I've a 1997 Nissan pickup with just over 10,000 miles on it. That's right, a '97 with 10K. It's never had an air conditioner in it which was no problem when I bought it 10 years ago but now I drive my CR-V which does have a/c. The truck has a few minor problems, a couple of which I attempted to rectify today. The passenger side rear tire has a slow leak so I removed it from the truck and tried to air up but ran into a snag. I have a tiny compressor that was just not airing fast enough so I found my larger. Seems it's a total piece of junk as after 5 minutes the tire had less air in than when I began. The heat index was nearing 100 F so I called that project a bust.
The radio and TV seem to every 10 minutes run an ad for a product you can simply dump into the gas tank of a poorly running vehicle to burn out the water, etc so as I was attempting to fix my tire I poured in a battle of the aforementioned and ran the engine some 15 minutes as per instructions. At least the engine does seem to be running a bit more smoothly now.
I'll try again to air up the tire, find the leak and plug it up. Also I'll call the local junk yard to see if they have a rim so I'll have a full size spare and can discard the "doughnut" spare. Too sweet would be to find a half dozen 15" rims that would fit so I could get tires with more aggressive tread. The truck had 14" rims and all I can find for it are "city" tires.
I'm seeing a lot of building material free for the picking up online so I really need to have the truck ready to pick up! Enough free good bricks that would take at least 2 loads, a deck to be broken down and hauled away... and soon the neighbors will be raking up all their leaves for me to add to my gardens and compost bins.
I'm still trying to get info on translating tax auction land legal descriptions to street addresses. One description did give a subdivision which I looked up and found it is smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood where my present full time job supervisor lives. I'm trying to decide if I'd want to own anything near that baboon or not. It might just be fun to be able to tell him I own right around the corner from his house. If I can't find what I want closer to home I may place a bid over there.
The dream property would be close to home, 1/2 acre + or-... fenced would be icing on the cake and a tool shed would gild the lily! I'll just keep plugging away towards getting info and trust God to send me down the road He wants me to walk.
As always I'm thinking about small ops to make side money that could possibly translate into larger profits later. If we're not happy doing what we're doing, we should be doing something else, right? God wants all His children to be happy and prosperous. All the preachers and motivational speakers say we should take a leap of faith. Well, I'm not 100% comfortable with that. What I am comfortable with and what I'll do and suggest to you all is to take a few baby steps of faith and see how they work out.
Start small but dream big. If you have a mortgage and a handful of credit card bills, don't try to kill the giant first. Pay off the smallest first then apply that payment to the next. Knock off the credits one at a time, smallest to largest. I have a home improvement store card that I pay off as I go each month before they can add on a monthly fee. Every month I add a little extra to my mortgage payment w/ the note "principle only". It's usually only about $50 but that's $50 today that I won't be paying interest on for the next 28 years. And what is $50 a month? $1.67 a day .
is anybody reading this?
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