I am jealous of people who can sleep. I can't.

I've tried lots of remedies, but none have worked. I'm tired and I want to sleep but my brain is hyperactive and keeps calling my body out to play. Drats!

Maybe if I had an out of body experience I could sleep. Hhhmm.

My Wednesday was pretty much a wasted day. I did get the o-rings on the valve spools and BS 2 back together but that was about the only productive thing I did. I took a pickup to Roscoe. Pepa had called and asked me to come assess some trailers which are needing some work. When I arrived he was out and when I called him on his cell phone he told me he was with a crop insurance adjuster. It was almost six in the evening when he completed his excursion with the adjuster. The other part of our deal was he would drive me back to Abilene and we would stop and look at some new seats for his truck. I had looked and located what appeared to be the "best" prices and largest inventory of truck seats in the area. When we arrived at the dealership (they have extended hours), they had nine seats on display in multiple colors. I have never been inside the truck Pepa was shopping for, but Pepa wasn't comfortable with any of the colors they had on display. We ended up not buying anything. He wants to do a little more research. He says the interior of the truck is diamond pleated plaid. (??). The dealership didn't have any plaid seats but "Sharpie's" are available in multiple colors and I do have a straight edge. Seat prices range from two-ninety-nine to eight hundred dollars! Wow.

I guess if you buy an eight hundred dollar seat you have a pampered butt!

I got home after eight. Krl was in a tizz. The payroll tax issue I had mentioned earlier this week and the offer in compromise my negotiators had submitted had hit a snag. Actually I had received a call from the negotiator handling my case and she asked me to fax her a few copies. I was suspect at this point but she didn't volunteer any information. Turns out when I got home I had a letter from the governmental office rejecting the offer and questioning earnings. Upside to this was they made a counter offer so we have an area bracketed where the final number should be. Downside is I don't have a source at the present time to pay either one although I am researching possibilities. I am hopeful that the rejection and the counter offer is simply part of the dance the participants do. I suppose if they accepted the first offer they would think they were being too easy and we would think we had offered too much. So they agree to disagree so eventually they can feed their egos and think each of them got the better of the other.

Ring the bell. Let's get on with this thing!

I am so ready for this to be over. It seems that it is a constant irritant for Krl. I get to thinking how much simpler her life would be without the baggage I drag into the relationship. In her fragile state she doesn't need the stress. The craziest thing is that up to the time the mail ran yesterday afternoon she had had one of the best days she has had in some time. She had a terrific appetite, which is supposed to be a side affect of her new medication. I am hopeful that things will work out to get her stress level down and to put a little weight on her.

When I talked with her yesterday she commented that she felt like a bottomless pit and began listing for me, everything she had eaten. I was kidding her and told her I might come home to a blimp! She has a long way to go there!

Yesterday's move of my pickup to Roscoe was actually the first part of the move to the seasonal jobsite. It needs to be carefully orchestrated to minimize miles and costs. Next trip I will take the company pickup, deliver one of the travel trailers to the jobsite. Leave the company pickup in Roscoe, bring my pickup and a truck driver back with me to Abilene and send the first big truck to Sweetwater. My second trip will be another big truck towing the company travel trailer. I will meet the truck driver and he will take over the big truck, I will get in the company pickup and hook up another travel trailer, we will make the trip out and back to Roscoe where we will leave the second big truck, the driver will get in with me and we will return to Abilene to pick up the third big truck towing a trailer. This truck will remain in Roscoe until we double up again.

My head is beginning to hurt from all the planning.

FATHER, I pray for resolution with my problem, I ask for YOUR perfect peace for Krl and me.