The renter has not paid and it is throwing things into a bind. I have had to advance money out of the credit card account and I wanted to stop doing that and sort of catch up on that account. It is a real pain in the ass. It looks like they could at least give me a heads up when they were going to be late. I guess the truth is that they really cannot afford the house and I hate to go to the expense of finding another renter. It would really send me in a tailspin. I need to hit the lottery and get my breath again. I guess that it will take care of itself. It always has. I don’t think there is much up at the scale house. I need to work on the English account and see if I can make some sense out of that. It really needs to be organized someway. I wonder what Mikey will be up to today. He is a real kick in the pants. I like to keep reminding him that he is just like his dad. He is a good kid and sort of amazing considering the shit pile he came from.

I got an email off to MM and she answered back. Mostly about the little kids and what is going on. I think she was a little on the defense since I was commenting on how to interact with Ayden and John. The scale house has been pretty quiet. I got the English in and out charted. Tom was in a fairly talkative mood. I am not sure it is that good but at least it is sort of a handle on what we are doing.

Well, I got the rent. It was less than I expected but what the hell else is new? I’ll make do. It just pisses me off that it is a couple days late and they never said shit. I called Annie’s phone at seven ten and Mikey was taking a bath. He called me later around eight o’clock. He said he was listening to music. He checked that I was coming down next weekend. We decided that he was going to have a day off from school on Monday. I wished I could be down there and take him to a game or something different. He told me some things about Martin Luther King and now they are studying on weather, he knows all about temperature and the different cloud formations. I was impressed. He started a little yip but dropped it. It ended too soon.

I watched the video Four Sheets To The Wind about an Indian family in Oklahoma. It was a modern family that was sort of sad and probably true to life. I would give it five stars.