Tuesday - late afternoon

Today was a total mess, putting it nicely.  

When I drove into the plant in Gurdon, I was greeted by the site of a giant crane blocking access to the delivery shack.  Great.  I have been around cranes for many decades now, if they are there, they are going to be there for a long time.  I still tried to have them let me pull up and attempt it.  No, was the answer after 15 minutes of waiting.  

So, I waited. And waited ..... and waaaaiiiiittttteeed.  Finally, one of the plant managers came out after several hours asking if I had "unloaded that thing yet?"  NOPE, they won't let me.  

He walks off muttering about getting something done.  Mind you, I had been there over 3 hours waiting at that point.  Then the head manager comes out and says something to which I said yes, I've been waiting for many hours now . He got agitated, not with me but how long this was going on. Finally, an apparent manager drove up of the crane company, he looked at him and pointed at his wrist, motioning there are things to do and time is ticking. 

The man told him to tell me to do whatever I needed to.  I looked at him and said why didn't they say that 3 hours ago?  I pulled the truck up, but way too far.  No worries. I have another 20 foot line on my truck rack. Pulled that down, the plant manager helped me set everything up and walaah.  

Meanwhile, the crane operator and all the crane employees had disappeared inside of an office building. They couldn't have cared less about anyone else, in fact, two of them had been standing in the middle of the driveway, stared over at me and started laughing.  I bit my tongue seriously hard on that one, I would have liked to express myself to them in no uncertain terms, but I withheld.  

It was blazing hot, I mean I was sweating so bad my clothes were soaked.  I eventually got a heat headache and I still have it now, many hours later. Probably doesn't help that I am still fasting, but I know it's a heat headache, have had them before.  

I would have sat there over another hour if they hadn't allowed me to hook up.  I'm telling you, it was all I could do to get home with that horrible headache going on.  I'm sitting here now, in my cool bedroom, resting and this headache will either go away or I'll go to bed and it will disappear by morning.

I remain undaunted by today's mayhem. I am still fasting and now that's it's almost 5:30, it would seem such a ridiculous waste to give into temptations to eat something.  No.  I am having a cup of coffee, no cream or sugar, have been drinking ample amounts of water all day long, that's going to be it.  Oh! Thank you for reminding me, I need to go consume a little salt.  I've been sweating and not replacing electrolytes.  I took a supplement this morning with potassium in it and I had some salt, but I think I need a little more salt. 

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Miserable headache. I'm not writing anymore, going to go lay down.  

 Tuesday - early

So, I would have had the park full again as of last night but the man claimed he "couldn't get a hold of me" - after we had already discussed earlier in the day that he was coming and taking such and such a lot.  In other words, he found a place better, closer to what he is doing, whatever.  All well and fine, I don't hold that against anyone, but while he was engaging in his disappearing act, I told some other folks on the phone that I was "completely full", anticipating these people's arrival.  

I don't really know what parks are "better" than mine in the area.  Further away, yes, MUCH further away, places with more amenities but they are also places that charge a lot more than I do.  Some people don't care about that, some do.  Most people are either living paycheck to paycheck or they are saving money for whatever - a house usually - and want the cheapest option available..  

I'm on day 2 of a water fast.  No food at all. No drinks with any calories, in fact, it's mostly water and a little coffee with no creamer or sugar - tho I never use sugar anyway.  The goal is autophagy (you can look it up on Google, a lot of research and articles about it) and potentially, stem cell regeneration.  It also can help with the plaque build up in the brain that is typically found in alzheimer's and dementia patients, and a score of other potential benefits.  

I'm no doctor but I've done a lot of reading about it over the years. The science is slowly catching up to the thousands of years long practice of both short and long term fasting.  I summarily dismiss any notion of harm being done by prolonged fasting, I've done it many times in the past.  You mostly just ensure you keep your electrolytes up, which I am doing simply through the ingestion of a small amount of Himalayan salt and a multi-vitamin with essential minerals.  These contribute zero calories to the event and therefore post no risk in inhibiting the desired outcome.  

I'm shooting for 3 full days, but 5 or even 7 days would be optimal.  Just depends on whether I become too weak today and tomorrow.  I've done this before, I know what happens.  The potential health benefits are what are driving me to start a routine of fasting, but especially doing prolonged fasts on a - monthly I'd say - basis.  There is also the "deny yourself, take up your cross and follow after Me" factor, not religion, thanks, more like relationship in following the Lord and seeking Him.  So there are 2 sides to this and they both can have very beneficial outcomes.

Anyway, I just posted on my facebook that I still have one lot available.  I get a lot of views on that page, Facebook sends me notifications frequently.  I have recently started to update it more regularly than I was because of it. If I ever get these additional lots installed, I'm going to need more guests staying at the park.  

I have also decided that the best route to go is to create a completely new driveway leading out to the street instead of attempting to connect it with the main driveway as originally planned.  This will cost more money but it will be a far better setup.  It will mean buying a thousand dollars worth of pipe - 12 inch pipe in a 20 foot length is at least $400 nowadays, an outrageous price but there is no getting around it that I can see - and I'll need 40 feet of pipe.  Dirt to pack it in is free, lol, I have plenty of that and then a thick layer of gravel on the top.  I'll have to remove some trees but those are trees that I am not in love with anyway. I also have that huge tree that is at a 45 degree angles - it's completely rotted out - and needs to come down.  

Just not sure how to get it to come down without endangering my own life and safety, I'll have to go over there and take a much closer look at it and try to figure out a safe way to bring it down.  The tree poses no danger to humans atm, it started falling in a direction which will not have it snapping power lines right next to the area or the street on the other side.  But, it needs to come down, I just don't want to pay thousands of dollars for someone to come do it if I don't have to.

Work calls. I need to get out of here, heading up to Gurdon to deliver and then back at it again tomorrow morning. 

G'day