Lol. Forced my butt out of bed, shave, shower, get dressed, coffee and fixin' to leave and what happens? It starts pouring rain. Lol. I dunno if that means I won't get to do more tilling today or not, but I postponed my departure. I'm not getting soaking wet just to walk out to the vehicle. I can paint or work inside the RV if not tilling, I just have my mind set on tilling cause' it's overcast again and working outside without the full sun baking down on you is advantageous.
In fact, it was so dark when I woke up this morning what with dark, overcast skies, I didn't realize what time it actually was. First night out of many that I was able to sleep without the itching factor. Didn't even have to take Benadryl.
Bud Light. Still watching this tragedy of errors from AH corporate making stupid commercials that are angering their customer - or now-former - base even more. Now, Mulvaney - the trans activist that Bud Light made a special beer can with "her" - actually his - face on it, has moved to Peru so he can feel "safer". What is board of directors doing about this, because the CEO clearly doesn't have a clue? Most people probably don't care if you want to be a trans person, they just don't want it crammed down their throats. And more importantly, this issue of pushing puberty blockers and other transitioning medications on to minors. Or having school systems help the student hide all of this from their parents.
Anyway, I have no idea whether Maria is going to come and clean out that thing, so if she doesn't do it in the next couple of days, I will find someone else to do it. I don't have time to scrub the entire interior of that thing. I will if I have to, but I have lots of other things going on that need my attention more than that. It isn't particularly dirty, it just has a musty smell from being left closed for so long and a freshening-up in there is necessary.
I hate to open the windows because as soon as you do that, the mud daubers and wasps find their way in there. I never leave the windows of my SUV down because of that reason, having learned the hard way.
I've got a slew of trucking companies that I have picked out as potential, first wave of applications. After that, it's all regional or OTR. Regional sounds interesting, but they won't get you home more often than once a week. It's just the way it is. There is a local company that runs this area that has you home every night, but the pay is a bit low. I think you're making 70k per year, it's a bit less than I really want to get for having to sacrifice my personal life to drive a damn truck.
At the same time, I don't want to be driving all over the United States. I know what happens. They will send you everywhere but anything close to your home. At my age and life experience, I would just tell them to either send me home "as agreed" or I will drive the truck to the nearest terminal to my home park it, unload my stuff out of it and sayonara. If you don't believe that, just ask Werner. They hired me in the 90's to drive their blue trucks and promised X amount of home time on X schedule.
It didn't happen and I was pushing being out on the road a month. There were other factors as well, but that was the major one. They finally sent me on a trip home. I got the trailer unloaded, went to the yard, handed in the keys, locks and other junk they assign you and left that company permanently. I'd do it without hesitation again if I were pushed that far.
If I can just find something local, I'm really going to try to get in with one of these fuel haulers. But I'd have to be trained and a lot of them don't appear to do the training. They want people who know how to do it right off the bat. Which begs the question, if no one wants to train you, how do you learn? You have to learn the routine and nuances of loading the truck yourself. It doesn't look complicated but there is methodology to it that you must know. I've seen the videos of drivers driving off the loading dock without having had unhooked the lines.
The lines burst, some sort of lever comes flying down which automatically shuts the fuel off. The loading station is destroyed and has to have a lot of repairs, but there is minimal gasoline spillage. I'm sure they won't be inviting you back to their facility again after such an event, either.
Well, the rain has stopped, the youngest kid is screaming - he does that a lot for attention and to get his way - and I don't want to sit around listening to this nonsense. Not when I can go to the property, put on bluetooth ear buds, play music and work a machine. Or if it's too wet, start painting. Any way about it, I'm outta here.
G'day.
