The Michael Swayne Story V: King of his Castle

I have been working in the evenings with Larry Joe, painting things and any other odd jobs he has for me to do. So far, I have work 5.5 hours these past two days, and I am working again this evening when I get the phone call. It will help a lot. I went a little overboard this last month with my purchases. I bought those laptop batteries and printer ink, and I ended up forgetting about refilling Mom's phone until I received the Email to remind me. I luckily managed to get it paid for in time. I wouldn't want Mom to be without phone service.

Anyway, with the money I am earning working for Larry, and then my inboxdollars account is near the amount required to send a check, and there's also my check tomorrow; I will be able to focus on saving up for a new PS3. It is really needed. Today I had two random shutoffs. The second one then gave me a message saying it was going to have to rebuild the database on my PS3. I don't really know what that means, but it didn't help, because I got another shutoff just minutes after the rebuild was complete. It put me off from playing anymore. It's bad enough that in order to avoid standing next to the PS3 for 20+ minutes, I have to keep the console on all the time. But these random shutoffs don't make the situation any better.

Moving on...

Joey had a tantrum and completely shut down today when he was doing his homework. He didn't want to do it here, and instead do his homework at Stacy's later this evening. He chose to go the "I don't know it" route. All I could think was how lazy he was being. His homework was to read the questions himself, but his crying and whining made Carma choose to read the questions himself. How will he be able to know the questions, and the answers to those questions, if she does his homework for him? While she is doing the reading, he is playing with the dog, and sucking his thumb. It's not helping anyone by babying him like this. He failed Kindergarten because he was babied and didn't do any of the work himself. It's quite possible he will do the same thing in 1st Grade if this continues.

But I can't say any of that out loud. As much as it is needed, I can't just tell Carma how to raise Joey. I will just have to hope that my teaching methods are more powerful than hers, and he realizes that he has to do his own homework.

I spent most of the day sleeping. I was really tired this morning, and spent 10am-3pm sleeping off and on. Hopefully I will be fine for when I leave for work later.

Well, that's about it for now. I am waiting for Larry to call and say that I can come down and work. After I get back from painting, I have to shower and get my things together for in the morning. It will be the first time I use my new bike to deliver papers. So, I will see you around the forums, and until then...

Later!

Michael