Sunday - Early

Woke up out of a deep sleep. I wasn't in a deep sleep earlier in the night and I could easily have spent another 3 or 4 hours in bed.  

Sundays - not work days. Not in my mind anyway.  The only good thing is normally it's 7 - 8 hours and it's over, I'm done by 2:00 pm at the latest and I have the rest of the afternoon and evening to do whatever. 

Mark contact me last night, wants to come back for his firewood. I replied with one word: yup. But he had to take it further so I just dished out another dosage of reality. He was blaming the lady that he cussed out and I wasn't even going to deal with that, this was all done through texting this time.  

Take responsibility, get help with your excessive drinking and stop the victim and manipulation garbage, it gets old. Or something like that.  I didn't bother to read what he wrote back for it was bedtime and I didn't need his poison invading my mind when I'm trying to go to sleep.

His lot has an overnighter in it right now.  Another 4 night stay coming in on Thursday, I think, but that was slated for another pull through lot with people pulling out of there soon.  I would rather the lady behind the shed take the other lot and leave lot 1 open. It's that or she is going to have to pay more for that lot...it's what I do with that one and the one across from it.

And in sad news, one of the welders in my park had some sort of brain trauma which resulted in him having to have brain surgery a few days ago. I don't have the whole scoop on that but I do now know that his trailer is being moved out of there to take it home to wherever in Oklahoma.  He, his father and friend have occupied those 3 spots since January of last year. 

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Late afternoon. 

I call the washout and they say they are already there and opened. I get there and there's no one there. I call the number on the door, the normal dude answers (versus whoever answered the phone the first time), said he'd be there in 20 minutes. Get to the plant.  Oh, well there's a truck that just got here that is loading first.  My appointment time was 10:00 am, I was there at 9:56 am even with the holdup at the washout.  

At the inspection station was closed on the way back.

I go talk to the dude that beat Mark up.  He was high as a kite, you could tell just looking at him. I don't really care that much about that, it's the stuff that makes people violent and rowdy - meth/crack or alcohol - that concerns me.  He said Mark and him were drinking, Mark started using the N word (racial slur word) and this guy said, ok, I'm going home.  Mark allegedly grabbed him by the shoulder and that's when the fight broke out.  

I knew they were both drunk, or I guessed that anyway.  Do I take this guy's word at face value? I take the facts of how Mark acts, especially when drunk and then make rational deductions.  Mark speaks, offends someone, the someone gets mad, hits Mark, end of story.  

It's over, Mark is gone, if this dude starts any more trouble, then I might have to think again about letting him stay there. For now? I doubt it.  Mark has a way of getting on your nerves to the point you can get angry with him.  

Mark hasn't replied to the 2, rather-long, texts I sent him this morning after his reply to me.  I don't know if he will.  I also spoke with Tina and then the lady behind the shed. She wants lot 1 - where Mark was. I tell her fine, but that lot costs more money. She agreed so I said fine again.  She wants to move there on Saturday.  I opened up the reservation system for that lot in case I can rent it out for an overnight before then.  This lady is really nice, she is going to have her boyfriend living with her. I haven't seen him yet.

I already feel so much better about the park.  Just getting that man out of there.  Apparently the entire park knows about it, lol.  I also took the 8 going on 9 year old to Gamestop for his birthday present. He couldn't decide. So we go to Walmart. Still couldn't decide. Finally got to the gaming section and he saw a pair of headphones - he's been wanting to talk to the other kids playing for a long time.  So, that's what he got.  

Stopped at Chili's, I wanted to speak to the lady that is connected to this lady at the park.  She said, yes! That's my mother in law. She never connected her mother in law with my park even tho she had said my name.  That's your park?!! Yup.  Well, people stop at her trailer, knock on her door and tell her everything that's going on in there.  Ok folks, that park has some sort of social structure that inevitably arises when you have a bunch of people living fairly close together.  

I looked to see if the guy that had brain surgery's trailer was gone. Not in a hurry to get him out of there, I had just heard they were going to move it back to wherever he lives.  I don't know anything about brain surgery in terms of recovery time or what was wrong with him or what the prognosis is.  Can he go back to work, ever? Or a recovery time? Or is he done?  Must pray for that man, he's much too young to be going through some extreme, life-altering event such as this.  

So, lot 1 and 2 are currently empty. Lot 1 will be taken on Saturday, lot 2 will be kept open for overnight.  I have an ad up on facebook for the "alternate" lot behind the shed, just an ad on my facebook business page.  I will boost it in an ad format once she gets the whole situation taken care of. She is going to haul out her current trailer back there and then haul in a 40 foot - guessing 5th wheel trailer in there.  

The weather forecast changes as frequently as the blades on a ceiling fan go around in circles.  I'm seeing between 21 and 28 degrees for Friday.  The week after are days slated for 20 degrees.  Tuesday is my day off, I'll go to lowe's, hope they have that noodle insulation, buy enough to fix everything back up and get it all covered.