Slowly changing my entire diet from Keto to a low carb version that incorporates foods I haven't been eating in a long time.

Those foods are mostly berries and fruit.  Lots of salad, turkey and chicken.  This is the quest to lower cholesterol levels.  The exercise part? Yea, that's gonna take a minute.  It's just really hard to think about getting out of a truck after driving all day long and go for a walk or do some pushups or whatever.  It's bedtime, not workout time.  Yes, I get plenty of walking at the property - but that's only when I'm at home.

I'm in Brownsville yet again, no empties down here last night, allegedly empties are on their way over. "Right now" I was told well over an hour ago, lol.  If they can get one here soon, I won't have to be driving until the wee hours of the morning attempting to get one back to the yard for them to use tomorrow.

Tho, no one has asked me to do any such thing.  I don't actually mind this run dragging into tomorrow since I will have 14 hours of detention pay, which is the same or actually a bit more than a day's worth of driving.  But, if they get here before 1 or 2 pm, I'll drive it out.  After that?  Yeah, they're gonna have to ask me and I won't make any guarantees.  They sent a truck down here yesterday without a trailer to pick up an empty to try and get a handle on the lack of empties coming back up.  

I called the contractor yet again this morning.  I just call him now, if he doesn't answer, then I send a text.  He answered today, said that he had had a fitting built for his track hoe, it worked for 30 minutes and then the o-ring popped, spewing hydraulic fluid all over the place.  But, he said, John Deere ordered him one and it is supposed to be here today by 2:00 pm.  He said call me back today after 4 to see if it's a go.

Nahh, I replied, I won't bother you again today, I'll just call tomorrow and see where we're at.  Bugging contractors about situations they have no control over is just making yourself a nuisance.  I'm hoping his desire to get the thing going "for you" means that the first thing he's doing when they have it fixed is heading over to my property and finishing phase II.  I mean, it would only make sense, he can't get paid for it until it's done.  I guess I"ll have to press him for Phase III - lot formation and utilityi nstallation.  

I'm trying to keep on top of it and communication with him as much as possible without making myself and annoyance at the same time. He has already gone off about other contractors using his services going off on him about the time frame for everything.  The squeaky wheel may or may not get the grease in this case, I can only say that he's trying to keep my costs down as much as possible, he knows I"m on a budget here.  

I'll find out tomorrow if it's fixed and if they went to my property. 

Meanwhile, I am going to be low on hours by the time I get back - but not so low I couldn't get an Oklahoma run. No, I don't want another run before getting a day off, but if I do Oklahoma, I can have almost a full day plus a full day off.  If I  get the reset after this run, it's going to be tomorrow only and probably an afternoon appointment the next day to load again.  I have no control over what I get, I just know that the Oklahoma run gets me some good home time. A day off isn't enough, I've been busting @$$ and I need a break.  

Unfortunately, some of my better loan options have expired. They make offers and give a time limit on when you can accept the offer.  I just have no desire to take out a loan before I know how much I will need and also, making those extra payments without the extra income coming in to be able to make the monthly payments.  I'm actually hoping to get this first part done without any loans and do that soft opening and see what happens.  

Then I can save up the 20% for an SBA loan and see about starting a whole new thing - at a different property. I've missed the tax sale - it's going on right now. There were some large parcels of land up for auction.  Oh well, you can't do anything with those properties right away anyway, but it'd be nice to get one and have it sitting, ripening with the age - time - required to be able to say it's actually mine and the originals owners have abandoned it.  But, those auctions have had so many rich people showing up and having bidding wars, the prices go well outside of my reach.  

Why start something somewhere else? Because an SBA loan will pay for property, construction and start up expenses plus cash for cash flow.  I'm already committed to what I'm doing now, but I could see just having a small operation on this property and starting a much larger one somewhere else. I just need to get the experience running a business and the ins and outs of the paperwork, dealing with employees and dealing with state and federal taxes, if there are any (which I assume there are).  

I would actually love to keep this current property a limited operation and have most of it - for myself.  It's close to home, it's beautiful and it's really a "dream" property.  At least for this area, there are no mountain ranges around there. But, I get the woods and a small stream and the sounds of nature within 4 miles of home.  Imagine a small operation that would pay for a custom house to be built on the rear of the property, separated from any and everyone on the front.  In that scenario, long term residents would be acceptable. Not near as much money but not near as much hassle, either.  

Long term simply means people are living in their RV's, on the property.  Pretty big demand for that right now.  Not just oil field workers or construction workers, either. Those are people that come to an area to work but they don't live there. They bring an RV, park it somewhere and live in it semi-long termm.  Others, however, are finding housing unaffordable and even unavailable and are resorting to whatever they can find.  I'm not supplying an RV, tho, that's on them.  I could see renting out mobile homes I might buy and fix up, but not RV's. They have to be treated with care and if you rent to people that don't care, well, you end up with a destroyed RV.

Am I changing my mind again? Let's call it evolving.  Learning as well.  There are plenty of other properties for sale in the area. High priced, yes, but they are there.  The only setback is coming up with 20% down. SBA loans require you to have some stake in the game, for obvious reasons.  If I need a half million dollar loan, I have to come up with 100k.  That's pretty much what it would cost to build a decent sized park with some amenities and including the price of the land.  

These are just thoughts floating around in my mead.  

Well, there it is, an empty trailer.

Cutting this one short.

G'day.