It is overcast and the sprinkler seemed to work last night. I need to do some shopping and set up the vegetables for Friday as well as the weekend. I hope that Bloodworth can do the route and I wont have to deal with Larue. It has only been a week since I quit and it seems like a month already. I probably will not call Michael today. I will get some of Schimmele written up and go to the game.

How about that baseball team. I think there is some talent there - like Holcomb; Rike; Davis would be my favorite.  He is out of Grand Prairie Canada and actually a pretty intelligent engineering student.

I ghot a few things done such as lining up the vegetables for the Joseph trip and I have Katie's wedding present all ready to go. I have called Bloodworth and she may be able to do the route and if so I will just have the Labor Day thing to work out. I am still in the planning stages of going. I guess that I will just have to wait and see how things work themselves out this week and next. Michael may be working or tied up so that a visit would be sort of dumb. I still would like to sit down and  sort of eyeball him without the glass and the prison atmosphere. Of course, he still may be surrounded by a kid and girl friend. There is not much I can do besides monetary and emotional support which may be meaningless if he does not handle stuff pretty well himself.

Nlolan called again today- he said he did not get his two cents worth yesterday. He could probably tell that I was not in a very good mood and was acting accordingly. I should probably be more careful about my tone when I am talking to him. But I am human and I do try to have a life that is not about him.

I headed to Tricities around four and when I got to Old Country I gave Michael a call. He was just coming home. He said he had picked up the money and that Kate (Mikey's mom) was on the bus headed to Grants Pass. He said they had talked for a couple of hours the night before. They were going to be friends but there would be no relationship. They talked at length about Mikey starting to school. He has a reading problem and was getting special help in Portland. It seemed to be up in the air as to how long she would be in Grants Pass. I encouraged Michael; to get the berth certificate and custody in line now that she was oligated to him. He agreed. When I began waffling on coming Labor Day. He said but Mikey is going to be here. He said yeah definitely plan to come. I talked about seeing one another at least once a month and he seemed to think that was the way to go. I apologized for calling so much and he said that he always answered and never avoided a call. I agreed and I didn't want him to get in that frame of mind. Someone was enclouraging him to go so we ended the call. I felt somewhat better.

The game was cool to cold and I left in the 8th inning and they probably lost. The Most Memorable Positive Moment was the conversation with Michael.