Rant alert!

Wow I sleep in this morning, it was after 7am before the first generator fired up, and of course it’s the noisiest generator in the whole parking lot, and as luck would have it, it is located in the row directly behind us. It’s at the spot that the generator is on all day, and I mean all day it runs till it runs out of fuel then someone exits the trailer, refuels and restarts it, and this will happen until 10pm. I guess I just don’t understand what needs that much power, because none of the adults are sitting outside it must be television, but of course that is also the trailer with the kids, and with no parent outside to supervise, these are the kids running around with toy guns, running through everyone’s site, shouting and screaming like a banshee, I guess they are just little red necks in training.

Respect…due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others

I guess that says a lot about what we now see everyday in our travels and daily life…I don’t mean we see a lot of respectfulness…no no much more the opposite, a total lack of respect of pretty much everyone and everything. But just stop for a minute and look around, where does today’s youth learn that respect? Well it should be taught at home, failing that, friends and family, school, church, community leaders, clergy, political leaders, so now I’m starting to understand why the lack of respect today. I won’t go into the whole when I was young story, no no there has been way too much water under the bridge since then. But just look what has happened to the world, no one respects a politicians (not even politicians), the clergy (child molesters), community leaders (?), church (gun fights during the services in the pews), school (endless mass school shootings), which only leaves family or friends, and I fear we are failing there as well.

I always laugh when they show an apprehended criminals mother and she’s saying my little Jonny couldn’t possibly have done that…mean while there is a video of little Jonny doing exactly what she said he couldn’t have possibly done…and then I think if that Mom had just filled her parental role and taught poor little Jonny some RESPECT, then maybe little Jonny would’ve have grown up to be such a piece of shyt. But then everyone will go on to blame the community, or system, for failing little Jonny…wrong little Jonny’s family and his lack of a good up brining failed little Jonny…if they had taught little Jonny some RESPECT, then maybe little Jonny wouldn’t be on his way to prison or already in a body bag…NO little Jonny’s up bringing or the lack of up bringing caused his demise. Little Jonny is a product of his environment it’s too bad, but why didn’t little Jonny’s mom fix it before it was too late, RESPECT and MANNERS cost nothing but pay such huge dividends…just saying

But on a more upbeat note today is opening day of the balloon festival, the first balloon launch was to be at 4:30, Well because of the wind direction they called off the launch. They had decided to do a night glow, that is when they light and partial fill the balloon with the huge propane burners used to lift the balloon, but because there was no launch we decided to catch a ride back…just couldn’t see me sitting for an hour and a half on a rock waiting…will take some chairs next time. So I was hoping to have a great photo of balloons in the Arizona sky but that will have to be a future blog.

Well that’s not too tough of view out of our windshield…as the sunsets over Lake Havasu, looks like a great start to a very good week. We ventured out to the blue sign store today, to pick up some basic supplies, Miss Laurie is still self medicating with over the counter drugs, other that a few cough drops I have had no medication for over 36 hours. I have set up the outside chairs, got out the barbecue and fire pit, in fact we had barbecued burgers last night for dinner. And then I watch the news and find out Iran has fired ballistic missiles at US military bases in Iraq and just wonder where this is going. And as much as I do not have an answer, I do know it’s not going anywhere good, but then I knew that right after the drone strike.

So Iranian news is claiming mass casualties in the strikes on the military bases and Fox News is now claiming that the Iranians intentionally missed the bases because they were afraid to start a war, every politician that can find a news team and can get in front of a camera is making a statement either for or against…but I’m sure it’s all just fake news…and then there is a Ukrainian jet crash this morning that killed everyone on board. I’m thinking it could be a very interesting next few days, as every body is jockeying for the most favourable news position, no one wants to look weak, and with most leaders that could be worked out with this cast of characters I’m not sure it can be sorted out…which will in the end cost innocent lives.

Enough about the world problems it’s now time to look at my problems…we went to start the generator last evening and she was a no go. Of course it was about seven last night when I tried, so it’s pitch black, so I just did a few quick checks and gave up until daylight today, which should happen in the next hour. Here is what I know, the generator starts off of the chassis batteries, the chassis batteries are fully charged, sitting at 12.8 volts. The chassis batteries are at the back right corner of the coach, all the chassis wiring starts at a panel in the left front corner of the coach, and some place in between I have a bad connection. Because I have less that 12 volts at that panel and with any kind of load it drops to “0”, so I’m thinking just a bad connection, so that’s Brian’s first job this morning. There is no end to generator noise here, they are supposed to be off at 10pm and not on till 6am, but of course people seem to ignore the rules if it doesn’t fit their needs or schedule…these are the people I just refer to as “special”, the only reason they are special is because their mommy told them they were.

The balloon festival actually starts at noon on Thursday so today was just another moving in day, although there aren’t a lot of spots left close to us, we will most likely take a walk or bike ride today to get an idea of the layout as I know we are about a mile and a half from the actual balloon field, that’s what happens when you only book six months in advance. This is the tenth year for the festival and it draws around 25,000 people each year, it is all inside of the Lake Havasu State Park that sits right on the shore of Lake Havasu, it’s located just north of the “London Bridge”. There was lots of boat traffic on the lake, with more to come as the weekend nears, but our vista out the windshield has been pretty good so far.

Generator update: the culprit connection has been located and dealt with according, descaled, wire brushed, and filed to a clean shiny surface, reinstall and tightened, and now we have our generator back on line. Just another day in the life of a full timer, we just take it in stride, if these little issues were a reason to drink, we wouldn’t ever be sober enough roll down the road…just saying.

World War III Update: I was so relieved to hear President Trump almost say today that he would deescalate the attack on Iran, and we didn’t learn anything else at least now we all know why and what caused this near catastrophic event…it was the “bad previous administration” that brought us all this close to imminent danger…like seriously…give your head a shake. I’m almost sure we are all sleeping just a little better tonight knowing who is in control now…just saying I’m not.