Yesterday followed a similar path to the rest of my staycation, getting stuff done. I was out the door early to get to Home Depot and pick up Sadie before the AC guy got to the house for a supposed 9 AM appointment. When 10:30 rolled by and no one was there I called in to ask what was up. Juli, the company owner, whom I set the appointment up with the day before answered. I told her that nobody had shown up yet. She told me she had no appointment in the book for me. I reminded her I just talked to her the day before and we set it up. She then remembered but said she forgot to put it in her appointment book. The good news was she had a guy that could still stop by in an hour or so.
The AC maintenance went ok. I realized that it has been almost 10 years since my system was replaced which is significant since I believe the warranty expires after that point. The tech mentioned some services I may want to look into for my next service like duct cleaning which costs a good chunk of change. I also am going to need to replace my UV bulb sooner rather than later.
Later in the day Cindy and I followed Katie back to their house. I had redone the computer I got from my accountant which included putting more memory, a SSD hard drive, and a different video card into the box. The PC will be used by Katie. We brought Elsa and Sadie along. As usual Elsa spent most of the time hiding while Sadie was all over the house exploring every corner she could.
The Red Triangle of Death has popped back up on the Prius which is not great news. I checked my paperwork and the battery was first replaced at the beginning of June last year so the one year warranty has expired. I used my code reader to clear the error. I told her if the light stays off it could be good for awhile but if it comes back on in a day or two the pack is likely going to need to be replaced again, which cost me about $900.
Late in the afternoon I got out on an EUC for only the second time during the staycation. I was testing a new mount for my GoPro. I expected the sound to be shit with this configuration, and it was. I am going to be trying out an external microphone set up in the future to see if it is a good alternative.
I still have two weeks of vacation on the books and my roll over date is mid-August. It looks like just as I did last year, I will be “selling” one of those two weeks to get some extra bucks. My preference would be to actually use the time conventionally but since we have been unable to work in a road trip the last couple years, which is what big chunks of time off normally go towards, I have a surplus instead. I could use the money anyway to help knock down some expenses.
Man it is just incredible how quickly this staycation have evaporated. What is also insane is just how little of it I spent doing any sort of relaxing. Outside of the Saturday Supercon trip every single day has just been filled with getting stuff handled. Another slightly negative has been the weather, the last three days have had a bunch of rain which is good for the sod I laid on Wednesday but bad for doing much else. The only PEV riding I have done this entire time is the 10-12 mile ride to Katie and Daniel’s place to install the TV which is ridiculous.
Yesterday the work continued. In the morning I went to my accountant’s house in Fort Myers. The husband/wife team had done my taxes for the last 20 years almost. Well roughly a year ago the husband had a massive heart attack and died which was a shock to me. This was the first time I saw the wife since then. She asked if I could come up to help determine what computer equipment she needed now that the business has been moved out of their home office. I spent most of the morning there trying to sort through it and wiping the hard drives of the stuff that was going to be given away or donated. I actually took one of their old systems to refurbish and give to Katie to use at her new house. During the work we talked about the tragedy which made her tear up multiple times which was hard to see. It was a reminder that anyone’s world can be turned upside down in an instant. We all live inside of a false reality that can be shattered without notice.
During the afternoon my main focus was getting the tractor working again. I pulled it into the garage to do the work since it once again looked like it was going to rain. I pulled the deck off to get a better look. What I saw pissed me off. The blades were not seated correctly on the spindles. The keyed fitting on the spindle has rounded half circles, the key on the new blades was more of a star formation. WTF, the package specifically said the blades fit Craftsman mowers as well as some other brands. Since I threw out the packaging and had already mounted these blades I figured I was f’d as far as getting my money back from Home Depot.
I instead headed to Lowe’s and got a set of blades with the correct key pattern. When I got home I installed them and reattached the deck, hoping my issues were over. Well when I fired up the mower deck it still sounded terrible. I immediately shut it down, assuming the right spindle, which I suspected was bad, needed to be replaced. When I took the deck back off and turned off the main securing nut on top of the spindle the guts of it spilled out onto the garage floor, yep it is bad.
Now the one stroke of good fortune I had was I actually had a replacement spindle in hand. The other spindle failed a year or two ago, I bought two of them at that time, just in case. All I had to do was remove the old shitty unit so I grabbed my impact wrench and started backing out the old bolts. In the process I snapped three of the four bolts. Little did I know how lucky I was to at least have one intact.
I went to the local hardware store with my one good bolt to find replacements. The bolts I bought matched in thread and size but were a little different in design. The old bolt had a small section at the bottom with no threads, I didn’t know why. When I got home and tried to test fit the new bolts into the new spindle I discovered the reason. The spindle bolt holes are not threaded, the special bolts are actually designed to cut threads as you turn it in. The new bolts were not designed to do this.
What I wound up doing was putting the spindle into my vice and turning my one lone original bolt into and out of each hole to thread it. I was quite nervous that the bolt would snap as well during this process but it held up. After doing this the new hardware turned in as you would expect. After mounting the spindle to the deck and putting everything back together I pulled the tractor out into the rain and engaged the blades. Finally things sounded normal. Hopefully I should be good to go for the rest of the summer/fall. I still have my eyes on a Husqrvana tractor with a fabricated deck but I need to take a financial breath before considering it.
During the tractor work I managed to rip a couple layers of skin off my lower right shin. I was not dressed appropriately and was wearing flip flops. I had the deck propped up haphazardly on a tire as I tightened the spindle bolts. At one point the deck slipped off the tire and slid down my shin. Despite it only being a skin wound it bled badly as there is a few square inches of skin removed.
Last night I still found myself busy doing things, despite the sun being down. I had finished up reloading my buddy Lou’s laptop that he sent down from NYC. I also had a number of things to get ready to go with some more 3D store sales as well as doing the initial legwork in assessing the computer I inherited from my accountant. I only got to play WoW for maybe an hour after that was all done. It blows my mind that I only have only fired up the game briefly twice during my time off.
This morning I was again up and running early. After chicken duties I loaded Elsa up in the truck with me to go to Home Depot, Ali’s place to pick up Sadie and the recycling center to drop off some stuff that has been sitting around for weeks. I am waiting for an AC guy to show up for maintenance on the unit. He is already 90 minutes late. I hope that by early afternoon I can stop doing chore/projects and just not care anymore.
When I left last you it was July 4th night when the annoying sounds of backyard pyrotechnic wannabes was all I heard, terrifying Elsa in the process. Friday was less physical labor but still way too busy nonetheless. After doing chicken chores and weeding I went out in the truck to make stops at Home Depot and Costco. The biggest purchase at HD was a proper wheelbarrow, something believe it or not I did not own. The closest thing I had was a small and definitely not heavy duty plastic yard cart that somehow has lasted at least a dozen years.
I figured the wheelbarrow would come in handy for future sod pallet deliveries as well as countless other home chores. At Costco, along with groceries I dropped another $100 on a replacement UPS since the one I bought not so long ago for my main workstation shit the bed.
During the morning I was doing everything I could to get Kristen the chicken to eat and/or drink. She has been going downhill for at least a couple weeks. By now we are quite familiar with the signs, withdrawal from the other hens, lack of energy, and not showing normal interest in food.
We gave her a dose of dewormer earlyish on to see if it would help. We also have been giving her probiotics mixed in with food that she loved so much that she would still eat like yogurt, berries, and watermelon. Kristen has had rounds of feeling off before, in fact she laid a lash egg around a year ago which is normally a death sentence, however she has always managed to bounce back. We hoped this would be another example of it.
So up until Friday she was still eating and drinking albeit not as she should. She even was up on the perch Friday morning, which she got onto herself without assistance Thursday night. But as I was doing the chicken chores I could see she was really weak. When I walked up to her and picked her up without her even trying to struggle I knew it was bad news. I accepted that she was unlikely to pull out of this nosedive.
Birds try to keep up a good face right until the very end and Kristen was a fighter. However later in the afternoon I saw she was motionless in the same spot I had placed her earlier to get her out of the rain. She was gone. As is always the case, I cried when I realized she was dead. I always have an emotional reaction to one of our birds dying but Kristen was special in a lot of ways.
She was one of the chickens that without a doubt knew her name. When we would say it, even if we were a few feet away she would often squat down, expecting some sort of interaction from us. When her sister Stephie mysteriously disappeared she took Stephie’s place as the outcast in many situations. Ironically when Daelin the rooster was running wild attacking any hen he could get his beak on, Kristen was the last one that would go toe to toe with him and fight him. I’ll never forget when she stared him down, flared out her neck feathers and then tried to jump on his back. Eventually she stopped fighting and ran away from Daelin as well. It was actually Daelin chasing Kristen that was the straw that broke the camel’s back and moved us to re-home him asap. We simply could not tolerate him trying to harm our little angel, Kristen.
I buried Kristen in the back of the property with the other birds, about half of which got dug by predators. In order to hopefully avoid that I dug a grave approaching three feet deep and we wrapped her body in burlap and a plastic bag. As one final counter measure I grabbed a dozen palm fronds from the fill pit and covered the grave with them. I was very sad that we lost her but in some ways glad it happened when we were home instead of Saturday when we were gone all day long. My feelings about animals in general make chicken ownership a much more emotionally wrenching experience than it would be for most.
Later in the afternoon I tasked myself with replacing the mower blades. When I was finishing up the mowing on Thursday I noticed the deck was sounding loud. I figured the badly beat up blades were out of balance. When I replaced the bad blades with new blades I fired them up and expected everything to be great, it wasn’t. The one side wasn’t spinning normally and I even heard them making contact with one another so I turned it off immediately. My current theory is the blade spindle on that side is bad. I just happen to have an extra one laying around somewhere so I am hoping to get a chance to try swapping that out tomorrow. Having the tractor down for any prolonged period of time during summer is not a manageable situation.
Late in the afternoon I dropped off Elsa at Ali’s place. Shugs was there. They agreed to watch Elsa for us until Saturday night while we went to Supercon in Miami. There are five human beings in the world that Elsa trusts, myself, Cindy, Katie, Ali, and Shugs, that’s it. Anyone else sends her running to a corner to hide. I felt badly leaving her there of course but she had the three other dogs to entertain her and I knew she was in good hands.
Friday night we did our final prep for Supercon which is a shadow of what is required when you are going there in full cosplay mode. Instead I just picked out the shorts and World of Warcraft shirt I was going to wear and made sure the Tesla was charged to full. I set a 6:15 alarm for Saturday so I could go out and clean up the chicken coop before we left. We pulled out somewhere close to 7:45 as we wanted to try to arrive as close to the show opening of 10AM as possible.
The drive across state in the Tesla went pretty flawlessly. I utilized auto pilot for the vast majority of it. The feature makes highway driving nearly stress free as the car does a great job of transporting you quickly with a large, automatic safety barrier in place. I had nightmare ideas about parking for the venue but we wound up finding a lot that was no more than a 10 minute walk from the convention center which cost $20 to park all day.
Cindy and I have been to a number of “cons” at this point and my initial impression of this one was that they had their shit together. We moved through the check in process very quickly and before we knew it we were walking into the main exhibition areas. Getting there early meant we got to have a couple hours where you weren’t elbow to elbow with human beings at every turn. As the day wore on the crowds got much more dense.
Even so the convention center is absolutely humongous so even though the inner cris cross rows got maddeningly busy, you could always escape to the outer perimeter which had room to breathe.
I originally thought we would be going to a few specific events that were on the schedule. One of the coolest was a Hearthstone tournament that unfortunately was cancelled for some unknown reason. We did sit in on a panel of some voice actors for a bit but the majority of our time was split between walking around while doing people watching and checking out the exhibits.
In years past we bought very little, if anything at all from the cons. When we were in costume it seemed like every 30 seconds we were being asked to pose for another picture, thanks to the incredible job Cindy did with the costume creation. This year with no picture requests we spent a lot more time looking at stuff. I actually bought about a dozen old comic books, just to read and have.
There was a point in my life that comic books brought such anticipation and excitement as a child. I had a TON of comic books that I think got unceremoniously sold at a yard sale eons ago in PA. I am looking forward to thumbing through the pages of my new collection.
The celebrity list this year was not as impressive as some other cons we have attended. Cindy was excited to meet Jon Cusack who was originally supposed to be there but later bowed out. Cindy did go up and say hi to one of the actors from The Office. While she was talking to him I was within spitting distance of George Takei, who surprisingly had next to no one in his line. I should have just walked up to him and said hi, but since he was selling autographs for $70 a pop I felt like I would have been somewhat of a dick to try to get some free interaction with him. I think in reality George would not have cared at all and would have been fine with the gesture. Of course I know him from Star Trek but I really did not really start liking him until he became a regular on the Stern show. He is responsible for some historic funny moments.
We headed out of the convention center around four. The plan was to find a supercharger, eat dinner as the car charged and then head home. Well this sounded simple but turned out to be very frustrating, from a lack of information. Cindy and I navigated to two spots designated as super chargers in the app. However both times the only thing we saw were parking garages that you had to pay to enter, well that can’t be it, right?
Well when the third location once again took us to a parking garage I said f it, I guess we will go in. I grabbed my parking ticket and started to ascend the garage. On the third level we found the chargers, finally. It seemed crazy to me that I had to pay to enter a parking garage to supercharge but as I thought about it more, I was in Miami, free parking does not exist. We hooked up the car and walked to the street to look for something to eat. We were in the Miami Art district.
The car said it would only take 45 minutes to charge back to 90%, we were in the high 20’s when I plugged in. We found a decent place to eat but literally had to throw down our food, the car charged that fast, so fast that I upped it to charge to 100% to buy us more time. We got back a couple minutes after the car had finished, supercharging is pretty amazing.
The drive back across the state went smoothly as well. We picked up Elsa from Ali’s. It sounded like she had a great time. Elsa got her first ride ever in the back of the Tesla. I have a dog cover I bought for the car awhile ago but this was our first chance to use it. It was a very fun but exhausting day.
This morning after chicken duty and paying my bills I wanted to get an EUC ride in. However Katie and Daniel had asked if I could help them wall mount a second tv, this time in their bedroom. I decided to combine the two things together. I told Cindy we could load up the truck with the tools I need but then I can ride on the Monster to their house while Cindy takes the truck to get coffee and meet us there. She wasn’t thrilled with the plan but it killed two birds with one stone.
The less than great part of the plan was it required me to go on a section of Everglades Blvd that doesn’t even have an appreciable shoulder on the road to ride in. I had to ride that section for a few miles. Luckily since it was Sunday morning the traffic was light and I didn’t have major issues. Hanging the tv went well, I think that is the last thing they will need from me, at least for now.
This afternoon we got out to see a matinee showing of the new Spiderman movie, something I had been looking forward to ever since seeing Avengers Endgame. Unfortunately I was disappointed with the effort. I don’t want to spoil things for others but there was just a lot of things that were dumb in the movie to me. I am never a fan of scenarios where the viewer is tasked with constantly determining what is real and what is fake. It wasn’t a horrible movie but it definitely was in the bottom third of the Marvel movies I have seen. I’d give it a B. You know the movie isn’t great when the post credit scene is the thing you found most interesting about the entire experience.
We have gotten a ton of rain the last few days. We were pretty dry before this wet onslaught and my freshly laid sod appreciates it but I am hoping my last two days of staycation have enough good weather where I can get some outdoor stuff wrapped up and maybe have a chance to get some more PEV riding in.
As is often the case my staycation so far has become a work detail. It started Tuesday night when I got home. I wanted to hook the Tacoma up to the RV and get it pulled out of the yard so I would be ready to roll out early Wednesday morning to Camping World. It had been awhile since I fully hooked the RV to the truck, utilizing the stabilizer bars. It took some trial and error but I eventually got everything hooked up and secure.
Getting the RV out of the gate to the front yard was extremely frustrating. I wound up being too far to the right side. I had less than an inch of clearance, so little that I had to remove the gate and turn down the hinge pin to avoid scraping the trailer. Finally after maybe 15 minutes of futzing around I pulled the trailer out into the front yard, without damage.
The drive to Camping World went ok. The Coleman trailer is right at the upper limit of what a Tacoma can tow. The top speed I hit during the almost 40 mile drive was 60 mph which seemed fast enough. I found the little wiggle that was initiated every time a vehicle passed the RV to be a bit unnerving. I kept both hands on the wheel and just kept plugging away.
Eventually I arrived at the Camping World parking lot. After getting some direction and a piece of wood, I started to unhitch the trailer from the truck. As I did one of the sales guys came out. I told him I was dropping off the RV for Cindy who had an appointment later that afternoon to sign the paperwork for the consignment. Gary seemed like a decent guy. I noticed the woman that we bought the RV from a year and a half ago was no longer working there. Not surprising as I assume RV sales is much like car sales, a high turnover profession.
When Cindy went there later in the afternoon she got numbers that weren’t exciting but somewhat expected, at least with a cosignment arrangement. What was surprising was the lowest of low ball offers on a straight buy of the trailer, they offered less than half of what the trailer cost new 18 months ago, geezus. The salesman did seem confident that he would be able to get the trailer sold before the 3 month contract expires, we hope so. It seems a little odd to not have the 26 foot trailer parked in the back yard, but not in a bad way.
Shortly after I got home my delivery of sod arrived. It felt sort of awesome to have a full pallet of grass, something I have been only getting 30 pieces at a time from Home Depot and at a price premium up until now. I had a doctor appointment at two so I didn’t want to dig into laying the sod until after I got home.
This appointment was a follow up to the blood work and coronary CT scan that I had done several weeks ago. This is all a continuation in my efforts to determine why I have off and on fatigue when doing high exertion and cardio exercise for almost a year at this point.
Instead of meeting with the endocrinologist for the follow up I met with a nurse practitioner that is part of the practice instead. She actually seemed more thorough than the doctor. She said my coronary CT results were not terrible with some calcification detected in only one artery.
She said my thyroid numbers were good too. When she got to the testosterone numbers it at first seemed like I was good there as well with an overall score of 695, a very good number for an old fart like me. However the number for my free testosterone was low which can still be problematic. She advised that we do a retest in a month or two to see how similar the number is which can vary based on several factors.
We talked about some other possibilities. She is going to have me tested for Lyme’s disease something that is a possibility based on how much time I have spent outdoors over the last almost 20 years working on our three acres of land. I also mentioned that despite me being tested for all kinds of stuff, a heavy metal test has not been done. With my pescatarian diet (seafood only) mercury poisoning is a possibility. So I will be getting more blood work done in the near future which hopefully will start to narrow down what is going on.
When I got home it was time to dig into the grass project. It seemed like rain was imminent but I started anyway. I had bought 16 bags of top soil to throw down but that only covered a fraction of the area where I threw down the sod, most of which just got laid on the existing grass. Luckily the pallet was close to the area where I laid it down. It took me around an hour and a half to empty the pallet. The area I targeted is right by the driveway and turns into a lake during wet season. I am hoping the four or 5 inches of additional elevation will prevent that from being a normal occurrence. I already know that I will be buying quite a few more pallets in the future. Yes at $330 a pop it isn’t cheap but it is something I should have looked at doing years and years ago. After doing the grass work I returned inside limping with a sore back, and it was only day one.
The fourth of July was just another day to get stuff done. After tending to the chickens, Cindy and I loaded up the truck and the Tesla with stuff for Katie and Daniel who spent their first night in the new house on Wednesday. I also loaded up some tools as they wanted some help getting a TV hung up in the living room. I thought the install would be more involved than it turned out since they were only connecting the tv via wi-fi instead of a hard line. We got the tv on the wall and the kids were happy, it made it seem like a real house somehow. After making sure everything was brought in Cindy and I headed out. Cindy is sad about not having the baby and Katie in our house but she is excited for them to have their own place as well.
When I got home I moved into more work, mowing the yard. It was hot as hell but luckily the canopy on the tractor makes it bearable. I also mowed the area outside of the fence, something that gets done infrequently. Afterwards, for fun, I sprayed down the parts of the pool cage that were looking particularly green with a 50/50 water bleach solution. It doesn’t yield as good of results as a full pressure washing session but it doesn’t take nearly as long either. The end result was good and should buy me another few months before I have to pressure wash it all. Yes, I was tired.
Tonight we had a huge storm that at least was good for all of the newly placed sod. We hoped it would wash out the redneck army from their backyard firework displays that absolutely terrify Elsa, unfortunately the rain stopped and the noise is going on as I type. Elsa is hiding by my feet, under the desk.
Tonight we watched the animated Spiderman:Into the Spider-verse movie. I had heard lots of good reviews and I now see why. It’s unlike any super hero based movie I ever saw. It’s so different and stylized as well as funny and entertaining. I’d give it an A, a great rental if you are a Spiderman fan boy as I have been my entire life.
I’m glad I have a good chunk of the work that needed to get done handled already. That doesn’t mean I am done, by any means.
Last night after dinner I suggested to Cindy that she comes with me to the school with Elsa. I thought they could walk around while I fooled around on my Mten 3 for a little bit. Despite not riding the little fun wheel for quite awhile, it took very little time for me to reaccustom myself to it. After only a couple minutes I was reversing direction routinely. I probably spent more time going backwards than forward.
Elsa surprisingly seemed very content and happy to walk around the parking lot with us. She had a big dog smile on her face for most of the time. Even though it was a very quick 20 minute session of riding, it felt good to do it to help clear the cobwebs.
So we have had Cindy’s RV officially for sale for at least 6 months, probably longer. During that time we had exactly one person come out and look at it and a couple other inquiries that never got past the electronic correspondence point. Every week the RV bakes in the sun in the yard it is losing value. With wet season approaching which could make moving the RV out of the backyard difficult to impossible depending on the amount of standing water, I have been pushing for us to do something soon. That something is to take the RV back to Camping World where we got it and have them either buy it from us outright or sell it on a consignment basis.
It’s a good move for us as it gets the RV on the lot of a dealer that is filled with nothing but potential buyers. If someone can’t quite swing the cost of a new unit, this one will give someone substantial savings on a like new RV, at least on the inside. The outside of the Coleman is going to need some TLC as sitting in the sun for a year and a half has faded some of the paint but I think it could be revived with some skilled buffer work.
Cindy talked to someone from the dealership yesterday briefly. They encouraged us to try to get the RV to them before Fourth of July as that is a busy time. I hope to accomplish just that. My plan is to get the RV loaded and hooked up to the Tacoma tonight and then head to Camping World first thing tomorrow morning to get there when they open. I am really crossing my fingers that this works out. We already are going to be losing a ton on the RV as is, I’d like to be able to finally stop the bleeding.
Tomorrow also starts my week long staycation which is already filling up with things to do. Tomorrow already potentially has RV drop off, sod delivery, and a follow up appointment with the endocrinologist on the schedule. I have a feeling a good portion of the days off will be equally busy. We do have one definite fun portion roped off as Cindy and I are attending Miami Supercon on Saturday. I just hope the surely crushing amount of people in attendance doesn’t negate the fun/geek factor of the day.
As I talked about, I did my track run early Saturday morning instead of during the sweltering heat of a June evening in Florida. The change in schedule definitely was beneficial as the temperatures were about 20 degrees cooler than what I dealt with the prior two weeks. I didn’t wear any sort of timing device for the run but I can tell you that physically I felt better both during and after the event. For the remainder of the summer, meaning into October, if I run, it’s going to be early.
I tended to various tasks during the day. We stopped at Home Depot for me to grab almost 20 bags of top soil. I want to use it as part of my ground elevation project that I will be taking on during my staycation. I have a pallet of sod that is supposed to arrive on Wednesday. I am hoping the 500 pieces of grass will allow me to raise some of the low spots that are closest to the house. Depending on how it goes, I may be ordering a lot more pallets in the future, it’s much cheaper overall than buying it 30 pieces at a time from Home Depot.
Late Saturday afternoon Cindy and I made a trip to the movies, something we had not planned earlier in the week. I had heard about the re-release of Avengers Endgame with the bonus scenes and post credit stuff. I loved the movie so much I was ok seeing it again in the theater, something I have NEVER done before in my life. We also ate our dinner inside the theater for the first time since the three hour long film progressed straight through supper time. It was somewhat challenging to eat a shrimp taco in the dark.
Despite only seeing the movie for the first time two months ago it was no chore to sit through it again. It was interesting as you would see quick shots and mini-scenes that were added to the re-release. Multiple times Cindy and I looked at each other and said “I don’t remember that”. Even though I knew what was going to happen, I still had emotional reactions to certain scenes, I just couldn’t help it. The post credit stuff was cool as well and got me even more excited to see the new Spiderman movie over 4th of July weekend.
Sunday morning Cindy and I went to ride at North Collier Park on the One Wheel and her Minipro. I had not ridden the One Wheel in awhile, despite it being the most fun PEV I have. Cindy and I had fun during the ride and as you can tell from the video, things got a little EXTREME at times.
I also shot a brief video updating the state of the coop solar equipment which for the most part has been running great.
Katie and Daniel started the moving process this weekend. They don’t have much stuff but they don’t want to actually sleep there until they have internet at the house which for most millenials is as important as running water.
I have a super brief two day work week followed by seven days off in a row. As mentioned I have the sod project on the books but I also have a number of other things to get handled during that time.
