So, not much to add to add this morning. Tricia and I took Dave out to Red Lobster last night, his dad past away the day before yesterday. Not that I'm prejudiced; but we appearred to be the only white folk in the place other than the servers. It only took an hour and ten minutes to get our food, I'm glad we weren't hungry or anything. Dinner was pretty good, although Dave's gumbo soup he ordered smelled awful (in my opinion anyways; not that it amounts to much). A certain teenager (who shall remain unnamed) has been grounded amd decellphoned for a week. She should be a total joy to be around by this weekend. I already know how this will play out, let me clue you in. It's generally the same tactic; although she hasn't been grounded in quite some time. The tactic is just this with hardly an exception; no problem in taken her punishment, no problem turning over her cell phone, she remains in good spirit for a few days until the fated Friday morning arrives. Then she faithfully intimates that her naturally good attitude, response to her punishment, and good behavior should be highly rewarded with the dropping of all punishments. And when that doesn't happen she will become quite irate. That will happen Friday morning before school, she will beg and try to make any kind of deal possible to leave the jail. Then by Friday afternoon when her plan has failed she will become very irate and somewhat irrational, and the good character she has displayed all week will be lost in vain. She will spend the evening listening to loud music and ignoring us all, except to look at us as though we are all losers and have no right to be here. Staurday morning will be a slight change in character to try her tactics yet again, only to fail miserably. Right back to the attitude of the previous night, we have no right to punish her, we are all losers, this house sucks, we suck, and we're gonna be sorry for this (you just wait and see). It will be that way for the entire day, we are better off just avoiding the good tempered, rational teenager. Then finally Sunday evening this will begin to subside, so long as we all have suffered with her in this miserable, rotten, hellhole. Monday morning we will aqll wake up and pretend that this never happened. This scenario will happen just as I have explained and we will not vary from the way this all goes down. Why.....................................because it never changes..............no never.