let me explain the OOF

Here was my work week (weak)

4.5 hr Monday

5.5 hrs Tuesday

7 hr Wednesday

4 hr Thursday

4 hrs today (friday)

25 hours total. Thats not even part time work in todays day and age.

That OOF! was quite literally 1/4th of my paycheck this week.

Did it to meself. HAD to have a fullsized 1ton truck, with a monster fuel tank. And, that was a fill up, but was not on full empty yet. (learned long ago, running on fumes is bad ju-ju) Full tank is 32 gallons. At the prices today, thats $120 fill up from dead empty.

Here is what I DID do today. I passed on some business cards to Son of Bossman. I figure he may see places to pass them along to, AND, I had an alterior motive in mind: Let him know what I am doing on the side because what I do ‘full time’ (it ain’t) isn’t cutting it. Kind of a “the mule turns the whip around” move. It was also to show him that what I am doing will NOT be encroaching on his market in anyway.

kinda sorta,,, I’ve already been approached by a couple of his clients to ‘be on call’ becasue they don’t like the wait times for repairs. Not fencing: powered gate controllers. I really do not want to go that route: fact, I want to get away from that mess all together as it’s overly frustrating, and most of our current clients are nitpicky as hell about what they want a sub-par unit to do. The ones that pay for the top end stuff we have no issues with: its the low-ball clients that expect $10000 operation from a $1000 unit. And I have heard some stories about same clients and getting paid,,, Sorry, you call me and I come out, CASH UP FRONT before I touch a single tool.

Easier to let that mess slide on by, focus on the other aspects more, the ones that don’t cross territory with ‘my dayjob’. Welding fabrication included on my ‘ok’ list, as thats a pretty wide open description.

Bills are getting paid, that is what I CAN say. It may not be pretty but I am getting by. And once I knock down the lions share of debt I incurred getting BLoo roadworthy, things will get even easier. (I say that with fingers crossed and toes crossed that I am not jinxing myself.)

Open schedule this week. No clients lined up (as in, no one has called yet) but I have stuff to do around the homestead, that won’t take any money out of pocket to do. re-locate both engines (5.7 and 4.3) to a location out of weather until such time as I can do something with them. Go be rock hound to get material for the Rocket Mass heater system I want to build for the upcoming winter (months off, but best get started NOW) And I need to clear a spot for the outbuilding Da is buying to store stuff in. Gotta be here as his property is ‘sold’ (closing is upcoming, but the deal is essentially done.). He has a couple of months to get his dope on a rope yet (written into the closing contract) and that building will be getting filled quick like. Long weekends on my part: some of that stuff is HEAVY!

I have this snigglin’ suspicion, Dio is gonna be busier than a 2 peckered puppy this summer, and kayakin’ is gonna take hind teat to all of it.

We write our own stories, can’t point blame anywhere but inwards.

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