.

His tones changed and he simply replied: Keep your receipt, next time you come in we'll replace the entire meal for free.  Now THAT was interesting, amazing actually.  So, I left with 5 year old in tow - he insisted on going with me and mom said it's fine as long as I wanted him to go, which I don't mind at all.  I had some trepidation that after two weeks passing, they would just say we don't know what you're talking about.  But I had spent $62 on that order.  We ran into the store - it was raining.  Handed the young girl at the counter the receipts, told her what was going on, said you'll probably have to get a manager.  It helped I had a young kid with me, what are they going to do, get rowdy with me in front of him?  But that never happened, the manager never came out, they just made that entire order - far too much food - over and handed it to us with a smile. So I smiled back, gave a hearty thank you! and left. Oh, we ran much faster to the SUV, by the time we left there, it was pouring rain.  My leather coat was nicely wetted by the time I got the boy in the SUV, the food in the other side and myself into the driver's seat.  

I had ordered that much food the first time because all 3 of us were working and we all were taking lunch with us the next day.  Even after that there was still leftovers. Oh, and they also screwed this order up, but in our favor: a whole box of chicken wings that we most certainly did not order and wasn't on that ticket.  It was amusing that while we were waiting, other customers came in the door with their box of chicken saying their order was wrong lol.  It's this town. We have a local facebook group for all the restaurants to post on a daily basis and show us their specials and what they have to offer.

Lots of people get on there and I'm telling you every chicken joint in town gets railed on.  Especially Popeye's, far worse reputation than Chicken Express.  Better tasting chicken, but you are guaranteed your order is going to be wrong every....single.....time.  If I go there for a take-out order - which we always do - I'm taking every thing out of the bags and checking every single item.  And counting it.  They don't much care for it, but it's whatever to me.  

So it's been raining most of the day and will be raining on and off most of the night.  See, I wanted to use the blower in the back yard and clean up the first round of leaves.  Well actually we're at the second round now.  But wet leaves, of course, don't respond well to a leaf blower lol.  

I'm really just going to blow up the manager's phone tomorrow. I need to work.  I didn't ask for 5 days off.  If they send me to Vermont, my truck doesn't need to work, they will fly me up there to use the trucks up there.  Which actually isn't much fun, but having a working truck here isn't required.  Oh, their trucks up there are complete piles of junk.  Garbage that needs to be scrapped, they don't fix them, they have all kinds of problems and it is amazing they don't get pulled over more often than they do. I guess that's kind of difficult on those roads up there, there aren't many places where trucks will even fit off of the side of the highway.  Any  of those highways, sans the Interstates.  Which is probably why there are weigh stations seemingly every 10 miles - tho I never saw any of them open.  

Anyway, since my manager was talking about going on one of these equipment hauls, I'm preparing myself for leaving tomorrow at a moment's notice. Whenever they dispatch you on those, that's not for the next day, that's for the same day.  No huge rush to get to the yard, but they want you to leave that day.  Enough clothes are clean, plenty of winter gear - it's getting cold if you haven't noticed - I'm ready.  I could get too used to staying home and just doing my own thing, I really can't be sitting around here this long, it takes it's toll on my thinking. It's like coming back from a vacation, you have to get your brain into working mode again.

Am I following politics? Yes, to some degree.  The whole thing got old weeks ago.  Well months actually.  The worst of it is the politicization of the virus.  And these dictatorial governors making these outrageous lockdown decrees and then finding one after another after another violating their own edicts, going out to eat or whatever against their own mandates, and then attempting to explain it away or avoiding the press at all.  Beyond that this movement to attempt to tell Republican voters in Georgia not to show up to vote. And beyond that, Stacy Abrams - look her up if you don't know who she is - creating an organization that now has been accused of using people who are dead names on ballots for this runoff election coming up that will determine whether the democrats have full control of congress and the White House or if there is some sort of blockage to them having a runaway train with far left, progressive - communist - bs ideology taking over.  

Republicans really need to up their game in these elections. Tho, it is almost impossible with nearly all of the media outlets being on the left.  With a vast majority of Hollywood elites being on the left. With the media giving far more press time to Democrat politicians than conservatives/republican politicians.  It's an uphill battle, especially with voters who don't educate themselves.  Which are a lot of them, they simply don't follow politics, see the propaganda and vote accordingly.  And take a close look at who Biden is proposing to fun the various cabinet appointments.  Unbelievable.  

I just don't want to spend too much time on that, whatever happens, I have to trust that God is still in control and go with that mentality.  Because down here on earth? It certainly won't seem that way. Biden will get us into foreign conflicts, that is almost a foregone conclusion. That is the democrat way.  Fire up the military industrial complex and get that corporate bs flowing!  See? there is a lot more, too, it's too much, just gets overwhelming to think about all of it and it's not good for me/you/anyone.  Vote, speak up when it's appropriate to do so, but don't lose your minds over it.  Whatever happens, I'm trusting in the Lord.  That's all I can do.

And with that, I bid you a good night.