The next door neighbor is, indeed, still a cop.  

I thought he had still retained his license, but I wasn't sure and hadn't seen him in months.

Tonight changed that, he was out on his porch and I was informed that he was requesting some company.

Sure thing! Took the new AR over there, he liked that.  Told me where to take it for a new scope and mount and that they would install it, sight it and get it set for my eye distance.  

It was a nice distraction from everything else that goes on.

He's mostly a banker and said I should have come to him for the land loan. Oh? I could have gotten you 3%.  Well, I'm a bit invested into this deal, the payments aren't going to be high .

He then suggested and SBA loan after I get the land and get the project rolling.  That's a loan to pay for the land and construction of the property - everything - low interest rates, etcetera.  I dunno about that.

His statement that a septic system would cost around 60K was a bit disconcerting.  Umm no, I'm going to put in what I can afford. Whatever the state says that can legally serve for the number of lots? That's how many lots I'm putting in.

So, from everything I've read, before I even think about building the lots, I'm going to need to know how many lots I can put in for the amount of septic system I can afford to have installed.  

So, this property I'm getting - or any property I get regardless - that will have to be one of the first orders of business.  Get some bids, take the best one and then move onto lot installation.  

John Wayne weekend on one of the satellite channels coming up soon.  Get the remote, record all of it.  

It's bedtime.  3:45 am comes awful early.  I just can't go to bed too early, it's a waste.

 Doc says probably just because I changed toothpaste recently after examining the inside of my mouth. So, he spent 5 minutes on that and telling me the drugstore down the way has "miracle mouthwash" - a combination of pain killer, antibiotics and all kind of other stuff, his words, and that should take care of it. They were more interested in the crown that had fallen out a few months ago.

Do you have it with you? Yes, I figured I might be able to get that put back in?  Oh sure, let's try!  He spent 45 minutes on that task and got it back in there.  I just am not one to go see the dentist every chance I get, it usually takes something like this gum soreness or possible having some crowns installed to get me to go. 

The mouthwash tastes horrible, btw.  Lol.  He said without my ever bringing it up " you don't have cancer".  Thank you.  Lol.  It looked bad but not that bad to him apparently, he's seen far worse.  I'm sure he has, but in my view it looked horrible.  

Whatever.  I'll do the mouthwash 4 times a day for 2 weeks as advised and see what happens.  Don't really look forward to that nasty stuff in my mouth, but that's a lot easier than some other outcomes I can think of.

Brownsville info finally sent.  6am load :( time of day : ) time you get down there and get done with everything.  And of course they shorted me once again on one of my Brownsville runs detention pay where I was supposed to get 2 full days of it and they shorted me, for unknown reasons, 6 hours of it.  My manager will deal with it, he always does.  

My 2020 tax refund came back, I spent most of it on an AR-15 - you know, the guns that the left are calling "weapons of war" and "assault rifles"?  I challenge anyone to show me where any US military unit is using AR15's for anything.  They don't, they aren't "weapons of war", they aren't fully automatic.  Although, if you have a gunsmith that doesn't care, he'll convert it for you.  Nope, not doing that, just saying I know people that have had it done.  

The same for the term assault weapon, which everyone has virtually accepted as a legitimate term for AR15's.  No, they aren't assault weapons.  An assault weapon is just a made up term that the left invented long ago to demonize these types of rifles.  

Whatever the case, I have my neighbor looking into ammo for it and giving me advice on the type of scope to get for it.  Ok.  A town 25 miles south apparently has all the ammo you need. Sounds far, but everything is far around here.  Not today tho.  It's getting late in the day and I have an early rise in the am, just got back from the dentist and the drug store, I'm done, not driving clear down there, just ain't lol.

 It appears I have something wrong with a tooth.  I thought I just had some sores in my mouth but upon closer inspection it's definitely a - bad tooth or something - that is causing the problem.  It was weird it just came out of nowhere. It wasn't a slow growing pain or something, it just happened overnight. I dunno what it is, maybe need a root canal, I have no clue.  

Whatever the case, I was able to get an appointment for this afternoon at a local dentist office for all the fun, games and hooplah you always get when you go to a dentist's office! It's sooo much fun!  My dentist - of whom I'm going to give up on - wasn't available of course.  He is the only dentist at his practice, he doesn't have any associate dentists working with him so getting into his office is not so easy.  The other dentist office has several associates and they are much more flexible.  

It's whatever, I need this situation diagnosed and treated, whatever that may be and whatever earthly hell that may entail. The last time was a pulled tooth - a pain that I don't really want to have to go through again.  

Meanwhile, the buyer's option for the land was changed today. It was originally only for 7 days, but since the seller is taking so long to get the survey done, it's been modified to 21 days. It's simply and out button. If I decide I don't want it, nothing happens.  I'm out of the contract, I get the earnest money back and that's that.  Not that I want to do that, but you never know if something else, more appealing will pop up.

Not likely, especially around these parts, but not impossible.  I've looked so long for land, however, I'm pretty much done with all of this searching nonsense.  Please let's get this over with and get me going to phase 2.  I have looked - the only thing of interest is a parcel of land just outside city limits, but the entire entrance to the property is a huge gas well operation.  No thanks. Especially for the price they want - premium acreage prices for far less than premium property.  It is new on the market, I suspect it will sit on the market, just like that other one I was interested that is also on the very outside edge of the city limits - it would have been perfect excepting the fact you are driving through someone else's land to get to the entrance and all of the noise of the highway and the auto salvage operation behind it.

I've been to the property I am hopefully closing on many times now.  Doing that to see if there is anything going on around that might change my mind about it. The only thing that is suspect is the giant office/warehouse facility up the road. It's currently empty, up for sale.  Eventually someone will buy it and then what.  Well, it won't affect my operation since none of that traffic will come down the street.  However, there could be a noise factor come into play?  I wouldn't think too terribly bad considering most of it is office space.  It's a risk I am willing to take at this point.  

Brownsville tomorrow. I was offered either Oklahoma today or Brownsville for tomorrow. Brownsville, thanks, it is almost double the pay and only an extra day out.  We are slow again, apparently, since I'm off 2 days again.  I'm just calling this current pay period a wash.  It's going to be about a $230 paycheck next week and oh well, what can I do.  This brownsville will start the pay period for the week after next.  That's a good start early in the game.

I have nothing else.  Just rambling about this tooth problem. I've spend enough money on my teeth, I'd like to hope the issues would cease and desist, but they don't.  Age I guess, I'll spend whatever I have to to keep fixing problems. 

G'day