My company typically doesn't send out the work sheets in advance of payday but they did today. A few minutes ago actually and it was a bit surprising. I did work my butt off but I had enough days off that I thought it would be a pretty small check. 

Not so, not so at all and a pleasant surprise.  A step in the direction of getting caught back up after over 3 weeks off for sickness and vacation.  So that was a nice thing for today beyond Trump winning the election last night and definitively verified today.  

It's just that getting all of this unwanted time off makes me a bit - lazy.  If the RV park is taken care of and there isn't anything pressing over there...and...if I find "other" things to do, I just get work completely out of my mind - trucking work that is - and then getting back into that mind frame becomes extremely difficult.  I have to work for several days in a row to get back to "Oh, yes, I have work tomorrow, no big deal".  It helps that work doesn't typically keep me out all day long.  

Took the boys to church a little while ago. That's a drop-off scenario where you don't have to sit around waiting for 2 hours, there are no other services going on and there are ample adults there plus usually cops.  Yes, cops are normally at the Sunday morning services and the Wednesday kids services.  There are a lot of kids that are dropped off and parents obviously want to be ensured that their children are in safe hands and the capability to keep them safe exists in case of bad actors.  It's a 5 minute drive each way, not a lot of driving and it's worth it to get them learning about Jesus/God.  

Well, the older one pays attention anyway, the younger goes to the Wednesday night service for the food and treats and almost unlimited playtime.  There is a worship segment and a ministry segment that they have to sit through, but there is plenty of play time as well. The younger does not want to go to Sunday services anymore - that's basically the same thing as tonight but only an hour instead of 2 hours. The reason? Well I don't know for sure, but it's highly likely that he's getting food and treats on Wednesday and only treats at the end on Sundays.  I don't think the parents are too happy he has decided to stay home on Sundays. I am not forcing anyone to go to church. 

I've been doing very well with holding back on the fat and cholesterol laden foods - until a little while ago lol.  Taylor found a lasagna recipe so I made it tonight. Absolutely delicious. Sometimes you try new recipes and they don't turn out all the great but this one? Very delicious. The problem? It's full of fat laden cheese and has a lot of red meat in it.  Not that I don't cook the red out of ground beef and sausage but it's still not that great for higher risk people.  So I got a bit carried away with eating over 2 helpings of it and then realized just now that - - oops! 

Well, you can't cry over spilt milk, just move on and try to put more thought into what I am eating at ALL meals and how much of it I can eat. It's not that I can't eat lasagna, it's just that the portion size has to be pretty small.  

And there it is.  I've done almost nothing today. I didn't even leave the house until late afternoon when I realized the recipe calls for an egg and we were out.  Up to the store for that and then a couple house later, take the kids to church.  The folks went to Starbucks, I am sort of hoping they will stay out long enough that they'll just head over to the church to pick up the boys.  I passed on Starbucks since I messed up eating too much dinner.  

Park expansion?  I haven't done anything beyond find out that what I had posted last year wasn't wrong, it just wasn't put in the right expense column.  I did spend that much money, it was out of the personal account but it was definitely spend on business expenses and I have the receipts to prove it.  So I'm not worried about that anymore.  It's not unusual to have a lot of start up expenses the first year of operation of any business, but especially one that was just built and a lot more stuff had to be bought to finish the build out. 

I still have more to do to get the right numbers out of that but at least I have the worrying part of it answered.  But, you know, I think, I wonder if I should wait until after Trump is sworn in and see what happens to interest rates? Will business loans be able to obtain?  Or what? Lol, I get caught up in a whirlpool of thought that eventually just goes around in circles...

Oh, the park host's son is back and I need to get his contact info.  I was going through his father - who is dead now - so I need to be able to contact him directly. Actually, I need to find out what his intentions are. Are they leaving the trailer there? If they are, will I have to go to great extremes to get him to do anything? And really, why should he get that highly desirable lot for free?  See, Allen moved over there with the idea that he was going to pay for that lot.  I really don't feel comfortable giving up that nice spot to a park host.  I'd rather it go to a paying customer and give them some other spot.  

They don't have a 5th wheel equipped truck, however and I would likely have to pay to have it moved.  there's actually only one other long term 5th wheel i the park and that guy doesn't have a truck with 5th wheel hitch in it, either.  There is a dude that is there for a month, however, but he's pretty busy.  I just think they should just get a regular spot and save the premium spot for a premium paying person.  

Well, I'll just have to think about that and also have a talk with that guy.  If they aren't sticking around, that takes care of that.  If they are, then we're going to have to have an understanding...

And finally, the manager added another run to my tablet. So, I am working tomorrow through Monday - at least.  He usually gives me an unasked for day off during the week, so I'll figure I either get Tuesday or Wednesday off and then working again.  

With that? I couldn't resist and am watching the fall out now with more detailed news showing the left commentators and media outlets playing the blame game. Misogynists'!  Referring to the black and latino voters.  Uneducated conservative women! They are too stupid to understand they are voting against their own rights (pro choice)!  The absurd logic is laughable and yes, I have been laughing at some of these people, especially Al Sharpton.  If you don't vote democrat, you are automatically a racist!  Of course that's true with a lot of them but that dude has been saying the same stuff for decades now.

Ok.  I'm good.  And g'nite. 

 Wednesday

Well, I posted my post-election post a few minutes ago, now back to the daily grind.  

The election is over, the vitriol is not but that is unimportant now.  Trump won, they're going to have to deal with it.  Or not, that's their problem.  I haven't ventured over to the ABC news outlets to see the meltdowns but I have seen some clips on the news I am currently watching.  

I don't take any pleasure in other people's angst, I just think they brought this upon themselves with the endless Hitler, Nazi, racist drum beat that intensified near the ending of this election cycle.  Normal people don't believe that and don't want to be endlessly exposed to that and the outcome of this election proves that point.  

Trump stands to win 312 electoral votes if the undecided states continue on the path they are on. THAT is a LANDSLIDE.  There will be no legitimate complaints that he "barely" won or that it was an illegitimate election.  Too many people will have said ENOUGH! 

Today? I loaded yesterday and then found out I wasn't delivering it until Thursday.  The plant says they weren't sure if they could take the load today so I they decided to wait until tomorrow. I also still have the load on Friday going into Saturday, after that I have no clue.  

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I can't unglue myself from the TV, watching all kinds of different coverage including on CNN and MSNBC, lmao.  I also tried to go to my site today to see if my rate changes took place and....

The website was down!  I just got an invoice the other day from the website hosting company but it was automatically paid via Paypal.  After an hour of trying to get this resolved, they had raised their rate from last year by $6, took my money anyway but still removed my website from the domain.  Ridiculous.  Then they said I had to pay for the name itself, another $26.50.  I paid all of that, they assured me it would be back up "within the next couple of hours". 

Well I'll definitely be watching for that.  Took me completely by surprise, but it's only been down a few hours thankfully.  

Well the day is almost done.  I have submerged myself in all kinds of aftermath stuff of the election . From Fox News, to CNN, to MSNBC, to various web sites, facebook groups and friend reactions.  

I am watching some pretty ridiculous stuff coming from the left.  Comparing Trump to Hitler, they believe (or they say the believe anyway) that he is coming for them and will drag them off to interment camps that same as Hitler dragged the Jews to concentration camps.  When you read this preposterousness, you aren't in the same room with them so you can't tell if they are being serious or are they just trolling.  

They believe that Trump's political opponents will be imprisoned.  They say that all of our rights are going to be stripped from us.  They take everything that Trump says and take it completely out of context and then add new meanings to his words.  These people have been getting fed this garbage for so long, I have no doubt that some of them if not many of them actually believe this crap.

I was in a "discussion" with one person who said Trump was going to "bring back tariffs".  When I corrected the person and told them Biden kept the tariffs and expanded  on them, one of them called me a "batshit crazy trumper" or something to that effect. I brought up a leftist publication which verified my statement and they - disappeared. For now anyway, they will still come back with some "thing" that disputes it somehow because it disputes their false claims. 

Ok I think I am going to try and take a break from this stuff.  I wanted to see the reactions of democrats and they did not let me down in their emotional reaction.  They are in denial.  They lost for a variety of reasons of which I don't need to go into again here.  Trump has literally won in a landslide, the only state left that hasn't been declared is Nevada, they have now called Arizona to Trump.  Trump didn't need Arizona or Nevada, but it heaps on to the idea that this wasn't a close race, not at all.  

I must get my mind back into work mode. Worked yesterday after 5 days off, then took today off because they didn't want the glue today and then working the next 3 days for sure.  I say for sure, with this job, nothing is ever for sure.  

Trump wins the election!

 Wednesday - semi early

I stayed up until around 11 last night, wherever the election was it, there was still no declared winner.  What I had noticed, however, was where several states including the battleground states had shown Harris winning, that had all been erased and Trump was pulling out ahead.  

I woke up around 4:00 AM,   maybe earlier, and there it was. "Trump projected to win".  

Now? I am watching even leftist news media declare it was a "red wave" and a landslide.  Pointing out states where it is usually a vast win for leftist and showing this election where it was actually close, such as New Jersey.  

It is time to bring some semblance of sanity back to governance and how we deal with citizens.  It is time to close the border if only temporarily to stop these caravans of illegals coming up here, being invited in, flooding our border towns and then moving on and flooding small towns all over the US.  

It is time to get rid of these illegals involved in criminal activities.  

It is time to open up the drilling permits for oil and gas.  I don't know about the Keystone pipeline, if that's been permanently abandoned or if it's just sitting in limbo?

And finally, we will be back on the world stage.  Russia and China will stop taunting us, Iran will stop provoking us.  We will be definitively back on Israel's side, backing them at every turn and doing whatever we can to help them win the war. 

We will not hear the end of endless leftist whining and calling Trump and his supporters racist, Hitler, Nazi's, etc.  it didn't work for this election, even though they were hammering that message.

It is time to end identity politics, DEI and wokeness, especially in this nation's military.  I would be shocked if you didn't see an immediate end to people being given free trans surgeries.  Promotions based on merit, not on a person's declared sexuality, minority status, pronouns, or other agenda that promotes or accepts people into positions that they are not qualified to be in. 

Will we stop spending beyond our means, ie: the federal government being given trillions more than the IRS is taking in?  I don't know about that.  

I for one am exceedingly happy that this election and all of the vitriol is finally over.  I am even happier that Trump won.  Harris would have been an unmitigated disaster.  

It's the dawn of a new day. 

OH would it be wonderful if along with this the country would turn back to the Lord our God!  

 Tuesday - evening

It was raining heavy this morning when I left to go to the truck and it stayed that way down to Nacogdoches, where the washout operator had to work out in the pouring rain. Left there still raining and down to Lufkin. It stopped shortly after I got there.  I also got a phone call after leaving the washout:  They don't want the load I am getting tomorrow, they'll take it Thursday.  

Don't really care one way or the other having 46,000 pounds of glue sitting around, it's not hot so it won't start drying up right away - but if it did, not my problem. 

I got back and went straight the voting center.  It took me maybe 3 minutes, voted Republican straight down the ticket and that was that.  

Besides taking the boys to get their hair cut and eating dinner when we got back, I did nothing else with the rest of the day. 

Now? We sort of wait for election results, tho I really don't believe we are going to see the winner until tomorrow at the earliest. Late tonight at best.  Unless someone is going to walk away with it in a landslide and that certainly doesn't seem possible what with the polls showing a dead heat.