I wrote that just after they left. It's so easy to get used to being around loved ones, and then the world pulls us apart.

And here it is 20:45 already. I've been in the basement most of the day, setting up programs and equipment, keeping the hands and the head busy,

The kids left shortly after 08:00, so they should be getting back to Houston pretty soon. Tyler should be setting up his new computer now, and he'll be getting online and letting me know that he's home. He and I talked about communications, and hopefully things will improve.

I really got my blood pressure up today after the mailman came. And then I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with the bank. Seems that a check that we'd deposited wasn't good enough for them (it was from another financial institution right here in town!) so they put a ten-day hold on it. In the meantime... we'd written checks and stuff like that, y'know, like you do when you have money in the bank? And now people are gonna think that we're deadbeat bums, dammit.

The manager did release the money and remove the charges, of course, and the next time that we deposit a check, it's going directly to the manager of the bank.

They really have a lot of balls, they do, just essentially doing what they want to.

I'm really glad that I got it resolved, though, I didn't want to have to go through changing banks, that would be a real pain.

I got an email from JD with a timestamp of 21:03 on it, so their trip must've gone all right, they didn't have to sell the car, anyways! I'm not really sure if JD'll be looking for another vehicle or not, he kinda seemed to think that he and Annette could get by with just one.

And I better get to bed... my plan was to go back to bed when the kids left, but I didn't, been up all day, and that's too damned long for someone who's recuperating, heh.