Saturday, May 6, 2023

 Still trying to figure out how the system allowed another reservation in on a blocked date.....and everything went up in the air real quick like.  Yes, I know I don't speak proper English while typing out these posts, just the mood of the moment.  

See, these people decided they wanted to come in yesterday.  I wasn't going to be able to accommodate them, but that dude at lot 4 left so that opened up availability.  Another reservation came in and I had blocked that out. Then, another reservation came in for a lot that is already blocked out. 

I'm sitting here thinking, how did this do this? I still have no answer.  Then I thought, I wonder if this person has a 50 or 30 amp connection?  If it's 50, I'm not sure I can have that added onto the shed system, but if it's 30, that's only 1 AC unit. I have a sewer connection I installed over there, a water outlet is approximately 20 feet away and I can install a 30 am RV outlet easily.  That's a double pole circuit breaker, about an 8 foot length of line, an outlet and something to mount it to.

I wonder why I hadn't thought of this before.  I won't do 50 amp because I don't want to overload the underground line.  It's rated at 600 volts but it can still heat up and....melt. It's aluminum wiring.    1 AC unit won't do anything to it.  The point is that there is already a water heater, a dryer and a small ac unit working off of that. I don't really count the ceiling lights because they don't take hardly any power.  

I'll spend the money I make off of that reservation and then some - not too much more tho - and I'll have an extra spot in the grass.  I just mowed it yesterday.  It's sort of part of the hipcamp area, but it would be right next to the shed.  Hipcamp is further out in the grass.  Which reminds me, I need  to up load pics of it to Hipcamp now that it's freshly mowed. It didn't take 20 minutes to mow it and it looks pretty good, actually. 

Ok, so I have a plan at least to accommodate these other people and have an extra spot available from now on.  I won't do long term there, I don't want people staying there permanently.  But I have to tell ya, my open lots are filling up quickly.  I was amazed to look at lot 12 and see it booked up 20 out of the next 30 days.  That is already over what a long term would rent out for.  I've got lot 7 blacked out ... change that, I opened that up for over the next month.  See, I have lot 4 open now - well sort of, these people are staying a week and then leaving.  If a long term shows up, I'll have availability for them after Monday. The only thing I can say is those people that said they "need a lot this weekend!" but refused to commit to my place? Best not be showing up out of the blue and taking a space. I'll kick them right out of there. Sorry, you didn't confirm and the nature of the business: people come and people go. I'm not holding a lot for a person that wasn't committing to it, you're going to have to leave. 

Anyway, after I get that new lot set up, I'll have a lot 15.  Hipcamp will be called lots 16 and 17.  

Oh, and then there's the people showing up for lot 7 today, but the dude that showed up thinking he was in "lot 9" for whatever reason, it certainly didn't show it on the confirmation letter or the site they actually chose themselves took lot 7.  The incoming will get lot 12. I have this all worked out now.  It really gave me kind of a headache to try and figure out what to do with people that are showing up, that paid in advance and were somehow overridden by some glitch in the system?  I know whoever ends up next to the shed probably isn't going to like it very much, but it's solid ground, I can drive my SUV through there even when it's raining. 

Well, I will have to also trim a tree.  It's got some branches sticking out at the exit to Hipcamp, just need to fire up the chain saw and cut those down. But I have it all fixed up, so really, I just need the 30 amp setup which might take me an hour or less to do.  I'll either get it done today - well I"ll have to get it done today, I have church tomorrow. People can't show up to my park before 1 pm I think it says on the site. Whoever is there before them gets to stay until noon. I just try to keep it within the industry standards of check and check out times.  You'd be surprised how many people want to stay as late as they can. And then there's those that are up at the crack of dawn and they are out of there.  

Well it's a damn good thing I read some instructions about wiring a 30 amp outlet for RV's. Turns out, you only use a single pole breaker, only one hot, not 2.  Don't ask me why I thought it was 240 volts versus 110.  Anyway, it's time to go to a soccer game, then Lowe's then to the property, deal with this and get it over with.

G'day

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