A few things to get done today. I should pay power and the phone. I’ll write a letter to Nolan and Roger I have not heard from Joel, Peter Joe, or Bobby. I guess I have really shut them down. As soon as the money stops people seem to lose interest. I need to decide what is the next move on taking Mikey to GP. It would be nice to pull that off. I am not sure that Annie would be too receptive to all that. She seems to be doing all the mothering in that situation. I am not hearing much from Katie and probably wont. I would like to do a little more exercising today. I seem to be plumping up. I think the food has been a little better – just too much. I would like to get the turkey to Michael’s folks but it would be a struggle.

Letter to Michael’s Mom:

Hi Lynn- -

That is great news about the fund! At least it is off the ground and going. Is there an account number along with the Mike Cushman? I take it that any Washington Mutual Bank would take the deposit.

Last week I had sent Mikey a DVD for his player and he received it yesterday so he called me last night to thank me for it. I guess he has misplaced the cord to the player however so I am not sure how he is going to use it. I am having another one sent to him but it will be a week or so. I am not sure whether Annie has a player or not. Anyway Mikey said he went to school but that he thought he might stay home today because he was still not feeling very well. He said he thought it was the mould in the house? A little more chitchat about my baldhead and then he asked me if I wanted to talk to Annie and I said sure.

She asked me if I had gone to the doctor and I said I had and that I could now hear perfectly. I am not much to dwell on health (because I have so many friends my age that really bore me about their aches and pains).I asked about the mould and she said Katie had scrubbed his room and he had temporarily moved in with her. Anyway she mumbled something about getting a turkey and someone had given them some food so they were going to have some sort of Thanksgiving. I told her I thought that was great. So I did not offer the GP trip because I was not sure how to approach it.

According to the present predictions the weather does not look that bad for the weekend but realistically I don’t get off until 5 PM Wednesday so I might just lie low on Thursday and after dinner head for Portland and pick up Mikey if he can go and come to GP. I have a niece I could visit as well in Trail and plan to come back on Sunday. I am actually pretty flexible so whatever works will be okay with me.

I understand what you mean about Michael. The other night I was going to download some of those pictures from his phone and I soon decided to quit – I am just not up to it yet.

I will probably check with it Mikey tonight and if there are any new developments I will let you know.

“Keep your head up and a smile on your face”

Your friend

I will probably call Mikey later on this evening and see if there are any other new developments. It has been fairly cool here today with some wind and the sky was overcast.

Someone called me but they hung up so I have no idea who it was. I probably need to contact the pump place and make sure they have the right address. If they sent it to the house it will be sent to Stanfield and come back to them.