The last 24 hours or so have called for some annoyances both inside and outside. For starters, Jesse got on my nerves with the damn bulldozer around noon.

The jackassholes in back decided to show off, get a little attention and piss those off around them but going on a shooting spree around 4pm. It was so fucking loud that the windows rattled! This is one of the reasons I hesitate to get a place off the grid, along with the sonic booms that can occur there.

When I opened the bathroom window, I could hear shouts back there, but not what was being said. I wish they’d shoot each other!

I agree with Tom when he said he doesn’t think the dogs are there anymore. We haven’t seen them in ages and I think they lost them for sure what with how many complaints they got, especially when they let the pit bull loose so it could attack one of the goats up at the summit.

I just can’t believe no one calls the pigs when they get trigger-happy, and if they do, why do they keep doing it every so often? Do they think it’ll become legal in this area and not at all annoying or something?

Then the dogs went off for a half-hour or so at 6pm.

At 9pm, after having a lovely chat with Maliheh, I was so tired that I was sure I could go to sleep. After all, I’d been up long enough. But no. Instead I tossed and turned like a sheet in a dryer till 1am after I’d been up 19 hours. So I didn’t get up till around 9am, but at least I’ll be up later, and since it’s not Friday night, all should be peaceful.

Maliheh told me she grew up between San Diego and Hawaii, then she spent 8 years in the Midwest, 8 more in California, 8 in New England, and has been in the South since ’95. Her dad was in the Navy, too. By the time my folks started having kids a few years after they were married and he was diagnosed with heart problems, he was done with the Navy himself. I could’ve sworn Mom said he was stationed in NC right after they were married.

She doesn’t know where she’d go if she won a million bucks (I’d want to buy a tropical island), and says there’s a tornado watch for her area but wasn’t worried since she’s sort of in a valley.

She believes in spells too, saying she wrote her wishes on two separate pieces of paper back when she was unhappy. One she burned, the other she kept in a dark place (a wooden box). She said it took a couple of years but that she got almost everything she wanted.

She thinks her wifi is acting up and so she’s going to call them out Monday, the day she starts her two-week vacation, and we can talk diet and exercise later, something she can moan and bitch about like crazy.

Why? She stayed thin all these years.

Today’s annoyances consist of me still feeling tired and PMSing, and Jesse started up with the bullshitter right after I got up. The only difference is that this time it seems to be coming from the back of his place. It’s still annoying enough to have a landlord who’s the nervous, fidgety type that just can’t sit still for more than a week. Or maybe he’s so lonely that he feels he’s gotta do this to get attention. It’s supposed to rain in a few days so that’ll shut him up if only for a while. Today’s actually pretty nice. I might even need to crack a window for a while.