Waiting...

Korena said she'd get me a truck "by the end of the week".  Kate paid 300 of the hotel bill and they got me 400.  I prepaid for a weeks rent, so he won't kick me out.

I loaded up on nuts and chips.  The gas station next door has 1.00 hot dogs and Arthur Treachers has a 2.00 fish and chip deal.

Our younger brother, who I called when I thought I was getting evicted (for a ride or something...I don't know I'd just been stomped on for telling them they blew the wire transfer and I was screwed).

I got his machine but he texted me back.  I told him what was up, but that I was now out of immediate danger of homelessness.

But damn if he didn't pay 200.00 of my 290.00 AT&T bill!

They gave me til the 10th for the balance, but I think I can push that back later.

Since a truck might have to be brought to me, perhaps from hundreds of miles away, I'm not asking for the other 300.00 yet.

It will occur to Korena, I know, to use it and break the news to her dumbass selfish driver who never thinks about anybody but himself and is ungrateful and has caused her all kinds of problems.

She will steel herself for a big fight, be surprised when she doesn't get one, and promptly forget the entire exchange.

Yesterday I paid zero for food.  If I was willing to live on peanuts, Fritos, and cookies I could go 2 more days, but I'll get 2 Chile dogs or some fish and chips later.

I'm not going to behave, though.  I'm going to a bar to watch maybe the first half of Thursday night football.

I've been treading water in fantasy, and have some guys playing tonight.

I never spend over 20 bucks.  It's the one bad thing I do, maybe every second or third day.  I meet some nice people.  I stay sane.

"By the end of the week" often means Monday.  Korena owns some trucks, and might put me in one of hers temporarily.  But there's all sorts of paperwork to do thanks to oppressive regulations.

I hooked her back up with Chris at National Leasing, and hope he can pull off another near miracle and lease her a truck I'll actually want to keep and eventually rebuild.

She'd have to lease to own it, since my name is mud thanks to the Nazis, and I'd have to sign a separate contract with her obliging me to make the payments etc. (And of course to take the title once it's paid off).

Korena is a good person and doesn't really hate me.  But she also needs me.

Until I've repaid the carrier, all her commissions are being withheld.  She hasn't been paid for several weeks.  This is over and above the money I still personally owe her, which by this time is insignificant in comparison.

As Kate keeps telling me, that's not fair.  But it is what it is, and she will get me rolling as soon as she can.

But Ryder and Penske want big deposits, then 500+/week, then mileage pay, and she can't do that.

Chris, I believe, can.  But he'll need her credit and banking information, and have to wade through the same swamp of bullshit, and then the carrier bullshit for ifta, insurance, etc. And I haven't paid my road taxes yet (another reason I'm playing dumb.  I CAN'T pay them!  She'll have to!  Unless...I'm not certain-the plates could be from another state, so maybe I could pay them later.  Not sure how that works.  Just that if I got new Ohio plates I'd have to pay first...)

Either way, it's 550.00 I must pay.  Plus late penalties.  I just hope I can wait a month or so while running under somebody else's plates.

Oh yeah, well see when you lease to own the plates are often in the name of the leasing company.  The costs of them and road taxes are part of the lease payments, so the lessee does pay over time.

Well if you happen to read this root for Chris and the last truck I'll need.