Monday - late morning

Yesterday was standard modus operandi. Go up to the plant, deliver, leave. The other driver was good on his work, he was there so early they shift that was working didn't even know he had come and gone.  The only thing notable about yesterday was the unbelievable amount of traffic on I-30. It usually has quite a lot anyway, but this was beyond anything I have seen there recently.  It was just a mass of cars and trucks clogging up both lanes.  Holiday travelers I am guessing, idiots- lots of idiots - people weaving in and out of traffic, brake checking, 90, 100 plus MPH, it was crazy. I have to drive about 60 miles on that Interstate, I couldn't get off of it quick enough. Hit 59 and the craziness decreases substantially.

Home, the drama continues. It always happens whenever the grandma comes.  She's selfish, stuck up, drama Queen has no concern for anyone else's feelings whatsoever, it just sucks when she comes down here. It would have been great if she would have just dropped of the kid and went back home like she used to do.  Now, she insists on staying. She doesn't care about the rules for the kids that actually live here and she has basically been drinking since the minute she first walked through the front door.  

It makes me want to leave here whenever she shows up.  Go get a hotel and c'ya later.  Gives rise to the thought of getting a trailer for behind the shed for MY use.  Like, okay, I'll be back in a week!  Have fun!  Even the lady of the house had had enough of her yesterday and we left them and went out to a local brewery and ate dinner played Switch games and generally enjoyed a moment of escape.  Build a man cave inside of a half decent trailer, install a large screen tv, it's already next to endless wifi, enjoy!  Take the dog as well!  You know, that's a bad idea, now that I just started thinking about that.  It's just trying to find a trailer that isn't terribly expensive that doesn't have a lot of structural issues, usually cause by roof leaks that people don't tend to. 

I think today is day 17 of the pushup challenge.  It's not getting easier, at all. In fact, I struggled to get through the 100 yesterday, my arm muscles were hurting. They sort of tell you that will happen week 2-3, so that's where it's at. I can feel my chest muscles in a bit of unhappiness as well.  I mean, I worked out a large portion of my adult life, it's not abnormal to have muscle pain after an intense workout and usually doesn't show up until the next day.

That's the one fault of this "program", there is no recovery time for the muscles.  Basically, with doing something like bench presses, you'd wait at least 2 full days before doing them again.  However, this isn't a muscle-bulge experiment. This is a muscle tone regimen that will, eventually, create very toned muscles.  I don't know what the eventual outcome of this will be, I was just looking for a change. This challenge popped up on my screen and I instantly took it.  Not that I am accountable to anyone, except my own self I guess.  I don't even know if I'll make it through it, that depends on this right shoulder junk that comes and goes at random. If that stuff starts up again, there will be nothing, I won't do any pushups  at all. It basically becomes a chore to even make it through the day shifting gears and such. 

The park host did not, of course, go over and converse with the owners of the dog. I didn't ask him to and I had no idea that it was the ex-Sheriff's dogs.  When I say Sheriff, I mean the actually county Sheriff, not a deputy.  He was at the helm of that position for 25 years before retiring.  His son came cruising up onto my property not long ago, drove to the back as if he owned the place, came back to the shed and started asking about people shooting guns. Apparently he thought he'd catch someone in the act?  It's not illegal to fire off guns in the county, btw.  I could have started trouble with him, driving all over my property as if he owns the place, but I considered neighbor wars and decided against it. 

If there is going to be a neighbor war, they will have to start it. Which they sort of are with letting their dogs just roam at will at night and coming over and trashing my property.  We're at a loss as to what to do.  There are dog traps, however, sold on Amazon that I was looking at.  Catch the animal, put it in the back of the pickup and drive it about 25 miles away and bid it a good life.  This is what I did with the feral cat infestation at my house in AZ, after the neighbors refused to stop feeding the strays and they started multiplying and showing up in groves.  It got rid of around 25-30 of them before the situation intensified with a "neighbor" threatening to kill me when I got home from work one day.

Of course, I got out of the car and invited him to kill me.  I got right back into his face.  The point is that after a couple of years of those cats coming onto my property and destroying plants and doing their thing on my property, I had had enough. That was also after numerous attempts to discuss the problem the neighbors were creating.  And giant piles of cat poop in the back yard behind mine.  The stench and flies were overwhelming. 

I really don't want to go through that with these people. But one thing is for certain: We have had enough of those dogs coming through and getting into everything.  It's a daily event. They come at night, do their thing and then leave. - every .... single....night. I"m not sure catching the dogs and releasing them elsewhere is even legal.  I mean, what do you do?  I personally don't know for sure it's the rancher's dogs, I don't really know whose dogs they are, this is just the musings of the guests in my park.  

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Long interlude. Ran around town getting stuff done.  I got contacted from home after a while: she (grandma) bought the boys and man lunch, didn't get anything for me.  This is the way things go when this woman shows up here and I've been sick of it for years now.  The only thing I can really do is leave.  Going into my bedroom isn't good enough, she has control of the entire house and I won't be relegated to my room because her sorry @$$ is over here.  

Who in their right mind would buy 4 occupants of a house lunch and not the other 2? Not even bother to ask?  So, I bought her lunch and Starbucks and that was that.  I just would like to be able to leave her however long she stays.  It used to be she'd drop the oldest off or take the 2 younger home with her, only staying over night. Now she "insist" on staying.  Like she owns the damn place.  

As Taylor said, another f**** up Christmas (that's how she put it).  I won't go that far with it but why do I have to have my Christmas messed up with some person that thinks they own the whole damn world?  Yes, I'm pretty disgusted right now.  

Anyway, I went out back with the guys and helped pick up trash, tried to get the mower running, which it wouldn't after many times trying, spraying carb cleaner in, spraying ether into it as well. It tried a little bit with ether but it's like it's not getting any fuel at all.  Yes, the tank is full of gas, fresh gas, lol.  

Probably pull the fuel line off and see if anything is even getting through there. The machine is covered up with a tarp when not in use.

I'm getting offa here. I need to get my mind diverted to something else than what's currently going on in this household.