Sure enough, we still don’t have the check. As I told Tom when they offered a cash equivalent before he even got a chance to ask for one, this is too easy so far. Nothing’s ever that quick or easy for us. Whatever’s up there is going to make us have to wait and work for this one. The travel voucher for Italy only came fast because we didn’t care. So now Nancy’s decided they need a W9 form first and said to “give it a couple of weeks.” So this means we could very well spend weeks, maybe even months, right where we’ve been for the last half a year – living like bums in a motel.

Anyway, Tom, who has a cold that he better not pass on to me, said he thinks it’ll be sent next week. Yeah, I’m sure he does. It’s just that he’s naively optimistic and I’m psychic. I doubt we’ll get it before mid-February. At that point, getting a new car will only take a few days, but who knows about a rental? It’ll depend on the horses and just how much freedom God’s willing to give us in that department.

Speaking of the horses, tomorrow he runs his newest test. I’ve just got to remind myself if this is yet another joke that we won’t be any worse off. We’ll be right where we’ve always been – struggling financially and living in wild “tooth” houses when we’re not stuck in motels, duplexes, trailers or apartments.

Thanks to the people who work here being so brain-dead, I was pissed to wait all day on Wednesday for the housekeeper just to have Michelle tell me we were on for Sunday, which of course makes no sense since we’re due to check out Saturday. We usually book Saturday to Saturday. But Michelle was kind enough to let me go down and grab some clean sheets and towels. She took one look at me when I walked in the door and said, “Wow, I didn’t realize how long your hair was,” and I sensed she likes me, even though Tom overheard her mention a trucker boyfriend once. Hey, she’s twice as fat and ugly as I am, so why wouldn’t she like me?! I’m just amazed she can get a guy looking like she does in the first place, the poor girl. She’s all hair and nothing else. Guys are so much pickier about looks than women usually are. She sure is nice, though, and she has nice long red hair.