Thursday - morning

Wrote an entire post yesterday and forgot to post it, lol.  Oh well, it can just go into the unposted abyss of unposted drafts history.  

Yesterday was filled with numerous phone calls with the trucking company.  It started with this idea that they were having me board a flight out of Longview at 6:10 am and then go to Dallas....and sit there for 12-1/2 hours.  No thank you. I'm getting the idea that this company is cheap.  Which isn't necessarily bad, I guess, excepting when you're trying to bring in a new driver and he's sitting back watching all of this unfold before his very eyes.

I looked up flights out of Longview - which necessarily fly to DFW since it's just a regional carrier that is taking you to a main hub - and found flights leaving out of DFW at 2:27 pm and arriving in Oregon at the same time as the first flight. In other words, she wanted to shave off a few hundred dollars to save the company a few bucks. 

So, I texted her and said please change this.  I don't want to sit in an airport for half a day, thanks.  I don't know what went on behind the scenes, but if this was a deal breaker for them? I'm out.  I can find something else quickly, just nothing that really gives me the home time this one does (or so they claim, anyway).  

So, I'm on the flight that leaves at 2:27 pm, arrives in Oregon, I think it was 9:45 pm.  There is still a 4 hour wait at Dallas but that's a far cry better than sitting around for 12 plus hours.  The next morning, it will be at their office at 8:00 am, go to some facility somewhere and spend 3 or 4 hours doing some sort of extensive testing.  

I have never even heard of some of the tests they have you do, such as breathing into a tube to find out how much lung capacity you have? Not even the last job I had had me do that or lifting 70 pounds several times or walking across a beam to see if you can keep your balance?  Let's see, I guess I could go to the property and walk across the felled tree that I used to go across to cross the stream before I built the bridge back there.  Not only is it narrow, it is also slippery. 

The boys could never get it, I had to hold their hand and keep them from falling off every time we went across, lol.  The older boy is bored of the property now, when there is free time, he either wants to watch tv or play his games.  Well, games are a weekend only affair and tv is also limited, hence, they were out playing in the rain 2 days ago.  The younger boy still loves to go to the property and go for walks. He is the outdoorsman type.  He'd rather go outside and play than watch TV if given the choice.

Which reminds me, it's beautiful outside. 70 degrees, a light rain, just enjoying this lovely weather. I think after the rain stops I'm going to take the beast over there for another walk.  He loves it over there.  He prances around the woods just like Addler did.  Those are 2 Danes that definitely would have gotten along with each other.  

The oldest wanted to pull out his ashes box yesterday and look at it.  Well, I guess you can, but those boxes are typically very hard to open, so we're not opening it today.  I hadn't even taken the contents of the bag out.  The giant paw print mold, 2 signs, one with the Rainbow Bridge poem and another with a prayer. The box of ashes and, interestingly, a small bag with which they shaved off some of his fur.  The boy started crying when he saw the fur.  I just told him that he's in a good place now, don't worry about him.  

Well, I got off track.  The rear of the property is still a fascination to me, it's nice, deep woods and it's mine.  

So, off to Oregon, deal with the undesired things that occur in life out of necessity and move on. I'll get back into the groove of driving eventually.  

I'm just waiting for the rain to end - should be another 45 minutes or so - and then take the dog over there for a gallop through the woods.  I am not going to do that wire this week.  It's already Thursday and I'm getting my mind into a different realm.  The main breaker will work and actually isn't even under much load now that it's cooled off.  There's a couple of 90 degree days coming up - but that's 90 degrees, not 90 plus degrees and that's the high for those days.  Nothing like the 100 plus degree days where it was 100 before noon, it won't hit 90 on those days until mid-afternoon.  

It will be getting down into the 60's - going forth and lower I'm sure once we get into fall.  The wiring project can be put off for a while now, I think.  A week ago today it got up to 107 degrees with a heat index in the teens.  We won't see anything like that again this year and I have a probably 7 or 8 month reprieve from that kind of heat, at least.  

It simply means the AC's won't be on as much and will be cycling on and off versus staying on continuously.  It also means that the ambient outside temps won't further affect the breaker.  I had a double whammy going. AC's running continuously and the outside temps also heating up the breaker.  I don't think our house AC has come on all night long.  

So what else? I dunno. The dog.  I let it out and it's been running around in the rain.  I couldn't not let him out, he had to go.  So, I put his food out there instead, he won't be coming indoors until later when the rain stops and he can dry off a bit.  Just seems pointless to dry him off and then take him to the property where he will likely get wet again.  

I was talking to him this morning, asking him if he needed to go potty?  He jumped onto the bed, partially on top of me and indicated yes, lmao.  The cake he got into never did have any affect on him, or if it did, I never saw or heard it.  Fortunately, he didn't eat that much of it as the boys saw it and made him stop.  I didn't do anything about it, I found out about it long after the fact and the dog would have no idea what I'm "referring to" if I were to scold him.  I already figured he'd get into stuff on the counter if he was given the opportunity, not really his fault beyond training to make him stay out of the kitchen. 

Not a big fan of dogs in the kitchen just because of that alone.  

Finances.  Not the greatest. Expected after that $2,500 electric bill hit.  It'll go back up before I have to make another electric bill payment. The next one will still probably be high, but nothing like this one.  The reason I know it will be high is that I had probably 2 weeks of heat after that last electric bill.  But, after the next bill it will go down significantly and I can start seeing some profit start building up in the business account.  

IT doesn't negate the need for this job. I have a high property tax billing coming up and renew the insurance. The insurance won't be due until December, it gives me time to save up for all of that.  My income after taxes and health insurance coverage is unknown.  Get me rolling and get some paychecks in and then I can see what I'm going to have.  

The people occupying lots 4 and 5 are still gone.  I've had enough.  I'm going to charge the 8-day overdue lot a week and 2 days worth of lot rent. The other one is due tomorrow. I'll go over to the park - with the dog - to ascertain that they haven't returned yet, but my letter to lot 4 is still sitting on the steps.  They have clearly left town, without notifying me. Surely the owner of the trailer on lot 4 understands he is past due?  I dunno, he's young, maybe it's just not in his head that he owes lot rent.  

My interactions with other RV park owners is that they would simply charge the card and be done with it.  

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Well, the card is inactive, can't be charged. Their trailers are still there.  I don't know what else to do.  These are not trashy, junk, old trailers, they are newer and in good condition.  So I hesitate to act on the belief that they are derelicts.  People that paid once and then never intended to pay again.  I could move the trailers to the parking area.  Just how long are these people going to be gone?  

Someone decided to shut off the power to the wifi device today because they were moving their coach.  "I've seen trailers burn down before".  Well you probably didn't see them burning down because you didn't unplug that wifi device which is on a separate circuit and has nothing to do with your 30 amp outlet.  I tried to explain this to the man 3 times before I gave up and just went over there. 

He had plugged it back in.  I knew it wasn't on because someone called and said the wifi isn't working.  It still wasn't working, so I reset it and there it went, working again.