And the work starts...

It's almost 9:30 and Jen and Mike are not home yet...

I called Tim around 9:00 last night to see about work, he told me that there was indeed work for me today. So I had to be up early to get to his house around 8:00 for the work. Which turned out to be detailing his lease trucks so he could take them back at the end of the month. He's paying me 15.00 and hour cash to do it so what the hell. During the course of the day he got a few phone calls about this and that. Me detailing the trucks turned into me having to pick up a trencher and silt fencing for tomorrow. We have roughly 10,000 feet to put in before the end of the week. Which isn't bad, 4 people can do about 4-5 thousand a day. As long as the trencher stays ahead of them. Which is my job, I get to do the trenching because I have the equipment experience. Yeay me! Down side to that is that I have to be on the job site by 7:00am tomorrow to get started, so I have to be out the door by 6:30. 10,000 feet of silt fencing will quickly double as it normally does. So we're probably look at work all week until Saturday. Next week his real works starts, what we are doing this week is just last minuit stuff, he has real work already lined up.

Of course now we have the added problem of the trucks. They are leases and need to be turned in. I will be on the trencher for the rest of the month most likely so he has to find someone else to detail them. You'd be amazed at how hard it is to find someone willing to detail a few trucks for 15.00 an hour cash. At least someone who is willing to take their time and do it right. It's funny because you could probably waste 8 or 9 hours doing it and as long as they where clean he'd be happy. He even went out and bought all the cleaning supplies and a brand new 6.5hp wet/dry vac for me. And, as I spent enough time around Terry with his raving about cleaning supplies I got 'the good stuff' so to speak, none of that Armor all crap. 45 dollars worth of cleaning supplies to do two trucks, and no one to clean them now. Ahh well, such is life.

The way things worked out I didn't get done working until 5:30. Which was okay I guess because it gave me 9 hours for today. Not sure if I mentioned it but for the first couple of weeks he's going to be paying me cash, until he can get the payroll stuff up and running. He needs to pay them off from last year before he can get them going this year. He's set aside enough money to support payroll for three of four weeks, but not enough to foot the 30,000 bill he has for the payroll company. We could do with two or three weeks of taxless money to get back ahead. Even if we get a 1099 at the end of the year and end up paying the taxes on it. It'll at least let us move into a less debt bracket.

After getting home we headed out to Jen folks to drop of Mike and then up to the Home Depot in Howell to pick up some paneling for their living room. Paneling it's self is not heavy, but after moving it two at a time from the self to cart, cart to car, car to house it gets heavy. I could have done one at a time, but that would have been 12 trips through the mud, and by the 12th I'd be layed out dead. Somewhere in there we stopped at Taco Bell for food. Mmmm Taco Bell.

Jen's Dad once again loaned me the use of one of his vehicles. I don't know what we would do with out her parents, they have bailed us out so many times. YOU GUYS RULE! Anyway, Having taken the Neon back home to shower I've now been sitting on the couch waiting on them the get home. Patches spent the first ten minuets or so headbutting me so I'd pet him and is now sleeping on the couch pressed up against my knee...

Tomorrow should be fun.

Oh, and if anybody out there knows someone looking to buy a 7 and 1/2 foot western plow, a cherry picker or a Cockatoo let me know. I know it's a strange mix, but that's my family for you.


It's 9:50 and still no Jen.