Saturday - afternoon

It only took an hour to unload the truck.  It took a combined 25 minutes, however, to get security guards to the scales to weigh the truck in and out.  And the production floor supervisor was nowhere to be found in the plant.  I spent quite a bit of time walking around looking for him. He gets into the nuts and bolts of things and there is never any telling where he may be hiding out at. 

So, it was 2 hours in and out of there just because of the extraneous stuff beyond unloading the trailer itself.  

Anyway, there was a scheduling glitch made by the office in having 2 drivers loading tomorrow at the same time.  Afternoon.  We only found this out because we were talking about loading and things in general in a texting chat.  So, I called dispatch and informed them of the mistake and told them I would take the morning run since he wants the afternoon run (and I most certainly don't if I have any choice in the matter).  

That makes Sunday not so bad after all, hopefully anyway.  It is loading as well so as long as I can get someone over to the washout without wasting too much time, they generally get trucks loaded quickly on the weekends.  I could be back before 1:00 pm, which gives me most of the afternoon to hang out and do - nothing.  

As for today? The boys just left with friends and their parents to go to a splashpad 2 towns over.  Kind of a late start for that, it's already after 4, they left maybe 30 minutes ago.  Whatever. Next weekend is Dallas. 6 Flags to be precise.  The kids are leaving for 3 full weeks with their grandma to go to her house in Arkansas.  We were originally going to go to Las Vegas for a wedding, but that all fell through.  Taylor and James couldn't go for financial reasons and the couple getting married decided they couldn't go either and are taking a trip to Hot Spring in Arkansas instead.  

So, we decided to go to 6 flags. No airfare, I think 1 night's stay hotel for them and I'm just going for the day.  It's why I don't mind working this weekend, I'll get next weekend off.  I won't go on half the rides over there, tho, just saying.

I'm not afraid of the rides, my head just can't handle it.  I'll get off of one of those crazy things and sit around for a while waiting for my head to stop spinning.   I like my version of the fun rides, that doesn't include the superman ride and several others that get me feeling woozy. I informed the folks of such as well. You don't mind waiting around? Nope.  I'll find something to do.  

Actually, I don't even know if I want to go.  Guess I'll make that decision getting closer to this weekend. I have no reservations for anything and it only worked out that I have next weekend off, I didn't ask for it off.  I am looking to go to AZ soon and I want time off for that, not for going to Dallas.  

The workamper was busy mowing and weedeating today.  It is looking good yet again.  It doesn't take long when it's raining as much as it is out here for the grass to grow exponentially. 

I'm tired.  Woke up in the middle of the night and took hours to get back to sleep. Time for a nap.  

 I made it through 3 weigh stations today without being pulled over and yes, they were out in force. This was the final day of the blitz. The station in Texas had something like 8 trooper cruisers in there (you never see more than maybe 4 and that would be considered a large presence in itself) and a bunch of state employees.  I saw 2 men getting on creepers and sliding underneath trucks.  I was so glad that they were busy already.  I just slowly cruised over the scale at their designated 5 mph and never got red lighted, kept on going.

On I-30 eastbound, it was crazy. The entire parking lot filled with trucks being inspected, the Arkansas troopers doing the inspections and numerous tire and repair trucks replacing tires and doing repairs.  

Coming back on the west bound side, they had tents out there. Done gone crazy with this stuff, but they do it every year.  

 At the plant?  There was no emergency.  There was on earlier in the week but that had obviously been relieved. Both of their giant tanks were 3/4 full, that is a LOT of glue.  I drained my tank in and there was still room for another truck load in there and the other one about a truckload and a half.  That's it.  So, making me go down and load last night was really a waste of time, at least from this emergency standpoint.  I was in and out of there in about an hour and a half, not bad considering that's weighing in, going to the shack, hooking up, finding someone to sign off on the paperwork, draining the tank and reverse.  

The tent people approached me when I got back today, we really want to buy that motor coach!  I looked at him for a second and said, y'all aren't even keeping up with paying $10 per day to camp here, what would make you think I would believe you can pay for the coach and lot rent?  The mother got a job. I was told that last week, I haven't seen her but once on one of the notifications from the inside camera in the laundry room.  Maybe she is working, don't know where, I have no idea how she's getting to work or how much she's making. All of those questions and more would have to be answered before I would consider it. The up side to it is I wouldn't have to do anything to the coach. They want to "rent to own", which I won't do, I'll just flat out sell it on payments (that way I'm not responsible to repair anything).  

If you do rent to own, you are on the hook for anything that breaks, I thought of this before I rented to the tent lady that skipped out on me, took her money and ran. What pathetic people and liars too. Don't get me started on the tent lady and all the promises of paying me back....

Not to mention I don't have a place for that thing. I won't put it in the regular RV spaces.  I could run another electrical line to it somewhere out back there if I do the trenching project with the extra electrical panel, but that's electric only.  I wouldn't let them have water in the thing for there is definitely not going to be another sewer line put on the septic system. It is at or even beyond capacity.  

Anyway, not a terrible day today.  I didn't have to get up super-early, couldn't get on the block before 8:36 am so I got up at 7:30 instead of 5:30, which is what I will be doing tomorrow morning.  It's been raining all afternoon - both up there at the plant and here at home.  It started raining on me as soon as I hooked up the delivery hose to the trailer.  

We all went to the youngest - concert I guess? - the entire 1st grade class got up on stage and sang several songs that they had obviously practiced and did quite well at considering they are 7 year olds.  The workamper seems to only want to clean up stuff and cut grass. I'm not balking at that, but soon there won't be that much grass to cut and I'm going to want him doing other things.  Remains to be seen if he'll do them.   I could keep him eternally busy over there with all kinds of different projects.