Watching "Lost In Space" in the bedroom with my girlfriend. Car lights. It was the cops.

[Miles Archer]

25. You're right about that...

...we have entered the "screw you" phase of events.

My girlfriend told me I need to "face reality" last night.

Her son did, in fact, get fired from his job over missing work due to being in jail.

His girlfriend still has her job as a waitress, but she only works part-time, and the first cut of whatever money she brings home will go to their cigarettes and beer budget.

Meanwhile, I am staring down the barrel of a $350 electric bill that is due at the end of the month. Normally, we'd be paying $150 this time of year. Their agreement was to pay half. This month, it's going to be all on me.

He is supposed to start a new job on October 1st. So we won't see a penny until his first check, which may be a week or two after that...I don't know. And when he does get paid, there will likely be some excuses about how they can't afford to pay anything.

My girlfriend put the brakes on the eviction idea. She said that it would cost us money to file the papers, and he'd go to court to fight it, and because the girlfriend has a 4 year old daughter, we'd get nowhere. That may or may not be true.

So the fairly tale version of this is that he starts this new job on October 1st, saves his money, looks for a place of their own, and is out of here on or before November 1.

I don't see that happening.

And now, he's going to be right here, sitting on his ass in front of the TV for the next two weeks, doing nothing. If the new job falls through, we have a 40 year old guy, his girlfriend, and her kid, living here, with me paying all the bills.

And like I said, my girlfriend is taking the "there is nothing you can do about it" approach, and it's her house, her son, and I'm screwed until I have the money to fix my car...at least a couple of thousand, if I get a rebuilt transmission and take care of the other issues...as well as first, last, and security for a place of my own. That's not going to happen overnight. My girlfriend knows this, which is why she's taking the "sucks to be you...better deal with it" stance.