Friday - late evening

In about 45 minutes, this house is going to become noisy.  3 kids worth of noise.  The oldest from Arkansas was dropped off here several hours ago by his grandma and the other 2 - who haven't been home in almost 7 weeks - are almost here along with Taylor and her dad, who was helping her drive back.  She didn't want to make the drive alone and asked him to help.  He resisted at first, but now he's staying until Tuesday lol. The peace and quite this house has afforded me for all that time is going to vanish in an instant.

Anyway, I went and rented the skid steer today. It's a rental until Monday.  I will probably end up having to pay more for - tho they didn't tell me this at rental time - they want it back Monday morning. Not because they need it but because that's how they work weekend rentals.  It doesn't matter, the thing will get used today, tomorrow and Sunday.  I pulled in with it and the 18 year old was pulling in right behind me.  We talked a bit, got the machine off the trailer and he went straight to work with it.  

As I have said before, he's got a good work ethic.  Apparently he's bringing his 13 year old brother tomorrow to help him - the brother will be operating the old tractor that he brought a long time ago.  I dunno about his brother's work ethic, but they have all been brought up on a farm.  The 18 year old says he is good with the tractor and he doesn't talk much.  Ok?  Whatever, lol, I'm in this for the work to get done, not for a social convention.  

I mean, if they do a good enough job I won't need to do anything else.  We'll see but they are motivated, I'm paying them a decent wage.  You get a good worker motivated and hopefully you get your money's worth out of it and then some.  I'm looking at 2 grand to pay an expert dozer operator for one day - but that guy will get the thing perfect.   

I was looking at the new septic system while showing the kid what I want done.  It's bigger.  A lot bigger.  The first one has 4 caps, this one has 8.  Or 6? Well anyway, it's a much larger capacity with larger tanks.  I dunno if they made a mistake or what, but I can probably put 20 lots on that thing.  I dunno what was wrong with the other one, it was overflowing. They came and pumped it out this morning and fixed whatever.  $425.  It was $450 last time I had to have all the tank pumped out so the price went down? And they didn't charge anything to fix whatever was wrong?

I"m working through the weekend. Up early tomorrow and up early Sunday. No church, the boys will be disappointed unless they can convince someone to take them.  They'll definitely want the Applebee's experience, I may take them regardless of church.  I think there's a Friday night event for them coming up next week, so they'll get a dose of God, fun and food then.  No, I don't want to work this weekend.  

The kids, Taylor and her dad are in town, almost home. I know because I was looking at Life 360.  I've been watching them all day, they have made really good time considering.  But, there's 2 drivers and that makes it much easier.  

Ok, I'm babbling now. I'm getting perked up about the prospect of adding more sites.  I noticed today that someone moved out.  I didn't know they had left and they never spoke a word about it.  I was informed they left 2 weeks ago but they took the trailer out while I was on vacation.  Yea, I don't really care. That guy had a bunch of junk outside his trailer and I was getting sick of dealing with him. He also used a LOT of electricity.  Like, turn everything on full blast whether heat or AC and who cares about the electric bill? 

Yes, my new power pedestals will all have meters, I'm not making that mistake again. Even if I don't charge separately for electricity,  I can keep track of everyone's electric use and have conversations with anyone using excessive amounts.  They can either reduce their use or pay more in lot rent or I will simply tell them they can pay for their own electricity and  I will reduce the lot rent by $75 per month.  

The thing that pisses me off about people leaving like that is that I have been turning business away because I had no idea he had left.  So when will I get another call for a lot? Who knows? Tonight? Tomorrow? Next week? It's really random. You get 3 calls in a day and then you might not get any calls for a while.  Lately, tho, I've been getting consistent calls for lots.  I don't care if people want to leave, that doesn't bother me, it's not letting me know that they are leaving yet they know in advance almost always that they are, indeed, leaving and when they are going to do so. 

Oh, gaming. Well, I'm still playing Fortnite but a lot less. People are crass, rude and egotistical on there. I'm getting sick of it.  I have been tempted to just quit playing the game altogether, but since I am limited my time on it, it's not terrible. I have also gotten rid of people that insult me and others without provocation. Iike, out of the blue, they say "you suck".  "I'm better than you".  "I'll revive you if you say I'm better than you" and other juvenile statements.  Admittedly some of them are juveniles, but still how do they think it's acceptable to talk to people like that?  

As for the diet, I restarted it on Monday and have been going strong ever since.  I can crank away on a diet once I get a good start on it. 

I've also been doing my pushups. I took a sort of break from them after getting really sick a while back and it just took a while to get back into it.  

Enough. The folks are almost home and I have to go to bed in 40 minutes.  Going to spend some time with them and then crash out.