Was up a bit late and slept in a little bit.
Spent the morning listening to political podcasts while downloading 3 years worth of receipts from my AutoZone account. I’m trying to get all my records digitized, so I don’t have to carry around the documents with me everywhere.
It would be easier were I to be audited to have them in paper form, but I’m guessing the odds of being audited are fairly low, so I’d rather just save the space.
Unfortunately, AutoZone tried to “improve” their design for the website which actually made it take probably five times longer to get everything downloaded than it used to.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t designed with keeping Long-Term records in mind. It was designed to be able to look up a receipt, and it’s very effective at doing that, but it’s pretty terrible if you’re trying to get batch receipts downloaded.
You can do a maximum of 15 at a time, and you have to manually select each of the 15, click by click, most of the time.
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So it took me a good long time to get it all downloaded, at least the 3 years that they would let me download. They don’t make records that go back further than 3 years available to commercial customers. Why?
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Anyway, I have a heck of a lot more to do with a document scanner–four more years worth– But at least I got 3-years worth done.
One of my nephews swung by sometime around noonish, I think it was, and he helped me move some heavy things from the house into Rover, so I’ve got everything out of my mom’s house at this point except for a large stack of empty bins and the second mattress that I bought for my brother during last year’s Great Western Road Trip.
After getting the stuff loaded into Rover, I headed up to Missouri to my nephew’s place to help him with an electrical issue he’s been having with his trailer hookup. He recently bought some land and a trailer to put on it temporarily until he’s able to build a house, but after hooking up all the electrical stuff, he wasn’t getting the power that he was expecting to get.
So I headed up there with Rover, and we spent a little while troubleshooting what was going on. Eventually, we got it to work. I can’t point specifically to exactly what we did to get it to work. It’s just kind of like what happens with my mom. Something will stop working properly, and I’ll go over and just touch it, and it’ll start working again.
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So we got it all going, and I gave him a working theory as to why I thought maybe it wasn’t working before, and then he showed me all around his new property, and we chatted for a bit, and then I headed back to Pea Ridge.
Interestingly, on my way back to Pea Ridge, I started having severe pudendal neuralgia issues. Every once in awhile, and it’s pretty rare, but I’ll have A flash of nerve pain so powerful that it’s absolutely debilitating.
Gratefully, it only lasts, generally, for a split second.
On my way driving home today from Missouri, it dawned on me that the pain that I felt after hitting a rock while sliding down a glacier on the east side of Mount Timpanogos after coming down from the peak (My best guess is that I broke my tailbone in that experience), might have been that same pain. If I had to guess, I think it is.
It was a bit scary for me today because that pain, though it never reached the excruciating like it generally does in brief flashes, nevertheless, continued for much longer.
I’m scared that it’s going to be like that more and more in the future.
If that becomes a reality, I may need to have that nerve completely killed.
Which could cause a whole host of issues…
But if I get to the point that that nerve is flashing like that on a regular basis… That’s pretty much going to be my only option, I think.
Anyway, went to the grocery store before heading back over to my mom’s place. Chatted with my old neighbor Dan for a little bit. I feel bad: I kept thinking about stopping by to visit him because he’s been alone since his wife passed last month, but then I kept forgetting.
We chatted for probably 30 minutes or so, and he’s going to swing by tomorrow to borrow my mini excavator and see if he wants to buy it.
Watched several podcasts on YouTube.
My nephew texted me about his heater. I guess not too long after I left, the heater stopped working, so I spent a good while on the phone with him troubleshooting to try and figure out what was going on. Eventually, gratefully, it kicked back on, and I gave him a working theory as to what I thought might have been the cause, But I’m not an HVAC guy, even though I do have a license at this point.
Love and hugs.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
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