Day 28

7:00 AM - I've emerged from the darkness into the light...finally.

Day 25

8:22 AM - Note to self: Chinese cuisine and beer = tossing and turning all night long.

Day 24

7:12 AM - Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Day 23

10:26 AM - I went to bed around midnight last night and actually slept straight through until 9:00 this morning.....I haven't done that in a long..long...time.

Day 22

7:49 AM - Laundry's going....boys are snoozing on the couch.....morning coffee is steaming....Ghost Adventures on TV.......I'm feeling very relaxed.

Day 21

3:30 PM - Don't look now...things are starting to feel normal.

Day 20

10:00 AM - Brutal heat and humidity.....good thing the boys are in air conditioned comfort.

8:30 PM - Watching the Twins - White Sox...having a cold bottle of beer...life is becoming good.

Day 19

9:00 AM - I slept a half hour extra this morning, and for the first time, I didn't feel that little twinge of depression when I first woke up.

12:30 PM - I'm really finding out who my friends are through all that I've been going through......

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. ~ Ulysses S. Grant

Day 18

8:00 AM - Gets a little easier every day. I'm going to see what happens leaving the boys run loose in the house and not gated in the bathroom.

Day 17

8:30 AM -Cable and broadband FINALLY hooked up.

8:00 PM - Talked to my dad tonight...he's been having cancer issues over the Summer and today he learned that the cancer has spread to his bones....no treatment possible ....prognosis 3 to 4 months.

Day 16

7:20 AM - Dogs are walked coffee's made and I slept 8 hours straight for the first time in a long time.

Day 15

7:00 AM - Took Otis and Barney for their first morning walk around the block. No tangled leashes this time and a lady stopped her car and complimented how adorable they were.....enjoying Saturday morning coffee.

10:00 PM - Finally feeling comfortable....having a pizza and movie night with Otis and Barney....able to relax...finally.

Day 14

6:00 AM - My puggers finally arrive today.

1:00 PM - Otis and Barney are resting in air conditioned comfort in our new home.

Day 13

6:00 AM - As every day goes by, the less I think of the past.

9:00 AM - Congratulations to my good friend Dustin who just won his division at the 2010 World Horseshoe Pitching Championships in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Day 12

7:15 AM - As I sit here in my quiet home enjoying my first cup of coffee of the day, I'm slowly starting to realize that the financial stress, the feelings of being discarded, and my wife spending hours Skypeing with a man in Florida she's never met while I'm in the same house are finally behind me.....the future is starting now.

4:30 PM - Getting to be my old self.....mood much improved today.

Day 11

6:30 AM - Had a really weird dream last night about my eventual ex-wife. I was with her and her extended family as some place of retreat. Everyone was having a great time and there were people coming in and out serving drinks and food. When I asked for something to eat and drink I was told by the serving staff that I wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything. When I got in my car and drove down the road the steering wheel came off in my hands and the car came to a stop on the edge of a large precipice. An older couple came and help pull the car from the edge and I was told I had to go back....I then went back inside where the festivities continued but nobody would talk to me or acknowledge that I was there.

2:00 PM - Been home for lunch again...had lunch and enjoyed the air conditioning....I'm getting used to this in a hurry.

Day 10

6:33 AM - Just woke up in a new place for the first time in years.....very quiet and lonely.

10:30 AM - Electricity switched over and cable & internet on the way.......my laptop picks up about three wi-fi networks so I have net access until the real thing gets here. I'm finally starting to relax just a little.

1:00 PM - Went HOME and relaxed at lunch for the first time in years.....I can get used to this.

9:00 PM - Dishes are put away and I had my first meal here at the new home. Sandwiches and Coke...never tasted so good. BTW...I was reading one of my future ex-wife's boyfriend's poems....the one about those two ruling in hell together........he spelled the word "Demons"...."Deamons".....we're dealing with an intellectual heavyweight here.

Day 9

6:30 AM - The last morning that I wake up in this house. Tonight I'll go to bed for the first time in years without anyone else under my roof.

7:00 PM - I'll be damned if this place isn't becoming a home. Pictures on the walls now, electronics hooked up, and music filling the place.