Tuesday - late morning
There was no sleeping in for me, at least not anything you'd call excessive. 7:00 am and I was up, just couldn't sleep anymore.
Went to the bank to deposit cash, another store, then Great Clips. I waited there awhile, they apparently weren't bothering to show up for work today - it was 20 minutes past their opening time before I left and went to the place I used to go to. There is a lady there that has no more business doing hair than a convicted bank robber has being the CEO of a bank.
She gave me stares and glares when I came in, lmao, but fortunately she was already busy with someone else. That someone else was repeatedly asking her to do something on his hair and she of course couldn't get it right. She flat doesn't care and doesn't take pride in her work. She wants it over with so she can sit down and play on her phone.
The lady that I ended up with spend nearly 40 minutes fixing my hair up. She kept saying how "awesome" my hair is. Most of them say that, it's inherited from my father, thick and nice. But if I don't keep it trimmed, it just goes to Jungle Jim and a mop head look.
After that? Well, I went to one place for tires, $800 plus tax. No thank you. I knew the price of tires was ridiculous but this was too much. Another place I normally go to? "We have Chinese tires for $700, everything else is over a grand". I said I might come back. He then said he'd go $25 lower, then $50 and that's when I said ok. I would have put on American made stuff but the price tag was ridiculous.
95% of my driving is around town and this is a small town. I don't envision buying tires for it again in at least 5 years. I just dont put that many miles on my vehicles ever since getting out of trucking and working on my RV park and then back into trucking, but only having to drive to my RV park to get to the truck on any given day. The point is that one of the tires was causing a severe vibration. I have experience with such things: leave them go too long and the next then you know, the tread comes off and does 2 grand worth of damage to your vehicle.
The deductible is $750, I think, so what's better? Spend the money on the tires now or spend the money on the tires later and have severe damage to your vehicle? I got to look at the brakes while they had them off. Still some life left in them but the front rotors need replaced. I don't really want to pay someone $500 for something I could do for around $125, I will probably end up doing that myself.
During all of this, I was calling and emailing the tractor dealer. After several hours and coming home - let's just say I had need of the bathroom badly - he finally emailed me then called me back.
You know all these severe thunderstorms and deluges of rain coming down? Yup, a giant pine tree had crashed down on the power lines near their business and had knocked out the power to it. No tractor today, at least not at that business. The temptation came to just go to John Deere, but I knocked that out quickly. It's just not worth that much more money and huge monthly payments.
I've been listening to rolling thunder - it does, it just rolls across the sky - well for weeks now. I don't mean continual, but every time it's been raining lately its' been thunderstorms and you get that rolling thunder. It's pretty awesome actually, even if it also means a lot of water coming down from the sky.
What now? Well, it's almost noon and I was disappointed I couldn't do the tractor thing today. Really disappointed, the driveway is hellish at the Park. Too wet to do anything about it right now anyway. Just wanted to make a deal and get it over with. I contacted the Kubota dealer 2 towns over, Kubota comes highly rated but I think they are also expensive. I mean, do you pay more for better quality? I would love to, but can I afford the payments? Are they going to be so high that profit just goes right out the window? And then, what's the point of having an RV park?
The farmers are leaving. I'm giving them the 2 days they stayed beyond their monthly payment for free just to get them the h*** out of there. Good riddance, take your laser gun/direct energy weapon conspiracy theories elsewhere, I'm done with it. They will start the same s*** wherever they go and that's fine, I am washing my hands of it and lesson hopefully learned: next time some fruitcake comes in talking strange talk like they were? Bid them a goodbye, go take that garbage somewhere else.
I have 3 open spots atm including theirs. One of them is for overnighters, but I really want to rent out the other 2 to long term. I dunno, people just call out of the blue. Most all of them want something right now. It's strange how they do that. I rack my brains, think about what's coming in and any more almost always say yes, I have something available.
So I don't know about the rest of today. I am not working outside in this weather, the park can wait. Beyond the driveway, there is nothing pressing over there anyway. If I don't get a tractor soon, I'm just going to have to rent one again. I'd just like this torrential rain to stop so my fixing the driveway actually stays good for a while.
Trump. Lots of speculation Some think Merchan will throw him into prison, others think there is a grave risk in doing that to a former president who is also the presumed nominee for the GOP. I'm assuming Bragg will be asking for prison time, remember, he's the one that ran on the platform of "Orange man bad", I will get Trump. I find the current times we are in to be utter insanity, not just with Trump but with DEI and what they're teaching in schools and all of this political nonsense you see going on every single day on the news. It is insane. How is the rest of the world looking at this ridiculousness? Now they're saying the American flag is racist! Good God in Heaven. Have mercy on us and help us to come back to our senses. Please. Amen. It isn't just political opponents now, it's "the other side is our mortal enemy". And the sheer hypocrisy. I want to puke hearing some of these politicians doing a 180 on their previous positions in order to take up the current political mantra.
They think us citizens are stupid. Or that we forget. No, we don't forget, not with this nonsense. Communism is somehow good now? What planet did they just fall off of? I see people arguing FOR Marxism all the time now. They say: well his plan was never followed all the way through. Well who the hell cares? We saw what his partial plan did: killed tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of people through starvation and mass killings. Then they try to say Jesus was a Communist!
Where do you see Jesus killing people? Or starving them to death? I think it was Stalin who exiled a large number of people to a deserted island that had no food or food source. The people were left to rot and they turned to cannibalism. Do you know of a SINGLE example in WORLD HISTORY where Communism actually worked? Where people weren't killed by the millions? These people just deflect and go off on how bad capitalism is instead of answering the question. They can't legitimately answer the question..
Kubota called and we got into a long conversation about what I need. They're going to write up a couple of quotes and send it to me. Doesn't sound like a today thing, I sort of have given up on getting a tractor today, but I thought I'd best give Kubota a chance at least for they are right up there with John Deere.
Instead of looking for things to do, I think I will just relax the rest of the day. I don't get many days off, but looking through the tablet they have given me this coming weekend off, Saturday and Sunday and then have me scheduled through 2 Mondays from now, lol.
