Carrie, the woman who called and sent the email, got my message. She’s going to have a woman named Paula contact me. She said she’d be able to answer my questions better. Carrie wanted to verify my number and that I wanted the prize, even though she’d still have Paula email me since I’m easier to reach that way. I told her I wanted the prize, but in truth, if they tell us we only have a few months to use it, we can’t do it. I think they’ll give us a year, though. Jessie, who said I was so lucky, said I should use it. We will if time and money permit it, even though I still hate traveling. Funny how often I end up doing the things I swear I’ll never do again! Jessie said she’s been trying to win a trip to Disney World which her husband hates and won’t spend the money on. I sent her a link for a spa sweep I’d never enter, seeing that it’s in Lenox, MA, but being so close to her, she might want to enter. She said she passed up a chance to go to London/Paris years ago and regrets it.

Speaking of Jessie, I wonder why she’s so secretive. Does she just not have the time to answer my questions, or does she not read them? She still hasn’t told me the name of her daughter, her husband’s name, what he does, etc. Her messages are always short and sweet and only in response to something I tell her. I wonder why? I know it’s definitely her and not someone pretending to be her.

I found out exactly where in Italy the trip is. It’s to Rome, Venice and Florence, which Tom was glad to learn. He says he thinks he’d like Rome with all the artifacts they have that are thousands of years old. I don’t know much about Florence, but Venice ought to be cool with the way they travel on canals rather than streets. I don’t suppose they’d have many car stereo problems there!

Italy’s nearly 6000 miles away from here, whereas Ponce, Puerto Rico, the furthest we went on the cruise trip, is 3625. The European countries are so small, like the size of your average US state. It seems the closest countries are Portugal, Spain, France, Austria, Croatia and Romania. I can’t quite say Germany judging by the satellite map I looked at, but it’s sort of close. I didn’t like how Iraq is the same distance from Italy as the distance between Massachusetts and Nebraska, but the ocean between Italy and those assholes should keep us safe. I just can’t believe they’d have sweeps to go to Israel with all the shit that’s going on over there.

I finally found the link where they posted the winners and found it strange that they listed me as being from Oretech, Oregon, but as Tom said, OIT is here, so maybe that’s why.

For $80 I’ll probably get this Italian language-learning software I’ve been wanting. I don’t expect to get as good as I am with Spanish, but learning the basics would be cool.

We listed the autographed guitar earlier which already has a bid. But they didn’t make the $100 reserve. The diamond has a few spies watching it.

The weather’s back to being your typical shitty Klamath Falls weather, and it may even snow tonight! Getting that evil snow in June is all wrong! It’s keeping things quieter, though, except for the dog across the street on the corner. That one’s usually not bad either. It must be all the traffic in next door’s driveway which is directly across from this dog. Again, I’m just so glad that driveway is on the other side of the house!

Mr. Acre’s going to deposit the check next week when I can be there to show my ID and all that fun stuff. Then if all goes well with bringing the truck to life, we could be splitting around his birthday.