I’ll give kudos to KCL for one thing here: blogs were not lost into cyberspace forever because of destroyed servers or whatever happened in the lightning strike. Unlike it’s “predecessor” JS - which took the intentional act of one person to delete accounts and writings of daily bloggers that may have gone into the millions of words with hundreds and hundred or even thousands of posts range - this is still here and I don’t see anything missing. I hope the owners loss isn’t stuff of sentimental value or the stuff you can’t replace in “Acts of God” that you have no control over - been there, done that, no fun, never get it back, losses that far outwiegh things that insurance can replace.
The truck driver who plowed into 8 motorcycles, stopped at a red light, killing 4 people - is now in jail and deservedly so. Methamphetamines were found in his blood. He apparently appeared to be impaired when the police arrested him yesterday on manslaughter charges. The court has declared a $1,000,000 bail. Basically, that guy is going to be behind bars for a long, long time if the charges of drug use while driving a commercial vehicle stick. Good riddance. Gives the drivers that are GOOD drivers yet another blemish in the trucking industry due to some freak’s inability to live his life without endangering others by his own stupidity.
I don’t mean to sound too caustic in my judgement, but this is outrageous. I have made mistakes driving semis - so has everyone that drives - but this wasn’t a mistake. This man chose to take those drugs before or during his work and unfortunately for the company he is driving for, they are undoubtedly going to be sued for untold millions of dollars. Hmmm, but at the same time, a meth user has certain traits that are exhibited while on the stuff, I wonder why no-one was suspicious.
Whatever. I’m referring to an accident that happened up in North Phoenix. I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t have a blip in national news the day it happened.
Situation here is starting to reverse. The non-payer finally got his first paycheck - small one cause’ it didn’t have much hours on it - and handed me some money. I expect next week to receive much more from him. The newest tenant will, hopefully, be handing me the rest of the month’s rent by the middle of the month, the other dude is paid up for the month.
I am working - quite a good deal - on getting all this outdoor stuff done concerning the watering project as it is going to get warm here sooner or later and I’m going to hate that I didn’t finish it while it was nice out. Plus planting more plants that I acquired at the college nursery elimination.
A man pulls up in front of my house yesterday in a battered old pickup. I read him like a book: he had papers for one of my tenants and I wasn’t going to accept it. He had stated he had been flashed by photo radar - I will not accept court papers from a process server for a photo radar ticket. I am vehemently opposed to such being anywhere for a multitude of reasons.
My dogs happened to be out there with me, that man wasn’t coming anywhere near me, he stood on the sidewalk in front of the short wall. I didn’t even let him speak first: Whatever that s*** is in your hand, I don’t want any of it and I won’t be taking it. He started asking me questions, I told I didn’t have anything for him - leave. He is not a law enforcement officer, actually, the guy was a TOTAL SLOB. Freakin’ hair dishevelled, around 350 pounds, dirty clothing, button down shirt hanging out, freak of nature. Get out of my field of view cause’ I don’t want to puke on my plants.
He went back to his truck, sat down in it and talked on the phone. He came back out and I headed for the gate - I wasn’t going to be handed anything from this guy. He speaks loudly: Well, they want me to leave this anyway. Snapped a shot of my face with a camera phone - which is when I informed him to smile because you are on video surveillance and pointed to my cameras. Told him that that was an illegal service. He hesitated at that one. He did, however, leave the paper lying on the fence - nothing holding it there and got into his truck. I walked to the side yard and started digging more holes - tomato plants. I went back to the fence after he left - he was sitting at the end of the street, just sitting there.
Well, it turns out, it wasn’t anything from the courts. He didn’t tell me who he was, what the papers were about - nothing, so I assumed it was the photo radar junk. Instead, this tenant’s former boss - of whom was fired for assaulting my tenant - got a lawyer and the lawyer was sending an “official letter” stating that his client was falsely accused, blah blah blah and that if he, my tenant, doesn’t send a letter to Papa John’s and recant the accusation, his client is going to sue him for monetary damages.
Please give me a HUGE break. Lawyers ALWAYS think they can intimidate people. If it were me, I would have already filed a lawsuit against both Papa John’s AND the former boss for monetary damages. I found this out, btw, cause’ the paper was still sitting out there this afternoon - I figured to read it since I am not the person it is pertaining to. I gave the tenant my opinion of it - he doesn’t have to reply to that letter at all, it isn’t a legal, court issued document. I would probably ignore it if I were playing it the way he is (which I wouldn’t, but whatever), wait for the lawsuit and then file a counter-claim. I would try to find a lawyer on contingency, if I couldn’t I would do it on my own as I have done many times now. He has witnesses - my tenant that is - or so he claims, that can testify against this former boss’s allegations.
Enough. I forgot to buy watermelon seeds when I was at Home Depot. I will try to remember tomorrow. Plant them along side the house and see if I can get a dozen or so of them going. I planted 6 of the tomato plants and then realized I didn’t have enough room for the other 12 - at least in that location. I think I have a good place to plant at least 5 more of them.
Well that’s really it for today. I am expecting another $25 from the trailer tenants outside. Not a lot - but I have made it clear from the beginning that they are to pay for their use of electricity and water - which they have every Wednesday since they moved into that thing. They aren’t here - they always leave on Wednesdays on their bicycles for parts unknown. I’ll take every penny I can get and I will get it - I have lots of patience.
I want to go out and do more work outside - I have already spent 2 hours out there after work today, I figure another hour will be good - and good for the soul.
I have been posting blog posts about Frys for some time now on my other blog. If you can’t beat ‘em, diss ‘em publicly.
Anyway, I also sent in yet another complaint to their corporate headquarters about the pathetic service. They always act as if they are sincerely sorry - yada yada yada - but the service levels never change. When they wrote this time, it was the same old rhetoric. I responded to them very bluntly - no need to go into it, it wasn’t crass or rude, but it was very in-your-face, I’ve heard ALL of this before, don’t believe a thing is going to change, etc etc etc.
The store’s newest general manager - they seem to go through them like fruit flies in a cotton field - called me on Saturday asking me to come in, he has something for me, would like to talk. $200 Fry’s gift card. He told me on the phone he would give me such, but I didn’t necessarily believe him. In fact, I really did NOT believe him at all. Who gives away that kind of money’s worth of food to a complete stranger that isn’t exactly on their side? Oh, perhaps that’s the point: if you can’t apologize them over, buy them over! Lol. Well, I have the card, it’s accompanied by the receipt that says it’s worth $200, I was pretty well floored.
I have “earned” some pretty impressive freebies from companies in the past simply for compaining about what is usually abusive “service” on the phone from idiots who are manning an incoming 800 center who have no more clue about customer service than a snake knows how to fly. Please don’t tell me there are flying snakes. I think the biggest I can remember is Direct TV taking around $150 off of my bill because of an UNBELIEVABLE, nightmarish ordeal I endured with their customer service reps. I can’t even remember what that was about, now.
I have to say it’s a huge boon to my financial situation right now - I spend a lot of money on food.
Slow day at work today. Decided to purchase the remaining items I need for my drip irrigation system. I went beyond what I needed and bought replacement parts - they aren’t going to have that stuff around for long at my work, I don’t think anyway, cause’ it’s ranking is in the D class and will soon be no-value and they will either write it all off or will find some landscaping company to buy the stuff at cut-throat pricing. I am getting it at-cost, the pricing is FAR less than I could get it ANYWHERE. I know that stuff breaks here and there, might as well stock up - it was $30 for enough parts to last me for years, frankly.
I don’t know if I mentioned this in this blog, but my dog-abusing neighbors came home, finally. I am going to send those morons a letter with a pic of their dog running up and down the street. Some lady came over on Friday and fed and watered them - a thing that hadn’t been done since they had left a week earlier. Stupid people should not be allowed to own ANY kind of animals excepting maybe an animal that will put their miserable, stupid selves out of any earthly existence. Gag, did I just say that? You know, maybe a hungry tiger could come over and visit them for the night. Anyway, these people have no clue that that dog was running all over the place and obviously didn’t care one iota that those dogs had run out of water.
Whatever. My plants will grow huge however long it takes and those people and their residential landfill will be totally removed from my sight. The vines are growing nicely - eventually they WIL cover a good portion of the fencing on that side of the house.
OH, I bought some tomato plants today. I was going to order them through Burpee, but they wanted $20 plus shipping/handling. Screw that, Home Depot had 6 plants for $2.49, I bought 3 packages of 6. I haven’t tried my hand at growing vegetables in DECADES, actually. I’m doing quite well in the plant and tree department, figure might as well try some tomatoes since I love them and they are quite expensive at the grocery store. Drawback? 70 days before you get a single tomato! Lol. Oh well, worth the experience, I am also going to try growing some watermelons from seed.
Anyway, now that I just remembered I got those plants, I wanna go out and ……….plant them!
A very important day in terms of celebrating things in the Christian realm, I would rate the resurrection of Jesus Christ right up at or near the top of such celebrations. I did not, however, go to church and am, instead, going to visit my mother with my son in tow. Well, he wants to go anyway since his cousins will be there.
The dogs next door have finally been “tended to”. A person showed up yesterday - she does not live there - and I’m referring to my next door neighbors who left for wherever and left the dogs to fend for themselves - to put water in the bowl and feed them. Yeah, feed and water your dogs once a week, that sounds about normal ……… right? I heard her talking loudly into a cellphone in the back of their house, she was apparently wanting me to know that the dogs have food and water. Yes, well the water had run out from what I could see long before she got there. She was speaking in Spanish. I am guessing that family went to Mexico - I have heard they have relatives living there somewhere. You couldn’t pay me to go to Mexico right now with all the violence going on there, but that’s a different story.
The newest tenant is leaving for a 60-day military training mission on the 2cd of next month. Of course, this doesn’t really help my rent situation too well, but we agreed in advance that I would try to rent the room out while she’s gone - which is doable actually - on short-term basis to keep the room “funded” in her absence and not make her pay rent for a place she isn’t using. I decided to post an ad for such early in case someone is coming to the Phoenix area looking for temporary accomodations. I’ve read an amazing amount of stuff for people who want to “rent” a couch, a closet, whatever. Unbelievable what a depressed economy will force people to have to consider doing. One couple, after trying for 2 months, degraded their “demand” by asking for a place in a person’s back yard to pitch their tent.
I have enough people living here and I do not want tent people in my back yard :|
I got more done on the drip system out front and the thing seems to actually be working properly. I still have several plants to run the 1/4 inch line to, but - it is pretty simple stuff and doesn’t really take that long to accomplish. I have not heard back on the Koi Pond yet - regardless of the warnings of how much work they involve, this does not deter me. I spent a lot of time outside - regardless of the temps - it would not be a “big” deal to have to spend a few hours a week keeping it clean and healthy. It’s neither here nor there until I get word of whether this person wants to give it away or sell it.
A man came to the house last night looking for one of my tenants. He had “a letter” to give to him, according to the guy in the trailer who came in telling me about this man outside. I replied it’s probably a process server. No, he says, it’s just a letter. Well, I reply, process servers will lie through their teeth to get the intended court documents to it’s recipients, don’t be fooled by the man’s statements. He was there to serve the tenant with a photo radar ticket. I am NO fan whatsoever of those freakin’ things on the sides of the freeways and those people can all go jump in a lake as far as I’m concerned. It is CLEARLY intended as a money grab by the state of Arizona and there are a couple of groups that are trying to get it on the next ballot for voters to decide whether they want this crap out there or not. I’m guessing most people are going to be on the not side of it.
The man was sent away, and no, the tenant was not served. In this case, I don’t CARE if he wasn’t served. The man may come back - or may try to follow him somewhere, who knows. They have 120 days to serve a person after the ticket gets to the court. I let the tenant know that - if he can ditch the server that long, he gets out of the ticket. From what I have read, there are no points associated with these tickets, on the freeways anyway, the cameras being operated by AZ DOT, but the fine is rather hefty at $240 after they serve you. I am going to fight mine in court, there is no good reason not to. The fine doesn’t go up if I lose and I may just be able to beat it. They “served” the papers to a neighborhood kid, a juvenile at that, not me. The rules say it has to be someone competent and living here. That’s a technicality, yes, but I have it on video surveillance. I will be putting that episode onto a disc and taking it to court with me.
Well, I have numerous things to get done before leaving for mom’s house, so, I’m outta here.
The guy in my trailer outside left the gate open a little while ago. Open gate = lost dogs. He came in looking for them - obviously aware that he had done such and was asking where they were. “Didn’t you just come through the gate?” i asked. Yes. Hopped in my car - fortunately not too much time had passed - found them galloping down a side street not far from here.
That’s strike 2. Strike 3 and those people are goners. I haven’t told them that - I was too angry and decided to cool off before informing them that if they do this again, they are welcomed to LEAVE forever.
Meanwhile, the “neighbors” next door left over a week ago - to where, who knows - and left their 2 dogs alone, unattended and one of them chained up to a pole. Wrong thing to do living next to a house with dog lovers such as us. Instead of being total jerkoffs and always keeping to themselves, never talking to neighbors, they could be “nice” enough people and neighbors such as me would help them with their dogs. Instead, I and one other person called the pound. There are 2 notices on their house right now, I am assuming if the pound comes back a 3rd time, those dogs are going to the pound.
How do you, in good conscience, leave your property and leave your dogs without ANYONE to look in after them, make sure they are okay, watered and fed? For over a week? I’m guessing - just a hunch - they will be back sometime this weekend.
Anyway, I am still fuming that this guy would leave the freakin’ gate open. He KNOWS I’m pissed right now and is leaving me and it alone.
Anyway, I still haven’t made any plans for this weekend and the weekend - is here. I am not sure that it is such a bad thing to just take a weekend off and do nothing or very little. I am thinking of doing some cleaning projects and then - nothing else besides hopefully putting some finishing touches on my drip system out front. I need to run line to more plants and also need to figure out what the problem is, exactly, with that system. I think there is too much pressure, my guess anyway. Not sure yet. I’m no expert at these systems - figuring things out may take some time. Well, I always have a garden hose to water everything until that happens : )
I was GOING to go buy the rest of the stuff needed to put the Mastercool on the roof of the trailer so they will have cooling in there, but now? I’ll get to that on my own good time. I don’t have a lot of rules around my house concerning the strangers that are living here, but EVERYONE hears about the gate when they move in. It is made very clear that that gate is not to be left open. VERY, CRYSTALLINE CLEAR.
Anyway, tomorrow is Easter and I am spending a portion of it with mother and one of my brothers and his son. I doubt the oldest bro is going to show up - he usually doesn’t. I see him once a year for a couple of hours and that’s the end of that.
That’s it, really, for now. Just trying to cool off from getting very heated with this situation with this guy leaving the gate open. The point is that those dogs could have been run over by a car; stolen; or ended up in the pound. There really aren’t very many good options for dogs when they get out of their house and take off running down the street - the only good one is if you happen to find them.
Sleep issues. They have been a problem - sometimes a serious problem - for me since I got divorced. This week, I have had a total of around 14 hours of sleep since Monday. I go to bed, sleep a few hours, wake up and lay there, awake, the rest of the night. It makes work difficult at best and life miserable as well. I don’t really know what it’s going to take to come out of it. I have sleeping pills but I hate taking them. When I DO get a good night’s sleep, it’s akin to a miracle.
I’ve also had some long days at work this week - which can be difficult at best when you are bone-tired. Not a pity party, just life as it’s currently going. I literally drag myself out of bed in the morning, force myself to the shower - which always wakes me up to get me moving at least.
So, I have made no plans to do anything this weekend. Not that I won’t do anything, but it’s not even been on my mind. My mind is saying sleep, my body is saying sleep. Well, maybe tonight I’ll take the sleeping pills just to force the issue.
I will be discussing with the doc at the physical this issue in case he has any ideas - I have read that sleep issues can also be derived from health problems and that if you have no known reason for having such, perhaps the doc can look into it. Who knows. Doc has ordered more blood work concerning this thyroid issue.
Anyway, that’s my deal this week and the reason I really haven’t been writing much. I have written some entries in my other blog, I head over here to write up something else and then - it just fizzles out.
So, just a recap of my week. Joe - the ex-tenant - finally showed up, money in hand, and removed his belongings from my house. That’s a whole story in itself. The Marine paid up what he said he was going to. That was a GREAT thing. My dad sent a check that arrived today in the mail. I have an appointment Monday to take a test to see if I can do the Census stuff - a part-time job that will bring in some much-needed funds to replenish my bank account if I get the job and if they have hours I can work beyond my current job. Yes, the entire week has been about money - though I am definitely not about greed. Just money that was owed me or given to me that was and is MUCH needed at this point.
As for life in general, I continue to think about trying yet another church, I continue to have an inner battle in even attempting to implement such. I’m not very happy with myself that I am not going to church and having fellowship with other believers. I have all of my neatly wrapped excuses, but under scrutiny, they fall short of anything material. Same old excuses that have been haunting me since the divorce. If you want to look at a man whose life changed in a way that redefined the man’s life because of divorce, you have no further to look than me. But the change is ALL negative. Not that I regret getting divorced, there IS no remorse there, I am very glad not to be bound in that relationship. It was all the things that happened during that period that changed my life.
Anyway, I am done with this and will try to write something with a bit more content tomorrow.
My neighbor across the street mysteriously ended up with a pretty good-sized plastic pond laying on the side of her house. I asked her about it yesterday - was she going to put it in. There was an emphatic NO followed by how her daughter is always bringing junk over and dumping it at her house.
I have DREAMED of having just such a pond on the dog-free zone side of my house. Those things are expensive and I just decided unless I find a smoking deal somewhere, that is all it’s going to be: a dream. Well, I may end up getting one for free : ) She said she would ask her daughter - but it sounded good. Right next to the house there is a place where I had envisioned having a pond like that with the big leaf plants in it and some koi or other fish, surrounded by pavers and a sitting area with an outdoor bench. I have pavers, I don’t have a bench, but I always take things a little at a time in such endeavors anyway.
In other words, I scour Craigslist and keep my eyes open everywhere I go for any deals on whatever is needed. In this economy, finding deals is not terribly hard when people are faced with paying an electric bill they don’t have any money to pay for - they start selling things and selling them cheap.
Of course, there are always cons to any plan such as this. What would I do with all of that dirt I would have to dig up? Does the pond have the pump and lines or would I have to buy that separately?
Okay, well, I just went over there to check it out. It’s not a huge pond - it’s about 5 feet by 3-1/2 feet. Perfect size, actually. It would therefore only need a small pump and an aeration device to spray the water being pumped back out over the pond to help keep it cool. Maybe 3 fish, a frog and some lilly pads : ) Well I don’t know about the frog - cats around here would probably eat it for dinner. Of course, frogs can hide out in the water, I suppose - cats are not known to enjoy such.
The point is that it would be a perfect, almost-finishing touch to that side of the house. I have been working over there all weekend long,trying to get the hard labor junk done before the heat gets here. It’s absolutely beautiful out right now, that’s a fact.
Ahhh, yes, that pond is worth about $150. A pump is $40 and there are people selling fish, plants and everything else on there (Craigslist). Tight budget right now - definitely. Will it stay that way? I’m an optimist: definitely not. The female tenant paid half a month’s rent and the ex-Marine dropped me $100 the other day with $560 coming this coming week. The other guy? No clue. Waiting for some kind of word - well I usually don’t wait forever, I will start the conversation and find out what’s going on.
Well, Caleb and J.D. just left for the Wrestlemania event. Caleb doesn’t watch that stuff anymore, but he was elated when I offered him the tickets to go. J.D.? Cloud 9. He LOVES “Fake Wrestling” - what I like to call it - watches it religiously every week. I paid for those tickets 4 months ago - just was trying to decide whether Michael and his family were going to pay for them as they said they would - they did not. No big surprise there, I actually wanted to give J.D. a good time in doing something outside of his rather mundane existence - mostly because his grandmother, who is raising 4 boys - simply does not have the money to do stuff like that for them. I could not, in my good conscience, send them without money for drinks and food - they are going to be there a long time - so I did something well out of the ordinary and gave them $40 for such. That should buy them 2 drinks and a hotdog.
Well, I’m off to Home Depot, one of the GFI outlets is fried and I have to replace it.
Forgetting that I left a giant turkey in the refrigerator to thaw this week at work, I decided to come back and get it - it ain’t gonna last forever and I don’t want to lose the meat to spoilage. So, here I am, at work, with the dogs, sitting here while they run like crazy around the yard outside. Yes, it’s wonderful to be able to let them go and not have to worry about dog fights in a dog park or them getting away - completely fenced yard with only one hole in the fence that is now blocked off.
Figure a good 1/2 hour to 45 minutes of this and go home, put that turkey in the oven and have a feast later on today.
The newest tenant paid half a month’s rent early - ie: as in today. Nice. The ex-Marine is paying almost $600 on - I think it’s Wednesday or Tuesday. That only leaves the other dude up in the air - he finally started working again but how long is it going to be before I see anything from this guy? Dunno - got $100 earlier this week which brings him up to what is now a full month’s rent behind. He’s going to have to come up with at least another $100 in the next few days is all I can say about that.
Nothing else much going on unless you want to discuss politics - which I sincerely do NOT want to do right now.
In fact, I am going to go run around the yard with the dogs a few times to make sure they have all the pent-up energy discharged : )
I found it quite interesting that the person that helped one of my tenants pay a bit towards his rent - sent the check directly to me, addressed to me, written out to me instead of sending it to the tenant.
One could conjecture that this friend of his didn’t necessarily trust that all of that money would end up in my hands, instead going for whatever else - but I don’t know either of these people so I can not definitively conclude that such is the case. What IS the case is that I am happy to receive that $100 - but that leaves him at $300 behind and as of Saturday, back up to $400.
I stopped at Fresh and Easy on the way home today - I do not go in there often as much of what they are offering can be found much cheaper at Fry’s Food Stores - but they DO have better prices on their line of potatoes - french fries; hash browns and such. Well, there was a counter where a man was making up something to eat with freebie samples, of course. It was a wrap - a jalapeno wrap at that, with guacamole, chicken and lettuce. It was absolutely delicious, so I bought all the stuff and am eating my own version of it. My version has only one additional ingredient: salsa.
I have started a much more rigorous workout on an almost daily basis as I am not happy with the increasing flab. Namely: the use of the Nintendo wii. Sound crazy? It has a boxing game on there. I figured I could get a good aerobics workout with it, I did not figure wrong. 30 minutes of boxing and I am breathing heavily and sweating crazily. Good workout. I am throwing around weights a couple of times a week and taking one dog a day on a roller-blade run. I can’t handle 3 dogs on roller blades, I would just crash and burn. But I can take one. I have cut back on caloric intake as well.
So, time passes and what are we accomplishing with our lives? I ask myself that question frequently - am I doing anything with any kind of eternal benefits, or am I just throwing it away? Well, I’m slowly coming back - to the place I was before. I will not comment on it as I don’t feel like getting into a religious argument with anyone, but, having said that, needless to say, it has to do with God.
Well, I am out the door to another kind of workout: shovelling rocks. Anything to burn calories.
The non-paying tenant is borrowing money - from whoever - to pay some of the past-due rent up, with a job starting today and allegedly an unemployment check coming and the promise to tap whatever sources he may have to get more. Apparently he doesn’t want to move out. A strange phenomenon when a person owes rent - is past due - but doesn’t want to leave. I said fine, let’s see the money and then we’ll go from there.
Meanwhile, the people in the trailer broke the electrical outlet -one of those protected circuits with the button on it - they were complaining about the electricity but had run the line to the other side of the house. I’m sorry, this is my problem because - why? Actually, he was going to replace it but it was beyond his affordibility. Yes, I assume I am to replace the thing but I also assume when it does become affordable that the guy gives me the money for it. I have made it exceedingly, crystal clear to these individuals that they are to pay for their own electricity. I guess I’m also going to have to make it clear that if they break something, they need to own up to it and replace it. Not a BIG deal, really, I haven’t had problems with them - but then again - you never know how bad a situation is going to get UNTIL you have a problem. They are mostly transparent tenants - they do not bother me in the house and only come in to use the bathroom.
I continue to encourage them to look for jobs - my place is only a temporary setup and I would like to see these people get on their feet and get on with life - on their own. Not that I am kicking them out anytime soon, but at least one of them needs to find some kind of job and start trying to save up some money. I will continue to plant that seed - pretty much every time I see them at this point - until one or both or them finds something. Understandably, the job market sucks. I had thought he was a CDL driver - apparently he WAS at one time but did not keep his CDL current. If he could get another CDL license he definitely could find SOMETHING out there. Maybe not the greatest paying job on earth, but $13 per hour is far better than NOTHING. Or, they could go OTR - they apparently are good with living in small, confined spaces. If an OTR driver could handle not having an actual house/apt. whatever/ and was disciplined enough, it would only take 5 years - or less - to come up with the money to buy a house outright for cash.
And OHHH, how I wish I had this kind of thinking when I was a 20 something. Too late. I couldn’t possibly fathom living in a truck again. Even worse without having any kind of place to go “home” to. I would do it if my back were pressed against the wall, I would have to be in a very EXTREME situation to do THAT. I’ll rent out my bedroom - the master bedroom - before I EVER go that far with this stuff.
Well, I’m off to read some more news and then – work.
Ben B