Netwinner was just like old times yesterday and I got 1200 points! It was almost up to speed and I won something - usually 25 points - every 3-5 spins (sometimes even a few spins in a row), hit 100 a few times, all in the usual 6 hours or so of playing time. I got hung up a few times, but still, it was nice to not get just 10 points every 10-20 spins. It started off slow today, but now it’s picking up and I’m going to influence it to hit 100 or higher at least once!

I’m just worried that like with most big and or good wins, I’ll be the one to have to work at getting Netwinner to deliver my wins to me. If my $100 Walmart card isn’t here by next week, I’ll have to start getting on them. They also owe me $50 in credit on a MasterCard. At least my account lists these prizes as being owed to me, and the date I redeemed points for them, so they can’t say they have no record of it.

I haven’t been winning shit for sweeps and Tom thinks it only means I’m sitting on a big one. I hope so and I hope it’s cash! Or something with a high enough value that we could sell like a vehicle. I know I don’t want another goddamn trip I couldn’t redeem or transfer!

I just hope Tom will find out soon enough if this job will be worth keeping. Even if we had the money right now to move into a place, we need to know where he’s going to be working for sure before we pick a place to start hunting. All he’s learned is that the lady having foot surgery isn’t leaving till October, and the pregnant lady isn’t leaving till November 1st. Right now my moving vibes say December, after my birthday but before Christmas, which isn’t great. If we end up here till March, that’ll make a total of a year that we’ve lived in motels between the time here, the 2 months in Oregon, and the 3 months when we moved to Maricopa.

I was wondering how long we’d be here. Then, as if to taunt me, I saw an article about a British couple who’s lived at a Travelodge for 22 years. This is by choice, though (at least some of us get to choose where we live). They do it to get out of cooking, cleaning and utility bills, saying it’s also safer and about the same cost as your average mortgage. They also like noise too, saying how there’s always something exciting going on outside their window.

Although I hear movement around me from time to time when the adjacent rooms are occupied, this is definitely the quietest place we’ve stayed in the last 15 years. I’m adapting somewhat, though he does wake me up at times when coming or going, and I do miss having more than one room and having our own stuff, too. It’s still nice to be able to do the things I usually do that are possible to do here for however many centuries we’ll be stuck here. I’ve been able to work on my story and just finished reading that great book I won. I began a new John Saul book.

Having gotten up too early and having PMS fatigue, I ended up taking my first nap in years. It was only for an hour, but it’s been so long. My last nap, according to my journals, was in an Oregon motel. It was the one where Blondie took a nap with us.

It’s been cooler, almost fall-like. We didn’t need to run the AC much last night or tonight, though the temperature should return to the upper 80s soon. I just don’t think we’ll have any more days in the 90s, which is fine with us. It’s even finer that we won’t be having any snow or single-digit weather! They’re already getting down to the high 30s back up in the Klam.