this morning #1478.
this morning, as usual, the kids were up way too early. grandma slept on the cot but the rest of us fell asleep in the bed. it’d been a hell of a long day. last night, i returned to the hotel with the backpack full of my wife’s grandpa’s war memorabilia & left it sitting in the trunk of our car. i wasn’t about to bring it up to our room & risk someone seeing me with it. that bag had already caused enough trouble for one day. when i let the wife know that i’d been successful in retrieving it, i didn’t fill her in on the full details. didn’t say a thing about my confrontation with the neighbor & his two friends. definitely didn’t mention the gun. i had to find the right time. decided that she wouldn’t mind if i waited until at least tomorrow.