Midnight Update

I'm up late. A guest was found to have two empty beer cans under his mattress and another empty beer can in a bag of dirty clothes in the closet.

I offered that he could stay one more night, but he is upset and wants to leave as soon as he gets off work at two in the morning. I'm thus to pick him up at 2:05 am at his place of work, and take him to Jacksonville.

*sighs*

Still, he has been one of our longer guests, seven months, and we had hoped he'd finally quit. So I'll make sure he gets to Jacksonville with all his stuff. Since he paid me $50 today, and since it was already spent on 490 Outreach expenses, I'll have to give him fifty out of our own account. Do we have to? No. But had I inspected yesterday, it's likely I'd have found those cans, so I don't want the appearance of only inspecting on a convenient time, like just after collecting that fee. That's not why I inspected tonight, there was another matter that had me looking in there, but still. The appearance of impropriety and all that.

On a cheerier note, I've been working on the converting the van to a food delivery vehicle. And there is a potential new guest coming to church with me tomorrow, if all goes well he can move in right after services.

Back to a more somber note, the pay down on the utilities is taking longer than anticipated. Like the Red Queen's race, we must run twice as fast just to stand still! Or so it seems trying to pay off the winter heating bill while the summer AC bill is going strong.

And on a cheerier note again, we have the materials to paint the walls of the living room and kitchen at the main sober living home. Not only two cans of white paint for that, but a can of brown paint for the floor of the living room over there. That'll make things look nicer!

And a new toilet mechanism for our own broke-ish toilet. And a new seat. Our policy being to fix our own stuff last. Remarkable what duct tape can do! But it will be good to have the toilet fixed for real.

That's all I got. The backdrop to all of this is good, though. Great, in fact! The backdrop being the gearing up for the food distribution program. Next week, the 12th, there's an orientation at the Central Illinois Foodbank that I'll be at with a gentleman from Springfield First Seventh-day Adventist church. This should be a good program, and we're pretty excited about it! Very excited!

That's all I got. Just a quick midnight update!