It’s almost 1 a.m., so I’ll keep this brief. Didn’t do any customer cars today. I did, however, fix my own truck today, finishing up the valve cover replacement job and then fixing a coolant leak. I did that so that I could help Stevie with the tree service job we had today.
I’m regretting, a bit, starting the tree service job right now. I should have waited until when I got back from my trip, but what can you do? I did what I did. I have to deal with that now.
Or perhaps I shouldn’t have started it at all. This is the first time I’ve started a business venture with guaranteed overhead costs (Stevie’s salary). I’ve had plenty of ventures, but I’ve never had one where I was guaranteed to lose money day after day, week after week unless things go well. It’s a bit stressful, with many thousands of dollars on the line for me.
And I won’t even be here in the massively critical growing stages. I’m really hoping that Stevie and I can come up with some kind of a game plan to get him at least enough business to pay his salary and cover expenses, even if I personally don’t make anything. It’s… gonna be tough, though. We’ll see how it goes.
We’ll see…
It’s really hard to leave someone else in charge of a business. Really hard. But… it is what it is. Hopefully, the investment will pay off.
Hopefully…
Anyway, I went over to help Stevie on the job, and I ended up working for like 5 hours to get it done–five hours I won’t get paid a dime for because everything is going to go to paying Stevie his salary, so… that’s not fun at all. Busted my butt, super exhausted, and lost money, honestly…
I just keep trying to tell myself that it’s an investment–trying to convince myself that it’s worth it.
Hope it is.
I’m repeating myself.
What else… Oh, I was wrong in the first of the medical tests. My NP called me this morning and told me that the results of my x-rays came back, and it looks like there are two fractures in my wrist–which I’ve had for… what… 8 months now? Not sure how long.
Just looked it up. Did the job on April 29th. So… just over 6 months I’ve been dealing with the broken hand. 🙃
Glad I decided to get more x-rays.
I’ll be seeing a hand specialist in the morning, for what, I don’t know. I’ll pay for a visit, only to have the doctor just take a few minutes to look at my x-rays and then feel my hand for 60 seconds and recommend treatment; but hey, that’s the game these days, so… you either play it or you don’t.
My truck started overheating super badly on the way home today, and I was also having issues with the trailer brakes yet again. I’m really getting tired of this. I don’t know if it’s my truck or the controller or what. Last time, it turned out to be the controller, so this time… I don’t know. We’ll see. Similar symptoms, except this time it also felt like the trailer brakes were randomly kicking on.
Go figure. I’m a bit frustrated with that. I just want something I can count on. This is a huge safety issue. Can’t be having those things doing that.
Anyway, so I looked at my truck trying to figure it out, and as best I can tell, I accidentally smashed the connector to the coolant temperature sensor when I was removing one of the valve covers. So… I need a pigtail, which you can’t get at the local supplier, so I’ll have to junk yard it, I think. We’ll see.
I’m really tired. And I’m a bit overwhelmed. Less than two weeks before I head to the land down under, and I’m… not ready at all. The tree business is the biggest issue right now, but there are so many other issues. So many. So much to figure out before I go.
I’m pre-migraine right now, but I can’t take my migraine medicine because it has caffeine in it, and my NP nixed that, along with spicy foods and red sauces (tomato sauces, etc), until we get everything figured out with this hernia/whatever thing.
Very sore. Very stiff from both basketball and then busting my butt working on the job today. Crazy times. Crazy crazy times.
But I’m moving.
I’m proud of Malaki. He ran everything himself today, and I think it all must have gone rather well. He only called me once for a fairly small thing that wasn’t car related, just how to deal with a customer who didn’t want to give us their address (ummm… why call a mobile mechanic if you don’t want to tell us where the car is? 🙃)
I’m gonna run off to bed. I’m over the edge and need to go to bed and pray that I’ve had enough to eat and drink that my body will calm down a bit.
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 