While things are looking up for us, things are looking down for our rat. We still can’t figure out what’s wrong with him. At first I thought he was just arthritic since he is old. It started with him walking funny. He sort of hopped like a bunny. Then he started wasting away and I thought it was cancer. But none of this explains the blindness and his constant movements. Rats are normally pretty animated, but no rat of ours has ever been this fidgety. Whatever it is seems to be affecting his mouth because he’d always lick our hand when we’d pat his head and he doesn’t even do that anymore. He just wanders blindly around his cage, not eating and not wanting to come out anymore. Where is he getting the energy to be this active if he’s not eating? He’s practically starving himself. All we can be sure of is that he’s never going to get over what he’s got, and if he did he still couldn’t have much more time left due to his age.

We looked up home euthanasia remedies for small animals to save money and to let him go in familiar surroundings without some stranger poking and prodding at him. This involves a mixture of baking soda and vinegar. However, we’re not convinced he’s actually suffering in any way so we’re not going to bother preparing a kit. Why take what time he has left even though he doesn’t have much of a life? He can’t see, he can’t eat, he can’t do anything. The worst-case scenario is that he’s depressed and frustrated but definitely doesn’t appear to be suffering.

The troll thing is getting stranger by the minute. Yes, I love the break I’ve been getting from her which is part of why I went “underground” and the others don’t miss her either. But since when has her mother ever watched her this closely? It makes me wonder what’s up, but obviously she wasn’t locked up anywhere since before making the last quick post a few days ago unless she chose not to mention it for some reason and that’s hard to believe. It’s nice to know she’s at least gone from harassing people to reading and walking to Kmart like she said she’s been busy doing since she’s too lazy to get a job.

This part can’t go online cuz knowing how twisted the laws are and how warped the pig’s priorities are, I’d say that yeah, they’re reading everything I post. Wouldn’t want them to consider trying to sue me for God knows what if they think we’ve suddenly got a lot of money and they can’t get me on anything criminal (next month I should have a better idea of this), even though that’d be civil court and not criminal court, and I highly doubt the black bitch would have the money to hire a lawyer anyway. But the troll’s parents seem like they might so that’s part of why I started omitting real names, even if they were just first names. After all, they offered to pay for me to “consult” with a lawyer, remember?

There was a meeting at work that Tom said was almost too good to be true. I guess it was headed by some lady connected with Human Resources. Anyway, the meeting consisted of him, another lady who’s a temp, and a permanent guy who’s been there 5 years. Could’ve been more people, but that’s all I remember him mentioning. The woman said to Tom and the other lady, “I could call the temp company now and tell them your assignment has ended, but we’re just so impressed with the work you’ve done that we really want to try to get you other jobs.”

So Tom mentioned that he put in for Handler 3 (the highest of that position) and the other temp wants TRO (I forgot what that stands for). What was weird is that the permanent who’d been there 5 years wants Handler 2. So even though he’s been there longer and is a permanent, he wants a job under Tom, who’s still a temp and has only been there half a year? LOL, again life ain’t fair. It’s just nice when it’s not fair in our favor for once.

The Human Resources lady pulled him aside and told him the supervisor in the Handler 3 department wanted him for the job which he already knew, but that the supervisor was still told by his higher-up that he still had to accept apps, and then he could choose.

So unless something is hell-bent on teasing the hell out of us, it looks very promising for him, though I wouldn’t expect a raise. Insurance, yes, but not a raise since he already makes a lot of money. In fact, from what he can tell he’s just about the highest-paid employee there.