2020-04-27 — Gearing Up

So, I love staying up late. Its sooooo natural to me. But I also loooooove being up early, awake when the world is asleep, when all is still. It’s so peaceful–so much easier to be at rest, calm, etc.

Of course, the obvious solution is to never go to bed. That solves all the problems. Best of both worlds.

Just kidding.

If I had to choose one of the two, I’d probably choose being up early. The problem is that I haven’t had the self discipline to say no to the customers who ask for my help, so I’m up late doing work, and on days when it’s not like that, I am usually escaping into one television or movie fantasy world that I can’t escape into if I’m asleep. So, I just end up staying up late, which makes it super hard to get up in the morning, so I don’t get up early.

I miss the days when I went to bed at 9:30 and got up at 5:30 or so. There was no social life, but it’s not like I have one right now anyway, and back then, I didn’t think I really needed much of one, at least on the dating front, because… well… life was going a particular direction, and that wasn’t part of it for the time being.

If I go back to that life, I’ll have to learn how to say no, and I’ll probably suffer a bit in the social life if I ever get back to it again. I do want to start dating again.

Well… who am I kidding? No I don’t want to date again. I just want to find my special someone and dispense with the rest of it.

Wish I could order that up on a menu somewhere.

Yes, yes, I know I could do a mail-order bride, but… yeah. No.

Anyway, crazy day today. So many gazillions of people needing help, and once again I found myself cleaning up after more mistakes from a previous mechanic I had working for me. Ugh.

Oh well. Nothing I can do about it now. He doesn’t work for me anymore anyway, and I can’t do anything about what’s already been screwed up except fix things for free as they come up. Tis what it is.

Now I’m thinking about that exercise that I said I was going to start doing tomorrow.

Ugh.

I’ve got 9 cars already on the schedule for tomorrow. It’s insane right now, and the rest of the week is filling up already, too, which isn’t normal for mobile work, which means I’m in for an insanely busy week.

I’ve got my ad up again to hire more people. We’ll see how that goes. Hopefully, I’ll find another good mechanic. It would be super nice to have two.

Oh, it would be nice.

Anyway, I only did three cars today, a Toyota Prius battery in the morning, a Toyota Avalon alternator and cleanup from previous screw ups, and then I tried to get a BMW diagnosed that was running weird sometimes. I think we might be looking at a catalytic converter with melted innards that plugs up the exhaust when going up hills, but I’m not sure there. I just bought an exhaust back pressure tester, so that’ll be in later this week. I didn’t charge or that last one because I wasn’t sure what it was yet and didn’t feel good about charging.

Had a pretty good storm today, and I got super tired (maybe from getting up super early for the Prius job), so I was happy that the last two jobs got pushed to tomorrow, even though tomorrow will be insane.

Anyway, I’m tired. It’s 10:37 p.m. It’s gonna be a crazy day tomorrow, and I need to get my rest. My ulnar nerves have been acting up a whole ton, hurting, and my pinkie and ring fingers tingling.

Ugh.

One day, I may have to have surgery to relocate those blasted nerves.

Sometimes I hate my body.

On a brighter note…

#1. Despite that same body giving me a little grief in the sex addiction arena today, I’m still good. Chalk up another day. Is that three weeks now? I think so. Yee haw! I’m grateful for that. Haven’t done this well in a while, and it’s pretty much thanks to y’all. So, thanks to you. My gratitude to you!

#2. I’m grateful that I at least have arms to have ulnar nerve problems. Shout out to all the people who’ve lost limbs in the service of others or who were born without them or lost the use of them for one reason or another.

#3. I’m grateful that the “new” phone (two or three year old model, but brand new out of the box) appears to be working well. Cross your fingers. I really need a phone that works and has goo reception. All the other phones I’ve bought recently have ha crappy reception. Can’t have that in my business. You’d think, since cell phones are not a new technology, that they’d put a little effort into making sure new phones had good antennas. But… what seems logical doesn’t always get done.

#4. I’m grateful that I have an employee for the time being who seems to be getting things done well right now. Cross your fingers there, too. If it weren’t for him, I’d not be making as much money. Blessing.

#5. I’m grateful that I have the means to take care of my needs and that I’ve mostly recovered from my financial collapse of four years ago. That’ a big deal, especially in such uncertain times.

Anyway, thanks, for reading, y’all. Time for me to get some food and gear up for tomorrow’s huge day. It’ll be crazy town.

G’night!

Lift the World.

~ stephen