Saturday - early
Well, I have no idea what's going on with work yet. One thing that was clarified is that the Ennis run is not gone. My manager had told me the wrong thing and said as much yesterday. He had actually been referring to some new run that had been installed temporarily going to Malvern, which is also in Arkansas. He did say, however, that the Ennis run also has dedicated drivers and that if we take those runs, those drivers are out those runs. He then said, but it is what it is, if we have to we'll take some of those runs away from them.
Yes, they do that to us as well. The "if we have to" part, giving our runs occasionally to other drivers that are not a part of the dedicated "team". There are only 3 of us dedicated to it. Well sort of a 4th.
Anyway, I have 33 hours of PTO time available, I have no idea what the pay is and he couldn't tell me. "It's run off of hour many hours you have worked and divided by the pay that you have received" etc. It's kind of hard to figure out how much time you can take off if you don't know how much the hours you have are worth...
What I do know is that I have tomorrow (Sunday) and Monday off. I mean, if I have to take a paycheck from the business account, so be it. I have resisted thus far.
I am highly amused, changing the subject, at the story I just read about the NABJ (black journalists association or something like that) who invited Trump and Harris to a sort of debate but with the journalists asking the questions. Trump showed up, Harris did not and now there is internal strife about why they even invited Trump, who "questioned their blackness" and other ridiculous statements. I watched the entire thing on YouTube yesterday. Trump was typical Trump and the first person to ask hij questions was clearly a Trump hater.
But now, some person on the board of their organization has resigned because of it and some dude is saying that Republicans have not accepted their request to come for many years in a row, so why is he doing it now and "there must be some advantage to him coming". Well duhhh. Trump has been going into clearly blue states as well, doing rallies and attempted to win voters over. If you didn't want his @$$ on that panel answering questions, why did you invite him?
It's just full meltdown mode when it comes to Trump and the left, I have been watching this for years now and it started before he even became President the first time around. But now? Trump is an "existential threat to our democracy". They love to use that word existential. As if he's Godzilla and is going to come breath fire onto our cities and kill everyone and tear entire cities down! He's a convicted felon! Yes, out of a court with an activist judge who nixed many of the things the defense wanted to bring into play and allowed irrelevant testimony that had no bearing on the case other than to try and make Trump look bad and still had an active gag order on him long after the trial was over.
I fully expect that on appeal, that entire case is going to be dropped. Or, Merchan will be "forced" to drop it because of the Presidential immunity decision handed down by the "MAGA Court" - LMAO - whereas it is evident that many of the things they accused him of were done as his "official duties" and cannot be prosecuted. You see, I greatly disliked Obama, hated his policies, but I never acted out like most all of the democrat side of the equation does when it comes to Trump and I don't know any conservatives/Republicans that had full tilt meltdowns when Biden won.
Leftists take the "moral high ground" yet in my view, much of which they support is immoral to the core. Especially abortion on demand. I could go into a list, but I neither have the time nor the desire. It's old news and if you don't know what leftists stand for, then you aren't paying attention to what is going on in the political world.
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I guess, if you don't want to be exposed to constant negativity. Both sides bash the other side constantly, unendingly, it gets old it's why I have limited the amount of exposure I place on myself to political news.
Or there's this thing that just happened. Several political prisoners were released in a prisoner exchange. Which, on it's face, is a wonderful thing. Russia had accused them of spying and being pawns of the US military or CIA or whatever the deals were and then imprisoned them. I don't know who or how many they exchanged, I just saw the story where Biden and Harris show up personally to greet them. Yeah, if you wonder if this wasn't a carefully executed plan to make them look wonderful - Biden and Harris - well believe what you wish. I won't pass judgment on you excepting to say the bias blinders are working well.
The thing is, the amount of stuff that has happened just this year alone in the political realm concerning running for the President is quite amazing. The most amazing thing, IMO, is an attempted assassination of a former president and going through a lot of video footage and hearing testimony, one has to at least consider that there is the possibility of an inside job going on there. If you look at the latest footage that has been released, it shows the attempted assassin clearly moving on the roof. The person taking the footage is in line with Trump's head and the assassin. You see the clear line of fire and wonder, how could have the Secret Service made the decision without willful neglect to not call that roof a portion of their defined perimeter?
Questions that may never be answered.
One thing that is answered? It's time to go to work! Up to Gurdon, get it done and come home for a couple of days.
G'day.
