Well, I’m getting up when I should and getting my morning routine 100% done–three days running, now, but I’m paying for it in sleep. I’ve even been taking it easier, not pushing hard to squeeze in a billion jobs, and I’m not wasting time, but I’m still not getting to bed on time, so it’s 5-6 ish hours of sleep each night, and it caught up to me today.
I had a job go south today–2.5-hour job that took like 6.5. Ugh. It was my friend Jimmy’s truck, which I’d vowed in the past not to work on again because it’s such a pain in the butt, and today was no exception. It was just miserable, and today I finally told him. No more. His truck is just not something I’m gonna work on again. It’s just… a nightmare every. stinking. time.
Anyway, so yeah it caught up to me today in that I completely lost patience and just got angry–really angry–with the truck and the job. I’m not confident it’s gonna be okay. I hope it will, but… goodness… it was a nightmare today.
The first job was a pain but went decently well, aside from land rover making their fan clutch nut left hand thread, which I didn’t figure out until… yeah… some of those are on so tight you have to beat the snot out of them to get them off. So I did. But still nothing. Then I found that it was left-hand thread.
Lovely.
Still, the job went fine otherwise. Ridiculous design that requires you to take off the fan clutch, the fan bearing, and the bearing bracket (and you’re supposed to take off the tensioner as well, but I figured out a way to do it without taking the tensioner off), just to replace the belt (which was cracked badly).
Anyway, tough day. Mornings are solid, though I’m so exhausted I’m not really getting much meaningful time today.
I didn’t get home from Jimmy’s truck until almost 9. Just two cars today. Should have done probably 5, but Jimmy’s truck…
(sigh)
It’s 9:47. I’m really vulnerable to relapse right now. Super tired. Was super angry. Body on the edge. Challenging morning as well. woman came into the Subway with some… triggering attire. Hopefully, I’ll get my butt in bed now and stay there without slipping into the crap. 25 days clean today.
Want to keep it that way:
#1. I’m grateful I’m clean still.
#2. I’m grateful I’m making progress, though slow, on my morning stuff, my evening dailies as well, and even on my to-do list a little bit.
#3. I’m grateful that the Durango is back to behaving nicely.
#4. I’m grateful I missed the auction today. Not that it would have been bad, but at least I didn’t buy anything stupid.
#5. I’m grateful that
Thought of the Day: “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
Onward and… upward.
Lift the World.
~ stephen
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