Another warm day has brought more car stereos out and about as well as more people chatting, smoking, etc. We had another quiet one-nighter in the inner room, but the end room, the worst one to have occupied, has been wonderfully empty since Saturday. I’m enjoying the peace till someone arrives to slam-dunk it in there.

Another day of my tension building too, the closer it gets to when Tom gets in with what I expect will be another story of getting the runaround and ending up nowhere as far as getting the 9K goes. As for the horses, you know how that goes – hit or miss. But one thing’s for sure and that’s that the 5th is definitely going to come! I hate to put our deaths on the motel staff, especially Michelle and Kissum, but we can’t live forever in this room and I’ll be damned if I’ll settle for an apartment and go through the shit I used to go through there. That’d really be taking a step backward in life! I asked Tom if he wanted to return to Oregon and he said, “No, I don’t go backward.” Well, an apartment would really be going backward! If we knew for sure we’d only be in one for a few months while we were waiting for the home we’ll never get to have built or picked out, that’d be one thing. But to go and live there indefinitely, uh-uh!

Anyway, at this point, if I could only have one housekeeper, I’d definitely pick Kissum. She’s by far the nicest. She cracked me up earlier when I was telling her we were having trouble getting the money I won and that I feared something was trying to keep us trapped in this room. Her solution to the problem was to switch rooms. We should’ve taken 336 so we wouldn’t have to be next to an end room. Why don’t they have more rooms like them if they’re so popular?

Kissum said not to tell anyone, but she had thought of me when she was working nearby last Sunday and wanted to bring me everything I needed, but I guess she was too busy.

In case I forgot to mention it, Michelle was nice enough to let us know that no matter how we book the room, we can have housekeeping every Wednesday either way. That’s really nice of her, especially since you’re not supposed to get service without booking for at least one whole week.

Later…

Now something’s not only trying to keep us in this room, but keep Tom from calling Rhino. One of the bosses wanted to talk to him right as he was going to call and believe it or not, they really are starting him on 2nd shift Monday! Finally! I didn’t think they’d ever put their actions where their mouths are on that one. At least that much is good. Tomorrow, he swears he’ll call Rhino earlier.

Another good thing is that Tom went back to that track his best computer brain is best at and got a $5 profit! As excited as I was, I tried to put a damper on it, reminding him that tomorrow could be the typical loss that follows a win. But then he had a point when he said that if you omit the foolish chance he took yesterday on that track that his computer isn’t really trained for where the horses aren’t as good anyway, we haven’t had the usual, win/lose rotation, but 3 straight wins, something we’ve never had before. Anyway, we hope “Operation Double Storm,” my newest dub for this newest program, will up our money fast! Especially if Rhino isn’t going to spring us out of here.

The other night I dreamt he won $50K on Netwinner, then a message came up saying, “We’re sorry, we don’t have the funds to pay this prize.” 

But then he also won $70 twice in something else, possibly the horses. I was a bit worried about the Netwinner dream, but he assured me that had the dream gone on, I’d have found he could’ve negotiated with Netwinner and had them pay a little at a time.

He got a new Boost phone that has internet access.