I am starting this entry during what’s been an amazingly quiet morning. It’s only to be in the mid-70s today, so I’m surprised the dog isn’t going off like crazy. Today will also be a good test for next door. There’s been 3 cars and 1 truck living over there. The truck comes and goes often enough at the side here, and they now leave the gate open all the time. I don’t like it, but at least no music or door slamming is accompanying it since they get in and out of the thing up by the house. There’s got to be at least 4 adults living there, but I’m still unsure as to how many kids are over there, excluding infants. I still say you wouldn’t set up swings only for kids who come to visit or for a baby to use when it’s old enough, but if there are kids over there, why don’t we hear from them more often? Tom insists they go somewhere every day, and we did see the truck leave pulling one of their boats at 6:30 this morning. I guess for now I’ll leave my computers in the living room until and if that yard really does become a virtual circus. Having to move would be a real hassle for us, and again, we were supposed to be forever free of having to have our house set up revolve around neighbors years ago.

It was only 71º in here when we got up at 6:00 so I’m hoping we won’t need the AC today. It’s 45º outside right now, so perhaps that’s why the dog’s quiet. It’s 50s-70s temps that really sets it off.

I sent a letter to Mary saying that I won big and we’re moving, so don’t send any more mail here until I contact her with a new address, but of course the truth is that I’m done with her, and I should’ve stayed that way the first time I was done with her. I should know better than to go back as I did, but anyway, I thought it’d be easier on her if I did it this way rather than just ignore her from here on out. It’s not that I hate her or want to upset her in any way, but this way she’ll just think I’m too busy to write. If all goes well, there should be more than a grain of truth to this anyway! Yes, the horseracing thing is still showing great promise. Tom says that if it could win 1 of every 3 races, that’d be plenty sufficient to quit working for others and to get most of what we want in life. It won 5 of 12 races yesterday, but he didn’t bet big money on them. He’s not comfortable risking big bucks till he fine-tunes the brains he’s training for certain tracks around the country. I still don’t think we’ll ever live on a boat, but I’ve got the perfect floor plan in mind for a 2-story house with a cellar! How great it would be if we could still build our own house after all or at least design it!

I also told Mary that my letters to her were being returned to me for no apparent reason. With the screwy mail system there, she’ll believe it. This way, as time goes by, she’ll think my letters were returned rather than that she was dumped.

Something about “June 4th” and “Rosa Linda” came to me yesterday. We looked up towns by that name in California, but could only find a town in central California called just Linda. June 4th would be a wonderful time to move because we could get out of here before the bugs got really active, but that seems a bit soon unless some assholes move in to run us out.

We bombed yesterday while we rode our bikes to Denny’s and then to do the grocery shopping. At Denny’s, I muttered “That figures,” when they said they were out of T-bones so the waitress gave me a 10% discount to have sirloin with my eggs and hash browns instead. Sometimes complaining really does pay.

At the store, I got a nice pink body pillow pillowcase and two cheap pillows to stuff inside it. This way the outside is washable and I can just get new pillows to stuff it with when it goes flat.

When we came home and I did my sweeping, I won a box of candy in an instant game.