This laptop has to be the most worthless pile of electronic garbage I have ever owned. I keep thinking I need to buy a new one. It just took 20 minutes to start it up and actually have it get to the main page and then try to get the internet up and running. It's been like this since shortly after I got this heap of unmitigated dog dung and it's really time to get a new one. I will never buy a Lenovo again, the next one will probably be an HP.  I am also unhappy with my phone.

I tried to buy one the other day, the newest version of an Iphone, the store wouldn't sell it to me. They told me that I could only get one on payments at the store.  I said ok, fine, if I get one on payments and then pay it off? You will lose the $300 credit, I was informed.  I politely said no thank you and got up and walked out.  I will find one online and be done with it.  I hate to spend the type of money I'm talking to buy a new phone and a new computer, but I feel it's time to get rid of this garbage and upgrade.  The issue with the phone is limited memory and not-so-great photo and video quality.  All of that is allegedly gone now with these newer phone and 3 lenses on the back taking pictures and/or video.

Anyway, I was "surfing the web", namely, I was on Facebook and the reel section.  It just puts up random, short videos of this and that.  Well, it apparently tries to give you content that you like, because it is always showing businessmen/women giving business advice and showing how to do things.  Things that I don't know, btw, an in some cases, didn't even know I should be doing.  

So today was one of those moments. A lady was on there telling you what to do with a business start up. It was a 15 second video.  She went through the list so fast I had to wait for it to replay and then pause it when the bullet points were all up on the screen, for there was an item at the end that I didn't understand what she was referring to.  It said "apply for a duns number".  

Okay, that was strange.  I looked it up on this computer after writing that and it said there is another business name registered at our address.  Well, I'll have to look into that later, there are no businesses established through our address as far as I know it. I'm using home address for business address to get everything started and will switch to real address when I finally get a street address for the park.  

Anyway, it's an account with Dun & Bradstreet.  I've seen this site many times over, I've used it to look up info about a business, usually a corporate headquarters phone number.  I had no idea it was necessary to get an account with them to start building your business' credit file.  I thought the EIN number issued from the state was all that I needed.  I'm very glad I stumbled across this info now.  You don't build credit over night, that's a fact.  Capital One is also asking for more information, I will finish that when I get home.  

Yes, still sitting in Brownsville, it's 11:15 am, they just told me a truck is coming but the wait at the bridge is long.  It's been long for a few months now.  That's one of the bridges commercial vehicles use to come back into the States. I don't know what the holdup is, these people here never know, they just tell me the bridge is holding everything up. More intensified scrutiny of vehicles coming over? No idea.  I know they have dogs sniffing all of those trucks coming across and random FDOT inspections.  That's a federal level truck inspection, those are the worst in terms of time taken.  I got stuck in one of those for an hour and a half one time.  

Anyway, I have my homework set out for me when I get home, well actually tomorrow. If they come within the next few hours with that trailer I will make it home tonight. After that? It'll be tomorrow afternoon.  

Still have this cough.  It's not the worst cough I've ever had, nothing like the last one I went through where I was constantly hacking 24 hours a day for a week straight.  I have the remnants of some prescription cough medicine that's working quite well with this. I may go to the urgent care tomorrow and see about getting more of it.  And yes, they'll probably want to do a covid test and as long as it's free, I don't mind them doing that.  Which every time? It costs me nothing.  Whether that's my company paying for it, the insurance or the government, I have no clue.  

I guess the point is whether this trip to San Antonio is still a go.  Yes, as long as it don't start feeling any worse than this.  It's a vacation.  I don't have to do anything. We are just going to be wandering around looking at the sites and things to do.  Oh, well if the urgent care tells me I have covid I will cancel the trip and it will have to be put off to later date.  I won't knowingly go around spreading a virus to everyone.  Except driving the truck. I don't care about that.  My only interaction with people is at the truck stops.  Even then, I don't have to interact with anyone.  And the loading plant has been making us stay in the trucks to load ever since covid started.  Places like this yard in Brownsville? Yea, I don't have to interact with anyone down here, either, if I don't want to.  

Trucking is actually a pretty lonely life unless you have a companion traveling with you, hence the reason many truckers have dogs if their company allows it.  Mine doesn't. Mine doesn't allow humans, either, unless they are employed by the company.  So, if one of the boys wanted to go on a trip?  No can do.  I guess I could "cheat" and take one of them with me on a Brownsville trip, but if I were caught I would get fired immediately.  Just their policy and they are rigid about it.  They cite the dangers of hazmat and the possibility of "terrorism" and people wanting to commandeer these trucks to use for nefarious purposes.

Of course, you haven't read about any of that happening any time recently.  I'm not sure it's a completely unfounded fear, but I do think it's a bit overblown to not allow family members to ride with you on a trip that does not require you to go into secure facilities that have security personnel.  You know, such as Cheniere, that has multiple, way overblown layers of security?  A place I am still so happy that I never have to go back to again.  My manager has tried to get me back in there, but the dude at the company that runs the plant said nope, he's not coming back in there. As if my feelings are hurt? NO ONE likes going to that place. 1. Because of the way your are treated by security and 2. Because of the way you are treated by the company that runs the plant.  3. Because it's a very low paying run. It has "no" miles to speak of and you are wasting a lot of time unloading.  The only way it is profitable is if they make you sit there for half a day, waiting on them to get their act together. 

And war.  Russia has entered the Ukraine with military forces.  Now, apparently that doesn't necessarily mean they are going to war, as some "experts" have stated, but I think we all know what Putin is doing. He has indicated he wants the Ukraine back for quite some time now.  I doubt sanctions will do much of anything to thwart his intentions.  He has China covering his back, at least it looks that way.  I don't fear world wars, per se, but if another one happens, we could see nukes being used and the end of our existence as we know it.  No amount of survival preparedness will do any good if nukes are dropped unless you happen to own an underground cave that has it's own air supply and is not dependent on anything above ground.  I don't even know if that will save you, but it sounds like a very dull existence.

I live within 60 miles of Barksdale Air Force Base, I would assume that would be a primary target.  So, walk outside, wait for it to come, and get it over with.  Might sound a bit drastic, but if you get China involved with any of this and partnering with Russia, we will see a war the likes of which this world has never seen.  The US would have to fully engage in it at any point it goes beyond just Russia and Ukraine and then?  A lot of people are going to die. I'm just very curious if Russia has any guarantees and backing from China in any of this.  

I just watch the news as it unfolds....

Hmmm, guess I need to start a business email account as well.  

Getting offa here. Hoping the empty is coming soon.

G'day