Tom and I went to the store today. They’re draining the canal. I guess they do this every winter. It stinks worse than the ocean! The seagulls love it because it’s easier for them to catch fish. Tom swore he saw three otters a few weeks ago.

In the letter I got from Mary a few days ago praising me for praying to God and sympathizing with how shitty Bob lived before he died, she enclosed an address. She said if I just write to that address asking for them, they’ll send non-religious books about spirituality, karma, etc. I don’t know that I’ll find them all that interesting as opposed to a good mystery novel, but maybe I could sell them.

The wins are getting more worthless, though Tom kind of likes the 1-month subscription to NASCAR’s track pass that I won in an instant win game. This allows one to hear communications between the drivers and those in the pit crew which you can’t hear watching the races on TV.

I also won, so I learned via snail mail today, a year’s subscription to some traveling magazine. It was a 2nd prize-winning. It can’t be much of a magazine to have an ARV of just $8.

Amazingly, I finished my story last night and I’ll admit I kind of rushed it along. Due to how busy I am with the sweeps, I don’t know if I’ll write any more stories for a while.

Although Tom didn’t think my ear/tooth pain had become infected since I had no fever, if I could know since I was around 5 that I couldn’t conceive, then I should know other things, too. So when I said it had become infected, I knew I was right. Not only is women’s intuition real, but we know ourselves better than others, don’t we? And so he looked online for natural cures to replace antibiotics and found that an herbal extract called Echinacea might help and so far it has. The pain’s not gone, but it’s lessened a lot. Something better help it because my prayers and spells have been worthless.