Last 2 nights in a row, I've gotten some solid sleep. And when that is happening, I don't care what time I get up.  I'll take the sleep, schedule be damned.  

So, it's not particularly early at 8:20 am, but not incredibly late, either.  

Getting the dog out of my head to see him where he "should" be  and isn't is still an elusive feat that may, apparently, not happen anytime soon.  

The trucking company did not call last week. If they don't call by Wednesday this week, I will call to confirm they have dropped me as a potential candidate for driving for their company and move on.  I won't word it that way, of course, I'm still interested but if they found someone else or couldn't find a way past this tax return that doesn't exist and won't exist until next year, they could have called me back and told me so.  They made enough calls otherwise.  

The reservation system has no new reservations in it save a 3 day stay at the beginning of September.  I'm going to have 3 lots empty soon. The overnighters - I don't know what they are doing.. the people looking for a mobile tech.  They gonna just drive on or stay until they get the problem resolved? No clue.  They sounded very worried about whatever the display said about the trailer in side of their pickup.  I told them there is a mobile tech but he doesn't work on weekends.  They are, of course, welcome to stay as long as they want, lol. 

The new guy showed up yesterday evening, parked his trailer and apparently left for Houston. I guess?  I have to go over there this morning and confirm that he actually did, indeed, drop his trailer.  If he did, he owes me a full month's rent for apparently they are staying awhile. Security for a new QuikTrip that is opening up, it's still under construction. Must be having theft problems over there?  Or possibly just expensive equipment that the company wants guarded until the place is up and running.  Who knows, I'll take him and his boss when he comes down.  

I get all of these different scenarios for reasons why people are coming into my park.  There are much closer parks to where that store is being built. But, they are both trailer trash parks and one of them is completely filled up.  Some people just don't care what kind of place they stay at, apparently, as long as the hookups are there.

I have another person coming today to take a look at the park and see if he likes it.  This would be a more permanent person who lives here locally, on a fixed income and needs a place at a reasonable rate.  He wanted an end lot, the only thing I can give him for that is a north end lot, meaning the end is on the driver's side.  I think when people say an end lot, they want it on the passenger wide where the trailer doors are.  If he stays, great, it's basically guaranteed income what with him getting a government check. He sent me pics of what happened to him (unsolicited) I really didn't need to see pics of his face and neck all cut up with huge gashes, laying in a hospital bed, life basically ruined after someone ran him and his motorcycle over with a car.

This is why I don't ride street bikes anymore, people are paying attention to their cell phones, not the road ahead of them.  I have toyed with the idea in recent times, I do wonder if these pics were some kind of supernatural warning: don't do it.  Who knows, I don't have money for motorcycles right now anyway.

Anyway, if I could get him in there, I would have 14 longer term in there and 2 lots for overnighters.  I have to tell you, tho, that if long term comes along and wants one of those as well? They are getting it.  My short term stuff hasn't really paid off, it's not the time of year for it anyway.  People aren't coming to Texas for the heat. They will come when the winter months fire back up.  Maybe  then I'll have some lots open for overnighters, right now, my focus is fill the park up.  None of the long term I have now are actually "long term" as in permanent.  It's all transient, they just stay for various lengths of time.  The father, son and their friend occupying 3 spaces have been a cornerstone for "guaranteed" money coming in every month.  I have no idea how long they are going to stay.  

All I know is, I need around 90k to add double the spaces I have now and wave goodbye to the trucking industry forever.  Well, more than that for other amenities but you get the idea, it isn't free, not by any stretch of the imagination.  

We're getting close to the wedding day and I will be flooding out applications within a week of it.  So, in about 3 or 4 days I'm going to start sending out applications and making phones calls to places that seem like they'd be somewhere I want to work.  Certainly not waiting until September if that isn't even going to work out.  

Well, it's time to get out of here, go sit on a mower and sweat my butt off. 

G'day