Well, this day one year ago was not a good day, to say the least. Remember, freeloaders? Yeah, I’m sure you do!

Ratsy’s been dead a year now, and yesterday, one year ago, would be the last time I’d have “blanket parties” with Houdini. But this year I have an even better rat!

So, what will I be doing this October 30th? I’ll be enjoying a leisurely day at home just like I should’ve one year ago, and in half a year I’ll see my Teddy Bear, the one blessing this curse has brought me. At least all this shit went down after I got Doe, Art, Tammy and Larry out of the picture. Imagine having to deal with them on top of all the other shit I was going through? Ugh!

I’m finishing up ripping CDs, then I’ll finish proofing the bear’s copy of the jailhouse journal, and then it’s on to the autobiography. I just haven’t decided yet how detailed I’m going to have it be. Probably not too detailed. The purpose, after all, is to condense the journals, so I don’t want it to be too big of a thing.

The baby pigs are going tomorrow, but I don’t know if they’re going to Casa Grande or Phoenix. I’m looking forward to their departure. It’ll be a bit less stinky in here (although they’ve been in Tom’s room these last few days) and that’ll be three fewer mouths to feed and one less cage to change. That is if I keep Teddy Bear with the mice. I haven’t decided yet.

Tomorrow I’m also going to do what the freeloaders kept me from doing last year. Now that Tom’s got the area around the house cleaned up (there had been all kinds of junk strewn everywhere) I’m going to do the little odds and ends. There’s a can, for example, that’s been embedded in the far side of the wash ever since we bought this land. Little things like that will be taken care of.

I don’t know what Tom’s obsession with trashing things, having tons of clutter, and being disorganized is, but he better not retrash this property!

He got a good shot of a scorpion yesterday. This one was greenish in color.