2022-04-05 — When It Rains

Today has been really really rough from just about the beginning of the day through now (11:46 p.m). I’m really struggling. I made a couple of dumb decisions, one early in the day, one in the later afternoon, and I’m really paying for it in stress, discouragement, etc.

Not to mention the last car of the day was one I spent over three hours at and in the end had to throw up the white flag, as I simply could not get it to work right. It’s a truck I’d worked on months and months ago, and she finally got the parts, and it’s been torn apart for all those months, so it took forever just to re-figure out where everything went, but even once I did that… ugh.

Rough day. 3.05 cars. Battery job in an F250, oil leak repair job in a 2008 Malibu Classic, and alternator in a 2006 Toyota Avalon, followed by the nightmare Silverado that I didn’t charge for and didn’t leave from until after 10, I think. I got there not too long after 6, I think.

Ugh. It’s been a crappy day, and I was trying to push through all the northern jobs today, but that last one… buried me.

I’m premigraine right now and rather discouraged and afraid from my choices earlier today. I’ll know the full extent of the consequences tomorrow, I think. Ugh.

I’m pretty discouraged.

I did remember to get hydraulic fluid for the dozer, and there’s a lot of interest in it so far, though no one has actually come to look at it. If I can get it started again, that should speed up the getting-rid-of-it process.

Good night, folks. I hope you had a better day than I did.

Lift the World

~ stephen