I reassured Mary that she’ll only be known as “Mary” and nothing about her case will be mentioned in my journals at this time. She says that although she trusts me with her life, her friend Shirley is going to check it out regularly. Great, another fan! As I told her, anyone is invited to check out my writing as well as my photo albums on Webshots. Her friend Nathan is going to send her some of my pictures which is nice. I told her to be sure to describe the ones he sends so I don’t send the same ones in, and yes, I shall be sending some soon! The Apple cards are on their way.

Although they laid off 4 out of 12 people at work, Tom was not one of them. To save the company money, though, he has to take 4 unpaid days off in July, then he gets 4 vacation days in August. I just hope he’s gone by then! Gone to a more secure job with benefits that’s closer to home. Better yet, I wish I could win enough money to not only buy a house outright but to get him out of work for a while! I’d need to win 300K in order to do this. With 100K we wouldn’t have much left over after taxes.