It took many more hours than usual to mow the lawns for the grass was tall.  It was one of those situations where you have to go over certain patches a couple of times to bring it down.  I also had a bad fall that feels really good right about now.

I was backing up at a site and forgot there was a fire ring behind me.  Yup, I tripped on the ring and my lower torso on the right side landed square on the thin metal wall sticking up.  There is this line going across that area that is black and blue.  I'm telling ya...it was a stupid mistake but I guess nothing serious, just painful. 

I mowed all 14 lots, the only thing left now is riding mower work, which is the easy stuff.  

I don't quite understand people wanting to get into conversations when they can plainly see that I am working and trying to get stuff done, but that happened several times which dragged the process out even further.  

The man on lot 5 - who hasn't been there in at least 3 weeks and told me he was paying today never called.

So, bashful me called him.  I'm looking for my rent, your account is severely past due. He didn't answer, I left him a message. Then I started texting him.  There is no way I was going to let this go on any longer, pay up or that trailer is going to be moved off of that lot, plain and simple.  He did call back a few minutes later, I took credit card payment over the phone and he is moving out on Monday.  I have a tentative long term for Monday, tho they wanted to come in on Sunday, so they haven't made up their mind yet.  

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A few hours later.  Right side of my entire back is sore.  It isn't just where my side was impacted by the wall of the fire ring.  I was put into a pretty grotesque twisting position trying to break the fall, I probably pulled a/some muscle/muscles.  

I don't know, but everyone is telling me the impact area is purple.  Hard to see that portion of my body.  I opted against going to the youngest' baseball game tonight, I didn't think I would be in a very good mood to sit on a hard metal bench watching 7 year old baseball game.  

Plus I have to work in the morning.  There was no way around that.  If I took the weekend off, which was what they had me slated for, I would have been off for 7 days.  This is too much and I need the money.  Now, they have it for Saturday through Tuesday.  They tried to give me a Thursday run, but I texted them after they dumped that into my tablet and said no, I have Thursday off to go to Dallas for the school field trip at Medieval Times.  So they changed it to Friday load.

Meanwhile, more phone calls about RV spots. I'm trying to juggle things around to get people in there for the park is going to lose several people in the next coming days.  I think, anyway.  Lot 5 is definitely leaving.  Lot 12 apparently found a place to rent out, their own land.

I've been told that she is pissed because "no one would take in my packages" while she was gone. Well, she didn't tell me she was leaving anywhere and she didn't tell me about packages.  If she had, I would have been happy to deal with it.  She told other people, but she didn't ask them to move the packages out of the elements and yes, those packages got rained on for 3 full days.

Shrugs shoulders. If you want my help, ask me, I'll help you.  I don't read minds.  I don't know that you have 10 packages being delivered.  I don't even know that you are moving out.  She either bought or renting land, I'm hearing different versions of the story. All well and fine, I need a move out date.  She is paid up til the end of the month, tho.  I'm guessing that will be the end of it and she will have that trailer moved out of there.  

And then there's the family.  No clue when they're leaving but the last I heard, they had struck a deal with someone.  Of course, it's months between striking a deal, making the sale, signing off on the paperwork and then, after the sale is complete, getting power, water and sewer run to the property.  People tend to leave me in limbo about their leave dates and I have gotten used to it.  I just work very proactively the second I find out they are leaving - or see that they have left - in getting the lot re-rented.  It may be time, soon, to run another Facebook ad. 

Right now, everything is rented besides the second alternate lot. The pull through has an overnighter tonight and another one tomorrow night, empty for 2 days and then more coming in. It pays for itself and at this rate, it pays much more than long term.  

Oh, forget that, I just remembered another phone call I just got: the second alternate site is going to be rented out tomorrow.  It works out so wonderful sometimes. Other times, not the greatest but as long as lots aren't empty for a month or more, it's fine.  

The only problem with the second alternate site being rented is that power issue.  I didn't get to it this week - taxes ate up my time. I'm still not through with that, I took today off. I will get back to it tomorrow after I return from Lufkin.  I'm hopeful a couple more hours of that stuff and I will be comfortable enough to hit the send button and transfer it over to the IRS electronically.  Ok, I didn't take today off, obviously, I took today off from taxes, not from working.  I am grateful I had these days off, I wouldn't have had time to work and do taxes.  

Well, I'm going to go lay down.  I don't feel very well right now. Probably take a Tylenol for the pain.  

 Friday - morning

Will be taking a break for several hours today from this tax nonsense to go over and mow grass. The rain, of course, has made it grow substantially and it's not looking very pretty over there right now.  Never-the-less, it has been too wet to do anything with it.  Today should be good, however and I can get it looking good again.  I'm sure there are complaining tenants that go around behind my back cursing me because of it.

Trust me, it happens that way, word gets back to me.  Such as the family that decided to mow 3 lawns a while back and tell everyone they want me to give them a deduction on their rent, notwithstanding the fact they never asked me about it.  I figure those people are ready to leave and frankly, it won't hurt my feelings if they do, indeed leave for a variety of reasons.  Whatever they have to put up with from me, I have had to deal far more from their end of different things that are occurring that point back to them.

Such as dog poop in the doggy park.  They're nice enough people, but it's the nature of the beast. The real deal here for them is that they want their own land and they are becoming disgruntled with their situation in life.  I get it, a family of 3 in a small trailer, that is going to get old.  Not to mention their roof started leaking badly during this recent rain.  

There should be several people leaving soon, actually.  The college kids should be getting out - well that may not be until the end of next month. I guess I have a little time for that.  The dude that is almost 2 weeks behind in rent is leaving Monday.  There is another trailer that came in for only a month.  I'll have some lots to fill  up here pretty soon, unfortunately.  I mean, it's easier if they just stick around, obviously.

Oh, there is some chainsaw work that needs done as well, not sure if I'll get to that today.  Some branches sticking out over the driveway that need trimmed back.  

I dunno, but I'm in no hurry.  To do much of anything.  

I rarely watch tv news anymore and am reminded of one of the reasons just now.  I turned it on to one of the media outlets to find - commercials. Endless commercials. It must be 4 or 5 minutes now and it's just one tv ad after another.  I mean, besides the fact that all of them put a spin on it and many of them are engaging in the dissemination of nothing more than pure propaganda, the commercials are highly irritating.  

I wonder what the allure is of a drug that can give you a heart attack, stroke, death, etc and all it does is help you lose weight? You hear this list of things many current day drugs can do and you wonder why anyone would take them, save if it's a desperation move where there are no other options.  But a lot of it is not life-saving drugs.  This is the kind of ads your ears are assailed with when you turn on regular tv.  To think I was naive enough to believe, many years ago, that getting satellite would eliminate ads, right?

I mean, you are paying to watch tv, wouldn't that therefore and logically also eliminate the possibility of having to watch endless ads?  Otherwise, what are you paying for?  I've been watching a lot of Hulu content lately that has no ads whatsoever.  It's cheap and it has a lot of interesting content.  Well, let me change that, if I am watching tv, I am looking at Hulu a lot more than I used to.  TV isn't a big thing in my life at this point, I have far too much other things to do. 

What do you think of FISA?  The recurring theme I've soon over and over is it has been abused to spy on Americans as well as foreigners.  Like, they can listen in on conversations without a warrant to foreigners without a warrant even if that person is talking to an American, who, under normal circumstances, they would definitely have to have a warrant to eavesdrop.  That's the problem I have always had with FISA and other privileges the government gives itself to intrude open citizen' rights.  

And Biden, clearly attempting to buy votes by giving away billions more in student loan forgiveness.  It's an election year, expect to see more of it.  I wonder if people will start to wake up to these tactics that occur every election year, especially a presidential election?

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I told "them" that I am working on my taxes and not sure yet if I can work this weekend. But alas, my last load cancelled and that was what, Monday?  So waiting until Monday to go back to work is a bit excessive, even if I don't want to work on the weekend, the money is greatly needed.  It's that thing of not wanting to use business account money for personal use. The tanker is washed out already, which makes it nice, I can bypass the washout and go straight to the loading plant, meaning not having to get up quite so early.

I haven't responded to her yet, she just texted asking if I can work this weekend.  The rigors of trucking include working when you don't want to.  Well, I don't ever want to, lmao, I mean working on days when you'd rather be home doing other things.  I'll miss the soccer game again and a baseball game.  Not the end of the world, but those things are more important to me than driving trucks all over the place.  At the same time, a steady paycheck is also necessary in this life, or something that replaces it.  

My taxes come as surprise as I thought I would be owing some money, not getting a return.  Of course, I'm still fairly nervous about this situation and when I send it in, it's just going to be a shrug-my-shoulders event, hope everything is correct and move on until/if/when I hear from the IRS.  

With the trucking job, I was well above poverty level, with the income only from the business last year, it was only 4 thousand above it.  One would still consider a person in the poor range with the income I made from both sources, lol.  

Well that's that, I'm working, probably tomorrow load and Sunday offload, I'll find out shortly. They just dump the stuff into the tablet. I asked for early load, tho, in fact I required it.  I will not be wasting entire days on the weekend doing trucking work.  I can be back by around 1:30 tomorrow afternoon and 2:30 on Sunday.  That is, if nothing goes wrong. Which reminds me, that truck hasn't been started in 4 days, I need to turn it on while I'm over there today for a half hour and make sure the batteries are good to go as well.

Well, that's it. I need to get over there and get the mowing started.  I will put off this tax junk  either until this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon when I return from loading.