Saturday, April 28, 1984

A Chicago bigshot was monitoring all of us at work today, and it was a pain. We weren't able to show any personality and anyone would have to have lots of personality to do the job. I hope I never put in another workday like today.

The tenants at Mom's house, a man and his wife, Sonny and Felicia, and their two children, are going to be late with their rent. Sonny may fix my car before I have the money to fix it, then I'll knock it off the rent. I need good reliable transportation and it will help their rent situation too. He's got a job working on cars, but I don't know if it's a full-time job or how stable it is. He's also going to ask his cousin about doing my roof within the budget of Love's insurance check, when it gets here. Cecil also got an estimate of $165.00 from Sonny about bodywork on his car. Cecil thought that the estimate was more than reasonable. Sonny took it upon himself to put a new seal in the toilet, put in kitchen seals and washers at Mom's house this month, and I knocked it off the rent. He wants to paint the garage door and replace the concrete walkway in front of Mom's house. His wife keeps the house clean too.

Naturally it's supposed to rain tomorrow, since I have the day off and want to plant the garden.