Wednesday - late morning. 

Yesterday.......(wrote this yesterday, just didn't post it)

Now there we got something done.

Lowe's. 4 50-pound bags of the asphalt and a new mower. A larger one with more power, self drive.  Over to the gas station, I was actually below empty, but I know it's not empty when it says it is ever since I had the gas gauge fixed. At empty you still have over 5 gallons of gas in there. I was correct, it took 28 gallons, the vehicle holds 33. 

The price of fuel has dropped substantially, from pushing $3.50 to $2.78.  that's a very nice change indeed.

Over to Harbor Freight for a tamper.  This is to compact the asphalt, pretty necessary tool. When I eventually found the place where they should be? There were none in any of the bins for 3 separate prices worth.  I asked someone, they checked, no we don't have any. 

I'm walking out of the store and the lady at the register says "Sir, hold up!".  Huh.  We have them here, they just don't know where they're at.  So on some random aisle nowhere near where they should be, they had used 2 of them to hold up a display of some sort of shelving. They were inside of the middle of 2 stacks of them, you very likely wouldn't even have registered them there even if you looked right at them.

Not only were they the same color as the racks they were holding up, but you only saw the top of the handle.  Ok, I said after we went over there and said the same thing: I would likely have not seen these even if I had looked right at them.

Back to the property, I didn't even go to the park itself, I stopped where the potholes are and dumped the bags out, tamping them down on each one.  Yup, I need probably 4 more bags.  I didn't buy enough on purpose, it's $21 per bag plus tax, I don't need to be spending money ... that I don't need...to..be ...spending right now.  I got a good start on it.

To the rear of the shed, put the mower together and then went to work mowing.  I got 9 of the lots done before my feet were hurting too much. I need some inserts for my work boots, they are not comfortable at all. Doesn't help that I'm overweight.  

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That was yesterday.  I have now spent the morning doing paperwork and finding a standard RV park rental agreement - a thing I really didn't want to get into - copying and pasting it into a word document and then going through the entire thing and adjusting things as needed.  And removing things, I took it off another RV park's site, some of the stuff they had on there was rather unbelievable.  

The newest tenant that came in on the 8th is being funded by her mother, I think.  Seems that way anyway. She is the one with the DWI that apparently is having issues in life.  She needed an agreement to show proof of residency.  I have this with the lady that just had the stroke as well, she needs one to apply for Medicare.  I haven't heard back from them, I have the document ready now.  

In case I haven't said this before here (I'm sure I have but now that I had to do it again...) I absolutely despise doing paperwork.  It's just not in my DNA .  I have automated as much of it as possible, but there is still the deal of having to take screenshots of every receipt and uploading it to quickbooks. It automatically interprets them and assigns them to parameters I preset with particular businesses such as Lowe's.  

The oldest boy's Thanksgiving dinner at school is today, we are all going.  I went last year alone, taking the boy a McDonald's meal because the previous years Thanksgiving was rather - bad, lol.  I ate it anyway, Taylor despised it.  The turkey was completely dried out. It was close to leather-like condition.  All the food was cold. That was 2 years ago. Last year, they had their act together, the turkey was moist and the food was warm at least, some of it still hot.  I'll eat the dinner again, I don't really need McDonald's, thanks.  I think it costs something tho, can't remember but I'll take some cash with me.  

Once that's done, I will likely head over to the property and finish push mowing the lots. That's all the new grass stuff, the rest of the park that I mow on the riding mower is still good, no mowing necessary atm.  

I'm watching the news, Israel's IDF is now in the largest hospital where Hamas has holed up, storing weapons, shooting off missiles and using Palestine citizens as human shields.  They are going room to room and apparently are finding armament in most rooms. Of course. Cowards.  They aren't going to win this war unless Iran gets involved with the IRGC and I would still question whether they could win against Israel. The U.S. would likely be drawn into such a confrontation and then....all bets are off. WW3?  I just want to watch the news, I don't want to hear political bias reporting, I can form my own damn opinion on this situation, thanks.  

So, will this conflict spread to the entire region? Who knows, God is still on the throne, that's all I can say.  I will say that IMO, Israel has the absolute right to defend it's borders and Hamas brought this conflict upon themselves.  And remember, Palestinian citizens voted for Hamas to govern their territory. I'm not saying I am wanting to see any civilians on either side killed.  There is no genocide going on, as many people here are claiming, especially college "professors".  Israel isn't targeting Palestinians, they are targeting members of the Hamas.  

Anyway.  I need to get out my book and see who owes what, when.  Getting close, if I recall correctly, to some people needing to pay up.  I need to collect enough money to pay insurance.  Well, add enough money to the business account to pay for the insurance and hopefully have some money left over.  

Oh! Almost forgot, I need to head over to Waskom after the lunch to get a very nice rocking chair I won online auction for $35.  It was worth far more than that, there is a new thrift business that opened up and they get all kinds of interesting and cool stuff.  A coin op coffee machine is up for grabs, no one has bid on it, but I don't know if the thing works or if you can get supplies for it.  

Ok. This time, I saved the name of the RV park that has that rental agreement on their site to my phone notes and I printed an extra copy of what I sent to the new tenant today.  It took quite a while to go through all of that and get it the way I wanted it, I'd rather not have to do that again. But, just in case, I can find that agreement again. Why not save it to my computer? Because this computer didn't come with a functioning copy of Microsoft Word. So, I can download it and save it, but when I try to bring it back up?  It won't let me do anything with it, I can't even print it. I can only use WordPad to upload it from the internet, make whatever changes to it and print it. After that, I can't do anything, I can't even copy and paste it.

I suppose I should get a free version of some other software.  

Anyway, that's enough for now. 2 more days until starting work again, not particularly looking forward to it but my checking account is.  I'll be hurtin' for certain with not having had worked all this time beyond 2 days of training.  It's probably $500 or more worth, better than nothing.  I am happy I do have next weekend after this one off so I can participate in the Friendsgiving - and - people are bringing side dishes and one family is bringing a ham. We are going to cook a turkey as well, kind of need it with 19 people. 

G'day