It's pretty much guaranteed that Thursday, I'm not going to want to drive up to Gurdon and then go get the tanker washed out. I may just end up paying for it on Tuesday unless my manager thinks ahead and says wait, what about the washout? Well what about it.....This job would be ever so much easier if there weren't washouts involved after every single load. I dunno. I just see an extra 4 hours added to the day, so get home at 6 instead of 2 and then try to get everything ready to go?
We're leaving early, btw. This time 2 of us insisted we get our butts out of bed and get moving early instead of waiting until 11:00 am. Get down there, get on the beach, have some fun and then meet up with the gang. Everyone is on their own for Friday night dinner. Several of them want to go to this extremely expensive restaurant named Gaido's. I looked at prices starting in the $35 range going into the $50's and that was just a quick glance.
We are not going there. We have decided on a fish restaurant with lower pricing and then the Rain Forest cafe, not cheap but not as expensive as this Gaido's place. It's the only time we're eating out down there, the rest of it is eating meals at the house together. That would be lunch and dinner on Friday, I should add and the costs are going to be split up.
Work today was quick enough even if the late load. I hate the late load excepting the nice part about not getting up early. Otherwise it eats up a day. I intend on being up there in Gurdon at 11:30 am tomorrow and hope the other drive is gone. He didn't show up to the plant to load until 10:15 this morning. It's only 15 minutes late, the point is that this dude always wants early loads - but doesn't show up early. I'm there between 9:00-9:30 am. If I'm later than that, it's because I was either held up at the washout or something happened to the truck. It is never that I woke up late. I did, indeed, somehow manage to leave an hour late one day and still showed up at the plant at 10:00 am.
Allen is sick and hasn't done anything, which is fine, I consider him to have done enough for most of the month already. His wife is stuck in some town somewhere with a broken start - staying at her ex-husband's. That is kind of weird. She has been gone like almost 3 weeks now.
I got home, watched some news but then decided I best be getting about cleaning out the SUV. Most of that is done, just some stuff that belongs at the RV park I will take out tomorrow over there and hopefully find a place to put it. I don't have a lot of storage over there atm. Then I can go to the car wash, get it washed and thoroughly vacuum the entire thing out and wipe everything down as well. It's nice that the particular car wash provides ample supply of clean rags to clean with.
I have half a mind to try and take the thing into the shop on Wednesday. I mean, from what I can tell, it's either a relay switch of the blower motor itself that is not working and it's in the rear of the vehicle with much easier access than if you were digging underneath the dash board. But, I may just see if the front ac will cool the whole thing sufficiently. It's a beast, blows out a large volume of ice cold air, I think it would cool the entire vehicle given enough time. It's just that I will need a ride to the RV park after dropping it off and I dunno if that's possible. Or maybe drop it off tomorrow after work and get that ride if Taylor is home? I can drive the truck around town. I think. I will ask the manager, I doubt they will have a problem with it since the majority of my driving is within a few miles of home. Honestly, I really don't feel like fooling with it, i think tomorrow I will drive it on a highway for 10 minutes with the ac blowing and then go home, get into the back and see how it feels.
It's only going to be kids traveling with me and they usually don't make a fuss about it as long as it cools down some. Well, I think it's only kids anyway, I really don't know. My vehicle could eliminate another small family going....but I think everyone is in love with driving. As regular readers well know, I am not. I could be a passenger going down there and be quite happy about it.
I also think I've changed my mind about making breakfast. Instead of biscuits and gravy, make hash brown patties - easy peasy, scrambled eggs and bacon and toast. There, a complete meal, easy to make, easy clean up, done.
Did I say the forecast is for rain down there? lol of course it is! We are committed now, it's go regardless. The property just today got the power turned back on from the hurricane. The property maintenance worker claims it's all good and ready to go.
Half the group was complaining, again. These are the people that decided they wanted to go to Galveston, I had no say in it at all. But now that I've paid my share of the rental property, it's a go regardless. I don't care if it's raining. If it's that bad, stay at the house and play cards. Go to Moody Gardens instead. Peruse the shops on Main street - with an umbrella. Go into the ocean anyway, it's all water, right? lol Just kind of getting tired of the endless pissy stuff going on with some of them. Like, if it's that bad, don't go at all. Seriously.
Other than that? Well, some dude named Vance won the VP spot with Trump. I don't even know who this person is excepting that he's a senator from Ohio and that a lot of people were wanting him to be Trump's pick. Why? No one would say that part. Makes a lot of sense. We want Vance. Why? Well we don't know, but we want him! I'll be doing a considerable amount of research into this dude and find out who thinks he's so great and why they think he's so great. I like to be informed about candidates and their positions on things. One would assume he's all in on dealing head-on with the border crisis, undoing Biden's war on natural gas, electric vehicle mandates, shutting down too many coal fired plants, EPA bs in other words under Biden's reign of terror.
And talk about draining the swamp again. Well, if Trump wins and goes and starts firing all the swampees that can be fired right off the bat, I'll believe it. It's quite common for a newly anointed President to oust as much of the previous president's people as possible.
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Trump just showed up at the RNC, they focused in on Eric Trump who looked quite emotional. Trump as a gauge bandage over his ear, as one would expect. You have to wonder the security detail that is there with the SS and various law enforcement agencies, what kind of nightmare it must be to try and ensure that there is a round 2 of some nutcase showing up and somehow getting in there with a gun. Actually, it's being held in an arena, so that's a bit easier to control.
Well enough. I haven't heard of anything going on at the park (bad stuff, in other words). Things have died down since I got rid of the young couple, the farmers who think everyone is shooting them with "Direct Energy Weapons" and potentially the workampers. If they pay, they can stay but there is going to be increased scrutiny on them. Broke people can be thieving people. Not always, maybe not even the standard, but it definitely happens. She claims she is only getting food stamps, but that means she lied when she came in and said she was getting disability. I dunno, what I do know is that the man almost never leaves that camper, his claim that he could go get a job and walk there if he has to?
I can only hope they find a way out of my park for at this point, I don't want them there.
Well enough of this. I'm just sort of hanging on to see Trump speak. If it gets too late, they'll probably have it on YouTube, but it's not the same as seeing events like this live.
