Wrote this yesterday/Monday, forgot to post. 

This stuff messes with my head.

2 minutes ago, I braved the waters of never-before-taken drugs and popped a cholesterol pill.   This stuff have far few side effects listed than the prostate stuff, in fact, apparently the biggest one to look for is muscle spasms.  

No worries, I'm home atm.

I spent 6 hours messing around with the tractor, including going to Harbor Freight and getting a 12 volt air pump for tires. It had a slow leak, I'm not fixing it right away. I also realized that the problem with the tires is not my fault.  They are severely dry rotted.  Well of course they're going to pop, that's what dry rotted tires do.  If/when this one goes, I'm going to tell the boy that I don't feel responsible to replace it without some kind of trade going on here, namely: free use of the tractor for a month.  

No, I'm going to tell him about it now that I think of it and he can go take a look. I have no idea if he understands dry rot and how it affects tires, especially tires being put under load like that.  

Do you want to know why I left, tho? It had nothing to do with the tires, for now it's working.  You see, I got stung by "something", I wasn't sure what.  It was a fairly painful sting, but I didn't see anything flying around so I continued on.  I don't have time to let stings stop me.  No, what stopped me was when I was pushing a large pile of brush over weeds still in the ground.  Somewhere in there? Was  a hornet's nest.

Recall a few years ago when the whole front of the property was a forest and I was trudging through it, attempting to determine where to have trees cut down and putting ribbons around trees and such. Or something like that, it's kind of a blur atm, I'd have to go back and refresh my memory.  Yes, that's it, it was when I was still thinking I was going to build the park near the front of the property.  I had happened, unwittingly, upon a hornet's nest and I got stung a minimum of 50 times.  

I was not going through that again. I put that tractor in reverse and just floored it backwards.  There were hundreds of them things flying around trying to find whatever messed their home up so they could attack. They got close to me but I was moving right along and eventually, they stopped coming.  I only got that one sting.  But if you think I was sticking around for any more of that today? You are highly mistaken.  

I will have to go to Walmart and get a couple bottles of that wasp spray that has a 25 foot stream. I will kill every single one of those things, gleefully I might add.  

I also pulled the tanker back to where I could get a hose to the top and spray the thing out and get the glue loosened up on it.  A few hundred gallons of water later, it probably won't make a difference. I think they will have to have someone get down inside of the thing to clean it out. The reason being is there are large, flat chunks that kept falling as I was spraying the sides.  It's the reason I put a huge pool of water in the bottom of it, maybe it will dissolve those chunks? If it could do that, I can just take it to the regular washout.  I will probably go back over a little later and take a look.  I kind of think the water will dissolve the chunks into a liquid.  

But who knows. The manager was not sounding too keen on a thousand dollar bill to clean the thing out.  Yes, well he knew about it, he even brought it up.  In other words, he knew the tanker hadn't been cleaned out since the day I stopped driving.  Shrugs shoulders.  He could have had another driver come and pull it down to the washout.  Most drivers are willing to help out like that and of course they get paid for it.

But, it did spark an idea. Why not just spray the thing out with the garden hose whenever I get back from a run if I know it's going to be down for several days?  I can and do leave a pool of water at the bottom of the tanker, that keeps everything that ends up down on the bottom in a liquid state and keeps the valves down there from gumming up.  I don't wonder if I spray it out directly after I get back - so only a few hours after emtying it out - if it won't do a good enough job that it can sit for however long and the rest can be dealt with at the washout when I get there?  Or if I had a pressure washer, even better. I don't have to deal with the glue contaminated water, the washout deals with that.  No, folks, I don't dump it on the ground.  I am not that irresponsible and I would hate to foul up the underground drinking water supply.  

And here it comes, I'm already feeling funny. Wonderful.  Too late.  I figure that prostate medicine? I'm going to cut the thing into quarters.  It's heavy dosage after reading about it online, I will start with lower dosage and see how my body handles it. But right now? I'm seeing how things go with this stuff.  I feel a bit concerned about having high cholesterol and having had it for some time now.  If it goes okay - I can deal with initial onset of minor side effects if that's all it is, apparently the body will adapt to it - I will take it for the 6 months it's prescribed for.  

But boy howdy, did that set in quick. This is why I hate taking drugs.  It's not in my mind, I can feel whatever is happening.  It's why I'm afraid to take that prostate medicine, I don't care if everyone else took it and they are fine. I have always had more severe reactions to drugs than most people.  Penicillin was the first time I found that out at the age of 10 years old.  I was allergic to dairy, chocolate and whatever else when I was a kid with hospital visits if I ate a Tootsie Roll. It was so disgusting, I loved tootsie rolls but the hospital stuff was for the birds and at a very young age, I learned my friends were apples, bananas and "fake milk", the powered stuff that I came to love.  

How can you love powered milk? Well, when you're 5 years old and you can't drink regular milk, you learn how to precisely mix it (I started learning to cook, bake and generally put things together in the kitchen at the age of 5, mostly because I was sick frequently and couldn't go outside when I was) and then put it in the fridge and chill it nicely.  Just like drinking 0% fat milk, you get used to it over time. I can tell ya, tho, when I was 12 years old and said to myself, screw it, I'm going to try some real milk? And it didn't make me sick?  I drank gallons of it on a weekly basis. Like, wow, this is great and so tasty! 

Well, I'll write later about any side effects if it gets worse than this.  I find it odd that my manager hasn't called today. He said last week that work starts back up Tuesday - which is tomorrow.  I've been off for so long now, it's one of those things. You take work off for too long and you don't want to go back.  And so, you need the money but you don't want to be the first to make the call.  If they don't call, what's another day?!! lol

I am still contemplating moving that boat, but for right now, I'm going to sit here and see what happens. If an hour passes and this is the worst it gets, I'm probably going to go out there, move all of that stuff including a pickup, a trailer, numerous bicycles and other stuff, hook up to the boat and pull it over there.  I don't think the thing is going to be finished in less than a month, so I don't really want to pay to register it right now.  Not so great that the license plate is completely missing tho.  Still, it's only 4 miles and now I have a portable air compressor, I can air the tires up without having to go to the gas station.

It was only $29 at Harbor Freight and I did, indeed, buy the 1 year warranty. After asking them where you bring it back - can I bring it here if it breaks or do I have to send it somewhere - and the lady smiling saying bring it here! I was sold on that idea. I doubt that thing will last a year.  It was on sale and so, I think the $7 spent to warranty it was probably worth it.  

Kids were not real happy about school this morning.  "I'm tired". You went to bed at 7:30 last night, how can you be tired? Did you have trouble going to sleep? Yes.  I tried to.  Oh well, it's still the beginning of the school year for all intents and purposes and getting used to getting up at 5:40 am when you were getting up whenever you wanted to and usually at least 2 hours later than that?  Yeah, I can see that being tough at first. 

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No call from the manager.  I haven't figured out yet how I feel.  But it seems like I have all of this energy all of a sudden.  I've had drugs give me opposite side effects before....I dunno if it's that or I'm just tired of sitting around so much. I just haven't had the energy. Forcing my @$$ out of bed at 5:30 am was a good thing and I'm still going.

I did, indeed, get most of the stuff out of the way of the boat. I just need to hook the pickup up to the trailer that's in front of it, pull it out and then hook the boat up and pull that out and then...put the other trailer back where the boat was.  I'm not sure I'm doing that today but if I am, I'm going to ask James' help if he doesn't work too late.  

I don't have any muscle spasms. It has only been a couple of hours so I dunno, just waiting this one out.