These last few weeks have been hell.

Too hot for my taste, and bad luck seems to be lurking, getting it's jabs in when ever it can.

Pete's car blew up. Well, rolled to a halting, dying stop as he got to the mechanic's driveway. Metal filings in the oil, never ever a good sign. 

He got this semester done, registered for his summer class, which we had to pay cash for....so much for another car until we can build things back up.  We are ok with just one car, unless he finds a job for the summer where he needs to go a longer distance.  And honestly...my car will not last forever, I need to baby every last mile out of it, it has over 100k on it now.  I'll be lucky to get another 2 years out of it at this point, though I was hoping for three.

I'm hearing this noise in the front window....carpenter bees are working their magic inside the sill. This was after the first clue of a pile of sawdust appearing on the ground under the outside sill plate.   My lanlords who don't charge me very much rent as it it, are tired of the pests. they finally fixed the soffit to stop the birds who had set up the key west of bird condos over my head.  I couldn't go outside without it raining shit.  They havent' done anything about the 4 generations of woodchucks under the building, and for some reason, will not provide me with a firearm. Imagine that.

We need to get groceries, but don't really have the money.  I can make what we have stretch another few days, then we'll have to go, or not. We both do need to loose weight..hmmm... pb and j, rice, and oatmeal will have to be a staple for awhile.