I've got the net back. (SLK goes on and on about himself. Best skipped, really.)

'til the end of August, anyway. Mom came through with an awesome b-day present.

The Atascadero State Hospital, where hardcore luny felons are kept, wants me.
To be a Lab Asst., silly. I need to get a phlebotomy license, though. One semester, it seems.

I got my stuff back to Atascadero from Los Osos, well mostly. I left her some furniture.

That’s going to be my answer to any of her friends who ask ‘What did you do to Karen?’

Fixed her plumbing, cleaned up her house, made her face her own fears of intimacy and commitment, and left her some furniture.

She agrees she’s not a poorer person for having known me.
I really should have a pair of L.E.D glasses that flash “N.E.X.T.” and drop this ‘I’m ready, you’ll do, let’s go’ attitude when it comes to love.

But some internet daily lamer sez approach cooking and love with wild abandon, so I’ve got me some Tuna, pinapple salsa, Tapatia chili oil Ramen going, so what does that tell you?

Meanwhile. I’m earning $9/hr, 6 hours a day, more or less, gathering petition signatures. State legislature, independant candidate. Nice guy, buys me Starbucks about twice a week.

The soup’s really good, but I may regret it in the morning.

I’m going camping this weekend, so I’m packing up tonight so I can go into SLO, pick up a check from the temp service, drop off a timecard, and take off up the 101 to arrive at Plaskett Creek by 3pm. Also buy a Lucky 13 lighter with a ‘love hurts’ logo. Saw it the other day, I hope it’s still there.

Then two nights/three days up at Big Sur.

Yeah. Sucks to be me.
The Sonoran Lizard KiNg
}:3= SLK }:3=
(and my evil walrus bodyguards)

Good luck with the new job. I had a friend that did day nursing in a max security Club Fed. She said she had never worked with more cooperative, polite patients.

My only advice on the romance front is a Charlie Watts quote off the Some Girls album by the Rolling Stones.

Have fun in the woods.

Well, I don’t have the job yet, there’s that license thing, but I got the CA State ‘are you still interested?’ letter, and sent back a yes.

And I’d rather be happy than right. I think I disagree with Mr. Watts. Better to have loved and lost, etc.

More than I do in the bush? :o I met her camping, sex in the forest is intense.