Tuesday - evening

Manager just dumps 3 loads into the tablet without asking, well he did ask about one of them.  He told me yesterday he's thankful for all the work I've been doing, you're welcome. Then he said he can't fill the load slots up for Wednesday - tomorrow. "I don't even get a single day off?"  

He started going into his spiel and I just said ok, I'll just load, whatever.  He mentioned the weekend but would "figure  it out". He said nothing about me working on Sunday.  What did he do? Tried to give me Friday and Saturday off.  

Not a happening event. I'll have worked 8 days in a row, before that only a single day off and worked like 4 or 6 days straight before that.  I want to go to church.  I simply texted him a message after seeing that junk in my tablet: I do not want to work on Sunday.  He knows this.  His sick drivers are coming back, make their @$$es work  Sunday.  

He texted back: Copy, thank you.

I checked it again hours later, a few minutes ago actually and it significantly changed. Now I'm off Friday through Sunday. Yes, that's what I need. Time off to do other stuff.  These people are all chomping at the bit to get started on the piping project, I can have them over on Friday, I'll sit there and supervise them while I"m working on the tractor and mowing grass on the bad boy.

How do you supervise and do that at the same time? Just show them how to do it and then check up on them periodically. I don't think they would try to get away with slacking off, I just want to be sure they do it right.  Could probably knock that sewer stuff out in one day.  Maybe if there are no complications. Yeah, right! lmao I guess I could work Saturday on it as well, but why would I? Well, money of course.  Not the love of money, but the need for it.  Once I start buying the rest of this stuff it's gonna run up a bill.  It's geeeet'er done! time at that point. 

Oh, the condo I reserved for the vacation yesterday? Turns out that was a  total scam.  This is how it went down. I put the card info in their system and had them reserve the room and allegedly run the card.  I checked the card and it didn't show anything, I thought that odd. The next day, I get a text from  - whoever it was - saying hello to my first name and "we are excited to host you soon". I responded back in kind but then? 

It got funky.  "Can you please confirm if you were charged for the booking?"  I thought little of this at first, so I checked. No. I used a bank credit card, btw, that way I have protection in case of stuff - just like this actually.  He then claims the card system has been "fluctuating and down that's why your card wasn't charged". 

This is starting to get odd, I thought. I use a card system and it doesn't "fluctuate" at all. So he goes straight to paying him through Apple Pay, Zelle or Venmo. I'm playing along with this but I am starting to smell a scam.  I'm going to send a random phone number money without identifying who this person is? I couldn't figure out apple pay - I receive money through it I have no idea how to send money and I don't really care, I only use it for one guest that prefers to pay that way.  Whatever, it's fine.  

So I said well I have Zelle. He sends his email info to send it to: yazmonlove@gmail.com. Feel free to send him an email! LMAO.  And then says his name is Yazmon Horton.  I check the confirmation email, it's listed with a person named Mary something or other.  But I don't tell him that, I try to go through the process.  Zelle comes back and says it's not a registered user.  

"I can send it but it says you aren't registered with Zelle?"  "It's registered".  I no longer smell a scammer, this IS a scammer. "This is sus. It says the owner's name is someone else".  He never replies back. Of course not, I've caught him and he isn't get a red cent from me.  He screwed up on a couple of things. First, you aren't sending a person money for a business - well people do with me at mine but that's in person, not on a text with someone you have no idea who they are.  Once they say apple pay and the others, you know something's off. Second, the owner's name was completely different than this dude's.  Third, he didn't have the amount right, he told me $360 but the card "charged" me $340.  

I texted him again today but no reply. Of course not, this person probably doesn't even live in the US.  

I went to the bank today to drop off some quarters and the teller said nope, that's a scam.  But, if the card didn't go through, it probably never will and you needn't worry about it excepting to check it to make sure it doesn't happen.  I'm thinking I should get a new card.  Isn't that what you would do? I think I should have just said cancel that card and have a new one sent, please.  

I've been so busy I didn't really give that much thought - until now.  

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I finally am going to get some time off - and - this guy is going out of town with his family up to a cabin in  Arkansas somewhere. Great! I will still get out there and mow and if I get a really wild hair, I'll get down into that ditch and start piecing it together by myself.  I dunno, but it's a half an hour until bedtime and I think I will retire to bed early.  I'm 48 hours and 30 minutes into this fast. I have a slight headache but everything else is good - mostly because I'm not doing anything but sitting.  I have to work in the morning, hopefully I feel ok.  I mean, I could drive right now if I needed to, just would be a bit of a chore.  

Oh, and we found a hotel right on the beach. I mean, this place faces the ocean and it's not a scam at all. We are going to have to get 2 bedrooms and so a little pricey but oh well. My little laundromat quarters will pay for it.  I spent a lot of time today looking for a place and this was the one that hit with us.  Not just because it's on the beach, but also reasonable priced, excellent reviews and just overall looks good. Right near all the tourist junk as well and restaurants.  

I'm done.  

 Tuesday - afternoon

Experienced some pretty good fatigue today, I forgot to take my sea salt this morning. Makes a huge difference when you are water only fasting.

To explain a prolonged fast on water only (versus other types of fasts where you are still eating calories but limiting yourself to certain foods or not eating certain foods for religious purposes), will take a minute. I have done extensive research on this subject over the years and I find nothing harmful about water only fasting at all.  Neither do the scientists writing the journals, the health care sites writing about the benefits of fasting and other resources. 

There are side effects of course.  The most notable one is keto flu.  This occurs on the keto diet when you first start it if you haven't prepared yourself for it, but it can also happen when you are on a prolonged water fast for your body goes into ketosis regardless. The first time I tried keto, I was flat on my back for 10 days.  It was pretty bad and had many of the same symptoms of the flu.   You can experience weakness, fatigue, dizziness - well you get the picture.

The benefits, however, are amazing.  Joint inflammation will be greatly reduced.  Insulin resistance goes way down, this is a huge benefit for diabetics but anyone trying to lose weight.  Heart health and blood pressure are improved.  After around day 3,  you go into autophagy, which is recycling and cellular cleansing process, you can just look it up more than I want to go into here.  After I think 4 days stem cells are, well I'll copy and paste a little info here: 

Immune System Reboot: Prolonged fasting (typically 48–72 hours) breaks down older, damaged white blood cells. This depletion triggers hematopoietic stem cells to generate a new, healthy immune system. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Intestinal Regeneration: Research from MIT News indicates that while a 24-hour fast forces intestinal stem cells to burn fatty acids instead of carbohydrates, it is the refeeding phase after the fast that sparks a massive surge in regenerative capacity. [1, \Blood Stem Cell Rejuvenation: According to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, fasting-refeeding cycles can reset the metabolism of aging blood stem cells, making them function almost as efficiently as young stem cells. [1]

I can't get rid of the dots now lol.  Whatever, it gives you an idea of what can happen in your system when you are fasting and stem cells are affected. It has also been shown that if you are going to receive chemotherapy for a cancer condition, a prolonged fast before you get the chemo will aid cellular degradation and keep your immune system at healthier levels. 

You can also grow new brain cells, amazingly enough. Remember, this is prolonged fasting I am referring to here, not intermittent fasting.  There are more beneficial side effects but of course you are going to drop weight. You can't help it, your body runs out of glucose and it starts feeding on your fat for energy. Bypassing the stomach altogether and giving it a break from eating as well. 

Although I have no intention of doing this, I have read testimony from several people over the years who went on a month long fast and noted that at the 21st day, their vision clear up to 20-20.  It actually fixed their vision somehow.  

No, I am going to just try to make it to tomorrow night and then if I feel like I can do it, go another day and if that happens, another and then quite on night 5.  Fasting basically gives your body a chance to start fixing itself, plain and simple. Doctors don't want to tell you this stuff because they live off of you coming in there and getting endless prescriptions and checkups and pharmaceutical companies want you taking their drugs forever.  They want to treat the symptoms, they don't want to fix the problems which most of those pills can never do. 

This guy here is the ultimate in fasting knowledge, this is just one of many videos he has on youtube, if you are interested in learning more, this guy and Dr. Berg - you can look him up he has a ton of videos on it as well and they are both doctors - will give you the lowdown of fasting.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw8wMELZ5dI