Ratsy does still wheel, after all. He’s just sleeping in later and only wheeling for short periods of time. At 1:30 last night, he wheeled for a few minutes.

At 2:00 last night, fucking Dan went engine-gunning. At 2:00 in the goddamn morning! It was only for a few seconds, but God that’s desperate, not to mention rude and obnoxious. Tom’s theory is that he has a bad battery that can only go so many hours until it needs to be charged up again. You mean to tell me he can’t afford a 60-dollar battery? Lonely people tend to be insomniacs and I think he just couldn’t sleep, so he decided to come out and let anyone who may have been up know that he exists. Well, put it this way - if it weren’t for Dan the place would be perfect (till the freeloaders get here) and no place is perfect, right? Every neighborhood has to have someone making a scene. Another couple of hours or so and it’ll be time for the Danantics again. I wonder what noise God will replace me with when it finally goes to Indiana. More booms? The booms lately have been ever so mild. They’re barely noticeable. I guess they told them to slow down for a while, but it won’t last long. I’m sure that this next week we’ll have some pretty wild booms.

Mary and Dave dropped off the bed and desk today. It’s a nice desk, but totally different than mine. It’s big, too. I set up the bed myself and put some pictures up in that room. Actually, I only put one picture up. One of Tom with Mary and his brothers, and two of the awards he’s received at work. We turned a box upside down and placed it by the bed as a makeshift nightstand that I covered with a tablecloth till we get a real one. With the bed, they gave us a mattress pad, the fitted sheet we gave them when we got the air bed (don’t know where the matching cover sheet is), a pretty cover sheet, a nice comforter with a southwestern pattern, and no pillowcase, so I used one of ours.

We thought they were going to run in and run out, but they wanted to see the animals and my computer desk. I guess they didn’t remember what it looked like.

After they left they headed for the casino which is like going to the bank for them. They always win. Hundreds of dollars. Even over a thousand at times. Like I said, we all have our areas where we’re cursed and blessed. Life is so unfair, though. Here she is, well off financially, about to win lots of money, while we can’t even afford to go out gambling in the first place. And when we do, we won’t win more than twenty to forty dollars. If we’d known better and done things differently we wouldn’t be strapped like we are now, but next time we buy a manufactured house, we’ll know better. We should’ve brought the animals to Mary’s, used Leona instead of Steven, rented an unfurnished studio, bought air beds, and not bothered with wells, trailers, and motels.