Happy Tuesday, y’all. 🙂
No fear, no excuses.
(not that I’m living in that, but I’m working on it)
I ended up sleeping in today. I was just hammered. Wouldn’t have even gotten four hours of sleep if I got up at 4:25, but I will tomorrow morning.
4:25.
It’s almost 10:15 right now, though, so I’m late again, but better than 12:30+ like last night.
I only did one car today again. Just a quickie that I charged him almost nothing for. And then I did a couple of errands that were on my to-do list that were a little pressing in my mind, so that was good. Those are done now.
I tried to find my old employee, and it appears that I’m not ever gonna get my tools back because it looks like he’s blocked me on Facebook, so… apparently, he doesn’t want me to find him. Phone number doesn’t work. Blocked on FB, so he’s got (or perhaps has sold by now) over $1000 worth of my tools.
Such is life. I’ll try not to let myself get pessimistic and cynical about the lack of decency I see around me. On the whole, the human race is a wonderful people when taken as individuals. Kind, compassionate. We’re wonderful people. And the vast majority of my experience with people 1 on 1 has borne that out to me.
So… the bad experiences… oh well. I have some. Whatever. There’s every reason to be optimistic in this world–good people everywhere.
No fear. No excuses.
#1. I’m grateful for family and friends who have lifted me through hard things lately.
#2. I’m grateful for the rain today. It was wonderful.
#3. I’m grateful that ice cubes on mosquito bites seem to stop the itching for me. (I learned that cold could help after a trip to Yosemite National Park with my sister back in…. 2000? I got something like 100 bites on my back all at the same time trying to sneak up on some dear in a field. Didn’t realize the mosquitos were there. Didn’t have a shirt on. Oops. But I jumped in the cold river after that, and didn’t have any itching problems after. It was lovely. So I do that periodically. I put ice on a few bites, and those ones stopped itching today. The ones I didn’t put the ice on? They itch.
Interesting.
#4. I’m grateful my truck is still going. I think the tranny is starting to slip, so I think it might be on it’s way out here shortly. Might stick some stop slip in it. I was hoping it was just low on fluid, but… I checked, and it was in range. So… might be time for a rebuilt tranny here in a little bit. We’ll see.
#5. I’m grateful that the trails through the woods look pretty decent with the mower having gone over them. There’s plenty to do still, but it’ looks pretty good right now, and that’s cool. Lots to do, but it’s decent right now.
Daily Accountability…
The positive
- I had the opportunity to help someone who didn’t have the money needed to pay for what they wanted to buy, and I took the opportunity.
- I’m not stressing over the transmission starting to go out in my truck. It is what it is. Ok. Life goes on.
- I’m staying slow-paced with work stuff. Not pushing. Not killing myself.
- I’m growing and becoming.
The “Needs Improvement”
- I’m still struggling to get to bed at the needed hour.
- I’m still not getting organized for work like I need to.
So that’s today. Hope you’ve had a beautiful day yourselves.
Lift the World.
~ stephen


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