So the dispatcher - a different person in a different location than my manager - finally contacted me and asked me when i was I going to be ready to go back to work? I replied I had only asked for a couple of days off, I have been ready to go back to work.  But since I've had almost a week off, I'm going to use vacation hours to make up for it.  

The reality is that on the driver text list that informs other drivers about loading and whether it's on time or not? Hasn't been updated in days, that means we are extremely slow and that is 99% chance likely the reason they haven't contacted me before today.  

The dispatcher must have asked my manager about m availability for she replied she didn't know I was available until today.  When I contacted my manager to ask to put 40 vacation hours on my next paycheck, I only got a 10-4 and subsequent text "done".  This is how I know that they weren't exactly chomping at the bit to get me back to work along with the driver texting group.  

It further became evident that we must be really slow when she finally got back to me and said I'll send you out Friday - tomorrow is Thursday.  It's whatever to me.  I could have forced the issue, I just decided I will take the time off without saying anything, I just didn't think it would take them this long to actually contact me about going back to work.  I still have 45 hours of vacation available and a whole year's worth of vacation hours will be dumped into my account in November, which isn't all that far off. 

Now, I could have used some of this time to fly back to Arizona, yes.  But I wouldn't have been able to see my mother - unless they have the quick tests at the very least to ensure I don't have the virus.  I would have been able to stay at my son's new house of course and swim in his awesome looking swimming pool. No biggies.  I dunno when I'm going back tbh.  Maybe sometime this year, but it's really dependent on this virus nonsense.  It may be that I won't travel home until after they get their vaccine - not that I want to take it. I personally wouldn't suggest anyone that I know taking that vaccine until a large enough portion of the population takes it first and determine that it's actually safe to have injected into your veins.  

Or into your flesh, or however that works, I haven't had a vaccine shot in so long. 

Today - I cleaned the kitchen lol.  Everyone but the boys are home. Taylor went to work, only to be sent back after a manager questioned the time after a fever for being "allowed" to come back to work per the state's rules. It's 3 days, not the 24 hours the owner of the company said. So we have all been home today, not necessarily accomplishing anything but then again, it's been raining so my pond aspirations were put off. 

Perhaps tomorrow. I need to get Taylor out there first anyway and discuss the placement of the pond. She wanted the in-ground pond move to the rear of the property as it stood.  I have a place for it out of the way and where no grass ever grows.  But, it's not my house and I want to make sure there aren't  any objections to it.  I have the materials to build a stand for the waterfall filter and Taylor was suggesting building a full fledged waterfall - that might come in time it would make it a really nice place to sit and chat with people.  

Another nice thing about where I want to put it is there is only one tree over top of it and it's not one of the trees that dumps garbage year round. Sure some leaves fall off of it, but not dead branches, acorns, these giant seed balls that fall off and of course tons of leaves.  I could really turn the area into a "destination" area with enough work on it.  But, building that up like that definitely would need to have a consensus on where it goes first.  

Well, with that I'm going to watch reruns of Star Trek Generations lol.