Monday - late afternoon

Where to start. Well, I had the weekend off. And per the tick in my ear, I haven't had any ill side effects - yet anyway - so I'm just letting it go until/if/when something arises out of it.  Crazy thing to have a tick inside of your ear. Never even heard of that in a human. Dogs, yes, all the time but humans? Yikes

The non-payers heeded my warning - it wasn't fake - if they hadn't have left by today, I was going to have them physically removed out of there. They must have left yesterday afternoon or night, their trailer and all of their stuff was gone.  I'm out $1,150 and I am promising myself to never let it go that far again.  A month at most. I've had pretty good luck helping people out when they are down on their luck, usually people pay it back.

I'm half considering suing them. They have a nice car, the trailer was a bit old but I don't think they owned it and at least one of them has a job.  Just decided to lie to me on 4 separate occasions about making a payment - they never did.  It was the last time they made that promise and it didn't come to pass that I started becoming very irritable with them.  But, I kept it in and just taped the notice to their door. 

Then and only then did they magically find my phone number, texted me claiming they "have been trying to get a hold of me". LMAO.  The number is posted on a large sign out front if nothing else.  Liars. "Well i can give you some money on " whatever day, I don't remember, I wasn't falling for that again.  I'd rather have that lot empty than have leeches sucking out my electricity and giving nothing but grief back in return. 

Whatever the case, they are gone and that headache is gone with them.  They completely cleaned up their lot, I'll give them a weeeeee little bittle of credit for that.  I have a person that wants to move in, but I have 2 lots empty now so I need to find another one.  I'm not running any ads, calls have been coming in several times a week, I'll see if someone will just call without doing all that other stuff. 

Saturday was the Octoberfest - in September. The explanation they gave was that there were too many scheduling conflicts with everyone in October - you know, Octoberfest? yeah, that one... - So we went. I don't think we stayed even 2 hours. It was hot as blazes out there which is why I wondered why they were doing this in the hot hell of summer.  We weren't even there 30 minutes and firefighters were already treating a person with heat exhaustion (or whatever stage she was in).  That was what we did Saturday, the rest of the day was spent at home.

Yesterday was the baptism. It was pretty cool.  The kid and mom and I went up to the top of this church, they have an entire complex of rooms up there, one set of them dedicated to baptisms.  They have a big tub with a foot anchor - to help people from having their feet/legs pop up when they're dunked.  I had never baptized anyone before so it was a  special thing for me.  I baptized the child first and the entire congregation erupted into a huge amount of applause, yelling, whistling - good stuff - for him.  It was great.  Then I baptized his mom and the same thing afterward.  The whole thing started with the pastor giving a short preface and then 2 videos they had taken of them being asked questions about their lives and why they wanted baptized. 

It was pretty special. Nothing more amazing yesterday/Sunday excepting the AC? Went out again!  Amazingly, they had a tech come out within a couple of hours and he was questioning what the other tech had done and why he hadn't checked the entire system? How should we know, we aren't ac techs? LOL.  It does, actually, need a new motherboard.  I kind of thought it strange that it could get wet and then start working again, but I zipped on that when the first guy was out from the second company.  He somehow got it working again, the parts - more than just the mother/control board - had to be ordered. He told us that the ac could go out again at any time, sorry, just the way it is. It's worked so far.  

Today just work.  Got up early, got down there, got the trailer washed out, the truck loaded - tho that took quite a while they were having problems yet again with their system.  Unless another load gets canceled, I will be working through Saturday.

My 5 day cheat is over. 6 pounds gained.  OH well. I am water-only fasting today and will try to make it through tomorrow as well. If I'm really motivated, I'll go through Wednesday.  I usually get motivated by watching youtube videos of doctors explaining the multiple benefits of fasting. Yes, I already know all of this stuff but hearing it coming out of their mouths sort adds a different element to it, like yes you should do it because it will help you.