All done for a while

Well we have finished up the tobacco stripping. It turned out to take longer than I thought it would. With the help we had we didn't need to push them for more hours and aggravate them. As my dad said, "We're lucky to have help." The worst part of the season is that we aren't going to qualify for insurance payments. We had tobacco that PMI didn't want to buy, sold that for less than half of our usual price and weren't able to have a claim. I don't see why I need to spend money on such an elaborate policy if the end result is I have a claim and the insurance guy says no I don't. Dad also seems to think he/we aren't going to quit growig tobacco. I was/am planning on fullfilling my three year contract and am not sure what I am going to do after that. Ideally I would have a full time teaching job by then, or have saved enough money to buy some farmable land and not be dependent on such hard physical labor.

In other news, I am taking a job with the post office. It is for a sub type position job where I will work someones route on their day off. It is hourly pay, and I will likely have to buy my own mail car. The job does have no benefits and pays hourly. It may not be much, but work is work and if I find a full time job, I can always quit or resign when I find better work.

In other news, I have decided to buy an aluminum flatbed for my truck. Last week I made a mistake and got a wagon up against the side of my truck bed. I called my insurance company, they took a look at it and wrote me a chech for enough to cover the purchase price of the bed. All I am going to have to cover is the cost of installation. The truck is going to have a real nice look to it, and it seems like I have got the highway fuel economy up also. So all in all I am going to be done spending money on it for a while.

I also read a good article when I got in today. This guy decided that he needed to take a break from drinking and realized how it hurt his dating potential. All the women he went out with drank to much for him to morally try to make a move on them. He didn't feel right about going in for a kiss with a woman who was several drinks into her night. He found that he couldn't even date or go to bars and be social anymore. It became very difficult for him to feel relaxed and comfortable around people when he was sober. All of the anxiety he would normally have was put aside when out being social and he lost that when he would ease up and imbibe.

I have recently gone sober also, but the reason is to prove that I don't need or have to drink alcohol. I planning on going until at least June, and then will get back on my usual one or two drinks at home a week schedule, and occasional no more than a six pack of beer on the weekends at home thing. This also extends to the beer or two when I'm out to dinner. The only real issue I am going to have is two events this june or very near to it. My youngest brother is graduating undergraduate school soon, and my youngest sister is turning 21 and wants to have a three kegger party somewhere somehow. I have an empty keg in the basement that is doing me no good, so I may get it filled up and then taking it in to get my refund after the party season.

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not the best week

Well this past week is not going to make my top 5 weeks by any stretch of the imagination. Tuesday I took a pickup truck load of tobacco to the tobacco warehouse and ended up bringing most of the load back. I had another appointment scheduled for the next day and ended up taking all of my tobacco out in a last ditch effort to sell the last of it. That did not go all that well and I ended up selling the last of the tobacco at the open market warehouse. This was not all that terrible, but it brought about .90 cents less than what I was getting at the regular warehouse. Then the next day my dad took a load down of his own tobacco and was able to sell most of it.

In another fit of bad luck or poor planning, I also wrecked my truck on thursday. I was driving up a lane on a hill, and my front wheels started to slip. I stopped, put the truck in 4x4 drive, and then procedded to slide down the hill backwards and was ultimately stopped when the wagon I was pulling got turned around and lifted the rear driver side wheel off of the ground. This also bunched up the back corner of my truck bed also, causing a need for some body work to be done in the near future.

I also decided to spend some time on the treadmill today. I hadn't been on in a while, and was starting to feel a llittle heavy. I have been standing around and stripping tobacco and overeating more than I should also.

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