Wednesday - night

Another rainy day. Long, dreary road, plant, loading, getting wet.  Getting home is especially nice after such days, I just go to bed for a while.  

Tomorrow there is no rain in the forecast tho it's going to get down below freezing. I don't drive my mom's truck in such weather, it doesn't have remote start and I'm a bit spoiled in that department.  My SUV has remote start and the heater is on, just remote start it, warm it up and by the time I get into it, the interior is nice and toasty.

Anyway, I've heard nothing from Trey. Don't really expect to but he certainly hasn't been back.  I'm issuing him a 3 day notice, 3 days before the 2 weeks are up.  I just want him completely gone at this point.  

Then there is the long term that hadn't paid his rent.  It was due on the first and I let everyone know that I do not want to chase down rent.  You come to me, bring it to me, call me, send it, whatever, but don't make me chase you down looking for it. If you have a problem, need a little time, I can deal with that.  This guy? I blew up his phone with texts. The first one was just "when are you going to pay your rent?', followed by more text and then I stopped.  

If he wasn't going to reply, he was also going to get a 3 day notice, I don't care if he is a friend of the family, he has a full time job, he owns the trailer outright and his vehicle, it shouldn't be an issue.  If it is, that isn't my problem.  He finally replies a few hours later and says "My fault, I lost track of the date".  If you think I believe that nonsense, think again.  People don't forget out paying their rent. They may put it off, they may try to avoid it or even if they do forget, they don't forget about it for 11 days.  

I simply replied the same as I wrote above: I am NOT a fan of chasing down rent.  He doesn't even have the money, he's allegedly paying it on Monday. That's 5 days from now.  If'/when he does pay it, we're going to have a short, to-the-point conversation. Don't let this happen again. If you are having an issue, let me know about it before the rent is due or at least on the day it is due. Not 11 days afterwards.  

The Trump train barrels forward with DOGE, Musk and now Trump has set his sights on the DOE - Department of Education.  He's calling it a con game and wants it shut down immediately.  This after basically shutting down USAIDS.  Can you imagine that all of this would have ever happened, much more in such a short period of time?  

Musk is his own force to be reckoned with.  150 year old receiving Social Security benefits?  When is the last time you heard of the government coming down on itself and going through every department to weed out waste, fraud and criminal activity?  NEVER.  Ridiculous nonsense.  I hope Musk stays at it the full 4 years of Trump's term.  I don't think he's politically motivated, I think he is who he is.  He got rid of 80% of the employees at Twitter/X when he bought it, if that gives any indication of what motivates him.  

Anyway, it's getting late.  Trying to force myself to go to bed a bit earlier than I have been. Up to Gurdon in the morning.