Thursday - mid afternoon

Yup, I haven't posted in several days. I've actually written some but I never posted the stuff.  Just never finished it, it would have been incomplete thoughts and made little to no sense.

Anyway, I am working until at least Thanksgiving Day.  I got the Thanksgiving run today, I made no fuss about it.  Why? Because I intend on forcing - well not like in a caustic way or anything - but making a stand for Christmas Day off.  It's mid-week this year, falling on a Wednesday.  Right now? I'm glad to have all the work. It will help pay back the money used for that scan - I guess I threw the letter out and they all say no such thing exists - and uber high water bills at the Phoenix property.

I mean, yes it includes water, sewer and trash, but it's ridiculous.  Well over $500 for 2 months! I let it get behind because...I simply forgot about it.  You get hit with a bill like that just for water? Unbelievable.  I want to raise the rents over there but Mark is telling me that times are too tough and raising rents will likely lose people that are hard to replace.  Getting rid of Cox I am at least breaking even tho, I'll have to take a look at the numbers.  Which reminds me, i was going to call Dish and either negotiate a lower price or dump them and fire Directv back up.  

It's not like the hey-days of ATT when people were loyal to the company and they treated you right.  For the most part anyway.  Now, mega-companies don't give 2 s***s about you, I don't care about them either. Loyalty means nothing to them, the greed is contemptible.  So, to keep costs down, you have to keep calling them. I'd dump satellite altogether but it's just not doable over there. They like their satellite and it's a deal breaker. 

Oh, back to work, well obviously other drivers wanted the day off and as I said, I have no problem with that. Start early enough and I'm done long before Thanksgiving dinner is going to be served anyways.  Just thought of this: I wonder if the kids have the week off? They give so much time off at schools now and people really have to plan ahead for all of it.  What do you do with them if you are working? Well, Taylor said today she "technically" has the week off, I assume this to accommodate for kids.  Day care is not cheap anymore, it's very high priced.  A week for one kid is $250 to $300.   

Anyway, I saw the kid today and asked where my box blade is?  He said he was still trying to find one, do you want to rent one or buy one? Well, buying one is at least $400, so if someone wants to rent one, I'll go that route.  He said there is a bunch of them at his work and he'd try to get one for a hundred bucks if that would be good? Yes! Please try that!  My driveway is getting into the "very bad" range again, I'm going to have to rent a tractor with a box blade on it if he can't come up with one.

Well, no I wouldn't do that. It's the same renting the tractor or buying one off of Facebook Marketplace. I have use of a tractor, I'd rather buy.  The kid seems to be content to stay around awhile, but that's probably because I am giving him half off of his rent....

These people are trying to push this hot tub on me and I'm not sure I want it. Not at that price anyway. It won't get any cheaper for a new one, it's actually a smoking deal, but $2,300 down and $400 per month?  Plus operating expenses such as electricity to keep it hot and chemicals to keep it clean?  How about one of these free ones and if it needs repaired, take it somewhere, have it fixed and that's that.  Or a cheap one?  I just don't think it's such a great idea to spend 11k on a hot tub. Not right now anyway. Maybe if they brought the monthly payment down, make the terms longer. 

I finally got the prescription for the steroids from Walmart. I just hate going there so I kept putting it off or forgetting it (probably on purpose).  It's not for building muscles, lol, it's for this junk going on with my shoulder. Apparently putting a person on a 6 day therapy of it,  starting with 6 pills the first day and ending with 1 pill the last is normal. I've taken steroids for horrid coughing conditions and I have no noticeable side effects.  

I have been watching with interest a brand new RV park being built in Domino, TX, right next to highway 59 (sooner or later to be Interstate 69, I think, unless it's going to branch off a different direction before there, this Interstate will allegedly run north and south the entire length of the country from Canada to Mexico).  It's concrete driveways and the design is pretty nice. They have a LOT more money than I do, I can safely say that.  It's a very nicely designed park but it's in a horrible location.

I keep saying that but I'm probably wrong.  Why do these people build RV parks right next to super-busy highways with massive amounts of noise not being filtered at all coming straight into their facilities? I have spent enough time next to highways, and even that one recently when the truck broke down a mile up the road from there. Very noisy.  I can see it appealing to the traveling crowd, perhaps, but in a location such as that, you are not in a destination area and you're going to have to have long term people living there to make any money.

And they aren't likely to want to hear constant, unending highway noise.  Not to mention a few miles up the road is a very cheap park at $350 per month and yes, that includes utilities.  Ok, that park is not near as nice as this place but my experience so far? People want the low rent.  They may not want to live in a trailer trash park, of course, but they also don't want to spent $599 per month plus electricity.  

Now, I could make the experience at my park a lot better if I were living there. But I don't want to live there. At least not in an RV. I could see building a large cabin in the woods where we could all more to tho : )  

Have you ever watched a movie and saw scenes that make you think: Why is that person doing that or why is that person having that happen?  I keep seeing flicks that have people running through the woods and they inevitably trip and fall, usually ending in their death from the people chasing them or some other horrid consequence.

I can tell you as a person that started running down the sides of mountains at full speed and no way to stop even if I wanted to starting around the age of 7 that you don't just trip all the time, especially on flat, level ground even if there are obstacles.  You see the obstacles, you hurl, jump or just step over them.  I get tired of seeing this nonsense. Yes, I know it's to make the film "work", but make it "work" realistically, pleeeeeaaaaassssseeeee. 

Reminds me of the time...not forget that, too much time and writing. 

Anyway, I was talking with a person yesterday (not at the house) and another person came in, sat down, the person I was talking to - and I was in the middle of sentence with?  Just completely blew me off and started having a conversation with this other person.  This went on for near 40 minutes before I blew both of those people off, got up and walked out.  The dude I was having a conversation with? Texts me an hour later: "I forgot to say goodbye to you so bye!".  I wrote back.  You completely blew me off and you started talking to this other person and you never returned to me, so it's whatever to me. 

Yup, I was quite blunt about it. I've been either seen this happen to other people or having it happen to me for quite a long time - seems to be the wave of the future, just be obnoxiously rude to other people and think nothing  of it - to the point I've had enough. I will, from this point forth, just get up and walk out.  I don't care what kind of situation it is, I am leaving.  I might actually say something to the people that are doing it before I leave, but if what I am saying is so terribly unimportant to you that you would do that to me? Bye.  And trust me, I don't yack away. I let people speak their peace in in-person situations. They can talk as long as they need to before I "take my turn", so to speak.  

Basically confirms to me I need new friends.  And really what's been on my heart for some time now to get far more involved with church, meet new people and make friendships that might have more substance and meaning to them.  

You know, like-minded people?  I like all of these people, but they really didn't start out as my friends. It was through James and Taylor. I'm thinking I'd rather be provoked unto good works, as the Bible says, tho i really don't need that. I help people frequently, that's already in my blood. I mean, just living a more spiritual and word (bible) driven life.  It's good to have people challenging you to such things if you are open to it.  I'm open to it. That's from Heaven, not the worldly realm. 

Well I take that back, I have several friends here that didn't come through James and Taylor, but that group always hanging out? That's definitely Taylor's friends. One of them is coming to church now, which is wonderful!  They're great people, I am not dissing them at all, but they aren't what I need in my life right now.  Well, I mean there is room for them of course, but I need people to challenge me spiritually.  It's what Christians do with each other. 

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Typical.  Things happened, things distracted. Ni