Friday late-morning
Typical morning when there is no work. It was, I should say, until the new guy called. "There's nothing wrong with your park or anything." Obviously having trouble getting to the point of his call, he eventually asks if I have a jack? Flat tire, his jack is missing out of his truck, couldn't find anyone in the park, can you help? This guy is just starting a new job, didn't really want to have him starting out on the wrong foot so I ran over there, we got the tire off, took it to a shop, got a plug in it and he's good to go.
Then the 4 day stay called. "We're coming in today but I have a couple of questions for you". Sure. "Forecast rain the next several days, how is your drainage there?". Obviously never been to my park before. The pads are elevated probably 6 inches off the ground. Storm drainage is good and I only have an issue when the entrance to the pipes get clogged up. It takes 10 seconds to fix.
In other words, no, I do not have drainage issues, well the driveway but that won't affect them or anyone else for that matter, it just makes the driveway a mess and needs attention. Whatever. I do what I can do, I won't fix the driveway until after all this rain is over and done with. It will stop eventually.
After that, the next door neighbor after I got home. Discussing a falling, dead vine. These are 2 inch thick vines and occasionally fall from the trees. After that, she was asking if I know anyone that could install electrical outlets? Sure, James can. Actually, I can, but I'm not crawling through people's roof crawl spaces running wiring, no thank you.
Now? I dunno. The rain stopped me from even thinking about doing the trenching for the underground line, at the same time, it's not raining!
As for work canceling, I dunno about that either. My plans are being delayed or even stopped by this constant work nonsense. They give me the work, I'll do it whether I want to or not. I don't complain about it tho I have said something about giving me late loads and now finding out they're giving those loads to the new guy. That doesn't work in my world. The point is there are so many cancellations and I'm finding out others are not having their loads canceled.
In other words, I'm the dude with an RV park with secondary income, my work is expendable. That's what I'm getting out of it and I'm going to have to start forcing the issue. A pay raise is worthless if you don't have the work to turn in to be paid for. I can't even imagine what my next check will be, abysmal I'm sure. Like no better than what it was before the pay raise or even worse. How does this help me?
Constant conundrums, it seems. Still waiting for pricing on tractors from TYM. I dunno what to expect, I was just informed they have better pricing, more bang for your buck. I mean, if it's the same price as everyone else but comes with more attachments, that's something to consider, attachments are expensive and I need a variety of them.
That's it for now. I'm going to get something to eat and get some stuff done around here.
