I have been extremely short on patience lately. Probably the worst area is truck drivers. The next worse would be vendors.

My question to both would be, "Why can't they tell the truth?"

I have always said I can handle things as long as a person is being truthful with me. Nothing infuriates me more than to learn that someone has been trying to play me.

We have one vendor who has been promising to pay up for the last month. We have another who went so far as to tell Trc that he had a check for us. After sending a truck by to pick it up, this proved to be untrue.

I have one truck driver who is falsifying records for pay. This is the same driver who has been extremely rough on equipment. You ask him about damage to his truck or trailer and he will have a story that has more holes than swiss cheese. He tells me forklifts have caused the damage. I tell him if he allows them to bump and bang, he is still the one I hold accountable.

I like one story I heard about Jason. A forklift operator at the compress kept banging into Jason's trailer, even after Jason asked him not to. Finally, Jason asked the forklift operator what kind of car he drove. The man told him and asked "Why do you want to know?" Jason told him, "Because I am fixing to go and start beating on it with my ratchet bar!" The banging quit.

On a front closer to home, our idiot soon to be (hopefully) ex-son-in-law is thinking he is smarter than everyone again. Recently he had told Trc he could not afford her or the three girls any more. Of course he has provided very poorly the last year, having moved out between a year and half ago and two years ago. He says the move was to have access to more work. He went months without even stopping by to see or check on the girls yet he came into town every week to see his Dad who is in a nursing home suffering from Alzheimer's. Trc went to talk with an attorney and her estranged husband had a fit. Now he was crying saying he didn't want a divorce. Trc told him that a divorce was what he said he wanted and she could make it happy. Now a couple weeks later, he has come up with an idea. He is bidding some work for an international company and it is necessary for them to do a credit check on him and his company. Now he is trying to improve the appearance of his credit so he wants a divorce where Trc's credit won't show up. Crazy thing is, everything is in his name. The only thing showing up on Trc is medical. He says this is just a business deal and as soon as he has the work he will stop the proceedings.

I don't think Trc can trust him as far as she can throw him.

He is telling her he will see to it that she and the girls can stay in the house until Kat graduates, that he wants to be a part of their lives and do all the family stuff. Holidays and birthdays and such.

I am ready for another Grisham book I think. I would love to see him pick up where he left off with his last effort and do a sequel. I was very disappointed with his last book. It seemed like he had a time deadline or page target and as soon as he hit it, he ended the book.

I still would like to see a more a realistic book (and I am not just picking on Grisham, all of them are guilty). I would like to see a book where money does not abound endlessly and maybe the main character has a wart or a limp instead of being a good looking super hero or heroine. Maybe they have personal relationship difficulties that they are working through.

I don't' know, maybe that is why their books sell, that it is an escape from real life.

I may have to revisit Five Yard Fuller.

I know, fiction is fiction.

I took some of the proceeds from my Blockbuster scratch off and went to the grocery store. Albertson's had king crab legs on sale. I bought some of them and a rib-eye and brought them home to cook for supper last night. I felt like Krl and I needed a treat!

It was delicious.

Krl had not told me when I called to ask her what she needed from the store, but I had noticed earlier in the week she had run out of her main staple ice cream, so I surprised her with a new half gallon of it! She and the pups have a late night ritual of enjoying a coke float!

I did make the drive to and from Roscoe yesterday. I had to go pick up paperwork for LLE 242. Krl didn't want to ride so I took Maple Syrple with me. use to be she did not travel well, but she does now. When we got to Memama and Pepa's she was excited. She hasn't been there but a few times but she knew where she was. She dashed into the house so say hello, jumping into Pepa's lap and greeting him before settling in beside Memama in her chair. When I was ready to go I had begun to wonder if Maple was going to stay or go home with me. Finally she hopped down and we loaded back up for the hour drive back.

I caught myself comparing travel today with travel in the past and realize that my trek yesterday would be a rare occurrence in the horse and buggy days, and I find myself wondering what our grandchildren will see.

My tomorrow has me putting bale clamps on forklifts for delivery later in the week. I also need to get the S-10 to the shop. There are several thing that need to happen in the next week to make things work. Our annual insurances renew on the 7th and I have three quotes coming on these. Next weekend will probably see some dedicated work on equipment that will be going to various cotton gins soon.

Have a day!

FATHER, I continue to struggle. Thank YOU for small victories. Help me to be wise as I plan and schedule work. YOU strengthen me.