June 15

I tried to close my hotmail email account today. Somehow, someone hacked into it and is sending everyone on my contact list a bunch of emails for Viagra and stuff. It is an old account that I barely use, so I figured I would just get rid of it. I logged in and chose the close my account option. I went through the steps and at the end, it said that I couldn’t close it because I was logged in. So, I logged out and looked around for the close my account option. Guess what, it wasn’t there. The only way to close it is to log in, but you can’t close it if you are logged in. I guess they don’t really want anyone to close their accounts. So, I’ll just do it the old fashioned way and never use it again.
My eldest daughter called from boot camp today. It looks like she is going to graduate on Aug 26th instead of the first week of August. It also means that she won’t have the week off between boot camp and her job training. It’s her first time away from the family and she was looking forward to that week off. Unless something changes, she won’t be back until mid January. That’s a long time without seeing everyone. So, either way, my wife and I are going to be at her graduation. So, if worse comes to worst, at least she will get to see us. We might even drive out there so that we can take her from S. Carolina to Georgia. But, since they changed the graduation date, they might change the enrollment to her job training class. We’ll see when it gets closer and they post her orders. She gave us her password so we can view them online.
The Rockies beat the Padres again today, so we took the series. That puts us only two games under five hundred. We’re slowly but surely clawing our way back out of the hole. We are currently only nine games out of first place in all of baseball and six games out of first place in our division. So, we just need to get on a little winning streak and surpass everyone.
My youngest daughter started volunteering today. She’s been having a boring summer so far. She even wrote on her facebook that it sucks so far. I tried to get her to go out and look for a summer job. That would keep her busy at least and give her some extra spending money. But, no one listens to me.
My son is looking for a new apartment. Their complex was bought and whoever owns it now is raising everyone’s rent when their lease is up by $100. So, he has four months to find a new place. So far, he’s been looking at houses to rent. He’s found some nice ones, but they are very expensive.
My granddaughter didn’t want to go home today. She comes over nearly every day and plays with her cousins. Their mom works out of town and the kids stay with their grandparents. They play on the trampoline and get wet with the hose. She has so much fun with them that she doesn’t even want to eat. I think she thinks that she will miss something. So, when it is time to go, she puts up a big fit. She was crying today and trying to get out of the car before we could close the door. But, a few minutes after I drove away, she settled down.
I didn’t get much done yesterday. (Or for several weeks for that matter) I’m going to blame it on work, but somewhere in between work and writing I managed to put together an online puzzle. So, I’m going to stop goofing off today and get down to business. I’m putting Deep Purple, Lynyard Skynyrd, and Joan Jett into the playlist for background music.
-Thom