Pensively Pensive

I woke up just before 7AM today and considering it's Saturday, I felt that might be a tad early.  I gave it a few minutes of thought and decided to get up since going back to sleep would likely have me sleeping another hour, at least.  No reason I couldn't do that - but we're working on some house projects this weekend and it felt good to get an early start on the day.  

I jokingly think most mornings the Nevada power grid knows when I'm up for the day.  I shut off the ceiling fan, the tower fan and the room humidifier - they all run most of the night.  I grabbed my phone off the nightstand and saw I had a text.  It was from H. - calling from the phone I've ID'd in my phone as his friend's backup phone.  Something about a phone that runs via the Internet so it's not a 'real' phone - no understanding or idea why his friend needs a 'backup' phone.  But grateful he has it 'cuz H.'s phone isn't working so the backup phone is all he has.  

H. called on Tuesday after a few days of me reaching out to him via texts or leaving messages with no response.  He says his friend M.'s one year old daughter got his phone and locked it.  H. can't unlock it without logging in to iTunes on a computer - and he's waiting for a friend to help him do that.  None of that makes any sense either, since H. has a computer (at least we think he does).  I inquired and got a gobbly goop answer about internet connectivity at the house he's staying - may be true, or not.  Never sure.  

The text said 'Mom, I really need help.  Please let me know when you are up'.  I texted him back 'I'm up'.  No response.  So I called that number.  

He supposedly left his Chime debit card in his locker at work - while his wallet is supposedly with him. No explanation for how/why he left his Chime card in the locker of a business that is closed through Monday.  No access to funds until Tuesday morning.  He said it's OK 'cuz once he gets his phone unlocked, he can access Chime through his phone?  He can't use his phone to get cash out of a bank so that should be interesting.  

He needed money for gas to take a friend to the airport to pick up her brother.  Her car was in the shop and H. said he'd take her - I should have suggested she pay for the gas but I didn't.  

I told him 'we have no way of verifying anything you're saying.  No way to know if this is true or not'.  

I transferred $20 into his Wells checking account - and he withdrew it at the branch about an hour later.  

Every warning signal I have about him is firing on all cylinders today - he didn't sound 'right' and I'm pretty sure things are not as he wants us to believe.  

I hope he gets his phone repaired soon.   

In other news, I'm tackling a major reorganization of my bedroom closet - including going through all the clothes in my dresser, armoire and closet to give away things I don't wear.  After the six months we lived in the rental, when we finally moved into the house, the instinct was 'put stuff away'....and I put off going through things to identify what I knew I would never wear.  I'm working on continuing to let stuff go.  I bought two small 'closet dressers' to use to help stash bathroom stuff that my bathroom has zero room for.  But to make room for those dressers, I have to clean out a ton of clothes - so it's good motivation.  It's the typical project that leads to 'another thing' and then 'another thing'.  It snowballs into feeling overwhelming - but I'm just chunking it up (with J.'s help) and it will get done.  

We have similar issues and snowballing regarding housing books, DVDs, CDs, etc. - and we're going to tackle those things this weekend, too.  

I had a good week on slots - two Majors won on Dragonlink - one at the local Gold West Casino here in Carson and the second at Carson Valley Inn.  It's been a fun week.  

Thursday will have us spending the night at Atlantis to be ready at 4AM Friday morning to take the Atlantis provided transportation to the annual Balloon Races.  We're really excited about the event and hope to make it an annual event. 

We have labored a lot this Labor Day weekend - feels good to make huge progress on making my bedroom space more functional and organized.