Saturday  Semi-Early

Well, my new definition of early anyway.  Since getting up at 3:30 am is a thing with this company, I'll have to redefine my old version of "early", which would be something like 6:00 am-ish.  

As hoped - very much hoped - I finally slept.  8 golden hours of sleep.  Only woke up once, was a wake for a little while but eventually dozed back off.

No people clanking things around in the laundry room. No laundry room door smashing against the building. No people in the middle of the night banging on the office door.  No bed bugs.  No uncomfortable bed.  NO Interstate noise at all.  That was one of the biggest ones, all night long, cars and trucks rolling by as if they are passing you in the room.  

Just the sound of the wall unit AC system that I turned the fan setting on high. That is my optimal sleep condition, white noise in the background, a comfortable bed and no other noise.  

I do not feel all that great tho.  You can't lose as much sleep as I have and expect to feel all wonderful and such with such sleep deprivation going on.  I will be walking to a store later on, maybe a restaurant much later on and that will be it, the rest of the day I'm going to laze around here, rest, nap, rest some more, nap some more, see if I can find anything on this cable tv system worth watching and that's about it.

The complimentary breakfast here was amazing. Cubed potatoes, bacon, sausage, eggs, a whole line of fresh fruit, cereal, coffee, etc.  You don't see that much anymore at hotels.  I also apparently hit it quite lucky: The Ducks are playing an away game today.  I had no idea I was a mile away from the University and if the Ducks were playing here today? This room would have been more than double the price and there would be people everywhere.  Apparently these Ducks fans will travel wherever to go see their team play.

I had to come to terms with my situation this morning.  However hellish this trip has been - and it's been a doozy - I had no choice but to come out here and get with it and get some money earned.  It's really the only reason I pushed through all of these days of trying to work on sleepless nights.  It was in the back of my mind - my checking accounts aren't so peachy right now, have to get some money in my coffers before I am so broke, I can't even pay current bills. 

I don't have to do anything today or tomorrow beyond laundry, which I am doing here since it's cheaper.  Apparently get up very early on Monday, I think if I interpreted the text from dispatch correctly, there is a start time of 2:00 am.  I hope I read that wrong.  I also hope I feel much more rested by the time whatever the start time is on Monday.  Pretty sure I will if last night was any measure, I can sleep another good night and then - well let's not go into trying to go to sleep in the "bunkhouse" Sunday night.

As I said in a previous entry, I am going to be focusing my mind today on the steps you take to load and offload a certain product, which is what I am pretty sure they will have me do a "final" on.  It isn't rocket science but there is a sequence, an order of the things you have to do and I want that firmly settled in my mind so that Monday, I can just breeze through it like I've been doing it for a decade.

Whether it works out that way or not, who knows? lol

In another - quite helpful - event, the house in AZ says they are making their deposit today.  This basically saves my @$$ on the mortgage.  Well, it's the weekend so I could have made that payment anyway without consequence, but I have gotten so far down in the money department that I have been waiting until the last day of the month to make the payment. So, I'll make that payment - right now actually while it's in my mind, get it over with.  

Whew.  That hurt, lol, I hope they are telling me the truth about the payment, but even if they didn't make it today, as long as they make it by Monday afternoon, I'm good.  

I think I'll see if the laundry machines are free and get my laundry junk over with.