Monday - mid morning

Well, turns out Walmart "free" delivery - for $100 per year - isn't free after all.  The delivery fee is waived but the driver tip is not.  I do not get to determine the side of the tip, either. It's pre-determined and you pay it whether you like it or not.  I definitely believe in tipping, I also believe tipping should be dependent on the quality of the service received.  

Oh well. I only actually paid $50 for the subscription for they were offering a $50 credit to your account to be spent on whatever you want. I have a love-hate relationship with Walmart. I like a lot of what they offer, I hate going there. I especially despise them standing at the door demanding your receipt as you are walking out.  I just feel like you are being treated as some sort of criminal.  And the revelation that Kroger's is actually videoing you AND showing YOU a video of YOURSELF while you are checking out when it believes you are stealing is especially unsettling.  

Maybe if they just got rid of self checkout, the self checkout theft would disappear, customers would generally be happier and there wouldn't be so much animosity?

That's all I have accomplished today, it's 9:00 am. Well, I put away the dishes out of the dishwasher.  

I didn't say I wasn't going to do anything, it's just a day off and tho people are home, there is no noise in the house.  I think the oldest stayed home from school - not certain about that. He started puking badly yesterday afternoon, then the runs, then more puking before he decided he was going to go to bed. I haven't seen him since.  He did a sleepover at a hotel with friends and they stayed up late the night before, I am thinking whatever went on there? Probably didn't help. He clearly hadn't had enough sleep, but being tired doesn't make you throw up, not that I know of anyway.

There is a lot of sickness going around these parts lately and I'm trying to avoid all of that. Pneumonia being the one of biggest concern for me, my respiratory system has always given me trouble since I was a child with asthma.  Somehow grew out of that but that doesn't mean that I was Scott free from the effects of it all throughout my life.  I've had walking pneumonia before, it messed me up for over 30 days.  I couldn't do anything. 

I get that you can't just avoid everyone all the time, well some people can but I work and it's out in the public and that's that.  

What I want to do today is get on the tractor and get to fixing that driveway yet again.  Trey is reliably unreliable, I can't really trust that he'll do anything he says he'll do so I'll just have to go over there and see if he was able to get that box blade hooked up.  It had old pins on it that wouldn't connect to the tractor, they bought new pins but couldn't get the old ones out.  That was a week ago.  He said he'd have it ready by today...

My Christmas shopping is almost done, but I spaced getting my son his present.  I am doing that today and it should arrive in time for Christmas. Everything else has been taken care of excepting maybe a few knickknacks for the folks here. 

I have work tomorrow, presumably I'll be working into next week? No idea, but if I'm not, I'm going to have to say something. This is day 4 of being off in 6 days time, I love not working but my checking account isn't in love with it.  

I have a few people wanting to move in, but not until next month.  I don't really hold lots like that, I need them filled asap, not a month later.  The only thing that mitigates it is if the person is stating they are staying a really  long time, like years, then I will make exceptions.  I've had too many people no-show and I just can't afford to tell other people no and then find out the first people aren't coming.  

Jason, he was staying in one of the alternate lots for 8 months, left but is allegedly coming back next month as well. I will probably just hold that lot for him, those lots aren't particularly easy to rent out which is why I give a bit of a discount for them.

Workout. Well, it's 11 days today.  Last night I did all 100 pushups but it certainly wasn't easy.  I don't expect it to be today either and I'm adding some bicep stuff to the mix.  I know you aren't really supposed to do biceps and triceps in the same day, I'm on this 100 day challenge and I am hopefully going to see it through. But you can't get huge triceps and not work on your biceps as well.  It  would look funny and I've seen people that have done that end up having serious problems.  

Enough. I'm going to drink another cuppa and then get out of here.

G'day