Extended Stay Hotel…

We came to an Extended Stay motel on the northern edge of Sacramento yesterday (they refer to this area as Northgate), and it’s been way quiet up here on the third floor with just a few scattered bumps and bangs and pipes popping. This is a tiny suite that’s equipped with a mini kitchen and they only do housekeeping once a week, so there’s no being pestered by housekeepers and nobody pacing overhead for hours at a time either. It’s only $40, which beats the $70 that Best Western was charging, but if things don’t go well with the new job or Unemployment, we may have to get into a scummy place that charges $28 and hope it doesn’t take too long to resave the money we’d need to get into a place. So did God do us a favor by denying our request for the Citrus Heights apartment? As of yet, I can’t see how He did. Not unless He was saving us from another one of those extremes He otherwise loves to sic on us.

Before coming here we drove to his place of work so he wouldn’t get lost tomorrow and end up late. It’s in a flat, remote area that looks like it could be Arizona. It’s actually a manufacturing company of some kind that repairs computer hardware. Tomorrow will be his first day there, and in a sense, Judgment Day for us both. If a raise and or overtime doesn’t look promising at this job, and if the Unemployment people keep playing with us, we may still be heading for the streets, but like I said, I won’t be reduced to that. Tom can do what he wants, but I’ll gladly kill myself first!

After we found Comtek, but before we checked into the motel, we went to the IHOP which they didn’t have up in Oregon. It was good but shitty cuz it was packed. A zillion off-brands, too. I wish they were a rare sighting! Not just for obvious reasons, but because then seeing them would be more special, more interesting. But when every other person is black or Hispanic, it brings nothing new but the usual problems.

With the net being so slow and so unreliable, there hasn’t been much to do. Tom’s had his share of work, though. Today he did laundry and got a new alternator for the truck which took an hour to replace. So we’ll see what it’ll need next in a few days and how much that’ll cost. The piece of shit is going to eat our money along with the damn motels! But we’re probably years away from ever owning anything reliable.

I just hope our chances of survival will be looking better tomorrow than they do now! We’ll know soon enough, though.