Wednesday- evening

Fall has hit.  The temps have cooled and the wind has been blowing giving us a pretty chill real feel temp.  

I am on day 2 of a 3 day fast.  Yesterday was rough, today I was just weak but not particularly hungry (well not yet anyway) and who knows about tomorrow, but I intend on finishing out today and getting at least 3/4 of the way through the hours needed for fasting tomorrow.  The health benefits are what I'm looking for an really need to do the full 72 hours, but I never beat myself up for quitting a little early.  

I've gained considerable amount of weight in the last few years, but in the last several months, the amount of fat has increased to unacceptable quantities.  I may HAVE to go back on keto after this fast just to get rid of the fat, but this time - cut out the fat.  Just keep the carbs low but also keep fat products down.  

Tonight is fall festival at the church. They don't call it Halloween for obvious reasons, mostly because Halloween is really more of a demonic symbolism than anything Christian.  I am taking one of the kids, the other one? Got booted out of church last week. Yup, his behavior is so bad even a church can't deal with him and told him/us that he needs to stay out a week.  I'd say more like a month or more, but that's just my opinion.  Completely rebellious, listens to no one when he doesn't want to, even his own parents.

They have struggled with trying to find a path inward in terms of disciplinary action, nothing works.  Well, some sort of pills work, but that is given to the child in the morning and usually has enough longevity to make it through the school day, but after that? It wears off. 

Anyway, I have delivery tomorrow and then Friday off, working yet another weekend.  Working last weekend apparently paid for the previous entire weekend off, working this weekend apparently pays for the 2 days off coming up next week.  Friday will be spent making sure I have everything ready to dig those trenches.  I may even go get the pipe and see about getting at least some of the sewer pipe installed.  It's much easier to get the pipe ends to insert into each other with the use of a mini ex - but - at the same time - that really means needing a helper and I doubt I'll find anyone that is worth half a shekel in this area to do physical labor, even if I offer $20 per hour.  

It's the reason I won't be doing a 5 day fast this time, what I really wanted to do. I'll need the energy to be able to go through 8 hours of working on a machine out there and maybe longer if needed.  That's why I took 2 days off in case I needed it.  I'll need it for laying pipe if nothing else, I just wanted the assurance that I had enough time to get this project moving along.  Really want to get it done before the bitter cold hits as well.  

I have been watching the news regarding the government shutdown. Not just news, but interviews with both sides. I'm not sorry to say but Democrats have a problem here.  They keep blaming Republicans but they won't sign off on a continuing CR - something they have voted on many, many times in the past and not even that long ago and passed it saying "we can't have the government shut down". They have shifted their talking points repeatedly.  Now they are saying Republicans "refuse" to give SNAP benefits tens of millions of Americans, attempting to not only shift blame but also to cast aspersions and basically intended to make Republicans look like they don't care about "the American people" and have stated it as such.  

Sorry, but anyone following a speck of news knows that Democrats are the people refusing to sign off on the CR and have attempted to couple Obamacare to it.  It doesn't work that way.  At all.  That is a completely separate issue that has nothing to do with the operation of the government or whether federal employees get paid or not.  Their attempts at coupling the two are pure and evil hypocrisy, two facedness and they are just plain liars.  

At some point, which is pretty much when food stamps run out which is going to be what? Saturday?  the "American people" are going to say enough and start demanding Congress open the damn government and deal with it.  I just watch these elected officials playing games with the lives of everyday citizens and wonder how they can live with all of this going on? Well, THEY don't care is the end of that story. The love of money is the root of all evil, whatever they are doing, it has it's roots in riches, power and fame.  I don't know about the fame part, more like infamou