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No, I'm still in the game. I didn't drop it all and go hide, or just shut down, or break. I just couldn't do more. Last night I did set up the Xt'er for hauling when I got home, but that was about it. I didn't get to bed until late, which is fine as my angle of approach for the long drive will... be better suited to a later schedule, and maybe the drive will reset my schedule back. Odd how those things work out. With bedtime being late, I didn't rise until noon or so. And I took the time during the heat of the day off, just to... chill. I did a few things, like tracked some packages, or tried. I also made a few arrangements. I keep calling my friends' sister, but she hasn't answered once. I am starting to think she is definitely avoiding me, whether she knows why I am calling or not. I... have a workaround in mind. I might get to that shortly, maybe before I go.
I am even working on some bills. I almost forgot to mess with my new mortgage! I got the bill but in the hubbub, well... it almost got lost. Rather than mess with automatic payments through companies, who seem just as likely to drop your payments to overcharge you, I go right through my bank. Further, I can set the payments up when I like, not when some company wants, or how their policy is arranged. I will have to tinker with it later as it is due on the 1st, but the 1st is a holiday. Even with the notion of having a week or two of grace period to pay, I prefer to be on time. Thankfully when the 1st falls on a holiday I get my check the business day before bank closures, so I set it to pay out on that day. That won't work most months. I will have to change the day and make sure the new day sticks. Ugh but tech can be stupid, irritating, and insist on remaining wrong. This month I am going with the reduced bill through the loan, because I don't have time to fuss with trying to talk to someone to make sure the overage goes against principle, and no they aren't fair, wise, or automatic that way. Most companies choose what they want, not what I want. Ugh! Oh, I might do one other thing with billing before I head out. Get that highly overpaid utility bill into automatic billing, that one will have to be through the company to make sure... never mind. I'll see if I can trust them, or I will just have to track the bill more closely, somehow. I will save that extra money, to be put against principle, along with the rest of the return minus teeth for my friend money that had been figured for a wheat grinder. Yeah... yeah, that is how it will work. So... much... thinking...
The vest arrived. Ugh, too small. I ordered one size larger than the shirts I wear. Yes, I looked at sizing. Too small. Oh well. Still, I will merely return it for the next size up. If it doesn't work this year, maybe next. The idea is sound and there is more than just BMan where it could be used. The garden, hiking, even shooting, perhaps even on those hot days in town, depending on how it performs and what you can wear over it. I'm just not a summer or heat guy. At least they did get it here on time, after the kerfuffle. No complaints on the fix, just on the initial effort. Fair enough and it happens.
Okay, so what work do I have to do today? Well, I have to look at the recommended lists, check things off as I can, figure out where things will go, what things to put together, and get going hard on that. In there I will be doing laundry for travel days, and stowing that, with medicine and personal care. I will finish the dishes, setting aside the coffee grinder and French press. I need to dissassemble the tent, take down and stow the shower, fill four of the six water jugs, and get tools and bike bits in arranged to go. Then I need to start filling the vehicle. Oh, best not forget some number of chairs, the table, and such. I really want to get the kilt done here, though I might save it and do it on the road. I will have a lot of time in the hotel rooms on the way, and can... arrange the furniture even if it is bolted down. Hmm, might be a good time to mess with the bike, too, since I will be bringing it into my room, at least the first night with it merely being strapped to the Xt'er. Ugh... Double ugh. Still, I am on schedule and doing fine, as far as I am concerned. It's just that there is a lot of work, finicky, detailed, yucky. On the good side, right, wrong, everything, or missing stuff, the deal will be done by tomorrow evening and that will be that no matter how well I do this. Yum!
Hmm, and something else. My phone had been acting up. The thing with emails, which I wrongly blamed on Gmail's new format... It turns out, as I was looking through my bills, that I am somehow $700 in arrears on my phone bill. Hmm? I auto pay well over the amount of the billing, so... I will be finding more about that when I get back. My phone was beginning to have all sorts of connection issues, and of the course email and internet were dead. Then, for no reason I can explain, they... have come back. My bill, for this month, says I owe $56 or something. My automatic payment is set to $180. I have no idea why I am "behind", but I WILL be finding out when I return. Just a bit... hot about that, actually.
Hey, yeah, I think I best get some things going. Later.
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