Monday - late

I didn't wake up feeling particularly rested regardless of this new app's declaration that I slept well. It even showed the hour and a half I was awake, but it didn't care about that part, citing the deep sleep that I had acquired which is, of course, more important.

It was a typical Monday. The guy at the washout was tired, burnt out from the weekend and didn't want to work. It took him twice as long to do the job as it normally would.  He took several breaks. 

At the plant, the man that doesn't know what he's doing - showed that he doesn't know what he's doing, at least compared to other loading operators there.  He was crossing over tanks, which took him far longer than it should have.  Then he said a bleeder line was clogged up due to "lazy workers on the weekend" and he had to replace the whole line. 

I mean, it just dragged on for 2 hours.  At the end of it, he couldn't get his software to work on his computer to do my paperwork and some dude over him couldn't figure it out either.  So he hand wrote it and that was fine by me, I had spent enough time in there.  

Back to my property, I checked the doggy park again. No dog poop.  I've been checking and when I say checking, I mean walking the entire perimeter looking for any poop, anywhere.  Nothing. Thankfully. I was pretty sure the tent lady would keep her word and that the last days of dog poop in there was from the 2 night stay not dealing with their dog's dung.  I think I was right.  

I texted the lady that was having such an issue with it and she thanked me.  Ok?  

This dude that showed up last month that said he was staying into next year? No.  His work is already done and he's moving on.  Which is fine, I'm glad he gave me a head's up, I just wrote up a Facebook ad for my FB site and will be updating Google as well.  I just turned a guy away, unfortunately. I can't give spots I don't have....

Hopefully I can get that spot re-rented as quickly as the other ones were.  I may even restart the Facebook ad for a couple days. The only thing is, the man said Wednesday, but not 100% sure, he would be contacting me.  I still put it up on my Facebook page for this industry, you do what you can immediately upon finding out that someone is leaving.  

I am going to go over to the new place to see if any of "my" people have ended up over there after he leaves.  Why? Because I need to know.  If people are going for $25 less per month, why are they doing that? I could see him moving over there tho.  It's a straight shot from that place over to 43 and then down to the plant he has been working at. I'm just a bit suspicious that he said he would be here until February and now, only a month into it, he's leaving.  There is nothing I can do to keep  him, if he's leaving he's leaving, but I have to satisfy this need to know if I'm losing customers. 

If the weird people ended up there, that doesn't bother me at all.  They can bother the owners of that place with their - weirdness.  No love lost on that one, I had had several decent conversations with the dude, but they had become disgruntled with my truck moving through there twice a day and the lot itself. Now this dude is leaving, they could have taken that lot, but I am not stopping driving the truck in there for them or anyone else.  

I do think a good possibility this guy is leaving for that place. It's probably 3 or 4 more miles further away, but cheaper.  Or not, who knows.  People at my place like having quick access to town, groceries and everything that is in our town.  I'm going to take a pic of his trailer and the license plate so I can see if he's over there.  I dunno what the owners think about competition driving through their park, other parks do it to me all the time. 

Well not much else right now.  My Christmas shopping is almost done, I just have my son to buy for, which I forgot when I was at the store today, I would call it a more spartan Christmas then previous ones, no matter. Mom has hers already, my oldest brother will have his in a few days, my son will have his probably next week, the family here will have theirs Christmas day. 

Even if I have to work on Christmas Day, it's not an all day thing. I can be back early afternoon - maybe.  Depends on the day and how things are going. I'm going to Arkansas tomorrow, but if everything goes well, I can be home by 2.  If not, well, who knows lol.