Thursday - night
No work tomorrow or Saturday, thankfully, the first 2 days in a row I've had off in quite some time now. There are a few reasons I haven't been posting as much and that is one of them. The other is reflection on things such as how the park is going. Having to confront Trey for the umpteenth time but to finally get rid of him took it's toll on me. I am tired of dealing with people who have ulterior motives. Lying, they know they aren't going to do what they promise to do. I expect a little of that baked into the deal, not "gee, I'm not going to do much of anything and even when he asks me to do something, I'm going to do bare minimum and half assed".
I was already approached for the spot and I said no. NO NO NO. Who is going to mow the grass? Me for now. Giving away free lot rent for almost nothing in exchange? No thank you. Will I do the work for free rent thing again? Maybe. But it's going to be a written contract. You are going to do 30 hours per month minimum work. around 7 hours per week. I want that work and I will give you a list to keep you busy. You will keep a written record of your hours worked and what you did. If you do not meet the 30 hours per month on any month, this contract is terminated and you will leave the property immediately.
Something like that but with more on it, just giving a synopsis of what's going through my mind. I will not be screwed again, or if I am, it's only going to be for a month. Not a situation dragging out month after month after month. For $450 per month, I could pay someone hourly wage to mow the grass twice a month. I don't want another Trey or the others before him. People that simply don't listen, won't work and don't give a damn. For now, anyone moving in saying they want to work? Are going to be told flatly to their faces a resounding NO. I am not ready for that, not after this Trey fiasco.
Trey spread some poison - gossip/backbiting/stab-you-in-the-back type of thing before he left. I haven't seen anyone showing signs of leaving, not that it's going to bother me much. If people don't want to be there, they are free to leave, I will fill their spot/s back up with someone else. Trey's spot is allegedly filled on Saturday. We'll see, of course, if it doesn't, I'll advertise it and it should go quickly considering it's an end lot. I am going to go over and clean up that lot tomorrow, there is "stuff" on it Trey left behind and move the equipment back behind the shed. But after that, I doubt I will do much of anything and I won't be getting out of bed early - at all. I intend on sleeping in. The kids will be at school and if any other adults are home, they do not make much noise.
Enough of that, tho it's hard to erase that stuff out of my mind. Trey and all of those before him will have a lasting effect on finding someone to take their spot. I want the help, I need someone who has a good work ethic. A side hustle, something they'll do when they aren't at their job. I used to think well, they aren't working so they'll at least do what i want them to do - which I can assure you isn't beyond the pale. But that's not the case at all. If they don't have a job and aren't looking for one, they aren't motivated to do anything. They don't care about anything but themselves. Their cigarettes, their booze, their marijuana, the money they can make taking advantage of their presence in the park by "helping" people there who will be expected to pay them. Mooching is the name of their game.
Live and learn.
I have no idea what day it is of pushups. I have been faithfully doing 100 of them every day for a long time now. I figure I'm in the 70's by now. I need to add other stuff to it, I haven't done it because it's been so cold outside and that's where the weight set is. I"m not going to make claims of some magical transition to a Mr. Clean type of man, but there are definitely some noticeable changes. I would need to start dieting again to also get rid of the fat. I don't eat a lot of sugar and I've been slowly cutting back on portion sizes at meals. But if I get hungry, I eat. I don't want to do a starvation diet and I can't do Keto anymore unless I want to cut out 75% of foods. This would be keto on steroids to also try to get the cholesterol count down.
I really haven't been looking for different types of diets. Used to be I would just start eating a lot of salad and nothing else for extended periods and the weight would drop. I might do that again, who knows. Not quite there yet. It's been extremely cold - it was 15 degrees with a real feel of 3 today and I was out in that stuff for a couple of hours.
The truck sprang a leak today. It's a slow drip of diesel coming out from underneath the truck in the sleeper area. I uh didn't want to waste 2 days off having to go up to Arkansas to get it fixed and there are other issues the truck needs tended to, I'm waiting until next week to get it all done at once. In other words, going up to the yard and sitting there all day long or however long it takes. I figure Tuesday to get that stuff taken care of.
Following this Musk/Trump stuff, it's amazing the statements coming from the left. We didn't hire na unelected bureaucrat! Lmao. The government is FULL of unelected bureaucrats dictating policy to the masses almost virtually unchecked. Far reaching powers to affect the lives of millions of people with little or no accountability.
Why are democrats banging their drums so loudly against this idea of finding waste, abuse and fraud in the federal government anyway? Are they fearful of the things that are going to be found out? Who is on the dole and getting truckloads of money in exchange for nothing? Or over charging? Or a myriad of things that could potentially be going on, such as the DOD having over 4 trillion dollars of money that was paid out with no names of the people it was given to or what it was given to them for? Musk is a brilliant man and undoubtedly has the finest minds working to weed all this stuff out. I think a lot of this stuff they have found already is just precursory and that they are going to find a lot more upon deeper scrutiny.
Patel was voted in as head of the FBI, I fully expect heads to roll and a lot of upheaval to occur very quickly. People will be fired, or if they can't be fired, reallocated to useless roles of eternal boredom offering no challenge. It's going to be a Musk type of scrutiny but on individuals who have used their positions to influence and coerce people/corporations into doing things to alter the outcome of an election. We shall see, of course, but as the days tick by and Trump continues to upend the federal government, I can only stand in wonder and marvel at the thought of a person who for all intents and purposes cannot be bought or coerced into agreeing with leftists and their demands to abide by their rules.
They've tried to cancel Trump six ways from Sunday including trying to kill him, where do you think a man who has been through all that he has stands when it comes to his political enemies attempting to bully him? Yea, it doesn't work, at all. He's even taking Zelensky to task now. As he should, IMO.
Well it's getting late and I am going to go to bed soon.
