Did I have another light encounter last night? No.  Did something out of the ordinary happen? Yes.  In the middle of the night, the TV turned itself on.  No one was awake. The remotes were sitting on the desk, nothing had fallen on them.  That TV has never turned itself on before, ever. Maybe if it had happened by itself and not had the experience I had the night before, I wouldn't think a lot of it.  Then again, TV's don't just turn themselves on.  

I'll just leave that there.  I'm not really looking forward to more things happening in the middle of the night, I can safely say that.  

Today's agenda: Go back to Lowe's yet again. I have a list.  It isn't a thorough list, there will still be some things left to buy, I'm not buying them because I need specific lengths and I'm not going to buy more than I need, not in the inflation-laden economy with ridiculous prices on everything. 

I'm none too keen on buying a metal detector, but I seem to have no choice in the matter.  Well good thing I looked it up. A metal detector won't work for aluminum wiring.  You need a "pipe and cable locator".  Whatever that means, however that works. I'll go to Harbor Freight and see if they have anything. If they don't and if Lowe's doesn't - or if the price is too high - I'll have to either just dig down right next to the water pipe coming up out of the ground and hope that works. I'm not interested in paying people to find it for me or spending hundreds of dollars on this nonsense. 

I guess that's really the best idea. Just dig down the side of the water pipe - all of the stuff should be in the same trench, that's how they did the other side. I never saw how they did the west side, but one should be able to safely assume it was done in the same manner.  It's just digging trenches by hand? Yeah, that's not really easy work.  

My machines are actually in Dallas right now.  So why they are saying they won't be delivered until the 17th or up to 3 more weeks is unknown.  Dallas is 157 miles away from here.  They actually want to schedule a delivery day that I will be there. Well I'll be there today!  Not that I need them yet, but getting them out of the delivery system is a great idea - the longer it sits "somewhere" the more likely to be damaged. And I can tell ya, if either of those machines have any damage at all, I'm going to reject them. This stuff wasn't cheap.  I don't want a single ding or scratch on it.

I think they have a delivery service that actually does this type of thing beyond UPS, FedEx or USPS and likely have you sign a form indicating you agree there is no damage.  Fine and dandy. I will be removing literally ALL of the packaging and inspecting both machines top to bottom, sides, everything.  

If I ever get this done, I will immediately start work on a shower room.  Maybe.  Depending on how much it will cost, but the infrastructure will already be in the shed including hot water, the major expense is the shower stall itself and probably a sink and toilet.  

Politics. Well.....just to say the children are at the circus again.  The name calling, denigration, childishness and buffoonery being displayed in Congress and by the White House right now are astounding.  If you didn't know these are the people running this nation, you would think you were watching some sort of middle school debate club or possibly some sort of social club where people are getting drunk and hurling insults at each other.  

Ok, well time to get down to business. Get to Lowe's get to the property, get to work. No shows on the people that said they were staying for 2 weeks, I assume they went somewhere else. No show on the guy that said he's coming from New Orleans.  So, lost revenues.  Nothing I can do about it, just hope that some more people will see the facebook ad or find my place while looking up places to stay and come in to stay a while - or longer.  I can only do what I can do, the rest is up to the people themselves.  And the Lord's blessing, I should add. Definitely praying for that!  

G'day.