Tuesday Afternoon @ MindSay 
Well, not a whole lot has been happening. A lot of teaching jobs for next year are starting to open up, I just don't know if I want to take one. Who knows maybe my dating life will change in the next few months, and I might find someone here in town that I might like. Who knows?
I don't know what I'll do on the 25th. I might go to my brother's or sister's, I'll just have to see. Or I just might get a couple of books, and read all day. It is a toss up.
Well, I made over $90 ringing for the Salvation Army yesterday. I got one Jackson, and three Lincolns, and the rest Washington's, and a heapload of coinage. I'm going today from 4 to 6 at Wally World, the best site for collecting. We might even collect after Christmas, it is up to the captain.
Well, Feliz Navidad. Tata for now, Dougie Fresh
Well, I went over to my friend from church. I watched him nail up studs for his wall. I told him to get down the bike he was giving to me. Anyway, the tire he had put air in was flat again. I asked him if he could patch it for me, and he said yes. I was going to ride over to my friends house on it, but I just got a ride home with his son. It took me thirty minutes to walk over there, forty countint the ten minutes I spent at Caron's mother-in-law. Not bad for 1.3 miles.
My Time magazine didn't come this week. It has missed two or three times since I started my subscription, but I am afraid my subscription has ran out. I don't have fifty six dollars on me to renew, or I would fill up the gas tank. I have less than an eighth of a tank left. That is why I was checking out the bike.
Hopefully, in the next day or so, my application will get to the school that I applied at yesterday. It is close to UMKC, and I don't know if I told you this or not, but it is a racially diverse school. I heard good things about it from Gary. I also am applying at some other schools up in the city. I like up in the city. They will hire an experienced teacher. A small town will literally hire a new graduate if they can save a thousand dollars in salary. I kid you not. Plus, a lot of the schools with openings have no social or cultural activities in the town. When I was at the previous school, there was literally one single woman my age, and she had five kids by four different husbands. I had her daughter in Algebra II, and she wasn't bad looking for someone my age, but you could tell she had been ridden hard and put away wet a couple of times. In the big city, single women are a dime a dozen, especially if you have a good income. The mid thirties salary I will be making isn't great big money, but poverty buys you nothing. I'm so broke now, I can't even pay attention.
Well, if I figure out how, I might go down to the lake with Gary this weekend. It might mean him picking me up on the way down, and bringing me back on Saturday or Sunday. He would probably pick me up if I beg hard enough. I can't wait for my stimulus check. Right now, I figured out my bills, and I have spent $730 out of next months check. But all of my bills will be paid. I might break down and get the three month supply of pills for $10 from Wal-Mart. I would check out all of their pills they sell for that much, and if I could get something that I need, like weight control pills, or something like that, since I have to go to the doctor anyway, I might as well kill two birds with one stone. But, I hate putting more money into Sam's hands. Maybe his son's and daughters are buying ice water to pour on his grave every day.
Well, tata for now, Dougie Fresh
Well, it is about two oclock, and it is nice and warm outside. My favorite, jambalaya, is on the stove cooling. You get a box of jambalaya, (or dirty rice, or beans and rice), at Aldi's for about 80c, then a pound of ground turkey for $1.25, and you have a really nutricious (I hope that word is spelled write, the c looks out of place) lunch or dinner for about two or three people, or for me, a good lunch and dinner. I have just made up my mind to eat a healthy breakfast--oatmeal--then have a good filling lunch, then for supper have hardly anything. My uncle is on the Special K breakfast and supper meal, and he says he can lose a lot of weight that way. I'll just have to see.
Well, like I said it is nice outside, so this will be short. Lesa left a lot of furniture in her bedroom, so I've changed bedrooms. The little bedroom I used is nice and warm in the winter, but it is literally a mattress on the floor.
I am not going to move after all. I will stay in the "flop trailer" as Gary calls it for the summer, and hopefully move in the late summer to whereever I go to teach. If I made say $l400 off of SSDI, I would not have to look for any kind of work. But, alas, the money I make, (less than $900,), does not pay all the bills. Or should I say, it does cover the bills, but leaves me a pauper.
I hope Lesa is happy. She said she missed the old galoot, and I hope he treats her better. Because I won't have a spare bedroom if it doesn't work out.
Well, my food is getting cold. Tata for now, Dougie Fresh, remember, it's not just a name, it's a way of life.
Well, it is laundry day for Lesa so she is taking her laundry over to a relative, so I have the trailer to myself today. I got the new Newsweek, which I have been reading for about two or three hours. If I read magazines for six or seven hours a week, I could keep up with Time and Newsweek. I have gotten Reader's Digest for about two years, but I hardly open them at all.
I listen to Creed's greatest hits today during the reading. I am not a big fan of the type of music they have, which you know if you've heard it. About the only heavy metal I like is AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. And then it is only some songs. I really don't care for Pink Floyd, except for Dark Side of the Moon., and a few songs. But then again, I have almost all of Alice Cooper, even the black juju days. But Creed was recommended by a co-worker I had one time, and she said you really had to listen to the words, because they were very inspirational.
I applied at two convenience stores today that had ads on the employment bureau web site, and I got a call back from one of them. She wanted a ten o'clock interview, but I am going to be at Central MO. State tomorrow for teacher placement day, so I told her I would be there by one or one thirty. She said fine.
For placement day, I am going to wear a green gray and white Hawaiian shirt with matching green khakis and a grey MU shirt with a collar over it. I wish I had more clothes that fit, but since I have put on pounds since my last teaching job, I improvise. Hopefully, I will get a ridable bike this summer, and will burn off a lot of this blubber.
I hope to get a job at a convenience store. It is the ultimate slacker job. It is like getting paid for doing something you like doing, which only heterosexual male prostitutes and pro golfers really have. The most slacker combination is being a substitute teacher by day, and work at a convenience store at night, which I did for two years. I was a full-time substitute for three years in the 80s, but it was in the inner-city, where you could work every day. I went from making $800 a month with little benefits in some small town schools to making about $700 a month subbing in the ghetto, but without retirement benefits or summer pay.
Well, in a little while I have my usual half hour meeting with a married woman my age. I hope Katie Couiric don't mind. I like a woman who is smart, and is my age, but like me, is getting older by the day.
Tata for now, Dougie Fresh. Remember, it's not just a name, it's a way of life. (The local classic rock station says, it isn't just a radio station, it's a way of life. I should sue, but flattery is the most sincere compliment.)
Well, I worked at McDonald's last week. My ankle hurt like heck, and I soaked it in hot epsom salts water every night when I got home. I work Thursday and Friday night this week from 11pm to 4am. I don't work on Saturday night because I am going to Willie's benefit that night. My brother's band is not playing that night, I don't know why. I assume it is because there is really not a place inside for a band. Instead, they will probably have a benefit at the Elk's lodge downtown. I am listening to KDRO the local AM station here in town, and they just had a notice about the benefit on Saturday. It is not a paid ad, instead just a public happening notice.
I finally got all of my letters, resumes, and completed applications mailed off. There were three that I didn't, because it is hard to get "from here to there", but if I don't get any nibbles, I might. If I get a full-time teaching job that would be okay, but if not, I will just get my accounting degree at State Fair Community College and Central Methodist.
Not much happening here. Yesterday I slept until ten, then took a nap from three until eight, then went to bed at eleven. I just thought I was getting a little too much sleep.
On Saturday night, a friend of mine asked me to go down to a local bar to hear the band. I think I wrote in a previous blog. Anyway, we had fun, but having fun with an ugly woman is not like having fun with a pretty woman. Anyway, halfway through, her bag fell off. Lucky, I still had mine on.
I had a heck of a dream the other night. I dreamed that Willie, my brother-in-law, Darryl, my brother, and me were killed in a head on car crash, and we ended up in hell. I met Willie, and he was chained to an ugly woman. I asked him about her, and he said the devil said he sinned in life, and this is my reward. Anyway, then I met Darryl, and he was chained to a really ugly woman. I asked him what happened, and he said he sinned a lot in life, and this was his reward. Then they saw me, and I was chained to a beautiful woman. They both said that was no fair I sinned more than they did. Then the woman said, "Not as much as I have." Thought you would appreciate an old joke.
Well, it is Tuesday, Newsweek day. Saturday is Time day, and Thursday is Sports Illustrated day. So I'm going down to the mailbox to get it.
Tata for now, Dougie Fresh (But not Doug Flutie, who I got this spelling from.)
