{"id":721,"date":"2015-05-17T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T03:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/?p=721"},"modified":"2017-02-28T21:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:58:18","slug":"workplace-stress-fix-going-to-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/workplace-stress-fix-going-to-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Stress Fix – Going to the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I didn’t take this pic, but I liked it.<\/p><\/div>\n

My workplace stress fix?<\/p>\n

Well, I quit. (You need to imagine Johnny Paycheck<\/em> warbling in the background to add to the atmosphere.)<\/p>\n

Yup.<\/p>\n

Am I crazy? (Add in some Patsy Cline<\/em> right around here also.) Yeah probably, if you measure me by everybody else’s yardstick.\u00a0 I said in a previous related post that things would be a journey in progress, and so they are. I journeyed out the door! (And I haven’t missed it for a moment, either.) I was kind of hoping to hold out there longer, but some things made that impossible; namely, my sanity level.<\/p>\n

And I will be journeying to Montana in several weeks to work security for Glacier National Park<\/em>. Whee!<\/p>\n

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I didn’t take this pic, either.<\/p><\/div>\n

So Ms. Vandura, Mr. Scamp, Maggie (meow) and myself will be madly packing and getting the rig set up for this particular adventure. It should be interesting. I’ve traded forms of insanity! Right now, I don’t even have a proper loaded 2″ receiver for the van’s hitch (the Scamp takes a 1 & 7\/8″ ball and my 2″ receiver, courtesy of Sleazy Jeff<\/em><\/a>, has a 2″ ball mount and there’s no way in hell we’re trying to wrestle that<\/em> off) and I have no faint clue if all the trailer plug wiring on Ms. Vandura is even all functional yet. I have to get an adapter in before I can test it. I could<\/em> end up on my back in the crushed rock driveway clutching a wire stripper, with plastic wire coating jammed between my teeth, cursing wildly.<\/p>\n

So as I’m flung into full-time RVing by the seat of my pants, this should be an adventure indeed. I used to live in a big-rig 24\/7 for years, Miss Maggie and I will re-adapt to that aspect just fine and I’m pretty good at “creative space manipulation.” It’s all the little details I’m trying to organize and work out.<\/p>\n

This time, I unfortunately won’t have a TriPac (a diesel generator system). I can’t swing solar quite yet, or even the teeny-little generator I’m eyeballing.<\/p>\n

I will<\/em> have hook ups, but only for several months so I need to come up with good dual-purpose solutions to things. Like heat and refrigeration. For example, I have a little space heater. But it works best when it’s plugged into a live outlet, otherwise it just sits there and looks<\/em> warm. I would like to grab a Mr. Buddy at some point (with a CO detector). That would be optimal with a 2nd 20lb propane tank. I have one tank on the Scamp right now, I do have a 2nd tank here that I could add. To switch Mr. Scamp to dual tanks, I’ll need a new tank mounting plate and some way to get it on the tongue. It’s probably not gonna happen before I leave, but never say never.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m trying to shake out of the OMG Overwhelmed!<\/em> phase and assess what I have to work with for both resources and space. A work in progress!<\/p>\n

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Taking care of stress problems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[56,120,108,118,57,84,132,119],"tags":[158,159,156,157],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gnp_2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}