We finally have a phone! Not the DSL, which may take another week, but at least I can check my mail when he gets in tonight and sets things up. It turned out that the phone company messed things up, and when I had to wake up with a little bit of wheezing since there weren’t any doors or car stereos to wake me up with, Tom was on his way out. That was when he told me the phone company would be by to fix it today. When I got up a few hours later at 6:00 and 84º (we still need to get this funky old cooler a thermostat), I was bummed to find there still wasn’t a dial tone. Then I heard someone pull up to Jesse’s 15 minutes later and I could hear voices too, although I couldn’t make out any words. At first I doubted it could be the phone company that late, but sure enough, I checked and found we finally had a dial tone! I swear something up there has been trying to interfere with my sweeping for nearly a year now! Hopefully, when we get the DSL, it won’t go out too often.

I also hope Jesse’s dogs won’t bark more often as the days get warmer. It was only a few barks at a time, but I heard it 4 times since I’ve been up and I got up late. I also heard the puppy whining at 3:30 last night, so like most dogs of the West, they’re not house pets. I’m sure they’ve never seen the inside of a house in their lives. He also has a cat, too.

During the first part of my sleep, I dreamt the horses won 120 million dollars. Tom took us out to dinner to celebrate, but I was too shocked to react much, other than to say, “Omigod, this wasn’t a joke after all.”