Well now Taylor has this same headache crap I had, so I dunno what's going on.  Mine is completely gone, thank God Almighty, that wasn't something I would want to have to live with on a daily basis.  

You start feeling the bad and you start wondering what's next. 

Whatever the case, I believe I have gotten the man a job.  He's the acquaintance - sort of friend, he's really a friend of James and Taylor but I have hung out with him on several occasions when he's over here - that I contacted my company has an opening for.

Well ok, I didn't get him a job, he has to get that himself, I gave him a good lead. And the pay they are quoting him is quite nice.  What I didn't know about this guy is that he actually went to school to learn diesel mechanics, he should be a top candidate.  Last time they were looking for a mechanic, they had all kinds of people coming in there wanting the job.  

I promised him that if I get the bonus for referring a mechanic - the company has a long standing offer out for referrals for both mechanics and drivers - I'd give him half.  I mean, I wouldn't have gotten it without him mentioning my name, seems fair to me.  I really can't remember how much it is, I haven't looked at that poster in a while, it's up in the office.  I think it's a grand tho.  So $350 a piece or so after taxes.  

I watched the press conference with the DA in ST Louis and the Breanna killing by the cops earlier today and wondered, how long will it take for the rioters to show up and start assaulting cops? I was just watching the news, 2 officers have now been shot.  People all over the internet are condoning the shootings.  Shoot an innocent civilian, shoot innocent cops? Anarchy. That's the definition of anarchy.  Couple that with defund the police shit.  But, the cops looked ready and waiting for come what may and allegedly the Guard has been deployed, tho I didn't see any of them in the coverage.  What's going on in America is appalling, insufferable and must end.  I'm sickened and saddened by what's going on - but this moral decline is directly related to the removal of God in everything.  That's my stance on it and that isn't going to change by anyone's arguments so don't bother trying.  

Well, I have a run in the morning. 2cd load.  5 am rise.  Weather forecast looks great, no or very little rain.  Just need the sleep, lol, which comes and goes at a whim's notice.  One night I sleep like a log, the next I wake up at 2:00 am and am up for 2 or 3 hours.  Which in this case, effectively means I woke up at 2:00 am. I truly hope that doesn't happen tonight.

With that, I wish you all a good evening.  

 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. 

 Well.  I didn't actually start feeling better from yesterday morning's wake up call until this afternoon.  

The rain coming back up? Not near as bad as the reports said it would be.  I was glad going down and coming back up that I didn't take an alternate - and much longer route.  

However.  One of the other drivers got onto our group text. Note again, this is the "new" group text void of managers and personnel from the loading plant.  I don't know whose brilliant idea it was to include those people on a driver's forum, but  that's over.  There are only 7 out of 13 drivers on the text.  2 other drivers are not welcomed into that group and neither would they participate (from other divisions, they want no part of us), the rest don't want to be on the group text for reason ranging from not wanting to receive text messages at 6:30 am to fear that there will be reprisals from management.

Except, the manage doesn't care if we have our own private text club.  And why should he?  

Regardless, one of them got on there this morning and said "first load started".  Brownsville? I replied - that is usually a brownsville run and he likes to get reports on who is down there waiting/ are there any empties waiting/will I get detention pay type of stuff.  He replied "Lost it to a nonunloading driver...again."

The ensuing conversation was regarding the fact that we have all been bumped from good runs, given to these drivers, and we are given junk runs in place of what would have made a nice paycheck.  Then, one of the drivers that's been in our division over two years and apparently still doesn't have to unload trucks - getting mostly gravy runs all the time - made a personal comment against me.  I had ended my comments with a text about one of the non-unloading drivers getting a run to Virginia.  He had come back from that 6 day, high mileage run and was given what else? A Brownsville run afterwards.  

His comment was, "You should train for CO2 if you want that Virginia run." May sound benign, but it was a swipe at me for saying anything about this other guy who gets nothing but gravy runs - literally - all the time - and then given a run that is in his realm of expertise. Remember, this dude got this huge mileage run and then upon return went straight to Brownsville. 

  The conversation degraded from there.  I kept my composure but I had no problem calling him out.  "It's easy to cast aspersions from the perch of privilege" apparently is what got him annoyed, lol. But of course.  Easy to diss others that have to do the pain of doing the low paying runs when you are doing nothing but getting good paychecks - really good paychecks - week after week after week.  Where the only time you get a junk run - which in his case would be Oklahoma - is when other plants shut down.

I ended the conversation with 2 texts:  "Btw when was the last time you were at Cheniere?".  Crickets. 15 minutes later, from me: "That's what I thought.  I'm done with this "conversation". Feel free to throw out more disparaging statements.  Have a nice day" - replete with smiley face.  He never responded, but tried to call me.  I didn't answer the phone - I was sleeping, taking my midway nap.  I didn't bother trying to call him back.  The guy that started the group text sent a picture to everyone after my nice day greeting of a beautiful women and "have a booblicious day".  Lol, ok.  

Nothing else was said after that and I have determined that I will no longer be commenting on anything excepting giving my view of things on there besides giving updates on the loading situation.  

Well I skipped something, uninentionally lol.  I said to this dude giving me crap that i would "leave this group and relieve myself of having to hear it from you.." going on to identify him as one of the gravy runners that doesn't have to do anything but drop and hook - of which he never denied.  The dude that started the group? Replied: "You need 2/3rd majority vote to leave the group. Request denied!!  

Lol, we see things at the same level. He is ex military, married, has a couple of teenaged girls, good guy.  

I'm not tired of the job.  But I can't live off of low paying runs.  Well, I can pay my bills.  Retirement, saving for property, recreational stuff out the door.  Unfair, there is no reason the low paying runs shouldn't be evenly distributed among everyone.  There is definitely no reason why these people shouldn't be trained. I can guarantee you, any other division you go to, the first thing you do is go through training. 

I probably should take the boat in tomorrow - I'll think about it.  40 miles each way.  The only place I've found with any competence.  

Oh. Lol.  Amazing stuff here.  Taylor - long after I got home - got a sheepish look on her face.  What's wrong?  "I forgot to let your dogs out this morning".  Oooooohhhhhh myyyyyyy.  21 hours. Those dogs were in my room 21 hours.  In all of that time, they did not pee or poop on anything.  They didn't chew anything up.  I was shocked.  The bathroom door was open, thankfully, dogs drink toilet water without a problem lol.  I'm just amazed that 2 dogs would last that long without having any accidents.  I'm sitting here in my room, it doesn't smell like pee or poop.  I'm so proud of them : )  But I wouldn't have been upset if they had done their duty. I know I can't go that long without peeing.  

I mean, I wasn't upset at Taylor either.  There's a lot for her to handle alone in the morning. Normally James deals with my dogs.  That isn't a part of her normal routine.  She knew she had forgotten something - I have that same feeling. A nagging sense that you aren't remembering something but you can't think of what it is - until it's too late lmao.  Oh well, they had access to water and the room was cool, not the end of the world tho I wouldn't want that to become a habit.