24 years ago March 19th was my last day of high school. Crazy.
Memories.
I don’t like the time is linear. I miss people and places and times. Memories… Sometimes aren’t enough to satisfy. Sometimes I want to go back and be again in those days and times. Not because of regrets or things that I would do differently, though I’m sure I would change plenty, but just to be there. To enjoy the friends and the experiences and life in those times again.
Perhaps those are odd thoughts…
Moving on… When I woke up this morning, my hands were super swollen when I woke up this morning. Not sure exactly why. Overwork. Heart issues. Who knows. It’s happened to me for years and years after I’ve done lots of heavy manual labor. Not sure why it happened today. Mechanic work really isn’t very much heavy manual labor. Sure there’s effort in carrying a 70 lb jack or breaking free tight bolts, but it’s not really much, honestly. I wouldn’t really consider any of what I do exercise.
Since I didn’t finish all of the jobs on Saturday, I still had one I needed to do today. I was tired, though, so I didn’t go out and do it first thing. I kind of lounged around for a little bit just exhausted. I haven’t been sleeping very well sleeping in that recliner for the last two plus months.
Let’s see, what did I do. I hung out in my room for a little while. I ate some food I think. I went up to the barn to take the wheels off the trailer so they could be replaced.
That’s been holding us up a good bit. There’s a load of stuff on the trailer that needs to be taken to the metal scrap, but it’s got two bad tires on it. So I jacked up the trailer and pulled the wheels off, and a family friend said he could go get tires for it, so I threw them in the back of his pickup truck, and I guess I’ll just wait for him to get that squared away.
I chatted with Jim a little bit about the property. I haven’t been around to help with anything really because I’ve been working all the freaking time. I’m working out ways to help even though I’m working so much.
Took the opportunity to do some nice things for people today. That was really nice. Reminds me of how much I want to spend my life doing those kinds of things.
The dirty house and yard is getting to me a bit. I’m going to see if one of my niece is over here might be interested in being a housekeeper for a day or two to help get everything clean since I’m gone all the time.
Have blown through another pair of shoes. Didn’t really realize it until I had a customer applaud me for making good money and still wearing cheap stuff. 🙃
He mentioned my shoes, and I looked down at my shoes and saw that they were falling apart.
🙃
Then yesterday as I was walking around, I kept hearing weird dragging sounds from my right foot, like I stepped in something and was dragging it along with me. I was so busy all day that I didn’t take time until later in the day I think to take a look, and what I found was that my shoe had pretty much disintegrated, and the dragging sound was part of the soul that was hanging down.
Oops. 🙃
I drove out to the one car that I hadn’t gotten to yesterday that I needed to finish today. Turned out to have some issues that were more than what I could take care of. Hopefully, they are under recall. Dodge, instead of designing their crankshaft position sensor like everybody is done for a gazillion years, they decided to design a different one. Aaaaaaaand of course the new sensor relucter wheel thingy or whatever it’s called breaks apart, the magnetic pieces coming delaminated from the rest of it, making it so that it doesn’t work anymore.
How do you fix it? Well, you either reprogram the computer to ignore the sensor information and just keep running, or you have to remove the transmission to replace the little wheel that the sensor is getting its information from.
Pretty darn sure that’s what the issue is, but I didn’t have an oscilloscope to verify for 100% certain, so I gave them all the information, sent them the recall information for a couple of different things that were related, and didn’t charge them anything because I couldn’t prove My tentative diagnosis.
After that, i went to our monthly family meeting, and that was good. Nice to be involved even though I feel like I haven’t done much lately.
And now some gratitude…
- I’m grateful for the day off today.
- Knock on wood, though the diarrhea thing he’s been present for a couple days, I don’t consider that sick. I consider that food issues. I haven’t been sick, gratefully, in a long long time. I have weird medical thingies that seem to happen all the freaking time, but I don’t get sick apparently. 🥳
- I’m grateful to have been able to be there for a family member and a friend today. Had a family member here who was in need of a good little chat, and we chatted for a bit and that was good. I also had a friend who is feeling pretty down and discouraged, and I was able to encourage and support in ways that were really meaningful for her. 🥳
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 