It was an amazing mess.  James had been sanding the walls all over the place and the dust was on everything. It got into the AC as well and the coils are dirty.  I used a vacuum cleaner and got as much out as I could, but it's going to need better than that. 

Anyway. It was near 7 hours to clean that place up.  I had to pick up every single thing, dust or vacuum it off, wipe off, then to the next thing.  Hauled all the left over scrap pieces of drywall to the dumpster.  Got everything where I wanted it and then started scrubbing the floor - by hand. It was far too dirty for the mop to do anything.  I was using a 5 gallon back with water and pine sol, a scrub sponge, a roll of paper towels, a scraper and the vacuum. There was puddles of mud and also some dropping where spray insulation had dropped off the ceiling.

It was painstaking work, but there was no way to start painting in there before cleaning everything up.  I was done around 4:45 this afternoon, I had had enough. Hadn't eaten anything all day long, was hungry, needed to shower and get this grime off of me and take the boys to a church party.  

Oh, I did take several short breaks today.  Phone ringing off the hook, but nothing about people coming to stay at the park.  One call was from a recruiter. Pretty strange.  He asked me if I could access my email while we were on the phone? Yes.  He sent me an application via email, told me to fill it out, send it in and then we can talk.  He wouldn't answer any of my questions. Reading the thing, it said they figure that you are serious after you fill out an application. 

Well excuse me, but I'm not going to all of that trouble without having a few, key questions answered first, thank you and dismissed them. High paying job, likely out on the road for weeks at a time, something they don't tell you in their description.  At most, I will stay out a week at a time. If you can't/won't get me home that often, we aren't a good fit.  

Then there was another one. It's based in Shreveport. Hazmat tanker, lowest tier pay is around 95k per year.  But they list it as OTR, no questioning that, just no dialogue about how often you get home.  

Yet another one. This one is local. I've seen their trucks, they are usually 6 wheelers. They also pay quite well at up to 2 grand per week.  Home every night, it's usually delivering fuels to earth moving equipment, trains, mining operation equipment.  I will be applying there once I get to that point.  They have had ongoing ads for years, they are nationwide but they advertise for local work.  I might also apply at the propane delivery places around here.  It's probably part time work, but who knows.  I need health insurance as well or I really don't want anything to do with it unless the pay is high . 

Yes, I want to try and cash in on hazmat tanker work before going into the other stuff.  Dry vans are a total rat race and really don't like it much. I won't do refers, they are always too noisy.  There is a steel place 2 miles from here hiring, but one of the reviews says it's low pay.  Pilot, Gemini (Love's) and other fuel haulers are all hiring.  But are they training?  Fuel hauling would be local.  Pilot texted me back today asking me where I live? I told them - it's in their map area they have posted - but I heard nothing back.  

Of course, not hearing back right away from a national chain company doesn't really mean anything.  If you haven't figured it out, I'm preparing myself to go back to regular work.  I wouldn't necessarily call what I did today being lazy.  It just doesn't produce a regular paycheck.  Finances are starting to get low, I might have a few people coming in but who knows and I have several empty lots.  It isn't adding up to enough to live off of.  I have bills, like everyone else, responsibilities, like everyone else and I refuse to go bankrupt.

I also abhor this debt relief nonsense now that I found out what it's all about.  You screw the bank, basically. They get back half of what you owe.  Yes, I know, banks are evil, etc etc etc blah.  I'm not a student loan defaulter type person, I'd rather pay back my debts if at all possible. 

Well, I can see how I should just bypass mid afternoons and work mornings and evenings after just having gone and got the boys and then went over to the property to measure for a curtain.  It's low 80's right now versus heat index of over 100 in the middle of the day.  Get more done without burning up.  I dunno if I'll do that, but I have 12 more lots to till.  And then retill. And then rake.  And then lay sod. And then water endlessly.

Oh, the boys. Well, the church had their final summer fun night.  2-1/2 hours of fun. It was pizza, arts, playtime and then?  The church had made a huge piles of white foam that turned out to be shaving cream for the kids to play in. We were wondering why they wanted everyone to bring towels. How much money did they spend on it? I don't know and I have little concern about it.  The church never asks for money.  They have to have rich donors who give them as much as they need, because they are never in want for anything.  The other nice thing is there is always a cop there.  Not likely to be a church shooting at that place with an armed officer sitting out there monitoring everything.  

Well, I'ma get offa here. Look at some more jobs.  I think it was getting that medical card yesterday, it motivated me to get with it.