I unblocked a few people I had blocked on Facebook simply because I just don’t give a damn who sees what. I know how to ignore those I wish no contact with. As soon as I see it’s them, I don’t even read whatever bullshit message they may have for me, though I will admit that no one’s been bothering me lately.

I’ve now got 8 views and 6 signatures on Classmates. It’s frustrating not to be able to see who they are, but not worth paying the $10 it’d take to find out.

I got friended by another Valleyheader, but I don’t think we were there at the same time as I don’t recognize her name.

Marie had me laughing my ass off yesterday. She apparently washed her white panties with something red and turned her panties pink. She said, “Pink may be your color, babe, but this ass will never wear pink!”

Tom and I were talking about how she and I were talking about OCD, and he laughed and told me I’m more OCD than her, reminding me of how all the labels on the cans must face a certain way, all drawers and doors must be shut tight, etc. He’s definitely got a point there, LOL!

I think I forgot to mention this but when Tom last talked to Jesse, Jesse mentioned wanting to create a road in back so he could drive his truck down to the well, instead of having to use only the ATV up by where the drive forks which you can’t see from here.

Yeah, I’m sure he does, too. Always gotta be doing something when he’s home and the weather permits it. We’ve been here long enough to know that we’re never going to go more than a month or two without something going on. The fact that we’re getting slammed with 5 back-to-back rainstorms is the only reason he hasn’t been down this last week.

I was giving Marie feedback on the paper she had to do on gay marriage, and how I can’t believe someone could be so full of hate that this guy had to kill another guy over being asked to be his Valentine. I guess they were actually kids. All he had to do was say no. What would’ve been so hard about saying no the same as he would to any girl that might’ve hit on him that he wasn’t interested in?

Marie’s paper reminded me that for a while there, I myself started to get a touch of bigotry after being victimized in various ways by our old neighbors who were black. It was hard and it took a while, but I reminded myself that there’s good and bad in every kind. I hate Joely N. I hate Michael M. I hate Jerry O. But if I can say I hate all blacks cuz a few screwed me over, then it’d only be fair to say that I hate all whites, too. After all, I’ve been screwed over by a few of those, too.

This doesn’t mean, however, that I think reverse discrimination is okay. It is not ok at all. Yet it has been a huge problem for years now and I don’t see any end in sight too soon. No one should have extra rights or be favored in any way simply because they may’ve been oppressed in the past. Not gays, not blacks, not Hispanics, not anyone.

The part of my 2007 journal that documents the Caribbean cruise I won will be published online and in some kind of travel magazine. A job came in asking for a 400-word travel story. I wasn’t sure if they’d want it in journal format, but after I edited out swears and stuff like that, I submitted it and they loved it. It was a hell of a lot more than 400 words, too. Like maybe 2000.