Wednesday - 8:00 am

The newer scam parades on.  This is the one where they claim to be Facebook and say you have shared a copyrighted picture that belongs to someone else and if you don't do something about it, your FB account is going to be suspended or closed.  I knew it was fake the first time I saw it and now? I've been on the receiving end of this scam many times over.  They think fear tactics will work.  If FB is going to suspend your account, they just do it.  I do wonder what kinds of new scams will be generated with AI behind the wheel. I've heard that some scammers are using it to mimic a person's voice and then use it to call loved ones and somehow use it to get money out of them.  

Basically, if someone calls you and they sound out of character, hang up and call them back. The other thing these people do is use software to make their phone number appear as someone else's when they call.  I get sales calls all the time from "local" numbers.  I answer and it's some dude in India. I ask them if they are in the Texas city that the call says they're from? Of course not!  I say something to them about it and hang up. 

I will be in Arkansas along I-30 the day of the eclipse.  I know this because they keep dumping work on me.  Whether I want to stay up there that long to see it - unknown.  I typically wait for nothing when I'm done in Gurdon, it's get in the truck and drive home, non-stop.  I might - and I fleetingly say might - stay up there the guesstimated 2 extra hours it will be I would have to wait to see it.  I read a news clip that said the entire length of the I-30 corridor will be in the full eclipse path.  54 miles of my trips up there is on, you guessed it: I-30.  I could drive to the rest area right inside Texas off of I-30 to wait, I suppose. that would shave an hour off of driving back and still should be able to see the full thing. I guess I might want to get the glasses if I'm even considering it, plenty of places giving them away for free and even more selling them cheap.  

I paid off James after that money came in - I owed him some from the work he did on the shed last summer. I've been slowly paying him off, but it was nice to get that over with.  I guess I'll find out today - or tomorrow morning - whether the farmers are staying. I only have one spot available right now so if they do leave, it's not overly concerning, just try to get it filled back up quickly.  I get calls frequently and infrequently - it goes through cycles it seems -for long term.  

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12-1/2 hours later.

Another long day.  I ended up having to wait at the plant 2-1/2 hours before they would even get to me.  The first load had come and gone, but they told me their truck takes precedence - even tho they were preloading it.  Meaning that the load wasn't going out until tomorrow.  So why did they have to load that first?  It was a 2-1/2 hour wait before they even got started on me.  I dunno, sometimes this job sucks, that's all I can say about that.

Tomorrow won't be any better, for there is no reason to get up to Gurdon before noon and it's been taking 3 plus hours up there to get the tanker unloaded. Yup, I won't be home until 5:30 at the earliest.  

Oh well, I can sleep in again, that's what I can say about that.

The septic install dude finally texted me back. I then asked him pricing and again, I never heard back from him.  Pretty normal for that dude, I will eventually get some sort of reply.

As for now? I am tired, it's 9:00 pm and I'm going to get ready to go to bed.