Well the bugs were back last night and I realized what they were/are. Not ticks at all but bed bugs. Talked to the Building Super and the exterminators are coming tomorrow and sent me some instructions which included vacuuming everything. I decided I'd put my mattress and box spring in vinyl so I could sleep tonight without getting bit. The mattress went OK--I killed a few--but then the between box spring and the frame it was just thick with them. And in a bunch of different areas. And then I remembered-when I came in there was this white powder on the floor that I had the engineer vacuum up and I realized that the problem has possibly been there the whole time. Tune in tomorrow, folks

Ok so Reed checked me over and found no ticks on me. Still looking hard for a job but did get notice that a gym job he applied for was progressing. H evidently is getting mixed messages from FSCJ and is going back tomorrow to get things straightened out. Oh and here's a pic from my scene in the Making of the Mob New York. I think I'm in back of and just to the left of the lady with the red scarf. Obviously not an auspicious debut, but I did get $100. :-)))

So I golfed yesterday. 9 in the morning, and 9 in the pm. Guys I got with in the afternoon were fun. BUT in the morning I decided I needed some more balls so I went to my two favorite ball traps, places kinda in the jungle on the course where you can find lost balls easily, and ended up with about 2 dozen. However, this morning I found a couple critters munching on me while still in bed and they looked like small ticks. Maybe those balls weren't so cheap after all. Think I'll head over to Reed's place today and have Jane (and Alvin too) give me the once over.

So a week since my last post. Reed has been getting school together and trying to find a job to make his spending money. I however had an adventure. You see 30 years ago I had a relationship with a woman that ended rather brusquely. I'd always felt somewhat bad about that and wanted to apologize so I went off to find the lady having the clue of this small town in North Carolina as her home town. The first day I visited a tavern, the library and the museum as well as talked to a number of people with the same last name. All with no luck. A friend of mine who was helping me then found a possibility. A lady teaching in a small private school in Raleigh. And it was she. However, the meeting was somewhat anticlimactic as though she admitted we had a good time she seemed to barely remember the ending. And though I asked her out to dinner to catch up she was busy and in a hurry and ended our meeting somewhat.....brusquely. So all's right with the world again. I headed home.

Took Reed and Jade to see TBA Big Band over at Latitude 360 tonight. Had a late addition of my first date on Match.com She was telling me all the things I'm doing wrong.

Wow A unique experience. I just went to the weird Al Yankovich Concert at the Florida Theater. 2000 screaming Weird Al fans who knew and sang along with every song. 2 hours no intermission. It started with the band playing to a video of Al singing and walking down the street. And then you realized it wasn't a video. Al was actually outside the Florida Theater walking down the street singing with the band in the theater. And the rest of the show was just as good. They finished the show with the two Star Wars songs and Darth Vadar and storm troopers on stage. Best show I've ever seen though I have spent most of my life sheltered on Guam.

OK so we are almost a month since the last post and I haven't put anything up as there wasn't much to put up. Yesterday, however, Reed got back from Guam. Now like an idiot I forgot to get a picture of his long hair and baby beard but I just called him to send me one and I should have it up directly. Other things in the last month: An interview that got me nowhere, experimenting with probiotics that brought on a bout of depression upgraded my cable channels, and played a lot of golf, The probiotic thing was interesting. Been trying to get my gut bacteria right and Nature Made's two pill formula seemed good but about 3 days into taking it I recognized that something was wrong and mad thoughts were running through my head. That was not like me and some experimenting said yep, the pills were doing it. Have since found the more natural wonder food SAUERKRAUT which seems to work fine and now my thought processes are distinctly regimented, deliberate, and single minded. Very.....German. Hmmmmm.