Andy continues to annoy me with his repetitious stupidity and forgetfulness. I just get so tired of going over the same old shit with the guy over and over again. And again I wonder if it’s a personality thing on top of pot frying his brain cells. He’s just too selfish to pay attention to a lot of what you tell him. I also still think he enjoys annoying or at least frustrating some people. 

He is the SAME exact Andy M I have always known. He may own his own place and business but he is no smarter or mature than he was 30 years ago. Same old immature talk, same old stupid fantasies. Not to change him or anything, since fantasy is harmless and it’s not like he can’t distinguish fantasy from reality (well, maybe except for when it comes to God), but how can one be into the SAME old fantasies for so damn long, like with his imaginary “Fire Flies” tour? I would think anyone would get sick of that after a while. Hell, I’ve very rarely had a crush on the same person for more than a few months, with an occasional few years here and there. Perhaps it’s like with journaling. After all, I’ve done it for nearly 28 years now and I’m not sick of it. 

I told him 2-3 times I’m sick of him asking me to translate meme quotes cuz it’s a pain to look up words I don’t know since I can’t copy and paste from jpg. But what does it do? He goes and asks again anyway till I have to bluntly and loudly spell it out for him. A few words here and there are fine, but I don’t want to translate longer things. 

And the memory issues go on. He just asked me when he pointed out the difference between the words effect and affect to me, and I can’t believe he doesn’t remember the 2-3 times he’s pointed this out. Can’t blame this one on selfishness because it has to do with him, so I guess it’s either fried brain cells or a case of him playing with me. I honestly can’t say which would be worse… there being something wrong with him, or him to be mind fucking me. 

I still wish he wasn’t such a loner and had more people to socialize with so he would be online less often. But he doesn’t want to be out with friends, he wants to be home on Facebook… and Ask too, of course. 

Tom is being silly by losing sleep because he’s “trying to train” Simone when he should shut his bedroom door. Both of them, that is. She’s a cat. Cats are never trainable. At least not that much anyway. We can usually get them to use litter boxes, but that’s pretty much where it stops. I can’t get this cat to do much else. No matter how many times I yell at her for going places I don’t want her going, she goes there anyway. Cats are dumber than dumb. Just totally brain-dead compared to rats. 

Animals usually only evolve in ways they need to and nothing more. Simone knows all she needs to know for a cat while Hoodie knows all he knows for a rat. Cats didn’t get to be that smart because they aren’t everywhere in the world like rats are, and there is a variety of different kinds of cats. But the rat you find in the desert is the same rat you find in the Oregon forest, and they needed to learn ways of figuring out how to survive in so many different climates and all that. 

In better cat news, Tom picked up one of those chaser toys at Walmart – Smarty Kat’s Hot Pursuit – and Simone is totally addicted to it! She played with it for hours, along with the laser light he also got that she loves to chase, and ended up napping more than ever before due to all the activity. The laser light is great because she can’t get her claws caught on it and there’s nothing to tear up or damage in any way. I can have her use the chaser toy when I want to do something without her underfoot and distracting me. 

Really getting sick of these afternoon outages. Hope we won’t end up having to call our provider to beg for reliability we can’t get as we did in Auburn. 

Next door is coming and going, as usual, and as usual, I’m left to wonder where two people in their 80s could possibly have to go 2-3 times a day, even on a Sunday. To the pool? To see friends here in the park? 

The nail clipper that arrived from China yesterday was a huge disappointment. I’m glad it was so cheap. Even so, the Chinese need to either learn English or hire interpreters if they’re going to make products for the US. The thing said it could cut tips into rounded or square shapes, but this thing only does squared-off tips. I hate that unnatural look. I like my tips to be well-rounded. 

I awoke both tired and with a headache. Coffee and ibuprofen helped a little. I wonder if the headache was due to having an extra cup of coffee yesterday. Definitely gotta put my foot down against all these appointments. They’re really getting to me. Some of them anyway. The ear appointment is necessary, but my doctors simply don’t need to see me every 2-3 months, and I don’t need to see counselors and shrinks if given the right medication and the right dosage. I will make one last-ditch effort to get them to see this on the 9th and 17th. Meanwhile, it’s consoling to know that they’re not my parents and I’m not a kid. We pay them. They work for us. It’s up to ME when I see who. :) I totally understand, though, that they've only seen me when I was anxious, so they don't know me any other way... yet. 

Tom’s napping now and we’re going to go to the pool in a few hours. 

Later… 

Simone’s been much better behaved the last couple of days. Yes, she’s still clingy and yes, she can still get underfoot at times, but it’s easier to distract her with her new toys when she overdoes the gratitude. She’s napping now by my feet. When she’s active, though, she is one crazy chica! 

We signed up for Netflix long enough to see what they have that we can’t find on Amazon. AP often has a limited and shitty selection. 

We postponed the pool because we both felt too tired today. 

Andy worried me for a minute when he said his neighbors barged in on him after knocking and then not waiting for him to come to the door (he usually locks the screen). He said the woman’s BF seemed to be looking for something, but he later told me he’s a good guy and might’ve been looking for his cat, which hangs out with him at times. 

Andy was saying he saw some anti-Semitic videos that scared him and I wondered if maybe he focuses too much on the news. I mean look at it. It’s like 90% depressing. How could most of the news possibly leave one in a good mood? Want to get depressed? Just read some article about child abuse or something. Great way to put yourself in a foul mood. I’m aware of such atrophies in the world occurring every day out there, but I choose not to focus on the nitty-gritty details. I don’t like to read the news any more than he likes to read books. His reading material of choice is a magazine and mine is a good mystery/suspense novel. Nothing wrong with that, of course, and to be honest, it’s not like I don’t have a damn good idea of what’s going on in the world. If you use the Internet every day, there’s no way to avoid knowing what’s up in general. There’s too much mention of it on almost each and every site one can possibly go to. I just choose to focus on happier things, but hey, that’s just me.