Monday - evening

An extremely long day.  Instead of having the day off as was anticipated, I ended up doing a full turn.  I think I said something about this last night.  

I mean, 4:30 am, up, out of the house with my diet food - took a small cooler today to keep my stuff chilled - down to the washout, over to the plant, loaded, up to the fueling station, then the long drive up to Gurdon.  

I tried to take a nap in Gurdon but I really didn't have the time for it.  The product was flying out of the tanker and it was only 50 minutes before it was empty. But just getting to Gurdon....gag.  Drive drive drive, reminded me of the days of the last job I had where I was out on the road all the time and running out the 14 hours clock....allll....the...tiiiiiime. 

I don't miss those days and don't really care about the smaller paychecks now.  They are still good enough for the hours spent.  

Driving back from Gurdon, however, was brutal.  I only got like 6 hours of sleep last night. It figures that one of the very few nights where it takes me a long time to get to sleep occurred last night.  I laid there for an hour starting at 9:00 pm before I just got up, took a pain killer - I don't know why but they help me sleep and no, we're not talking narcotics here, we're talking 500 mg of acetaminophen, and fell sleep maybe 20 minutes later.  So not even 6 hours of sleep last night.

I can tell ya that when I got home? I fed the animals and went and passed out on the bed for a while.  I feel better now, I had to force myself to get up, way too early to be going to bed.  I have to go right back down tomorrow and load again.  Excepting this time? Just go home after loading, not all the way up to Arkansas.

I have no idea what's up with the family, I haven't heard from them today and I really didn't feel like talking to anyone anyway.  I had texting sessions with several people and the manager called, I told him I wasn't interested in doing these full turns in one day very often.  I didn't complain, I just made it clear that this is an occasional thing at best.  If there is an emergency, I'll help them cover it.

This was not an emergency. This was lack of communication the company engages in regularly.  I was to load yesterday, I found out and then deliver today. In that respect, loading and delivering on the same day had the same net result, so no loss of service there.  

Anyway, I heard back from the septic guy's office today.  The man thought it wonderful to tell me that they were just now starting the process.  Paraphrasing, we're sending the permit over to the design engineer, after he gets done, then he'll send it back, then we'll send it to the state and if/when they approve it we can get started on it. Shouldn't take too much time". 

I think we're close to two months since  I went in there, gave them $650 for the permit and then waited, fruitlessly I might add, for them to do their job.  The owner got back to me and said "I didn't think you were in a big hurry" to get this done. Well what the fruity pancakes did i say? I said I wanted to get 2 or 3 lots going at  the beginning and then work up from there. Not, let's take months to even get this install going?  He didn't respond to that reply and I don't blame him, what is he going to say? Well an apology for one thing.

I mean, seriously, I'm going to spend almost 9 grand with them and they are putting me off because why?  I dunno, but after I placed that ad in the local gossip/business facebook page and he realized it was me, that got the ball rolling. Because honey, there was a couple of definitive leads for a different company in town whose people who replied said were better.  One of them said they had tried both companies and this other company was far better.  

I really haven't had a bad experience with this current contractor until now.  The only thing I want to do right now is get the meter energized.  I am not spending another penny on this thing otherwise until that septic system is in the ground and ready to connect sewer pipe to.  It's going to cost me thousands of dollars for the rest of the stuff and I don't want to be down on the count too long. I want some lots up and generating fresh revenue. 

No, the sky isn't falling and my world isn't falling apart, these are setbacks not major hurdles.  I just want to get that septic in the ground and paid for, over and done with quickly. Now.  

Well, an hour plus later, time for bed.  Long day, no free time, lol, bye bye!