[befuddled2]

Remember the guy I dated but broke up with twice? Well, he called me late this afternoon and something told me to answer and I said to him, "Hi Chris, how are you doing?" He said not too good that his dad is in the hospital and not expected to live through the night. His dad has terminal cancer. Chris told me he wouldn't have called me but he needed to talk to someone and he didn't know who to call. So we talked. He told me his mom loves the picture I took of his dad, her, and Chris and wants for me to take more. She said she will pay me for the pictures. It really made me feel great to have some one offer me money to take pictures without me doing anything except to give a couple away at 1st to be nice to them as I was dating their son at the time. All I've ever had until then to take pictures for money were my neighbors and just about all of them are out to get me for what they can get free and not pay their way. I mean if I sold one picture they'd have me taking a dozen or more and giving them to them for free. That's like the next door neighbor who I took a picture of his teeth before the Dental School started working on them for free. Well, he didn't have his facts right and the picture had already been published in the Medical Journal without me getting credits for it. I heard him tell the lady the month before last that the after effect's picture I would like credit for. I'll have to bribe him with money to stay on top of it though because like almost everyone else around here there's a price for everything. I'm not on his and his girlfriend's good list now anyway because I've stopped lending them money or taking them to the store for booze. My neighbor Dwayne seems to be pretty decent so far except for excessive talking. Also, Dwayne likes to drink coffee and so do I; only Dwayne drinks coffee at night and I have been drinking it at night with him. I had gotten in the habit of going to bed much earlier but lately all this coffee seems to be keeping me up. I'm all wired up now in the middle of the night.

befuddled2