So Trey left a lot of junk over there. Far more than I realized.  I ended up having to get the trailer hooked up to the SUV to lug it all off of there.  I now need to get the kids over there and pick up the small pieces of trash laying everywhere. Trey was not a clean freak at all, much the opposite.  There is also a huge pile of wood his dad - now-deceased- had stacked up in the far corner of the lot that I'm  going to have to do something with. I might just advertise it as free wood and see if anyone comes to get all or some of it.  I have no use for it and I wouldn't use it on any projects that I might intend on starting at some point. 

Forgot to add the kids aren't forced to go over there to help clean up. They are offered money - which they have learned is an invaluable tool for acquiring things - to complete the job.  

It was time to restock the pantry.  Ordered a huge lot of stuff coming from Walmart and then started in on looking at expiration dates.  We hadn't gone through any of that stuff in quite a while, as became obvious looking at best-if-used-by dates.  Most of it expired last year, but there was plenty from 2022 and 2023.  The food is undoubtedly edible, but that would be a "gee, we have nothing because an electromagnetic pulse was detonated in space above the US and now we have nothing" type of mentality than a "gee, this looks good to eat today!" type of thing.  

So there is a lot more I am  going to get back in there after I go through everything. I have already filled up a large trash bag full of cans.  I like to have emergency stores in place in case the unthinkable happens or some natural disaster hits.  I may restock my vegetable garden seeds as well.  I'm not planting vegetable gardens, I'm having it available in case something happens.  I am particularly concerned about the Chinese and their world domination desire, the latest news being a naval ship or fleet off the coast of Australia. Still in  international waters so legal but what are they doing there?  CCP is communist, you know what they want to do. Intimidate, harass - but they have been building up their naval fleet for quite a while now.

Do I think WW3 is coming any time soon? Who knows. Not living my life in fear but I do like to be prepared at least.  I know what it's like to be hungry and have nothing to eat, it isn't pleasant or fun.  

It is major clean day for me since I have 2 days off, spend one of them working around the house and getting stuff done at the park.  The park isn't a big deal, I need new trash bags - I don't know what happened to the stock pile I had over there but they are gone, a new toilet seat and a new shower curtain.  I am not going to Lowe's today, thanks, I have enough other stuff going on.  Just taking a break to watch the news right now.  If you want to keep up with Trump and his newly installed administration, you are going to have to watch or read the news on a daily basis.  It's  happening that fast.  

I am a bit interested in this separation of powers and judges telling the Trump admin they can't shut down payments flowing throus USAIDS and other things that democrats are suing about EO's and Musk's seemingly endless revelations about wasted money.  It seems that the judicial branch of the government wants to dictate terms to Trump. The legislative branch - or the current majority - is mostly on Trump's side.  

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So I may be getting a bit carried away with this new computer setup, It's been many years, however, since I got a new PC and the one I bought years ago was refurbished as it was.  Meaning it was already old.  New wireless mouse was a bit pricey and just ordered new speakers, these are far better than the things I have now. Not to mention the things I have now, the subwoofer is blown on it.  Lol. I'm not sure about this keyboard either, don't really much care for it. The style I like, however, is a cheapie and works far better. The one I've had on the old computer is many  years old, to the point many of the letters are worn off of the keys..

I don't look at keys while typing.  Maybe the F1- F12 row for I rarely use those keys.  I don't have the numbers keyboard memorized either, that's because I have the numbers row memorized. Probably not as fast as those people that can pound out a bunch of numbers quickly on the numbers keyboard, but then again, this is one area that I can claim at least some level of expertise having had taken 4 years of it in high school and some in college. 

The keyboard I'm used to is a clackety old thing that makes a lot of noise which I frankly like.  The action on this new one isn't the same, perhaps I'll get used to it.  

As for the game I started to like immensely, they just did an update where they change everything - or most everything anyway - in the game and IMO it totally sucks now.  It's a fight game with guns, very realistic as far as video games go, but they got rid of the great guns and replaced them with nonsensical garbage that doesn't even exist in the real world. Note that many of the guns in the old version do actually exist.  I might just quit for the month and wait until their next version pops up.  They do in-game surveys, however, so I want to last that long and tell them that I despise many of the changes. 

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Wrote that yesterday.  It's Saturday and I just got a call from my manager: loads cancelled. I'm not going back to work until Tuesday and honestly, I've been hoping for some time that this would happen.  I might be better off taking the truck up to the shop on Monday and getting the issues fixed, but the sound of having 4 full days off is too luxurious to pass up.  

New person showed up a little while ago to take Trey's former spot.  He was on the waiting list, I turned 3 other mid to long terms away, I have no place for them.  I gave them local options, it is unfortunate to have to turn people away but atm, there is nothing I can do about it.  

Well, there is/was the idea of adding 2 to 3 lots in an area that could accommodate for them, but it would mean intentionally overloading the septic system.  With the other 2 I added, it would mean 4-5 more spots than the system was designed for, meaning probably monthly visits from the honey truck to suck out the septic system.  I suppose I could add one lot and sort of tone down on the idea of putting too much into it. It's really the laundry that is doing it, there is so much laundry being done even if only one machine, there is a lot of water being dumped into those septic tanks and then out into the sprinkler system.  

I've thought about doing an underground barrel system where you hook the water from the washing machine into it and it just fills up the barrels which then allows the water to go into the ground. But I'm not sure that's legal.