One of the first things we did today was ride down to the dump I visited in February and drop off some of those boxes. The place looks almost normal tonight. Tim was pretty busy today. I let him have the car.

At work I got ready for Charlie’s return. Ran out Fritz, put some things into DBASE, and even put Mike Ashley and Curtis into Pagemaker. Charlie was pretty monosyllabic when he got home at 4:30. He asked me if it’s possible to get any food in the south that isn’t deep fried or cooked in pork fat. “Didn’t you notice how southern women are shaped when they hit forty?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “Like schmoos.”

After work, Tom picked me up and took me to see his new office. It’s in a completely different building from the one I visited on Friday, and he doesn’t have a cubicle but an office, with doors and windows. Security is terribly tight. He had to use a card to open about every door but the one to his office. When I pick him up, I’ll have to walk around to his window and rap on it.

I believe this was one of my first experiences with plastic cards being used as keys.