Tuesday - night

"I'm ramping it back up at the property.  I spent hours out there clearing out weeds in the area where the new lots will - someday - be installed. But I motivated myself today in raking over the piles of dirt where I had put them while digging out the trench many moons ago and just about clearing the back 4 acres - still more to go but most of it is done. Got much of the front 3 acres done, scraped the driveway with the new box blade - it works 1,000% better than that pile of trash I was renting at the rental place in town.  

I mean, maybe 3 passes and it was done. I was spending an hour going up and down just one portion with the rental unit.  I should have taken pics of that rental thing, it looks as bad as it works lmao.  Old pile of shit, frankly.  And at premium prices and they don't include the rippers. They never said why, they just said no, we don't want rippers on it. These are claws that hang down off the rear of the box blade and tear into the dirt.  Absolutely necessary to tear up the hardened dirt and get down into the softer stuff.  "

Put in parenthesis for I started that post last night and simply forgot about it.  

I've got Thursday and Friday off. Weather permitting I will be out there attempting to get this sewer line stuff done and over with or at least get a big chunk of it done.  

As for today, well, I got to the loading plant and there was another truck in our bay - but not one of our trucks.  In fact, I had never seen that trucking company before.  They let the system drain almost empty up there to the point that we can't keep up with it. Had they simply kept up the orders, it would be in good shape.  But NOOOOO, they had to wait until they had ONE truckload of product in there before realizing they are going to run out. 

Well, we only have so many trucks running this route and hence, they get outside companies to help along.  I only waited maybe 10 minutes and he was out of there, no big deal, but when is this dude showing up tomorrow? Early, like earlier than me? When I show up? Make me wait an hour plus? When these other companies get involved, they don't care about appointment times, they'll just show up whenever they want to.  

Now, I have a decent relationship with management up there and if this starts happening too much, I'm going to ask them to make those drivers wait.  They have enacted such restrictions in the past on people showing up well outside of their delivery time.  

I went and got my trailer today.  It needed a new set of springs and the entire lighting system replace.  I spent almost as much as I paid for the trailer. However, I bought that trailer when they were "cheap", nothing is cheap anymore.  I get somewhat irritated when I hear the term "inflation". If you start thinking about it, someone, somewhere, got greedy.  "The love of money is the root of all evil". 

It isn't some grand thing that happened. For example, something happens in the Iran war. Oil companies INSTANTLY jack up the price of fuel even tho the oil that current fuel was made out of was not affected by it. But it's literally everything now.  And the cost of trucking now? Look at the price of fuel! Trucking companies have surcharge agreements and they aren't going to be eating that cost.  

Oh, off on tangents. I think my trailer is worth around 2-1/2 times what I paid for it. Well, this repair guy has had some major health events happen recently which is why he isn't working his actual brick and mortar shop he once owned.  He just works out of his back yard as much as he can.  

He gets dizzy and has trouble walking. How he does the work I have no idea but he's really good at wht he does.  Anyway,  he got up from looking at the connector to my suv to hook up the lights, started walking and literally fell backwards. His head almost hit a tree. Took me by surprise. He was laughing I was seriously asking him if he's ok?  He's seeing doctors and such, he's just not in good shape at all.  But, he wants more work and my Caterpillar generator needs repaired.  I'll probably drag that thing over there on Thursday before going to the park to get down in that ditch and get some work done.  

I've got to do it and I'm finally motivated.  The mower guy will help me if I need the help.  I probably do, something is wrong in my left elbow, serious pain when I go to lift something.  I'm going to have to find a new doctor,  I typically just use the urgent care but stuff like this probably needs a "specialist" to charge me the arm that I need looked at : )

So, deliver tomorrow, whatever that entails and then off until Saturday where I will have to work the weekend and I think they have me working 6 days in a row.  

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As typical for me, time got away from me. Just wanted to post this before going to sleep.