2020-10-03 — Sliding Toward Veggie

Hiya, folks 😊.

It’s late, 12:28 a.m., so I’m gonna make this brief. It’s been a long day. It was nice to be able to listen to General Conference. I appreciated that. Good stuff.

#1. I’m grateful to have headphones, good phone reception, and decent streaming quality (the last one a consequence of the Church getting a bit more technologically… uh… capable?).

#2. I was able to put the the nightmare car back together and have it be working well. That was really nice. I was actually pretty amazed that I was able to get it back together on the 4th day working on it days later without having any bolts left over. I don’t think I’ve ever had bolts leftover on a customer’s car ever, but neither do I tear them apart that much, have that many bolts out, or spend days working on it, with plenty of time to forget what went where (I didn’t label the bolts) or take many pictures.

#3. More than anything, I’m grateful that I was upbeat, patient, and positive while working on the car. It took another four hours, and… I think I was pretty rock solidly patient and positive as the general rule through the experience.

#4. I’m grateful to have made a few nickels today, as my brother Jared might say. The first job paid well, and they gave me a tip. The second job was the nightmare that’s now ended. The third was a diagnose today, finish the job and get paid later kind of a job. Then I had a quickie easy one (though sad for the customer because I had to tell them that their motor was blown). And then the last one, they gave me a tip as well. Late night, but a decent day, moneywise.

#5. I’m grateful to my sister Tish for her food advice. She’s a… well… I’m not quite sure if she has a label or title she’d use to describe her eating preferences. Suffice it to say, she’s well versed in vegetarian/vegan knowledge, and so I picked her brain tonight, as I’m quickly returning to the rabbit food/grains/legumes diet and leaving the meat, dairy, etc., out. I’m not a veggie/vegan yet. I’m not sure what I’m gonna be. I do sympathize with those who boycott the meat industry. Some of it is pretty horrific. I feel awful every time I see the chicken/ turkey semitrucks drive by at night. Those poor creatures–spend all their lives in tiny cages, I think, eat, poop, eat, poop, eat, poop, get slaughtered. And milk… constantly artificially inseminated to keep the milk coming, and your offspring taken from you the moment their born. Crappy industries many of them. So… yeah… I sympathize. And I hate killing things, in general. As I’ve mentioned before, I love the Native American viewpoint, giving thanks to the creatures that gave their lives for our food. Anyway…

#6. I’m grateful for good friends.

I’m tired. I’m grateful it’s Sunday now. I’m grateful that Monday is pretty much already booked. I’m working on trying to figure out ways to take Sundays completely off. I’m not sure how to do that yet and still take care of my tech and his family. But… I’m on it. I’ll figure something out.

Well, folks, thanks, for everything. I’m tired. Off to bed. Oh… after I put away about 40 lbs of frozen fruits and vegetables. 🙃

Lift the World.

~ stephen