Near Stryker, Ohio.  

I arrived much earlier than I have ever made it up here - but that's due to the early load time I had yesterday. So it was before noon eastern time I called them and asked if they could unload me today.

Of course not, lol.  "Our tank still has product in it" and "no one will be here that early to unload it".  Well, I could show up and have them off load it at whatever time they wanted...but I'd have no time to get anywhere after that.  I decided to stay at a hotel down the road and enjoy some time out of the truck.  

Rooms are pricey here, don't know why.  Small town out in the middle of nowhere, the Holiday Inn across the way has very few vehicles parked there. I asked for a trucker's discount. Some places do give that. No, no trucker's discount. Well, everything I saw on the website says $76 per night, not $95. We're talking a Super 8 hotel, this is nothing fancy but I've stayed here before.  

I'm here, lol. Went to Buffalo Wild Wings and had some lunch, came back and just resting.  

The appraiser was at the house today.  Mark said he was there 20 minutes and left.  20 minutes? for $500?!! Okkkkkk The appraiser allegedly said "I'm impressed".  Well, I dunno if he was just saying stuff, but Mark keeps the place immaculately clean.  I could show up out of the blue and the entire premises would be completely clean, nothing out of place inside or outside.  

Whether that "being impressed" translates into a good and high number remains to be seen.  I hope this person does their due diligence to seek out real comps, not just going by whatever has sold in the neighborhood.  It's worth double and then some whatever is selling in the neighborhood, save the site built houses.  The only one of those that has sold recently has an error on the selling price - over a million dollars. No one in their right mind is going to pay a million bucks for a house like that.  I'm keeping an eye on it to see if/when they are going to fix the mistake. But, I remain hopeful - and I hope that this thing can close if it's good and get over there before any vaccine mandates are required for domestic airline travel.

I will not be getting that vaccine.  I have gone into that many times in this blog, not going to scratch that surface again.  I'm just not going to subject myself to something that mau have serious side effects to my system.  Period. 

Anyway, I'm 2 days from home.  Offload early morning, get on the road, drive out my hours.  Finish on ... Wednesday.  I'm hoping to get another short run that will keep me out til the day before Christmas and then, walaah. Home for Christmas!  Yea, well one can hope, I didn't ask for it off and I did get Thanksgiving off, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  

Many states are embracing the $15 per hour minimum wage.  Good for them. That amount of income will be as worthless as the $7.25 fed wage is now in a short period of time. Inflation is already devaluing the dollar - feds have been pumping trillions of dollars of cash into the system. The dollar isn't worthless, but it's value is shrinking.  Buying power shrinks with it. 

If you increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour, the price of everything will go up so that that $15 per hour will become default the same as the federal minimum wage that already exists.  Period.  Inflation.  Then I'm going to want even more money - as well as all of my fellow truckers. Because we can.  I'm not saying 90k per year is a pittance, but if those people that are doing unskilled labor can make that much, then I want that much more.  Everyone in every industry that had to have some kind of skill or head knowledge will be saying the same thing. Guaranteed.  

If I'm going to spend days at a time away from home - and many truckers spend weeks at a time - y'all going to pay for it if these people doing menial labor tasks are going to get paid that much money.  See how that works?  It is not in anyone's best interests to raise the minimum wage, in fact, I don't even believe in minimum wages at all.  But I don't feel like getting into that subject. 

What I feel like doing? Is getting into bed, even tho a tad bit early, and going to sleep.  I already did earlier for an hour or so, felt good, I think I'll do more. I'm getting up at 5 am anyway.  In fact, it's an hour ahead of the clocks I have going, later than I thought.

G'nite.