I like to post sunsets on Facebook. Since that’s not happening, here or is. Forgive the dirty windshield, still the time of year where you can clean it and 100 miles later it’s dirty again. I’ve got 5 to 5-1/2 hours to go. 

 Annoying.  Another company showed up at the loading rack - well before their load appointment time.  I was here 15 minutes early as prescribed by the plant. But, the plant doesn't care if someone shows up early and they will start loading them first.  It's ridiculous and it's costing me time.  Instead of getting done at 12:30 - 1:00 AM tonight, it will be an hour - at least - beyond that.  Ridiculous nonsense, the powers that be at this plant say they won't do anything about it to our management. This has been endlessly complained about. So, today, upon my turn, I'm going to ask if I can start showing up 3 or 4 hours early and butt in ahead of someone else and they will just load me instead since I was here first?  I'm going to tell them this delay is going to force me to have to work until the wee hours of the morning.  It was bad enough a noon loading time, now it's a 1:30 loading time and whoever shows up for the 1:30 load is also going to have to wait. 

If they don't care if other companies show up early, then they shouldn't care if we do, either, right?  I'm sure it isn't going to go that way, but I want to stress the point that there is no way they should be loading trucks that are showing up hours ahead of their appointment time, butting in front of other trucks and causing the other driver/s hours on their 14 hour clock, potentially leading them to not be able to get where they were supposed to that day and also, in my case, forcing me to stay out an hour and a half later into the wee  hours of the morning than I should have had to. Appointment times are made for a reason and if they continue to not honor them, I'm going to start doing the same thing these other companies do.  Just say screw it.  Contact my dispatcher, find out when the last of our trucks is loading and then just show up right after the last one  and see what happens.  If they push me back and make me wait, then management can contact them and ask them why they aren't dealing with us the same way they are doing the other companies? Almost guaranteed my manager will call them out on it.  

As for the survey, I apparently stirred up a hornet's nest - but it's a nest that needed to be stirred.  I can't have them showing that I own property that I don't own and someone else owning property that isn't theirs either.  This mess is going to be straightened out, one way or the other.  If I have to get an attorney, someone is getting stuck with attorney fees in the end, for none of this is my doings and I can thank the next door neighbor for showing me the real property lines before I got too far into it. 

I don't even remember if I wrote about this, I was contacting my realtor who was taken by surprise.  Yea, this isn't going to work.  My property starts 20 feet MY side of the fence on the west side and my property allegedly starts 33 FEET on the OTHER side of the fence on the east side!  So I am sitting here at the rack (loading site) doing my homework before I call this other surveyor who did the "real" survey in 2009.  Looking up property ID numbers, names, survey names, etc.  I'll be calling him as soon as I get started getting loaded.  Or maybe not, I might just take a nap considering I'm going to be up very late tonight.  

Okay, it's the other way around. This driver showed up late - just before I got in here.  Lol.

Well, anyway, it's time to get offa here.  I need to find out the name of the current surveyor so I can tell the surveyor from the 2009 survey who did it - perhaps they can give insight to what's going on here with them. 

 About half way through my FB jail suspension.  It feels kind of a school teacher putting little Johnny in the corner and facing the wall for 15 minutes, Facebook is not my daddy or mommy or anything for that matter.  It's just a platform.  The good ole' days, you could speak your mind.  If you someone didn't like what you were saying, they could simply block you.

They can still block you, so what's the point?  How do you harass or bully someone that can just click you off at any point in time?  You can shut your page down to friends only.  I went on mine the other day from an account that is not linked to my account through friends and doesn't have my name on it, there was hardly anything showing at all.  Thankfully.

It just lends credence to more conspiracy theories. That Facebook actually is censoring people whose opinions they don't like.  That they are flagging them as potential "offenders".  This suspension happened within two seconds of my statement back to that jerkoff that was starting s*** with me, it was obvious it was a bot that did it and I doubt a real human even reviewed it.  You can't actually talk to anyone at Facebook.  Well I guess I could find their corporate number and start making phone calls but that wouldn't do any good and I wouldn't want to waste my time with it anyway.  I'm telling ya, if I didn't have all those pics on there, I would have already succumbed to the impulse to permanently delete my account. 

Whatever the case, the progress on getting down those trees and such is so slow, I have come up with a new plan of attack.  I'm hoping I can get James out there again this weekend if I don't have to work at least one of those days.  Just cut the trees down with the chainsaw and come behind with the machine.  If it can get the roots out, great, if not, flag it with pink paint to deal with it in the future.  Either burn them out of there or get a stump grinder or a combination of both. Burning will cost less money and likely do the job as long as each of the fires is hot enough.  You get those hot embers at the bottom of a fire eating up those roots and they will disappear, I think anyway.  

If fire don't work, a stump grinder definitely will, but that means renting more machinery.  I think the local rental place has a stump grinder.  I want progress and right now, that seems pretty slow moving stuff. I can go to Lowe's buy a dozen bottles of marking paint, get out on the property and start marking lines all the way down the first driveway and the pads as well and just start using that chainsaw and clear it all out of there.  The machine can try to get out the roots.  It can also be used in the back 15 to clear out walking trails, if I have the time for it.  I don't wonder if I shouldn't just call them to get the thing and take it back and credit me for the time unused, if they will even do that.  

I have another Brownsville run today.  I need the work. I didn't demand anything or even say anything at all about it, I was tempted to for sitting around for 14 days and then getting days off in between runs all the time isn't going to work for me.  I need the days off here and there for working on the property, but I can't afford to just be having off after every single run.  

Besides, the Oklahoma run is a two day affair - at least to them - I can get it done in one day and have that next day off for working over there.  At worst, I get a day off after every 70. I'll get this thing figured out, it's all uncharted territory to me, it's a learn as you go type of thing. There are no manuals on the internet for a step by step process on how to build your own park. There are generalized pages that don't give any specifics - probably because they don't have any.  It will be something I will document from beginning to finish, probably start an RV page with it's own address away from Blogger and start advertising my intent to eventually have an RV park.  

In fact, I will probably just name the park and call it that on the page I create.  

Just one thing tho, I'm not going to create the page.  I want someone that's good with design to do it for me.  I'd like to get that going ASAP, actually, I can post pics of my progress and do entries of everything that I have experienced thus far. This page here is just for writing entries for my own use, yes there are readers and that's cool, but I need something that people are going to find on an RV park google search.  The sooner I get that going the sooner it starts gaining any kind of sequence on Google for it's level of importance.  in other words, instead of being on page 2,000,000, it might be closer to the front.  Especially if the page is devoted to building an RV park, that will interest some people.

Anyway, there's 4 days in a row I haven't worked over there including today and tomorrow going to Brownsville. But, I'm not worried about it and I haven't taken out the 401k yet and probably won't until I get this land cleared.  Can't really do anything about installing the utilities until everything is set up and ready to really get the nuts and bolts of this deal going.  I suspected clearing the land would easily be the biggest obstacle in the way of doing anything, ,I didn't suspect it would be as difficult as it has been.

That, specifically, due to these plant or trees or whatever they are that have these ridiculous root systems in the ground.  Just never expected a plant that has a one inch stem to have a 4 inch thick root system underneath it. It definitely doesn't want to go anywhere and I suspect if I just clear out the plant and don't deal with the roots, they'll just start growing again.  I will find that out soon enough, there are several of them I wasn't able to extract, the machine just couldn't do it.  It rained yesterday, if that junk is going to start sending up shoots it will probably happen pretty fast.  That will cement the idea that those entire roots systems need to either be dragged out of the ground, burned up or pulverized into sawdust.  

I've pretty much conditioned my thinking that the roots need to come out.  I've also come to the conclusion that at some point, I'm going to need my own version of a tractor of some sort.  One with a brush hog attachment, a bucket and a hoe would be nice as well.  Pricey stuff, nothing I want to get into right now. 

I like going to the property and not doing anything, lol. Just enjoy the fact that I own a piece of Americana now.  Not the biggest property on earth, but it's mine and I can do whatever I want with it.  Okay, I can't do anything on the well pad, lol, but the rest of it I can.  Even the neighbor that came over stated the same sentiment: They can't stop you from driving on that driveway they built or even the well pad.  No, they can't.  They haven't even tried.  I was back there a couple of times now when they showed up.  They weren't even going to say anything to me but I engaged them in conversation. They literally don't care that i was back there - but - they aren't management either.  

I'm brewing more ideas in my head as this thing starts to slowly - ever so slowly - unfold.  If I find out for a fact that my property along that driveway extends much further back than that fence, I will be making plans for that as well.  Just depends on how much of it is mine.  But there are definitive possibilities.  Such as primitive cabins in the woods - that property has towering pine trees on it, that land was not harvested.  

News -- is appalling. I'm talking about the media/legacy news that is broadcasting how republicans don't care about anyone's health, love the covid virus, want everyone to have it, etc etc etc ad-nauseum.  It's sickening and outrageous.  I have a friend that is still in the hospital right now, breathing tubes shoved down her throat and in the battle of her life.  No one wishes Covid on anyone and the portrait of the Republican mindset according to liberal tv news pundits on CNN, MSNBC, the View and a host of other outlets is appalling.  This nation is so divided right now, it's amazing we haven't already delved into a civil war.  I don't know if one is coming, but these people continue to poke the bear and the bear is going to awaken eventually and say enough of this s***.  

I really don't even watch that much of the news, but you hardly have to open it up online or turn it on for 5 minutes on the TV and hear all of this bs.  I don't know about you, but this kind of drama I don't need in my life.  I'm not trying to hide my head in the sand, but for example, this dude in the military - Millis I think his name is, that contacted his Chinese counterpart - or allegedly did.  Trump hate to the extreme, we are still seeing it, we are STILL hearing that it's Trump supporters that are to blame for all of this Covid stuff going around the world right now.  

Off of that, my pond is doing well, the fish are all still in it.  Really, during the day time I don't have to worry about predators, those dogs will take care of any of that nonsense.  At night? I dunno what's coming out, raccoons for sure but birds? No.  A raccoon would have to climb over the top of the edge of the pond and dive into the water to the bottom to get at any fish and even then, the fish can hide under large flagstone down there, I doubt a raccoon could get at them.  

Not much else going on and I need to head out, I want to stop at Waffle House and have breakfast before I have to drive all day long.  Get the food in the belly now so I don't have to waste time doing that later on.  I drive to get the run over with  not drag it out.  My stops are quite infrequent, only to use the restroom and then only when it gets so bad I really have to go. Stopping for food is not high on my list while driving.  My intended route today is to drive clear down to Kingsville before stopping for fuel and take a short nap.  That's about 460 miles down there.  Houston will stink today, I'll be hitting that around 5:45 to 6:00 pm, the beltway will still be busy. Nothing like this last trip where I breezed through there both ways without hardly slowing down for anything. 

Late loads aren't really all that fun.  

G'day.