Monday - mid morning

I have heard nothing from the manager about a trailer.  Not sure I expected to.  I'll wait for him to call me, but I won't be waiting all day long. I have stuff to do at the property - lots of stuff to do - work can wait until they get it figured out.

"It" being a trailer. As noted in previous entry, my trailer is broken down, another trailer is out of inspection, the inspection facility it's parked at lost their accreditation to do such inspections and another trailer is waiting on license plates to arrive. 

I will guess that either the trailer I've been pulling or the one with missing plates will be the one I end up taking.  When? I: have no idea.  When are the plates expected to arrive? I would like to think very soon?  I don't run that company, if I did, some of this wouldn't have happened. Especially the facility that they own losing it's accreditation simply because the "due date" for them to reregister came and went? I don't have the full story though, pretty sure there's more to it.

Meanwhile. today marks the first day of a new diet that I didn't even know I was going to be doing until yesterday evening. I heard a remark about James starting a new diet and I was all over that - I'll do it with you!  They went to Walmart for weekly shopping and when they got back, he gave me the run down.

Lots of fruits, some nuts, salads, salmon and tuna are the only things on his meat list.  2 meals a day at most.  He doesn't actually need to lose weight, he is experimenting with the diet for the purpose of trying to get a clearer mind.  I do think the junk we Americans shove down our throats isn't exactly good for us, but it sure does taste good!  l'm especially suspicious of all the chemicals they dump into the everyday foods we eat.  It's hard to find stuff without them. I think organic vegetables are pesticide and everything else free?  

I'm already only eating 2 meals a day, but the dinner meal is usually pretty heavy with meat and pastas and such.  That will be a drastic change -but one that's definitely needed.  I need to dump some serious weight and get my cholesterol count down. 

Unbelievable.  I paid that fee - $650 -  what, 35/40 days ago? for that septic system. I just got off the phone with them.  "We still have to do the design for the system". WHAT?!!!  I became a little agitated right off the bat. "It's been at least 35 days since I was in there, filled out the paperwork, I would have thought you would have had this done long before now".  He acknowledged the frustration, but I took it further: "If you all are too busy to do this job, I'll go find someone else'. 

That's not a threat, it's reality.  I can't believe I've been waiting this long on this permit only to find out they've done literally nothing.   

I'm calling SWEPCO as well - but I know they take forever.  They are in no hurry, they'll get to it when they get to it.  Nothing I can do about that.  Well, except call and light a fire under their feet. 

The septic people are allegedly going to call me back, if I don't get a call today I will be calling them and asking for my money back. There are other players in the region that install new systems...

My credit score for Equifax has  jumped 76 points since I paid down the credit cards.  I haven't paid everything down yet that I want to, but I'm ahead of what I would normally be paying if it's just paying the credit card monthly payments and the 2 loans. Those loans are gone and that was almost $700 a month right there.  Another $900 for the credit cards I've already paid down, so yes, I'm already "saving" money.  Actually am, the interest rates are so high right now it's ridiciulous.

As it stands, with the new credit scores, I am being offered much better rates.  The catch 22 is I couldn't get the better rates without getting the loan with higher interest rate than what I got.  I need to read the fine print on it and see if I can pay it off early without any attached fees.  

Not much else.  I have been moving that dirt pile, I've spent a couple days on it.  Still plenty to go. That tractor isn't huge and it has a smallish bucket, so it's a lot of moving back and forth between piles.  I intend on doing at least a couple more hours of it today if I am not going to get a trailer. I am only home this late because I was having trouble waking up this morning.

Like, I woke up rather early but I was totally groggy.  I went back to sleep, woke up again later on, still groggy. Went back to sleep again - groggy and finally ended up forcing myself out of bed.  I'm hoping this new diet will have the intended effect, tho apparently even if you stick with it, it will take awhile for that to happen.  I think fasting will also help with that. I have already been doing intermittent fasting - my last meal of any given day will be around 6:30ish and then I won't eat again until the next afternoon and sometime not until the next evening. 

Starting the pushups back up was harder than I thought and some days I only do 20-40 of them.  I just forget about it and go to bed, remember after I get into bed and think, well I'm not doing them now.  Too late for that.  I'm getting there and once I get back to the 100 per day on a regular basis, I will add more stuff to the regimen.  

I think that's about it. There is plenty of politics to discuss. I just am tired of the mudslinging. The anti-Semitic nonsense is only ramping up more now with an alleged terror attack?  We're no long talking a disagreement and a difference of opinions, now we're into the violence.  It won't be long before a counter group comes along to take the law into their own hands to smack down these people engaging in the violence.  I'm not advocating for that, it's just human nature. I advocate for peace, frankly. I can see Israel defending it's own borders and I know they aren't - or believe anyway - they aren't committing any acts of genocide.

That is the narrative the far left news media, politicians and other people in high places are pushing into the minds of gullible believers.  These people completely ignore the reason this war started in the first place: Hamas killing 1,500 innocent civilians.  They don't care, they firmly believe Israel wants to eradicate the Palestinians from the face of the earth.  If that were true, wouldn't Israel simply have destroyed the entirety of the strip by now? If they didn't care about who dies, they would have just started indiscriminate bombing of everything over there and this thing would already be done and over with.

Well that's enough for now.  I'm going to call Swepco and Dish - our service isn't working and it constantly says "acquiring signal" - we've checked everything, the wiring somewhere is toast and they need to come replace it. That or cancel the service.