Somewhat better today.
Not a whole lot, but somewhat.
I actually slept until about 09:00, having gone to bed the last time about 05:30... I'd had two or three short periods of sleep before that, though. Again, waking up coughing.
I did have some interesting dreams, though... I was the manager of a K-Mart somewhere, and I realized that I had no idea what I was doing, and I was afraid that everyone else would find out how stupid I was. Luckily, I woke up before they did.
Which bring up something else... there was a job in KC that I thought about applying for, web design, basic HTML, which I really wanted to apply for. But I would've had to take 2/3rds of the salary that I have now, and I just plain can't afford to do that. I wish that I hadn't accumulated so damned many bills... I think that in a job like that, I could expect healthy raises (if I did well) and in a coupla years match or even exceed what I'm making now... but I would go bankrupt in the meantime. Life just ain't fair, huh.
Anyway, I'm taking Tyler up there tomorrow morning for a screening, hopefully he'll qualify. Lacee will probably be going with us; if it takes very long, we'll head over to the mall while Tyler's busy, else we'll amuse ourselves more locally. Lacee's babysitter is going to be out of town tomorrow, and her alternate plans didn't work out, but she didn't find out until tonight.
I've decided to stay facially hairless for a while, anyway. And I have a big confession to make.
I never knew how to shave before I looked it up on the web.
I had always shaved against the grain, thinking that I'd get a closer shave that way. Well, I cut myself a lot. And it hurt, and it was a hassle. Not even worthwhile.
So, I started shaving the other way, and once your beard gets used to it, or your face does, or whatever, the shave is just a close that way. Only you don't hurt yourself.
Which means that it's not so much of a hassle, which means, in turn, that I'm much more likely to do it.
Being clean-shaven is kinda neat, for a change. But I'm sure that it isn't permanent... nothing is, except death, after all.
More tomorrow...
A coupla weeks ago, my friend Herman told me about a program in KC that was recruiting people to be subjects in pharmaceutical testing... I kinda put it in the back of my mind and thought of it today when I was talking to Tyler about him getting a job. So I got the name of the company, and Tyler called them. It's a seventeen-day isolation program, and they're testing for something in the cardiac line. They pay really well for doing nothing, and provide room and board, naturally. And hopefully internet access...