So we're back to them having empties waiting on us in Brownsville. So beit. Back a few minutes ago, off to West Virginia tomorrow - 3 or 4 day trip depending on the loading plant, traffic, construction zones, etc.  I like to make it a 3 day trip and get it over with.  Whatever the case, I will be out of hours when I get back and will have at least a day off.  

Meanwhile, the diet is going well enough  - I am not eating a lot of food in these days and doing the intermittent fasting is helping. Progress seems painstakingly slow, but I try to remember I allowed this, engaged in this and now have to pay for it to get it off, lol.  Like, several months at least.  Maybe longer.  I did 20 hours between meals starting last night and going on into late afternoon - and then I only ate a salad. Now I'm going to have some talapia and call it quits for another 16 hours at least.  

I haven't been by the property since the rain day when I had the 7 year old out there and we weren't there very long before a downpour started.  The contractor said they weren't coming until next week and I didn't have time to go by there today - just to look, you never know lol.  My load time tomorrow morning isn't until 10:00 am, I can leave early and just drive by there. Even if they aren't there, I feel the need to see it to keep the hope and the dream alive.  

I have a lot of plans in the works ready to take off when we get close to getting this contractor's portion of the work done.  It's not totally in limbo right now, I am looking for the services and the things I will need to move on with the project after they're done.  

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Thursday morning. Load time isn't until 10:30 am.  Unfortunately, the plant where I am supposed to deliver the product to is saying that there is a valve problem with the last trailer that was taken up there.  So now they are desperate for product.  When are you going to get up there?  Well I don't have a magic wand to make the truck appear on their lot in an instant's time.  I wish I did, this job would be much easier lol.  Their storage tank is small, it will only hold one truck load at a time.  

Of course, the consequences of a truck that cannot be unloaded is they run out of product and the plant shuts down.  I don't wonder if they have a truck closer by that could be diverted from it's intended destination.  But, I'm not dispatch and that's not my problem. I will get the truck there as fast as possible, but I won't tolerate being nagged to death about it. If they want to know where I am, they have several devices in the truck that pinpoint my exact location, what speed I'm going at, what gear I'm in, how many RPM's - etc etc etc.  Truck drivers are micro-managed to the nth degree.  

But I don't want to go into that for I don't have the time or the desire. I'm leaving for the yard earlier than I normally would and get to the plant maybe 45 minutes early.  That didn't work out the other day with the last trip to Brownsville, where I waited for hours to get loaded. I have no control over that.  

Oh, the diet.  The stall ended, at least temporarily.  I lost 17 pounds in  a 6 day span when I refired Keto.  Then I stalled there for 2 weeks. This morning? Finally down 2 more pounds.  I figured it would take a while to "catch up" to losing that much weight that quickly.  I'm still doing 16/8 intermittent fasting, tho some days it's much longer. Yesterday was 20 hours between meals.  It's not exactly keto, either, I had fish last night and that was it and a salad yesterday afternoon.  Keto is more about eating fat than proteins.  This is more of a starvation diet - tho I'm not really trying to do that, that's what it really is.

Anyway, off to the races.

G'day