Only did two cars today. I’ve been dragging so much lately. Just totally drained, overwhelmed, and burned out.
I think I started out the day working on my aerial spider lift. Trying to figure out what was going on with it, working back and forth with the heavy equipment mechanic online trying to diagnose it. For some reason the boom basket is not getting enough voltage or doesn’t think it’s getting enough voltage, and so it’s not allowing the lift to go up, just down.
Anyway, I spent the morning doing that. Then I went out to work on cars.
Doing fewer jobs doesn’t seem to be helping me breathe any better. But hey, at least fewer jobs. 🙃
I guess with the many other things I’ve got on my to-do list, fewer jobs doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to breathe easier: It just means there’s a different type of work. In some ways, I guess I am breathing easier. I have been able to relax a little bit more.
Anyway like I said, just two jobs today. First was a 2013 Honda Civic that needed a starter, so I went ahead and put that in. The second was a 2006 Jeep Wrangler right-hand drive mail-delivery vehicle. It… Needed a lot. But I went there specifically to work on the front brakes. It needed rear brakes as well, and a gajillion other things.
I ended up spending many hours there at the second job, not getting home until around 10:00 something I think. I stayed and talked to the father of the owner of the Jeep for probably an hour after I had finished the job. His daughter’s husband had died of the same thing my hill sister died of last year.
It’s supposed to be one of the rarest forms of cancer, but I seem to run into it fairly regularly.
He was only in his 20s. 25ish, I think.
The daughter, though absolutely devastated by the passing of her husband, was pretty impressive in her strength going forward. She’s going through helicopter pilot school and working hard to move forward.
Found out they were the same religion that I grew up as. It was fairly easy to tell just with the air they had about them, so to speak. So we talked about those kinds of things for a while as well.
Good conversations.
Lift the World
~ stephen
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