It worked!

Well, the AC in the car held pressure overnight. I went and got two more cans of refrigerant and filled the system up. It's within a couple pounds of capacity as shown on my gauge. I admit, it's a cheap-ass gauge but I won't go spending the money on a professional gauge. Nice, cool air coming out of the system. Not extremely cold but I didn't have it on for long. 

I also have problems with the well pump maintaining pressure. I think again it is a valve. The foot vale may have some stuff keeping it from closing completely. I irrigated the garden this evening and then poured some acid down the pipe to dissolve any organic material or mineral deposits that may be built up. The pump itself is losing pressure from the priming hole. I lost the correct plug, so been using a replacement bolt which doesn't fit perfectly. Have to check at Harbor Freight and see if I can get a replacement. I can't run the system on a timer until I correct that problem. 

Very happy today is Thur and only one more day of work this week.

Irrigation and more

Got out and worked on the irrigation system. Got one zone at least partially going. Still a lot left to do, since that stray dog got in the yard and chewed up the lines. Why the hell do these dogs always want to chew on my drip lines?!

Several of the tomato plants died. Couple still alive and recovering. Of course, late frost did damage, then sun scald may have been a factor. Wind blew the plastic sheeting off. I started new seeds a few days ago inside. 

Need to get some cucumber seeds going soon. 

The cannabis plants which did not get frost damage are still growing. For them to grow well I do need to add some acid to the irrigation. 

I had charged the car AC and added oil charge and sealant. However it turned out the stem valve on the low pressure line was leaking. I replaced that this evening and charged it again with refrigerant. Only had one can but would only use one for now. Have to check tomorrow and see if it is holding pressure. If so, get more refrigerant. It's only $5 a can at Walmart, $10 a can at Auto Zone or I would have gotten it today.

Set an appointment for Sat to get an alignment.

No word on my additional audits yet. That's a good thing. The crap from last Thur being accused of things I did not do caused an extraordinary stress level for days. Still there but slightly less. It still pisses me off that I was accused of going beyond the scope of my license when I was questioning the actual doctor who ordered the test. Then she confirmed my educated guess. 

I think part of this is that the company is trying to get rid of more experienced reviewers and hire new ones at lower wages. They changed our pay last year to hourly from case rate. Then they started offering quarterly bonuses. The next bonus is due in June or July. However, you are not eligible if you are under "final written warning", which they said I will be under if they don't fire me.

Once I come back from vacation, I am strongly considering looking for a new job. If the company does not turn around by then. 

Once again, it is seeming like I may have been led in one certain direction. It has been since I was working this job from home that my health pretty much collapsed for a while. Now I am coming back, regaining energy and strength. For a while, picking up or carrying things like 50 lbs bags of concrete or dog food was a bit of a struggle. Yesterday I went and got dog food and noticed when I got it out of the car it was no longer a struggle. 

So, maybe I was meant to have this job for a while. I do admit I enjoy working from home. But even working from home, corporate politics find me. 

I am going to expand the wood shop and try to start making wood projects from home to sell. Maybe I can get something off the ground in my spare time which could lead to a full time business. 

Otherwise, I am going to seek out something in a more administrative office role. The last four years have drastically increased my employability in that area. Not to mention my motivation. Before the last four years, I never would have wanted that kind of job. I always enjoyed hands-on nursing or whatever other job I was doing at the time. I've always been pretty active and enjoyed being on my feet, thinking on my feet. 

I am down and extremely angry over the primaries held this week. Hillary Clinton won 4 of 5 states. Of course, once again there were problems in basically every state she won. Bernie won the only state which had open primaries, so Independent voters could take part. 

I am back to using witchcraft now. Nothing dark and nothing all that major. I cast a spell for Hillary to be exposed to the public for any wrongdoing she has actually committed. Which of course means if she has done nothing wrong, nothing will happen. If she has, I did not include any form of punishment in the spell. Only exposure.

Even with that, this week is going a whole lot better on the personal level than last week, which truly sucked.

Crappy day

Today was a seriously crappy day. 

Bernie lost in New York. Of course, this was related to voter suppression in massive numbers. More election fraud.

There was a light frost last night. Of course. I just recently put many of the plants outside. One cannabis plant and several tomato plants took some damage. I think most of the tomato plants will recover. I still have two cannabis plants inside and the two surviving outside plants are okay. Happily, that looks like the last frost of the season.

Then I went to replace the radiator hose. Some freaking moron installed the hose clamp upside down. Not even sure how the hell they managed that. I could not reach the head of the screw from any angle. So I tried to knock it off with a hammer and screwdriver. Turned out the radiator is plastic. I broke to hose fitting off. I glued it back together with Gorilla Glue. Hope it works. If not, I'll have to replace the radiator and this one looks very difficult to replace. Not overly expensive and both Auto Zone and O'Reilly has it in stock for the same price. Just not easy. And I would rather not spend $100 I don't have to spend. 

So, right this minute I have three vehicles in front of the house and none of them are running.

I am so angry, so depressed over the direction of this campaign and all the crooked activity involved with it I cannot express it. This election is more important than I can accurately explain. This is definitely the future of this country, the future of the world at stake. 

Because of that, I am going a direction I have not gone in many, many years. I turned back to witchcraft. Nothing severe. I just cast a spell for HRC's karma to turn back on her. If she has done nothing wrong, as she claims, nothing negative will happen. But I do not believe that for one second. If she has done things as bad as I suspect, it will all be displayed for the whole world to see. 

Art

Daughter surprised me when I picked her up this weekend. She had drawn a tattoo on her arm with permanent marker. A dragon, of course. That's her latest obsession.

Then we went and got art supplies for her. She spent the whole weekend making stencils for temporary tattoos and refreshing her own tattoo. She wants to try and turn her tattoos into a small business. Not sure how that will work out but I never discourage her. Never known when I may be shocked by her success. I have a strong feeling she will one day be a success, which in itself will not surprise me. Only the method. Then again, with her that will not shock me either.

Got a scroll saw for myself. That expands the wood shop a little more. Should have bought extra blades. Oh, well. See how long one blade lasts and what I can do with it.

I got a new Harbor Freight membership for the discount club. It really does pay for itself. 

Picked up more black plastic sheeting on the way home this evening. Get that in place and get the tomatoes planted out. Going to put translucent plastic up to cover them and disperse the sunlight for a couple of weeks. Keep them from getting sun scald.

My cannabis plants are doing surprisingly well. Waiting to see which ones are male or female. 

Spring TV season has already come to a close. Not a bad thing. I can get more done when not glued to the tube. I got a few things done this past week and the week went by much faster. Even the individual days go by faster when I have something to look forward to accomplishing after work.