I slept well the day before yesterday. Therefore that meant I wasn’t allowed to sleep well yesterday and so I had to wake up hot and having to pee. If the weather people know what they’re talking about, then the rain should now be gone till the fall and summer should be here to stay till December. Yippee! And so I’ll be packing away the big heavy comforter and breaking out the fleece blanket.

So I got up around 4:00, peed, kicked the fan on, cracked the window, and returned to dreamland. This one hardly seems like it could be a premonition: I was in what appeared to be a pretty nice house of a pretty good size (though after living in 500-square-foot trailers and a tilted, microscopic cottage-like house, everything seems “pretty nice” and a “pretty good size”) and I stepped out back where there was a spacious yard with lush green grass. The houses in the area weren’t hundreds of feet apart, but they weren’t tooth houses either. We had sufficient space all around the 1400-or-so-square-foot rectangular house that, believe it or not, wasn’t older than us. I stepped off a covered patio that had a storeroom on one end of it sort of like our Phoenix house had, only bigger.

To the right was another house that might’ve had a fence between it and ours. I walked towards the left side of the spacious yard towards some kind of lake or pond. I took a quick dip in it. A little boy was running around giggling across it, maybe a hundred or so feet away. My dream self knew we were renting the place cuz I was thinking that while I liked it where we were, a senior community would be even better cuz it would have no kids which can be loud and destructive.

I moved towards the back of the yard where there was a cluster of trees dropping down a hillside. The trees weren’t so dense that I couldn’t see the scummy old trailers down below, hoping no one back there would get noisy.

I then turned and headed to the back door, thinking I could do my running in the backyard or just circle all around the place. I entered a utility area, went through the kitchen, hung a left, and stepped into the living room in front of the house where Tom sat in a chair talking on the phone.

I don’t think it’s a dream premonition cuz even if he suddenly got a good-paying job, and even though I hate the lack of space and how old this place is, why return to the city and pay twice as much now that we’re not getting 6-12 hours of barking a day?

The helicopters were buzzing around earlier in the day both yesterday and the day before. Tom said he got a good look at the power tower, and yes, they are replacing the lines. He said they appear to be halfway done and that by the next time I roll onto nights, they should be done if this is really it for rain. Good, cuz this has been going on since March 21st!

And then there’ll be something else, of course.

I had a sore throat when I got up and was worried I was coming down with something, even though I didn’t see how since I haven’t been around people. I joked with Tom saying, “Ooh, maybe it’s the swine flu come to get me. Go ahead, God, swine me! We need a little excitement in our stagnant lives.”

Then I decided to be glad for stagnancy. After all, whenever we do get some excitement, it’s not usually in a good way. So I did a spell and now it’s gone, whatever it was.

I’m only going to refer to the following person as “Deep Throat.” Deep Throat contacted me via this site to say she saw my post at the dustpan, thought it sounded like the ratgirl, then confirmed through my OLS profile that I was indeed banned, then contacted me through the diary link that’s still there. She said she was sorry I was banned but loved my post telling it like it is at OLS, totally agreeing with the way they unfairly ban people and the lack of customer service one is supposed to get as a premium member.

At first I automatically assumed she was Sherri, who has already given me permission to use her first name, but she said she’s just another long-time member who was also fed up. She did, however, offer to PM her for me which was nice, to let her know I got the boot in case she hasn’t checked in here.

I’m not sorry I was banned as that’s how fed up I am with OLS, but I guess others are still getting banned whether they like it or not. Makes me wonder this: If every member suddenly bashed them would they ban every single one of them and spite themselves with zero members? It wouldn’t surprise me if they did! I don’t think it’s just about being overly sensitive and having their feelings hurt so easily, I think it’s a power trip thing as well. On the one hand, it’s like they have these fragile eggshell-like feelings and they just can’t handle being bashed, yet they definitely do seem to get a kick out of banning people on the other hand. Like I said, though, once the members and the money starts dwindling, it might not be so funny to them anymore.

She said it now says “gone camping” under Fast Freddie’s name, so I guess he’s either been banned or is fed up, too. Even Deep Throat figures her own time will eventually come as well. She said she sweeps elsewhere, will not renew her subscription to OLS, and now uses the site mainly for “entertainment” purposes, trying to guess who’s “going camping” next. She said, no offense, but I was on her list.

I got a kick out of that one, totally not offended at all, and told her I was actually surprised I wasn’t banned ages ago. Whenever the few “Brent worshipers” would start a “Brent is God” thread I’d come in and burst their bubbles with reminders of all his false promises and the lack of customer service and satisfaction.

We agree about them reading people’s private messages. I think they do on pretty much all sites that allow private messaging, just cuz people want to know what’s going on at their site, what they’re thinking, etc. Nothing’s really private online and I’d be willing to bet just about anything that “private” diaries/journals aren’t so private either.

We laughed at how I signed up as ‘fukc Brent’ and slammed the MODS and Brent himself before they blocked that account from posting, too. A Brent worshiper posted a thread about it. I’m kind of surprised they didn’t shut out my ISP altogether, but I got them out of my system so they won’t be hearing any more from me anyway. I’ve taken a break from sweeping at least until we get our new address. Then, if I decide to go back to it, I’ll use SA or BS. (no, that doesn’t stand for bullshit, LOL) I’ll get the same sweeps there for free that I wasted $30 to get at OLS. The Shazam feature certainly isn’t worth $30. Especially since SA has one for free, though they call it “sweep pops.”

OMG, this is even funnier! Totally hilarious! Just checked the “entertainment” site and I swear I left with 21 friends. But now I’ve got 24 friends! You mean I made friends just by getting banned? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

Okay, off to do my usual things now.