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I expect to be heading out to Ontario in the next hour or so. It is pretty cloudy but it will probably clear up some after the sun comes up. Today is rent day so I sure hope I get a check to deposit. I hope that Mikey gets back to Portland. I need to get things in order for him next weekend. No Check - the assholes!

I went to Ontario and dropped in on Joel today. The trip over Cabbage was a bummer – three inches of snow pack and 27 degree temperature. I took the slow route and all went well. It was sunny on both sides of the mountain. A very treacherous place. Anyway Joel seemed pleased to see me and was pretty full things that were going on around him. He always amazes me by the way he talks to me. You would think I was someone his own age and no topics are off limits. He really has a refreshing outlook on a lot of things. He talked at length of Michael with tears in his eyes – and I let him go. He was telling of all the people in SRCI that feel positive about knowing and being around him. He did indeed influence a lot of people positively. Joel was saying that once they started hanging out together they were seldom apart and never grew tired of one another’s company. Naturally he has not found another cellmate like him and probably wont.

I was not quite home but I gave Mikey a call and he answered. We said a couple things and I lost him so I called him back and he wanted to know why I hung on him. I told it was a cell phone blip. Anyway he sounded a little better tonight and was back in Portland he said. He told me five more days and he would be seeing me. What a kid – I sure hope things work out for him. We need to make the most of whatever we have and you never know- - - I believe things will work out and sometimes the thing that you want the most falls right into your lap. And if it doesn’t it is probably best that it didn’t.

I am not sure about Annie. I wonder if she really knows what is going on and/or just refuses to listen. I expect she was pretty well bent out of shape with that car incident and I’ll bet old Bernard had an opinion. I hope that things stay together at least until the end of the school year. But with that pair who are so changeable by that time there may be a new concern that is going to surprise me even more.