We had to play well games again yesterday for a few hours. Yeah, I knew we were due any time. It had been a month. We had low pressure because the stupid cock up the hill, who I appreciate as much as I’d sometimes like to strangle, was dumb enough to take off while watering his shit for the millionth time. Maybe someday Mr. Shit for Brains will get that that’s not a very good idea.

Tom heard him leave on the motorcycle around 5pm. It was around 7pm that I discovered the low pressure when I went to do the dishes, then at 10:30, he zoomed in. We left a message around 7:00, then spoke to Maryann around 9:00 to make sure he hadn’t gone out of town for the long weekend. Shortly after he returned, though, he shut off whatever was running and our pressure returned to normal.

I was tempted to scrap the remaining $100 we owe him, but as Tom pointed out, he’s doing us a huge favor by not charging us late fees for breaking up the payments. We’d have racked up hundreds of dollars in late fees from a management company. That’s why we wanted to rent from an individual as they are more likely to work with you when times get tough. Yet as dumb as he can be, Jesse doesn’t care when we pay the rent as long as we pay it. It also helps a lot to have no electric bill to have to pay.

Got a card from Mary two days before her release saying she wasn’t sure if she’d sent me a number to call her, but that it fell through, so don’t bother. She’ll contact me when she gets to where she’s going.

She didn’t give me any number, though, so that’s good.

I had the drama queen send someone else’s diary feedback, LOL, so we’ll see if they reply to her with a thanks! (I used her email addy as the sender). All I said was that I loved their diary, could we be friends? Could they reply?

At around 11 pm, I was surprised to hear a guy’s voice in back. My guess is it came from the freeloader’s place. There are two things freeloaders never do. They never sleep and they never work, though it doesn’t look like Tom will be working for a long time to come either. His benefits have been extended to next May and they’re already talking more extensions! Sure, it’s better than being faced with homelessness like we were when we first came here, but even so, when are we ever finally going to be able to get ahead??? The longer we have to just sit around and wait, the longer it is till we have extra money.

Heard a couple of cats fighting outside yesterday after midnight. It woke Tom up.

Moved the rats back into the smaller cage. It’s easier to clean, takes up less space, and of course, a bag of bedding lasts longer. We got the multi-colored confetti bedding from Amazon with our Swagbucks. It’s definitely the prettiest bedding I’ve ever used.

Since it had been a while since I’d last seen it, I saw The Rats last night and as a rat lover, I can say that it was great! First it starts off by saying that they were the first to re-inhabit Hiroshima and that there’s 1 rat per every 9 people in New York. That’s about as many gays!

I loved the BS they mixed in with the facts. Yes they chew up a storm because their teeth keep growing, and yes they’re smart, tough, and can adapt to just about anything, and yes they have the incognizance problem from hell, but they would rather run than bite. Rats typically warm up to people easily, but they don’t bare their teeth and hiss when they get mad and their eyes don’t glow red. But that was the point of the movie; to have these genetically altered little monsters.

The part where they joined everybody in the pool was great.

I loved the part where this subway train suddenly stops and they hear these slapping sounds on the roof of the train which is really rats falling on it, then it shows millions of rats swarming all over the thing.

The ending was the best as millions of rats erupted like a fountain through the bottom of an empty pool, which is impossible, of course. Then when the Olympic-size pool was full of rats, they lit these explosives underneath them and millions of rats blew up all over the room! The effects were awesome. I then got a kick out of how they thought it was over yet the very last scene showed a bunch of little ratties climbing out of a trash can in a park IN THE DAYTIME when they wouldn’t be out and about. It was a fantastic movie! I’m sure most, though, would see it as I saw Arachnophobia – yuck!