MercenaryD

Wow I’ve let a long time go since the last time I posted something. Well, if you couldn’t figure it out, I’ve been busy. Busy trying to make up the money I spent on all that equipment. Which isn’t going to well. What money I have left as well as most of the money I’ve been making so far has gone into repairs. Well I knew that it would take a good bit of work to make all the equipment usable. But I had hoped two things, one that I would have had the equipment into at least a usable condition so as to be making some money with it, and two that I would have continued the growth in sales from my book site.

On top of all that I’ve had to redo the plumbing in my trailer. The furnace was on the fritz again and this time the watter pipes froze. Sigh…. Spending a week under cabinets changing out water lines in 0 degree weather is not my idea of fun. Nor working on a furnace in the same. I got all furnace fixed and all the pipe work changed, even put in turn-off valves for most of the fixtures only to find that the seals in the fixtures are bad and the water won’t stop running. At least when I do that I’ll be warm, and I won’t be kneeling in ankle deep frigid water. But for now baths are out of the question without a bit of preparation first.

Yesterday in a snow storm I worked on changing a radiator hose on the compact tractor, only to find that the original hose clamp is too small for the new hose, and the hose is almost too big. I want a heated garage to work in! Not that the heated garage would stop these problems, it would just make it so that I wasn’t so miserable when trying to solve the problem.

All in all its been a sucky winter so far for me. No money, extra expenses, a hell-of-a-lot of stress.

Its nothing that 5-7 grand won’t fix.

I’ve been told “If you would stop playing the games 2-3 hours a night and concentrate on work, you wouldn’t have these problems.” But you know… I need some sort of stress release. And society gets mad if I get that release by smashing things up or beating on the people that say things like the afore quote.

Enough ranting for the moment, I need to get to work. There are still things to be done, before I hve to go out and brave the cold for today.

Tags: tractors, winter

This entry was posted by MercenaryD on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 9:39 am and is filed under Day to Day Life, Doing it, Rants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.