Wednesday - night

 I wrote a full post yesterday and posted it and now find? It didn't post? I think our internet is screwing up and has been screwing up for quite some time now.  

Just a quick reference to the weather forecast. For several days, it showed a 47% - or sticking around that area - chance of snow on Monday.  Today, it disappeared and said nah, fam, we ain't snowing on y'all.  Then, this evening, it reverted back to snowing on Monday, a 31% chance.  I find it humorous the the forecast for the same day constantly changes.  We want it to snow, btw.

Now then, today.  I get to the washout place and there is one of our trucks with the same dude that is constantly cheating, sneaking himself in front of everyone and holding others back that are at -wherever - on time. He didn't care that he was there 6 hours early, I texted the manager who called him and asked him why he's there?  Oh, I didn't see the appointment time, blah blah blah.

Conversation with the manager. No, he does this ALL the time.  He is constantly cutting people and I for one am sick of it.  The manager didn't promise to do anything about it at all.  He is a nice guy but he doesn't have - well anyway, he seems to avoid confrontation.  I think, if I were to take a guess, he doesn't want to lose anyone, so he tries to offend no one.  

This dude set me back 45 minutes, plus, he decided to put oil in his engine, right there, at the rack where they wash out the trailer, after the wash was done and just holding me up for no reason.

I get to the plant. Of course, he didn't wait for me to load first, he was in the bay and stayed in the bay for 2 hours.  Yes, 2 solid hours of waiting on him.  Then it took yet another 2 hours for me to get loaded, meaning sitting at that damned plant for 4 hours.  No thanks.  I won't do this forever.  

I'm having a conversation via text messaging with the dude that trained me, he is just as disgusted with this guy for this guy has also done the same thing to him.  

Now?  I truly hope he shows up uber early.  Why? Because the trainer talked to the head honcho at the plant in Gurdon who doesn't like this other guy anyway because he shows up early and said that's fine, we won't allow him to unload until after the other guy shows up and is done. The other guy being me.  As I said, I truly hope this dude tries this stunt again now that we have an actual plan to stop him in his tracks. 

I stopped him a few weeks ago when he showed up early, bypassed the scales so he could beat me to the rack. What he didn't know is that I don't go through the plant to to the delivery rack, I go back to the highway and drive 50 mph to the other end which is where the rack is at.  He thought he had me beat, I didn't even know it was him when I saw the back end of the trailer and was scratching my head about it.

So we'll see. If this continues to occur at either plant or the washout, I'm going to lay down an ultimatum. I was looking at several jobs yesterday online.  I probably should try to stay with this company at least 6 months to make it look better than get hired and quit.  I was also looking at the reviews for this company again and just thought, these people were right, run, don't walk, from this company.  It truly isn't worth it, there are far better jobs out there in terms of both pay and how any given organization is run.

I'm in no great hurry to find another job...I am definitely looking.  

As for anything after tomorrow? I have a Monday load scheduled, the washout people said nope, if the forecast doesn't change, we won't be opened, we aren't cleaning out trailers in sub freezing weather.  Great, because I don't want to drive in it either, not if it's going to be a "wintry mix".  

It warmed up quite a bit today, into the 60's range and tomorrow it will warm up into the high 60's. I will likely try to get some stuff done at the Park tomorrow after I get back from the run - depending on how long the run takes.  I'd like to mow some grass and perhaps try getting the security system either installed or at least get a good start on it. And maybe go home, get the dog and take him for a walk in the woods.  

Friday marks a high wind day and significant change in the weather.  Sunday is the beginning of the teen's weather going on through Wednesday morning. Unless the Gurdon plant shuts down, they are likely going to want the product shipped up there at some point regardless.  This is the way it works in the trucking industry. Everyone must have their product. I can understand why: they have to shut down an entire, large production plant that has a lot of people working at it if they run out of glue.  I have no idea how they operate or if they just say nope, this isn't worth it, we are shutting down. 

Gurdon's forecast is more ominous in terms of travel. A mix of rain and snow on Sunday, it will never get above freezing on Monday, meaning icy roads.  No thank you. This would make it hazardous for their employees to get to work, not just truck drivers bringing in glue and logs. 

Oh yes, lest I forget.  Tomorrow or maybe I'll wait until Friday, hook up the trailer and drag the generator home.  With any kind of weather in cold temps, we can expect power outages in the region. Whether they hit us or not is unknown, I am going to be prepared for it this time.  It's highly likely there will be a host of water leaks in the underground transmission lines, that simply means we should be stocked up on bottled water.  

What else? My mom has been urging me to get a - living trust I think it's called - for quite some time.  I said yes, I'd love to, but it's quite expensive.  She said she'd pay for it, hence the reason she brought it up.  Ok! And I have yet to do it.  But, she is urging me yet again, I want to get it done, so it's going on the priority list.  It's free to me, I might as well. It's like the best thing you can do to protect your assets both in the here and now and when you die, that it doesn't go to anything but what you said it's going to.

So what's the good news? I dunno, what is going on?  Politics is full of bs.  People are being quite hateful to one another on the political realm.  Trump and his MAGA supporters are a threat to national security! Biden, the "healer" says emphatically once again.  You remember, the dude that said he was going to heal this nation.  He has been one of the most divisive figures in politics, beyond anyone else.

But, life is good.  The now 9 year old got a brand new Fender guitar for his birthday from his grandpa.  I had to pick the thing up and see if I could remember any chords. Only a few- I haven't played guitar in decades.  I looked at a chart and started trying to get my fingers wrapped around it correctly to engage the strings.  Made me want to get a classical guitar and start re-learning it.  I took guitar lessons for a couple of years in my teens.  It was after I gave up on 8 years of clarinet training and become pretty good at it. I've forgotten most music now. 

I would be hopeful I could pick it back up quickly, I guess. I was good at chords and at picking, doing solos and intermediate level of difficulty.  Never really mastered it, I was interested but at the time, I wasn't spending a lot of time practicing. It was lessons and a little practice and that was it.  I kind of think if someone else in the house was learning it, it would motivate me to want to get back in to it.  Maybe.

Well, I guess it's time to pay the electric bill, gag.  Oh, it's not due until the 12th, I'll wait the extra 2 days.  I do that out of probably bad habits formed long ago when I was broke and poor and wouldn't pay bills until the last minute in case something happened and money had to be diverted elsewhere. Or just juggling money around, really, trying to make ends meet. I'm not exactly rich right now, I am making it but it's just making it, nothing much more atm.  Too many bills keep coming up, such as the property taxes due at latest the end of next month and too much debt.  I have one more payment on the washer/dryer, that will free up a few hundred dollars per month. 

It just makes the idea of expanding the park seem out of reach.  Like, almost permanently out of reach. the only real way I can see right now is seriously going back on the road, make the 6 figures for a couple of years and make it happen. Yup, no thanks.  Not going to do it unless I am somehow forced to.

I qualify for a 31k loan, lol.  The interest and fees on the loan will add up to 22k. To borrow 31k, you end up paying 54k? That's flat outrageous and I'm just not going there.  If you take the cc payments and pay it off, you end up with more money per month with the loan payment than with all the cc payments, but the loan goes on so long, it becomes oppressive.  84 months or 60 months.  

Ok enough of this.  I"ve been trying to put expansion stuff out of my mind for atm, it is just fairy dust.  I can't get anything started on it and I don't have the money to do any of it, it's a non-starter, for now at least. Not giving up hope, just facing the reality that I can't do anything about it and no sense in stressing and hyping myself up over things I can't change. 

G'nite.