Tom held my computer hostage for a little over an hour cuz he needed to install some software that just didn’t want to install on his own computer. It’s the newest version of OSX that he was installing, figuring it’d help him do more software-testing jobs easier.

Tom’s finally had a breakthrough in his own dieting endeavors. For the longest time nothing, he tried worked and he seemed forever stuck at 270 pounds. Then he realized the only way is to just stop eating. Or close to it. So each day he only has two Slim-Fast shakes, a potato, a slice of turkey, a slice of fake cheese and a couple of cookies for snacks. And he finally dipped under the 260 marker today!

I gotta muster up enough willpower to bust under the 120-pound marker somehow.

Got a letter from Rosa today. She’s hanging in there. It’s sad to think she’s done a decade yet still isn’t halfway through her sentence.

There was a mouse in here last night. A baby mouse ran into the kitchen and hid under the refrigerator and we haven’t seen it since. It must’ve gotten back outside at some point since it never got caught in any of the traps.

It looks like I’m back to being annoyed by other people’s kids. That engine gunning I’ve been hearing during the week at 4:00 sharp appears to be Jesse’s kid racing up and down the drive on the ATV or something else like it. I finally went out to see if I could figure out just what it was when I saw a streak of movement through the trees which Tom said he’s seen before.

Then again, maybe it’s Jesse. Zipping up and down on an ATV or dirt bike doesn’t strike me as his idea of a good time, but maybe he just feels it’s a good way to get attention or to be annoying, IDK. Guess 10 minutes of that is better than the 5-hour basketball games we’d get nearly every single day from the small army of kids who were next to us in Phoenix and just an arm’s length away. They really drove me crazy down there, alright, and maybe had a hand in snuffing out my desires for my own kid.

Anyway, I wondered if it might be Jesse because whoever it was had been wearing a white tee. Not that anyone else can’t wear a white tee, but for some reason, Jesse almost always wears white tees. I also never heard the dogs bark like they usually do when he goes to bring the kid home at 5:00.

They keep saying it’s going to be windy and rainy, and while I was sorry it wasn’t at 4:00, it hasn’t been that windy and there hasn’t been any rain. Just lots of clouds.

A part of me still misses the desert. I like the woods, but I do miss the desert at times.