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Friday, June 19, 2026

THUR 06/18/26

 THUR 06/18/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • Phoned multiple JOEL creditors to inform of current legal work; forwarded attorney address and phone number

  • TOMMY random banging on door at 11am while I was involved in JOEL personal video editing project; attempted to explain to him that I was right in the middle of a time sensitive video capture process and attempted to close door; TOMMY actually made small effort to prevent me from closing my personal office space door. TOMMY/Dad was apparently just “dropping by” to leave a work invoice for a HTIRE client. These invoices are typically left by TOMMY each work day after he returns from the brick/mortar HTIRE location and why he suddenly felt the need to bring some random invoice to me during my personal working hours, in my personal/tentant private office, is unknown to me.

    This is something that has happened before, the banging on my door when I’m working with headphones on. I try and gently explain that I have great need of my own private time and space to occasionally see to my own work and projects and that it’s very inappropriate to randomly be at my locked office door, banging and hollering as it were, demanding my attention for what generally turns out to be a completely unnecessary conversation or topic.

    My only fleeting idea is that if I am working on an important project or personal matter that requires attention and no interruptions, is that I should lock both my sleeping room door and my office room door and explain to him that if both doors are locked, then I am not to be disturbed outside of real emergencies.

WED 06/17/26

 WED 06/17/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Removed EGO mower blades so TOMMY could sharpen at shop

  • JOEL phoned  single creditor to inform of my ongoing legal/attorney work

TUE 06/16/26

 TUE 06/16/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Verbal TOMMY request to research custom/moldable dentures for friends/family possible use

  • 2 hours reading/researching moldable dentures

MON 06/15/26

 MON 06/15/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Multiple hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney matters

  • Received email fwd from JDEPENBROCK re: HTIRE water cooler refill payment method being declined (TOMMY recent CC cancellation is reason)

  • Printed contact information for water company to update CC information with a new TOMMY/HTIRE CC

  • PHONED Primo Water to have billing CC number changed

FRI 06/12/26

 FRI 06/12/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Multiple hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney matters

THUR 06/11/26

 THUR 06/11/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Multiple hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney matters

WED 06/10/26

 WED 06/10/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • All day working with contractor on WESTMONT  home ceiling repair

  • Multiple hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney matters

WED 06/09/26

 WED 06/09/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit\

  • Spoke with contractor doing Westmont ceiling repair work; contractor rescheduled due to not having luck with finding assistant to collaborate on work with; rescheduled work start for Thursday (next day)

  • Received XXXX amount of cash from TOMMY as partial/half payment of contract upcoming ceiling/drywall work

  • 2 HOURS organizing/rearranging/cleaning JOEL personal office and sleeping spaces (computer maintenance/config/etc.)

  • Per TOMMY request drove tto Ace Hardware to pay and pick up box of HD bags for contractor/home use

  • Messaged TOMMY that I had self-paid for contractor bags; noted need for reimbursement

  • Received Asurion claim refund confirmation on JOEL office item recently having issues

TUE 06/08/26

 TUE 06/08/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • TOMMY request to find XXX Norwood invoice for pricing information but no items responsive after Quickbooks query

  • Per TOMMY request, ordered new corsi-rosenthal box filters for use of the box during contractor work

  • Ordered JOEL x1 facemask in prep for assistance with contractor work

  • Per TOMMY request, searched/sourced quality/permanent thermal/sound insulated on-track curtain/room divider to isolate dining office and kitchen area from main living area

  • 2 HOURS work on JOEL personal attorney matters; phoned various orgs to request statements-by-mail, etc.

  • Printed all recent AMZ office purchases and filed for inputting in Quickbooks

  • Conversation with JOEL deaf friend in Bay City to arrange assisting him with setting up a “deaf services” call center account. Scheduled meeting for noon the next day to do the set up

  • Received several TOMMY tax related messages from TOMMY accountant; filed for reference, otherwise no mention

  • Listed TOMMY spare DREO portable AC on misc online forum marketplaces

  • Sourced HTIRE/E TX PARTS Epson ET-4760 new “maintenance box,” necessary for running hidden menu power clean routine (printer printing with broken lines)

  • Emailed E TX PARTS owner that I had ordered new maintenance box and would need to be reimbursed for it; also scheduled time for drop off/install

MON 06/07/26

 MON 06/07/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • Logged onto TOMMY pers chk bank portal and verified status of previous day’s brokerage > bank transfer

  • Moved all TOMMY dining/office and kitchen “stuff” back into house until the contractor can officially begin work

  • 3 HOURS tuning on JOEL personal workstation post recent BIOS update

  • Messaged ebay seller re: JOEL possible Corsair 780T refurb case purchase for future builds

Sun 06/06/26

 Sun 06/06/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit\

  • Moved all equipment/furniture out of TOMMY dining/office area in advance of contractor work; removed all wall mounted/screwed-in shelving units and stowed for re install post contractor work finish

  • Met with contractor to begin ceiling repair at Westmont property; found numerous new issues upon contractor first inspection post ceiling collapse; contractor left with note that he would call the following day with a new estimate based on large increase in new materials needed to begin/finish work

  • TOMMY request to transfer XXXX amount of money from his personal brokerage to his personal checking account; logged onto TOMMY brokerage and processed his requested EFT; printed EFT confirmation and informed of the typical processing times; archived digital EFT receipt on common family cloud server

FRI 06/05/26

 FRI 06/05/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • At shop from 10a to 1pm covering for TOMMY out on personal matters

  • Four hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney mattersddf

THUR 06/04/26

 THUR 06/04/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit\

  • Four hours working on JOEL personal legal/attorney stuff

  • Received payment information for Chaparral invoice; logged on to HTIRE CC p processor portal and ran provided CC number/paid invoice. Printed payment receipt binder and filed on HTIRE customer cloud server folder

  • Messaged TOMMY main FIDEL rep confirming important prelim setup data on new position/product recently invested in; received confirmation of things in order

WED 06/03/26

 WED 06/03/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit\

  • JOEL meeting with personal attorney 11am to 1pm

  • Received HTIRE accountant invoice; logged on to Intuit, paid invoice and archived PDF receipt on cloud server

  • Conv with JOEL friend requesting assist with PC problems

  • Began JOEL document gathering process for attorney matters

  • TOMMY request to send a document from his emails to his accountant but could not find the document in question

TUE 06/02/26

 TUE 06/02/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • Generated PDF binder statements for all HTIRE customers and mailed to the appropriate payables department

  • Four hours working on JOEL document preparation for JOEL personal attorney meeting on Wednesday 06/03/26

  • Received all of TOMMY 2025 W2-G gambling tax documents and prepared for delivery to TOMMY ACCT

  • Returned two TOMMY AMZ orders/shirts to FedEx for delivery back to AMZ/refund

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

MON 06/01/26: ACTIVITY LOG - and comments about ongoing unpaid work I do for The Dad

 MON 06/01/26

  • cleaned bath and vacuumed, mopped housewide floors

  • Inputted all new Quickbooks invoices/payments/bills/checks/deposit

  • Noted overpayment on TGS latest payment check; paid check in software and applied outstanding credit to TGS remaining balance with HTIRE

  • Emailed payables at TGS to inform of the overpayment including PDF binder with all referenced invoices and revised/corrected invoices reflecting the new credit on TGS account

  • Voice call with contractor confirming that Westmont ceiling repair work is going to be delayed due to contractor having family emergency and being out of town for full upcoming week; phoned TOMMY and informed of situation

  • 2 HOURS on JOEL doc prep for Wednesday attorney meeting

  • Downloaded MAY corporate FIDELITY statement and forwarded to ACCT with note that all HTIRE expenses for MAY 2026 have been inputted; further note that ACCT was clear to begin MAY closing work at ACCT discretion.

  • Packaged x2 TOMMY work shirts for return to AMZ per TOMMY request

  • Assembled new 36” squeegee and left out for TOMMY to take to shop

  • TOMMY request that I tell him precisely how much interest/dividend gains his recent annuity investment had made over the previous month of May. I explained that I had informed him of such the month previous and also, for many months previous in regard to his other cash positions at his brokerage. I also attempted to tactfully, gently explain that once he’s discovered what any given previous months gains were, that he could simply rest easy in the knowledge that the following months would be near identical. He still balked, seeming to want the same as usual which is an immediate, visceral, experience of “watching the money grow.”  Realizing the annuity is for a fixed period of years, having a starting date and a closing date and that it returns a X.XX% interest rate throughout the term in a compounded interest manner, I then used a robot/AI tool to quickly generate a table showing a simple, exact monthly breakdown of what each month returns in the way of gains and for the full term of his annuity. 

    NOTE: here is further of the constant work that I do for my father that is nowhere near the realm of the simple contract we created whereby I would be paid xxx.xx amount of money per week as a contract worker and solely for the daily administration of all technical/financial matters related to his company Harris Tire.

    I’ve done this sort of investment work constantly and for the past three years. This includes the recent location and retaining of an estate attorney to handle his desire to create a revocable living trust to ensure his Henderson property remains within the family after his passing (trust stuff going well).

    I see to the research of all these matters, learning everything I might need to learn in order to both understand these processes as well as eventually explain it to him (and my siblings when that time arrives) but I have never been paid for such work.  Furthermore, on the back of our recent attorney meetings to begin and finalize his Trust, realizing that I was spending at least five to six hours per day doing nothing but research and document review, I actually asked him if we could begin defining separate contracts to cover that large amount of work and that I might actually be paid for it. He was immediately angered by the suggestion saying, in essence, that unlike Juanio who does his contract tire work, what I was doing, in his opinion, “is not work.” This leaves me in an impossibly odd position of being expected to do vast amounts of technical work for him but never, in any way, being compensated for it.

    So, as with previous entries here, I’m taking a moment to show some of the ongoing difficulties I have simply attempting to create some sort of viable and sustainable income stream for myself in the same way any other contract worker/consultant would do. I simply cannot breach the subject without him immediately flying into a rage as though what I’m proposing is incredibly absurd and out of line. But the fact remains, I am a 100% contract/self employed person and my inclination throughout all of such new work is to feel that some compensation would be appropriate.

    Furthermore, at a recent “caregiver support group” meeting for those like myself living with elderly parent(s) with progressively worsening cognitive function, I found that those persons similar to myself and doing the same sort of work as myself for their own parents, all are under an agreement with their parents that they should and do get paid for such work. Said person’s at the mentioned support group even emphatically suggested that I should discuss the matter with my father but, as suspected, that did no go over very well.

    I did not pursue the payment matter any further than my initial suggestion and I happily see to the work regardless.

    Here is an example of the simple table I created showing him exactly what his annuity will create in the way of interest gains per month and for the (assume it’s 36 months) 36 months term.

With the simple table shown below, he will have no problem knowing what any given month in the future has paid out in the way of gains.


Annuity Monthly Gains Table (compounded)

Date

Start Balance

Monthly Gain

End Balance

2026-04-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-05-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-06-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-07-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-08-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-09-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-10-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-11-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2026-12-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-01-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-02-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-03-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-04-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-05-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-06-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-07-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-08-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-09-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-10-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-11-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2027-12-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-01-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-02-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-03-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-04-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-05-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-06-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-07-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-08-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-09-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-10-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-11-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2028-12-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2029-01-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2029-02-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

2029-03-10

$xxx,xxx.xxx

$x,xxx.xx

$xxx,xxx.xxx

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