Thursday, payday (for me) and not quite end of week

Tomorrow is not a Freeday for me, again, and while I much prefer my three day weekends, FRN’s talk, bullshit walks,,, And I am burnin’ those FRN’s like mad currently.

Had a message from Mint, telling me “your spending on repairs is up 5%” Pfffft!!!! Mint; ya ain’t seein’ the cash I am spending either,,, just the electronic transactions via online sources. I’d say repairs are up closer to 25% over normal currently. That shit happens when your truck decides she wants some love and attention past the usual ‘start me go to work and park’ love. She’s getting quite a bit of that too, but stuff wears out, and sometimes, all at once. While not true in the strictest sense, it sure feels that way.

Fuels cost too. Saw a jump of forty cents a gallon in octanes (cheap stuff, even higher for the serious go juice) And I am going to be filling one of those propane bottles this week. I considered doing both, but I figure, space ’em out a couple weeks and absorb that pain over time. 100# tanks (they only fill 80%,,,) comes out to around 20 gallons of propane and thats sitting near $4/gallon right now (4.25#/gallon ) I see a Ben Franklin leaving my nest with a quickness in the near future.

But Ben is buying me a warm house and that is NOT a bad thing. I’ll do the same thing in a couple of weeks for the second tank. Just simple spread it out so that it doesn’t all hit at once, along with the other bills on top,,, Pay raise or no, these things add up FAST and dig deep when they hit.

Like that savings account thing I keep at even knowing that saving in a high infaltion/hyper-inflation time period is not the safest thing to do. That savings is for those emergencies that arise, like having batteries fail on my electric system: big honkers that cost more than a set of tires for a truck. They go bad, its not subtle, its all at once and the whole system goes into limp mode until they are replaced, and you can’t replace just one,,, Very bad things happen when you do that.

Y’all remember those food processing fires last year/eariler this year? Yeah, the ones that everyone thought ‘conspiracy ‘ on? With all the WEF stuff flying around, it was easy to make that connection, granted. Much too easy to fall into that “they want us dead” line of thinking: even I fell into it, though i didn’t really make much mention of it. Something didn’t gel for me, even though it was so convenient. Maybe it didnt’ gel for me because it WAS so convenient. Well, Sarah has a post about it and some thinks as to what is really taking place and, yeah,,, I can buy that a lot eaiser than some conspiracy of ‘they want us dead’, even though every aspect of their narrative spells out that they DO want us dead. (we are the carbon they want to remove) Her arguments survive Occams razor much better than CONspiracy to starve the US. And maybe there are 9 near misses for every one that burns. We will never know for sure because we have a compromised news (hack spit!) system.

One point of the argument is solid enough: Lack of Competency. That is becoming so damned obvious in so many facets of government, it’s the obvious ‘blue curtain’ in a blue room. So in your face, you miss it. Or, avoid seeing it because it makes you far too depressed to acknowledge it. One only need listen to a “speech” by Kamala-la-la-ding-dong to know COMPETENCY is NOT a requirement for that ‘group’. I don’t even want to discuss the ambulant corpse chief executive puppet. Less said about that the better since seeing that things face gets my blood pressure up: Hearing it or hearing about the latest faux pas,,,,

yeah, keep the BP in lower levels unless exercising,,,, better for everyone, ‘specially me since I like breathing O2, and ain’t ready to take the dirt nap just yet.

Lyssa is not going to be ready for water this weekend, but thats quite alright. I has others, and BlueJean has been whimpering her boredom of late. Gonna take her out for some quality time, and get away from this heat in a constructive manner. Get hot paddling, roll with it, get the head wet, and cool off.

Middle of next month, Sisters are doing the meetup and in two states. Big sis is renting a VRBo in Charleston, and the invite is in. Hard considerations here, as I would like some time off (no money coming in is the CON against currently) and I would like to tranpsort Lizzy to my sis in SC’s place so she can list her there. She is more likely to sell in a coastal area than in landlocked KY,,,,

I haven’t made up my mind as yet. If I do, Lyssa MUST be finished as I want to get her out in the salt water, maybe see some dolphins and other lifeforms that AREN’T here,,,, (no gators,,, you can keep the gators,,,,) If I go, the camera is going to be in overdrive for certain,,, Some things must be shared, and that will be one. If I go,,,, still time to decide and work on the lost income of not being at work (and bossman will blow at least one vein if I decide to go,,,, even the new guys see, and have commented on, how much that place runs on my efforts.) One of my dreams for kayaking is paddling with a pod of dolphins,,, I have seen others do so and the interactions between those playful clowns and the paddler looks like a blast. No hope in hell of ‘racing’ with them, but just ‘talking’ to them,,,,, yeah,,,,,,

Alright, enough of an evening post, I has stuff that needs doing before the day leaves me completely,,, Finished fixing my kayak rack today and needs installed, Lyssa needs more TLC on her gel-coat, and the other little noodley things that keep a household running,,, If I write more tonight, it will post in the AM.

CYA tomorrow!