Runnin' on Empty

Today, I hate everyone.

A business appointment scheduled in Georgia on Tuesday that had been arranged two months ago has been canceled and rescheduled for mid-April, meaning I had to cancel and rearrange several campground reservations and reroute our return trip to Ohio in late April. Which meant a whole new set of reservations and going out of our way to return to Georgia.

Then the truck salesman called and told us the mechanic was having problems getting the auxiliary fuel tank switched over to the new truck and it might be Monday before we get the truck. We're scheduled to be out of this campground on Sunday. Denny called the mechanic and was able to give him the phone number of the original installer of the fuel tank, plus the number for the supplier of the tanks and parts. After that, the mechanic called back and said he should have the wiring done by tomorrow thanks to our help and that he just needed to find some appropriate hoses due to different sizes used in the 2000 models and the 2008 models. Great! We can leave Sunday! Nope, another call from the mechanic. It seems that the 7.3L engine in the 2000 used smaller hoses and a whole new pump and hoses would be needed for the new 6.4L engine so the engine would get enough fuel to the system. Which needs to be shipped overnight but it was too late to order tonight, so that would have to be done on Monday. Which means the parts wouldn't get there until Tuesday. Which means we may not get out of here until Wednesday. Except we are supposed to be out of this campground the day after tomorrow. Sigh.

Some of this could have been alleviated if the mechanic had called us right away so that we could have given him the proper information immediately. Some of it is beyond our control. Tomorrow I will have to go to the campground office and see if they'd allow us to stay three more days (member campgrounds have rules and restrictions and sometimes employees aren't flexible). And arrange for another three days on our car rental. We're hemorrhaging money here and I'm not liking Florida much right at the moment.

We're also not doing any traveling, other than fetching mail from ridiculous distances away. Not having fun. Not liking Florida. Hate people. It's raining again. Phooey.