Monday - night

8 straight days of working is over with, I get a single day off tomorrow.  I asked for 2 consecutive days off and I had to force the issue today. I won't get it this week, which is ok, I just need it soon.  If I don't get busy with this project it's just going to have a near 10k septic system in the ground, a power pedestal, a couple grand worth of dirt work and nothing to show for it in terms of income.  I refuse to just let it sit and stagnate, tho the septic system is  concrete vaults, they aren't coming apart any time soon.  Maybe not even my lifetime.  

Anyway, I intend on going out there tomorrow, my day off, and using it to mark everything out.  I need to go buy the marking paint. I have wood stakes and string but I forgot the paint.  I think? I haven't been driving the pickup that that stuff is in because...the tailgate won't open and the bed has a cover on it. I can't get into the bed so I just haven't been driving it until I get it fixed. Going to ask to get a ride back from the shop tomorrow, I want to drop it off and have that tailgate fixed and an engine oil leak.  

I have kind of been putting off marking stuff because i just keep trying to figure out what I want to do with it.  Lots far apart and more appealing? Or lots closer together and less appealing but also not charging as much money for it?  I think, really, closer together.  I think "elite" lots should be in the back.  More level, way far away from the road and very appealing to anyone wanting peace and quiet.  

I'm motivated, it's just I've been working a LOT lately and it wears on me.  The manager said we have a new driving coming in to do our lanes, but he hasn't been released yet.  He's going through the same hell I went through in Oregon. They will keep him there until they are satisfied he knows what he's doing.  For good reason, yes, but they way you are treated there is akin to what one would consider earthly hell.  Well, not that bad of course, but it IS bad.  I NEED that person here, now.  I need more time off, this constant working s*** got old a while back.  I don't care about the paychecks, it's hindering me from getting my goal done, a goal that is getting closer and closer to being realized.  

So I just told him today I need those 2 days off and I don't even try to hide it, at all. I'm expanding my business so I can get out of trucking, YES.  Lord willing of course.  I need to say that because Christians are compelled to say that via  a particular verse in the Bible.  "13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow [h]we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil."

 It can't get any plainer than that?  I've lived most of my life with the awareness that life can end in a moment's time, without any warning at all. You see it in the news all the time.  Any time I say something about tomorrow or next week, month or year? I always think and almost always say out loud: LORD WILLING.  Cause' if He's not willing? Yea, you get the picture.  

The first thing I need to do tomorrow as far as marking things is to stretch a line down where the driveway will go. It will simply be an extension of the existing driveway so the borders will be easy. But, I need that marked out first so I can mark out my first several lots.  I would reeeeeallllly like to put up 4 lots at first; I just don't want to use all my cash up come even close to doing that.  

That's $2,000 worth of meters, a couple grand of wire,  a couple grand of water and sewer pipe and incidentals such as mini ex rental.  Very likely 2 grand per lot.  Maybe more with the gravel.  And this time, I want to put up metal borders along the driveways to keep the rocks from spreading.  I'd far rather do concrete or asphalt - that's a LOT more money.  Maybe someday.......

I'd change the subject and get onto politics, but I  don't want to.  I HAVE received some warnings from people that allegedly "know" stuff that people need to get out of big, blue cities.  They won't cite what they know and it doesn't matter to me, I am gone from the big city life, probably forever.  

Basically, I'm going to try to come up with a figure for 4 lots tomorrow or more to the point, price per lot and see what I can comfortably afford  I am still getting frequent calls for lots, long term.  I don't know if people are being forced into trailers per the high cost of housing or lack of jobs or jobs that pay well or what?  It's not all that tho, I can attest from the people I have living in my park.  ds

Okay, I'll touch on one thing I find both amusing and ridiculous going on in the news.  The Ballroom. If you are following the news, you'll know exactly what I'm referring to.  The left is having a literal meltdown over Trump tearing down the East wing and replacing it with a ballroom. A very pricey ballroom. A ballroom that is described as being "world class" when it is completed.  Something that I believe will complement the WH, not take away from it's grandeur.  

I had the thought: will democrats demand the ballroom be torn down when they eventually reoccupy the WH?  And then, there it was: Swallwell demanding that if anyone wants the democrat nomination, they MUST agree to tear that ballroom down with a wrecking ball the first day in office!  The man isn't particularly intelligent to begin with, many democrat politicians are rather stupid as it stands, but this statement is stupidity.  By that logic, you should also demand the entire White House be torn down for the stain of Trump has infected it with his "Thou King" ism and needs to be completely eradicated, right? 

And then there are the endless reels showing democrats saying the government should never be shut down for any reason! I didn't need to see a reel to know this, I REMEMBER them saying this countless times in the past.  But seeing specific examples was amusing.  But, as always, Democrats defend their hypocrisy by the thinking that the means justifies the end.  What republicans are doing is EVIL! We don't care how we stop them, they MUST be stopped by ANY means! And we are seeing that now to the point of attempted assassinations and assassinations.  

We are living in perilous times and I don't have the answers beyond pointing to God.  God's will WILL be done, that's a fact. The forces of evil will do the things the Bible says they will do.  If you aren't saved, if you don't know Jesus, if you haven't believed in Him for everlasting life, try at least to look into it.  Look at the Bible with objectivity instead of attempting to dismantle it.  There is a God but it takes faith and a portion of faith is given to every man.  

It's getting late, I'm going to bed.  

Editing: My plans may be dashed for tomorrow as there is now a 72% chance of rain where there was a 2-4% chance all the way up until - tonight.