Well, first, I decided to take a mental health day
Not for my mental health, mind you, that’s fucked.
I still had to finish the driveway, but I had to get the weeds cut first, which required that I replace the hosed hose. Turns out that Home Despot sells them, so I bought two. Good thing because the one in the leaf blower was blown too.
So I weedwhacked the balance of the drive, blew the weeds and dust off, went out and bought four MORE buckets of tar, and finished the drive.
That sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it?
Would that it were.
Then there was the lawn, which I thought I had gotten for the last time. Pitiably, I had not. But I had to belt the damned thing, and so I went out and bought TWo new 30 dollar belts, one to use and one as a spare.
This is the time of year when I usually button down the place for the winter, but this year it’s been very difficult to keep up, what with IMTS and being assigned to a long term project some great distance from the house. So each weekend is a scramble to make ti all happen. Good to see the backside of that one.

Fuck that OG.
When your next at Home Despot, grab a coupla the homies at the driveway, tellem “Poco travaho, cinco dolloros, dose ninoes”
Five bucks an hour, a big mac for lunch, you get your shit done, and they are off the gangbang street for a day.
Be suprised how good they work and you are both contributing to the reduction in crime.
I know, I know but it does work.
YMMV
If I could afford to pay someone $5 an hour to do ANYTHING there are a lot of other jobs I’d have them do.