The cold I never should’ve gotten, my third in a decade, is over its worst. Yesterday I was achy and beat. Today I’m still a little energyless and my head’s stopped up, but I’m feeling more alive.

When I heard the housekeeper doing the room next door yesterday, I went out and asked for some coffee. A black man, who I thought they were training but was really getting stuff as well, said coffee wouldn’t do me any good for my cold and that I needed his special tea. So he went to his room a few doors down and returned with 8 teabags and 2 lemons. I decided not to tell him how much I hated lemons so as not to appear rude. There were 4 green teas which were bad, and 4 ginger roots which were incredibly bad! It was still nice of him to care.

It finally rained yesterday, and Tom said it poured Arizona hard. I guess that’s the way it rains in most warm climates. I was a bit concerned with having to run the heat, even though it wasn’t for long, in a warm climate in September, but then Tom reassured me by telling me how people were saying it was like winter out there. Well, if this is like winter, then it won’t be much different than Arizona and certainly not like Oregon, which is already close to freezing in the early mornings. The freeze will be put on old Cricket Legs soon enough. That’s one of the few bad things about being back in a warm climate; bugs live year-round here.

The win curse isn’t off yet, but the sale curse was off at least yesterday. Tom sold about half the DVDs I’ve won over the last couple of years for $35 after the guy at the store picked through the ones he wanted. Tom could then reschedule his appointment for a California license for Monday. I guess it’s to cost $27.

Tom, who ended up working 12 hours yesterday, said there was no music whatsoever! I was surprised. I wish they’d hire him on and give him a couple more bucks an hour at least, but he still doesn’t think this is going to be the place he’ll stay at. With overtime, he’s making more than what he made in Oregon, but it doesn’t seem like it since this room costs more than 3 times what the house rent cost. The house rent was about $12 a day and this is $40 a day. Then there’s gas and storage.

Sometimes I still think it’d be great if I could go to sleep one night and never wake up because sometimes the good in life just doesn’t seem worth all the aggravation. I don’t want to live to deal with any more security threats, lost sleep or other nuisances in life, but I want to do the things I miss doing, too.