Teleidoscope

Tue, Apr 03, 2007

Logistics

Posted at 11:01 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

This month is ... complicated. I have medical appointments tomorrow and the week after next (pushed out because of business travel needs), truck repairs, a one-week business trip to California next week, and dealing with septic tank stuff. That's one reason I got my taxes done last weekend. I needed them done before this week got busy and I needed to travel.

Fortunately, I seem to have lucked out with the contractor and engineer for the septic system. So far they have been efficient and done things when they said they would do them. (They showed up today, right on schedule, to dig some holes for soil percolation tests.) And they have done other work in my neighborhood, so they are acquainted with the (nasty) soil and conditions here. They have refused to give me even a ball-park estimate on cost until they finish their preliminary tests, but that is not unreasonable: this is a weird lot, and I'd rather not get a bad surprise from a ball-park estimate turning out way low. On the other hand, it would be nice to have some guidelines for how much money I need to find for this. I think I've got that under control, though.

Plans for the truck repairs are working out OK, I think. My business partner Shawn has an extra vehicle, a van, which he will lend me to get to and from the airport. (He just bought a new truck and doesn't really have parking for the van, so having it sit in the airport parking lot for a week will be handy.) I'll leave my truck at the office friday, and drop him at home. One of the guys at the office will drop the truck off at the mechanic's on Monday, so they can work on it while I am out of town and not using it.

If the medical stuff will just not blow up and use up all my time and money, this all may work itself out.

It would also help if my current customer would pay for some of my past 3 months of work ...

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