Sunday - afternoon
No church for me, but Taylor went again with one of the family friends. I don't know what is causing her to want to go to church, but it certainly doesn't bother me. The oldest child has been impacted by the teachings he has been subjected to - voluntarily, they don't have to go to church - and his speech is beginning to reflect it. The younger gives no sh*** about anything (this is how the parents put it and I fully agree) and then only reason he goes there is to play and get the treat at the end of the time in the kids ministry.
So, someone or more than one someone is stealing rolls of toilet paper out of the bathroom. There are a few options here. First off, I will start buying the cheap stuff. I was buying the stuff at Lowe's and it definitely isn't cheap. 2cd, I will just leave one or 2 rolls in there at a time and have the rest locked up in one of the outside smaller sheds. 3rd, probably a sign. I don't want to make everyone that uses it pay for one or a few people's bs, but I am not footing the bill for external toilet paper use. I mean, it must be more than one person? What does one person need with a dozen rolls of TP? The sign would read something like ..if this continues, the Park will no longer supply toilet paper. You are on your own, this is nothing the Park is required to do.
And frankly, the bathroom was built for me, not everyone else.
The newest tent lady was in there - for several hours - but in the middle of the night. Like 2 am stuff. So, as long as the noise doesn't bother anyone else, I don't really care.
Someone showed up at the park today wanting a spot. They were talking to the people I will start referring to as the workampers. That is a term RV parks use for people that exchange work for free lot rent. The lady seems to have her wits about here, the dude...well he seems to be a nice guy anyway. The lady called, telling a man was here wanting to rent a lot. Sure! Long story short - very long story short - he is allegedly showing up tomorrow with his trailer. I have zero information on him, so, that remains to be seen.
Getting up early on a Sunday was not much fun, driving in heavy rain even less so. All the way to the trailer washout facility. Amazingly, as soon as the guy showed up to do the washout, the rain subsided. And stayed away until he was done. Over to the plant, I sat there for a while, showed up 30 minutes before my appointment time. Eventually, a man came up to the truck: someone was supposed to show up at 10 to load trucks, he isn't here. I'm a bit rusty and haven't done it in a while, but I'm going to load your truck. Thank you! He was off by a thousand pounds, underweight. They didn't say they wanted to load more into the trailer so I took it and went to the fueling station.
It was odd, however. I come up to a stop sign and had to push the brake pedal wayyyyy down to get the truck to stop. Heavy foot on the brake pedal, what is going on here? This happens again and I finally pulled on the Johnson bar. I don't know what they call it now and most newer trucks aren't even equipped with them anymore, it's a lever you pull to apply the trailer brakes only. I don't know why they got rid of them, I have found over the decades it to be a useful tool in certain situations. In this case, I pulled the thing alllll the way down. When you do that, the trailer brakes should be locking up the wheels.
Instead? Absolutely nothing happened. I tried again. I checked the air lines. Did someone play a trick and stick a quarter in one of the glad hands? It would stop the air pressure from going into the line on the trailer to apply the brakes. Careful examination of both of them revealed no blockages. I followed the lines to the rear, looking for a potential valve somewhere that might be turned off? I have seen them on other trailers, this one doesn't have one, or if it does, it must be invisible.
This is a head scratcher. I got under and looked at the break shoes, they were definitely close enough to the drums that some kind of braking action would be had when the brakes are hit. I'm completely stumped by this one, I have never had this happen before.
Ok, doing some checking, there is a round container where the airlines all go into, apparently there is a valve in there. I don't know what else would be causing the entire brake system on the trailer to stop working, that might be the problem. I'm not going to fix it, however, I just wanted to get an idea of what's wrong with it. Those valves are common on trailers and should be a simple fix for a repair facility.
The CVSA Internation Road Check is coming up soon, I want everything working as it should. But even if it weren't, I wouldn't want to drive this trailer around any longer without a shop fixing it. I am not fooling with it today, it is Sunday, it is the 6th day in a row working, I am tired and I would probably get rather annoyed by having to deal with Love's personnel or whoever trying to get the thing repaired. And, they may not have the part and if they have to get one, they probably wouldn't be able to until tomorrow. I made it home just fine, it just takes a lot more braking action on the tractor to get it to slow down or stop.
I think I've got 3 more days in the system for working. Tomorrow is offload - it will have to happen so it is likely to be a long day trying to get the trailer fixed and offloading - then Tuesday and Wednesday are late load/unload.
No, folks, I haven't decided on a tractor, however...my driveway is once again totally trashed. It rained again last night, it's been raining. If I had my own tractor, I could fix it and just fix it again if it rains some more. There is no way I'm going to rent a tractor at over $400 to fix the thing and then have it - get screwed up by even more rain that is slated to come. There is a definitive need for a tractor over there, that's what I can say. I am getting closer to pulling the trigger on one.
I wanted the payments to be around $300, looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and be more around $400 if I go through with it. But there are other things that this could affect. Namely, getting a business loan, if I do, indeed, want to go that route. I'm not going to discuss all of that right now, I'm too tired to think about all of that.
I'm thinking maybe sell the SUV once I get the truck, it's worth around 6k private sale value. Why would I want to do that? Well, to finance building more lots, of course.
Anyway, there is nothing else today for I am not doing anything else today. I don't feel like it, it's wet outside even if the rain has stopped and I was up in the middle of the night last night. I mean, another early day tomorrow, it's Sunday, no good reason to do much of anything unless something comes up.
G'day
