Today, my car is supposed to be ready. I'm looking forward to getting this thing behind me and moving forward with my life. It happened, there's nothing I can do about it and I'm a better man because of it. That's the kind of crap that people say to themselves when something really bad happens, ha ha. I'm perfectly happy living in my own world of denial. I think I'll drive the cats to a nice B & B (Bed & Breakfast) so we can recharge the batteries after a very stressful week.

I spent twenty minutes adding to my illegal wild pets photo yesterday. I had a total of 10 animals -- I'm including a skunk in that total. But then my computer crashed and I lost everything. Always save your work Bobby, always save. So, there's no fake photo today. I was doing it mainly for me anyway. I have a feeling that no one really cared for that joke anyway. This diary may be too revolutionary for the masses. My work will probably never fully be appreciated until long after I'm gone. Such is life.

I've been bashing the news media pretty hard this week but I will say that they finally did something right. The story out of Philadelphia involving the FBI putting a bug (listening device) in the Mayor's office amazes me. If I were the mayor, I'd be pretty worried but they assured him that he wasn't being investigated. CNN interviewed him at a pancake breakfast yesterday morning and he said that he wasn't worried about it. I guess that's all he can say. I wish there were pancake breakfasts around here.

With this story in mind, I get home last night and you know me, I'm in cloak & dagger mode. What's that sound, what's that shadow, who called and didn't leave a message?! I was starting to freak out. Then, I got a grip, sat on the sofa, turned on my table lamp and I got the surprise of a lifetime:

Bob's apartment is

bugged!
Someone planted a very high-tech listening device in my apartment! Who knows how long its been attached to that lamp?! I want answers and I want them now!

I just got off the phone with the FBI and they said, "Our bad." So you see, it was all an innocent mistake. Excuse me for a second, YAWN - OK, I'm back.

Oh sweet Lord I think that's it for Friday. Have a GREAT weekend.

Stay gold,

Bob