Sunday, August 6, 2023

Lost too much sleep this week, overslept this morning.  Now I'm half hurried to get out of here and get over there and get this done.  I'm not even sure those people are moving in - but - since I got all of this in motion - get it done.  There will be an overnighter coming in today, that will free up the pull through lot for them.  I can only hope that this won't take long as 1: I don't even want to do this right now and 2: church this morning.

I'm still looking for the dog.  Every time, I go by where he should be, he isn't there.  I'm sure it will leave my head eventually, at the moment it is rather disconcerting.  Just something I'd like to get past and not be lingering on, but it is automatic.  Here I am, there is the dog.  Oh, the dog. 

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The main gist of that ordeal is now over.  Just everything has to be such a chore.  Like backing the trailer down the driveway hundreds of feet. It was that or pulled it 600 feet the wrong way, back into the street then pull in - with a man inside the trailer holding a freezer up that they were afraid was going to fall over.  Then, just getting the thing level.  About 4 tries for that.

Then seeing that they don't have the right adapter for the sewer outlet.  They just stuck the hose in the outlet instead of having a sealed connection. Just no. That eyesore is out of the park and I will be getting a LOT more picky about what comes in there in the future. I try to be anyway, but now - well really already - it's going to be "send me pictures of all sides of the thing".  I don't ever want anything in there that looks like that again.  

You have a few options in this business. Have people coming in with new/newer equipment, or have long term junky trailers that make the place look like a wrecking yard.  I do not want the latter . There's only 1 older trailer in my park atm and it is in excellent condition. Old does not automatically mean trashy. It just depends on if people took care of it.

Now, I have a 75 foot long pull through available for - anything else.  That trailer might be 22 feet long.  It's their home, I get it.  It's their escape off the street.  It's better than a lot of other options.  It was just nothing I wanted to do on a Sunday morning and unfortunately, I woke up on the wrong side of the bed as it stands.

I just feel cruddy and it's making me cranky.  The lack of sleep this week is the culprit -worse than other weeks. When I woke up and saw it was 8:15 am, I was just not feeling it.  I forced my @$$ out of bed anyway ,got a cuppa, instantly had kids in my face as soon as I walked out the bedroom door - please leave me along for a few minutes, it just woke up.  They don't understand that language but if you say it with enough "tone" in your voice, they will understand that you mean business.

It's over with, the hardest part anyway. My 30 amp setup works fine. Their ac is broken again.  I am going to loan them the one that Maria gave me.  It's small but it's better than nothing in this heat.  It's a small trailer, it will cool it down in there.  It's going to get up to 101 degrees with who knows what kind of heat index, I'll get it to them before church.  

I wasn't going to go home, instead just hang out at the park before church, but the kids didn't bother to eat this morning.  I'm not taking them to church on empty stomachs, that is a recipe for disaster.  

I've got lots coming available soon, this situation with needing the space was only needed for a day.  After that, there will be several spaces available.  It was the excuse, however, to get that ugly thing off of my pull throughs and out of site. Well, mostly out of site, the back end of it sticks out a little behind the shed, but no worries, it's a far cry better than what it was. 

 Friday late-morning Typical morning when there is no work.  It was, I should say, until the new guy called.  "There's nothing wron...