Being highly motivated to get this trip over with and get home at a somewhat reasonable time, I cruised almost 500 miles without stopping except for 2 minutes to use a rest area restroom - run in, run out - literally.  I had to stop in Lufkin for 2 reasons.  1, because I had only a few minutes left on the 8 hour drive clock and 2, because I was near out of fuel. The stop is planned, I know both of those things will occur by the time I get there. 

My motivation was to get here - home that is - see my doggies, Addler is being very needy lol - and get this tax sale printed out and start taking notes.  

Unfortunately, the first property I'm looking at his no address or the satellite view attached to it, but it does have some sort of geo code.  So, I entered that code into a code reader and it showed me - Rome Italy, LMAOOOOOOO.  Umm, I used the wrong reader, or something. I have no clue, honestly.  Maybe Google Earth? I'll try that next.  If that doesn't work, I'll call the county tomorrow and ask them how to do this.  Or, I can go to the county appraisal building and they will usher me into a room and I can look up all of this stuff on their internal system.  

Oh, well anyway, the trip back up was pretty normal, besides a few odd things I saw.  Like a car that had run into another car in a ditch full of water. The offending car was trying to back out of this deep water but the wheels were just spinning. It was really strange because it wasn't moving at all, it obviously needed to be pulled out of there.  And it rained half the way back - again.  I used to love rainy days, now I'm getting sick of them.  We need some clear blue skies for a little while here. Alas, it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day.  So much for - putting the pond up.  It's fine tho, I have my day planned, lol. Taylor is going through the pantry and throwing away old cans of stuff that is outdated - I offered to help with that.  

And I'm going to a couple of properties on the tax sale - rain be damned, it's not going to stop me from going down there and looking at this very prime property.  The 10 acres was just the first appealing property on the list, solely from an acreage factor.  It's a 13 thousand dollar opening bid, so not high on my list but I still want to see it.  Interestingly, the person that bought it - acquired it also through the tax sale in 2015.  Guess he couldn't keep up with the property taxes, or lost interest, or possibly serious issues with the property itself.  It will be interesting to see if the deep pocket people at the sale - providing they show up - bid on this one. They obviously know far more about all of this than me, I'm still on the learning curve.  

My Verizon bill came down almost $40 with recent offers to reduce the bill.  Not a reduction in service - I never do that. If I have to do that to get a "normal" bill, I quit the service and go to someone else.  As noted by the outrageous bill I was getting from Dish Network. I called on 2 different occasions to get it back to what I was originally paying.  They said no, either reduce the service or tough.  I called a third time - after getting pissed by curt and rude people and just said cancel the service.  I'm done with this. The house can go without satellite until I get Directv installed again.  I despise ATT but I'll play this little game if it saves a sizeable amount of money.

So, I am switched to someone - who tells me they can remove over $50 on the monthly bill. I had to ask, why couldn't or wouldn't these other people I already spoke to do this?  Because I was quite serious, stop the service and now.  I dunno, they didn't give a good explanation, they just gave me the deduction and now I'm paying less than when I was under contract with them.  On both accounts - I was ready to cancel the one where I live as well.  

Now to Cox; We got a "Countour" box a while back - 2 years at least - which was supposed to be $20 per month. It was, under their introductory offer, but then it went up to $70.  No thanks.  They only wanted it at the house over there - in Phoenix - for the "free" HBO Max.  Yea, I can get it for $17 per month added to satellite.  Everyone can watch it and I will save even more money.  

Ugh it's getting late and I wanted to do more research on the tax sale list - it can wait until the morning.  Excepting I'm not sleepy, Addler is still wanting attention and I am watching a movie while writing this.  I could have driven for several more hours tonight if I had needed to.  Well rested is a thing but it doesn't come frequently to me. I can drive all night long when I am in that mode. 

So, I'm home. 34 hour reset - mandatory. Not from the Feds, when we get down to single digit hours available, the company automatically puts us on reset.  I'm fresh off of 3 Brownsville runs in a row - more money than I could have ever dreamed of making in my younger days - all 3 have detention pay on it - it's mostly the only thing I like about this job.  Honestly I hate trucking.  I despise going to work.  It's just nothing I want to do anymore.  Which is why I'm going to look at properties tomorrow - besides the property I'm trying to buy. 

I'll have a decision to make on June 1st if this deal with the property I am really in love with hasn't had any progression in getting the stuff done the seller needs to get done in order to sell it with a clear title.  Bow out of it, bid higher on a property that has enough acreage to do my RV park - or - not of course and wait this property out.  And still, bid on the small acreage properties and hopefully get one of those.  

I dunno, but I'm going to watch this movie, get sleepy and go to bed.