I am supposed to have breakfast with Ellen soon. I have a few chores this morning and then probably work on the blogs. I will hear from Mike and find out how he is doing. What is the most difficult for him. Will he need more cash before Monday. What are his plans for the day?

I met Ellen, Shelby and Becky at Dennys and we had breakfast. They are a silly group but it was good to sit around and listen to them laugh. They listen to me good and that is nice. They took off about eight thirty and I came back to the trailer to work on the computer. About nine fifty I called Mike and he was just going in to the PO's office. He called me after that meeting and said that the guy was cool and that his duty was to call in every two weeks for three months and if he had a clean slate he could go to once a month written report. He sounded very up beat. I asked him what was the hardest part so far and he said that it was sleeping - the bed was too soft. I asked him if Mikey was sleeping with him. He said that they had company last night and when Mikey went to sleep on the sofa he carried him to the bed and when he went to bed he slept on the floor because it was harder. He said he woke up and Mikey was sleeping on his face. That was unbelievably neat. I know that he was thrilled and handled it perfectly. He deserves some good things happening to him now that he is away from that nightmare. He said he was going to Medford to go to the DMV and get a social security card. I apologized about the money fuck up. There was five hundred dollars in the works and would probably be there Monday but he needed money today for some more clothes and a fishing license and equipment. So I arranged to have $100.00 sent by Western Union. I sent it around noon and called him to let him know it was on there. He called me around two oclock that he had the money and was on his way. I reminded him that I had a basketball for him and I forgot to give it to him. I told him that it was a reason to meet in the very near future. Later on we need to do some talking about that. I had sent some pictures I had taken on the first and they sent some back to me that are really good and I have a sort of collage of him and Mikey and me. It really made my day.

I sent money to Nolan and Joe but I had to come back and double check Joe's number. I went again this afternoon- forgot my wallet- and put it in the mail. I got a letter from Joel and he has this big plan to write a little bit each week and turn the TV off. I am really pretty jammed up with the blogs now. I posted and printed out Bobby's but the computer was fucking around with the virus scan and everything took forever.

I watched a little TV and the DVD The Last Sin Eater about a Celtic group who lived in the Appalachians and had this belief that a mysterious man came and ate your sins when you died. It was sort of weird and I got bored before it was over. Not my kind of show. The Most Memorable Positive Moment was hearing about how the relationship between Mike and his son is developing. WOW it could not be much better unless they would get their own place - like in Hermiston. Dream on stranger things have happened.