It’s been a really hard day today. I think probably the main reason it was hard, maybe? Was that I forgot to take my prednisone, and going cold turkey off of prednisone can be massively destructive to one’s emotional well-being (e. g. depression, etc)
So probably partially that, and probably partially feeling sick, or maybe the sore throat and sickness and what not were all related to forgetting to take my dose of prednisone.
Whatever the cause, I was pretty much badly depressed today.
The day started off with me not being able to find my wallet, which… Is ridiculous because there aren’t really very many places it can be.
I was already not in a very good space, so not being able to find my wallet was, once again, straws and broken camels’ backs and all that crap.
Very much not right in the head today.
I took a gamble, hoping that maybe the Volkswagens AC system wasn’t working simply because it didn’t have enough refrigerant in it. It was empty of refrigerant, after all.
Gratefully, A vacuumed down the system, and it held pressure, and I filled the system, and The air started blowing nice and cold. 🎉🥳
That will definitely make it easier to sell.
Got the last of the stuff from our old house, now Jenna’s house. The only things left that hadn’t been given away were the front carpet, little decorative table that holds a statue of Jesus on top, Aunt the partition divider that went in the celestia room.
My mom decided that she would go ahead and keep the carpet and the little table and Jesus bust, Aunt I gave the partition to Stevie and Risa. I thought maybe it might be beneficial for them as a tiny bit of privacy in the upstairs loft area. I told them I was just going to throw it away anyway, so there’s no pressure keeping it.
Chatted with Risa a little bit about her efforts to learn English. Gave her a suggestion.
I miss being a teacher.
As I was coming back from giving the partition to Risa, the tie rod completely broke on my work van, causing the left front wheel to be unsteerable. I wasn’t in the mood to try and sit there and fix it right there, so I managed to get it from up in front of Liz’s, where it broke, around the bend in the road, then back to the right through the field, and all the way back to the greenhouse area. I had to periodically stop the van, get out, and beat the wheel back to facing the right direction, but I made it back.
And there the van sits. 🙃
I haven’t decided yet if the tie rod braking is going to be the demise of that van as it pertains to belonging to me. I have the parts to fix it. I bought them 2 years ago when I bought the van itself. The suspension was bad then, and I bought all the parts to be ready to replace them when I needed to.
But do I have the energy and willingness and desire?
No.
The only reason I have interest in keeping the van is because it’s got all the great shelving in it to hold all my tools. And I figure I want one vehicle to live in And one vehicle to hold all my tools and stuff. I figured that anything that I can’t fit inside my tool van will just get sold or given away or whatever.
But I just don’t know at this point.
I do need a place to keep all my tools, and my work van is a great place, and I don’t yet want to get rid of ET, but neither do I want to turn ET into a work van. It’s got too many good memories of traveling around the country and Canada with my mom. There’s a part of me that wants to go off on another adventure with her in that same van. Certainly Rover would be more comfortable, but it would also be a lot more expensive. I still don’t know what gas mileage is like on the freeway with Rover, but I would be willing to bet that it’s nowhere near the The 15 to 16ish that we averaged on our road trip.
I would guess it’s more like 10 to 12. 😅
That’s fine for living in when you’re not really going anywhere, but… 🙃
I decided to take my Ford van back to the transmission shop. My warranty is up in August, and I don’t think I’ve even put 150 mi on it since they replaced the transmission last year. So they’re going to take a look at it and maybe we can see what we can get figured out with it. I just want that one gone, but I don’t want to take a bath on it.
But as stressed out as I am right now, maybe I should just not worry about taking a bath on it and get it out of my hair.
I’m the kind of person right now that other people with money are waiting for. People who just need to get rid of something because they just need it gone and are willing to take a loss on it just to have it gone.
Anyway, I took my recyclables to the recycling center. I’m back on track with recycling, so that feels good in a way. As stressed as I was with all the moving and everything, I just started throwing everything away because I didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with jordan on top of all the bazillions of other things I had to do. But now I’m back to recycling, so that’s nice. I keep a little bin outside my van that I put my recyclables in, and when it’s full, I can take it into the recycling center to recycle.
Would be really nice if the recycling center came to us. There are other neighborhoods nearby that have recycling, I think, but they don’t quite make it all the way out to us. Regular garbage service, but not recycling service.
After going to the recycling center, I went to harbor freight to take back the stuff that I had purchased to get the lights strung up by the deck.
From there, I went over to the transmission shop. Gratefully, and amazingly, I found Jeremy there acting like his old self from a couple years ago. That was nice. He took time to chat with me, and looked at the van and everything, and I got it on his schedule.
Shout out to my mom for coming and picking me up and bringing me home. 🤗
She needed some pallets for the basement because the basement floods a little bit when it rains, And she doesn’t want any of the stuff she’s keeping stored down there to get wet. So we grabbed a couple of pallets that I had bought previously to put firewood on down by the deck And stuck them in her car. They were a little muddy, but pallets now is better than pallets sometime later.
I helped my mom wash off the pallets back at her place, and helped her deal with a little bit of the flooding that happened from this last rainstorm. I think we got, between the two days, maybe 2 and 1/2 or 3 in of rain.
It was badly needed rain.
I did notice that the rain still went over the new speed bump that I built. It’s hard to tell with the optical illusions or whatever what’s uphill and downhill. But there was quite a bit of puddle, about 3 or 4 in deep, I think, on the downhill side of the speed bump/water diversion bump.
I guess I need to redo the diversion bump again. 😕
I dropped off some things for Jim with him, went to the store and bought food for the night because I was out of food, and headed home for bed.
Grateful it was a cooler day today. Looking at the forecast, the heat is coming back quickly. It’ll be back to the mid-90s in just a few days.
I’m depressed. 🙃
~ stephen
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