Why didn’t Lisa just calmly and kindly ask: Hey, your dad said you said we started talking in April when I remember it to be August? Is one of you just mistaken or something?

Why did she instead go ballistic over when you first talked, and act as if you deliberately tried to really screw her over badly?

These are questions someone asked me. The answer – I don’t know. I don’t know why some people do the things they do. The day I ever do, I’ll be quite God-like.

I was also asked: Why do the liberals let people be who they are while the conservatives try to control others and make them into who they are?

Again, I don’t have a clue. Perhaps this is why I, as a lib, like to avoid religious folks. I like myself the way I am. :)

More money dreams. In the last one, Tom and I were having this discussion where we agreed we should be able to have 17K saved up by April. I got the impression in the dream it was around October or November.

I also dreamt he was working graves and it was really hot out. I was pissed that I couldn’t keep a schedule and had to sleep all day because I wanted to be outside.

Jesse didn’t work today, and of course he couldn’t sit still and stay inside just because he didn’t go out anywhere. The good part is that I got to sleep through the 15-30 minutes of racket he and his dogs made this time around. Tom said it sounded like he was dragging something, like maybe dead trees if he wasn’t bulldozing the drive, and all the while the dogs were tied up (I guess he wanted them out of the way) and going crazy. They felt left out, I guess, and wanted to join in the action. Other than that the dogs have been quiet for a few days now. I don’t know if this is because he’s been taking them out, has been around more often than I thought, or because it’s coming up on the time of year when they don’t bark nearly as much.

The rat is becoming less and less active and is having trouble getting around, but doesn’t seem to be suffering or anywhere close to the end yet.

I stumbled upon this site called Publish America and submitted one of my older manuscripts fully expecting to get rejected since it’s one of my first stories and not very publishable, even though it came out ok at the same time. I submitted it anyway because I was hoping it would give me a sense of what they’re looking for. But then when I mentioned them to Paul he said they were scammers and to Google them and I’d find a bunch of complaints and warnings. I did too, and learned they’re not the old-fashioned publisher they claim they are but are in fact a vanity publisher that charges people to print their books which they themselves have to figure out how to sell on their own. So if what I read was true, they’ll accept my story and demand these “fees” I’m not going to pay them. If they’re legit, they’ll tell me it needs work and what they want changed, and to re-submit it when it’s done.