I’m surprised but pleased not to hear from Tammy today. But if the doctors find anything bad with her on Wednesday I’m sure she’ll contact me for sympathy.

Poor Alison, though. She still has cancer but her body is currently too weak for any more radiation therapy. So they’re giving her pills to block estragon which can make cancer worse, then she’ll have to undergo more radiation.

At the end of Maliheh’s last email this evening she wrote: “over and out.” She always signs off with that signature “over and out” of hers.

She was in the army. Bet she looked great in those army fatigues. :)

She doesn’t teach vocals, just guitar and bass guitar.

She says NorCal isn’t for her.

She says she had a love/hate relationship with her father and that it wasn’t all sour grapes. He actually took good care of her and her mom till he checked out.

She was a big Western fan growing up, loved the desert and the night sky there, particularly Monument Valley, a place I’ve never been to, and says she’s had enough ocean for her lifetime. She may vacation in the desert someday. I told her that if she travels within 1000 miles of me and doesn’t stop by, I’ll be pissed, LOL. Tom said 1000 miles is still a long way, so I said ok, make it 500 miles.

On my wall Nane asked, Wann war Dein Geburtstag, Schätzchen? (when was your birthday, honey?) I told her but never heard back from her.

I’m a brunette again. Ah, it looks a lot better than the blond did. :)

Tom was reading an article on rats and apparently, the squeaking we can hear them do at times is quite low-pitched for them. When they’re happy they squeak at a frequency too high for humans to hear. Same with mom and baby rats. They talk to each other at levels we can’t hear.

Speaking of rats, I gotta give mine a bath since he has no roommates to clean him. Although rats are great swimmers I’m not sure he’ll like that very much, though he will probably appreciate how much cleaner he’ll feel after. Rats’ coats get kind of greasy if another rat or a person doesn’t clean them. I haven’t spent much time with him today, so a little quality time with my favorite vermin couldn’t hurt. :)

Got up just after 1:00 today, just in time for Jesse’s shit, but now I don’t think what I’ve been hearing lately is the bulldozer. Instead, it’s an old pickup that’s quite loud. Yeah, I can’t keep track of all his vehicles! He’d been keeping the back of it by the side of the drive, and Tom said it was back there again on his way in from work. Before that, though, it was attached to its cab. I got up, got my coffee and thought wow, what a quiet day for a sunny weekday that’s not over 85º. Then I heard the ATV and thought, oh no, here we go with the bullshitter! But when I stepped outside to go running I saw him go up and down in the truck, then I heard what sounded like him tossing something into the back of it. It also smelled like he was burning brush. There’s only so much brush to gather, though, in the areas it matters. Could he be gathering firewood? It seems he always has to be doing something. :(

I was laughing when I saw Andy and Maliheh’s 5-cast. Andy’s getting snow and lows in the teens. Maliheh’s not as bad off, but she’s not like us either, LOL. We’ll be 20º warmer all week.