The people in the end room haven’t turned out to be as wild as I thought they’d be, but it still wouldn’t hurt my feelings if they’d check out. They still come and go enough to be annoying and I can hear the beat of their music over here. As long as it doesn’t override the sound machine, though, then I’ll live with it. I just wish the fucking car stereos that have been picking up lately would back off.

We get to be spared the misery of the nastiest peak of the year! That is Klamath’s winter peak. They’re going to have a few days in the single digits, which even Tom could barely stand.

I managed to open the passcard for the Clorox tip sweep, and sure enough, my tip was the short and sweet tip I thought it’d be. I simply said to “keep up on it and things won’t be so quick to build up.”

The horse thing still looks promising, but as I figured would be the case, there were no wins in yesterday’s mail. The owner there eagerly asked if we needed anything signed and notarized. He no doubt wishes all his customers were sweepers, and will surely miss us once we’re no longer getting our mail there.

Tom said the reason they’re all talk and no action about second shift is that the bosses fear being fired for fucking up lately. I’m not sure what the connection is, but anyway, that’s nothing compared to the HUGE scare he told me he had the night before last. Thank God I slept through this one or else I’d have been freaking out like crazy, and thank God it turned out to be only a 1½-hour nightmare and not an 11-day one! When he went to book the room for a week he got a message saying, “Your request is unavailable at the moment.” He thought it was a bit weird, but he tried again just to get the same message. When he tried the third time he got, “Your card has been declined.” Then it was off to play phone with both the card company and the motel to find out why. He never did find out why, though, and was told it was just a fluke that sometimes happens. It could’ve been because the motel was updating their rooms at that instant, or someone else booked rooms at the same time, but we’re just glad they cared enough to unfreeze the account, unlike the other company, who could care less that their carelessness nearly killed two people. What a nightmare it would’ve been had it been too late to reach them or they too, had taken their sweet time to do something! We’d have been back on the streets indefinitely, with no way to eat or buy gas to get him to and from work. Those damn debit cards can really be scary! This is why we wish Netwinner would hurry the fuck up and send the one they owe us so we can have another card as a backup.