I’m down another pound. Don’t know how I managed that on a pint of ice cream and all the other shit I’ve been eating!

There was some kind of a stand-off at our local grocery store yesterday. I don’t think much came of it, but I’m just glad we weren’t there! I guess someone reported seeing someone else with a gun and that there may’ve been a dispute between employees. They evacuated the store and the parking lot was swarming with state, county and CHP officers.

Jesse didn’t work yesterday, but that didn’t stop him from spending the usual 12 hours elsewhere. Sometimes he was out in the truck, sometimes the motorcycle. I think he’s out so much because he’s lonely, which isn’t how most of our past neighbors would handle their cases of the lonelies as much as I wish it had been. Usually, the past lonelies would force those around them to acknowledge their existence by blasting music. This one just leaves us with barking dogs instead. It’s not always quiet when he’s around, though he’s still quieter than most of our neighbors have been. Most of our other neighbors hit us with a wide variety of sounds when they were around. This one just guns engines at times. I still wish the damn dogs would be as quiet when he’s gone as they are when he’s here. And I still like it better when he’s working because then the noisy times are predictable almost to the minute.