“Buy you another one of those?” he said, coming up to me. I gave him a steel cold look.“Why not,” I said, “a free drink is always a winner, ...nd their cheap enough here that it won’t put much of a dent in your wallet.”“You seem to be in a fairly good mood tonight,” he said, as he waved at Betty to attend to our needs.“Better mood, but no better looking than I was yesterday, so maybe it’s a wash,” I said.“No, you’re right, you’re as ugly as you were yesterday I’m sure,” he said. I looked him. Mia called her insurance company around 1am this morning. When the tow truck arrived to pick up her stalled car, she was not in the car or anywhere nearby. The tow truck driver called the police and they searched her car to find a piece of her garment on the seat. That leads police to believe that she ran away from something. Police have done a basic search in the woods but have found no trace of any footprints. There was rain last night so police are assuming she could have run through the. The only bad part is occasionally, I'll read something that makes methink of my gender stuff, and then I have to stop and fight with theminstead of being able to enjoy the story.****I've been doing a little bit of thinking, Diary. I've got this idea fora story where this kid wishes everyone would go away, and then wakes upto find himself alone in the world. Maybe I'll actually be able to writeit down, that would be cool.***My brother has to go back to Canada, since he's now graduated. I'm. You have to bring him home so he can be taught rightfrom wrong."~"You can count on us," I responded. "But what did you do to make himso angry?"~"It was just a silly little thing. I slapped Gus because he made hissister cry, and then told him to stay in his room until heapologized."~"A slap? That was a mistake. You should have been much more severe.Didn't you have a belt to strap him with?"~"Gus had always been a good boy until this terrible thing happened."~"Spare the rod, spoil the child,".