Category: Journal

Riesner called to see if Mel and I wanted to go to a movie with him. Mel didn’t want to. Sigh. Don’t ever cross a woman…they are damn slow to forgive. I told Dean she wasn’t feeling well and he and I went. It was fun.
I remember a year or so back we went to see…what was the name of that movie…it was an Indy with John Heard and that kid from 90210. Priestly. Heard is an old writer who falls in love with Priestly. Anyway, Dean and I suffered through the flick and on the way out everyone is staring at us. I look at him and say, “You realize that everyone in this theatre thinks we’re fucking. Thanks Dean, thanks for bringing me to your gay porn movie.
Anyway, this time we eneded up at our usual Mexican joint down the road from the theatre. It was fun…he told old stories and we laughed but I think he knew that Melanie wasn’t really sick.

Mel and I spent the afternoon at the Lorey’s for Christmas dinner. Always fun. Dean’s a pretty brilliant cook. It’s always a sort of pot luck event where everyone brings something. Eating what the rest of the family fixes is slightly Russian Roulette but you can never go wrong with Dean’s stuff. I guess we’ve been spending Christmas and Thanksgiving with the Loreys since we first got here some eight years ago. We’re a little like family now. Hard to believe anybody would want us with all our assorted baggage but we’ll take it.
Last year Riesner went over there with us. The offer was there from Dean Lorey so I told Riesner he was invited again.

But he said he was tired and I believed him. He looked tired. I drove him home and he said he was sorry. I felt like an ass. 83 year old men shouldn’t have to grovel. I told him everything was fine. I told him that Mel loved him and I tolerated his ass. We laughed.

Christmas with Riesner went well. There were moments when it was a little uncomfortable but overall I think everyone had fun.

I did ask him point blank if Sean was the one who told him that Melanie was just after his money. He said it wasn’t Sean. Strange that I felt better after that. I’m glad it wasn’t Sean. That would have been hard to swallow if it had been. But I can’t believe it would have been Noel or Jessica (Sean’s kids) nor Susan (Sean’s X) either.
Maybe Sean’s girlfriend but I’ve met her a couple of times and she always seemed real nice. Dean says she’s been spending alot of time over there…I don’t know.
But I’m still pissed. We three had this amazing friendship and now it suddenly feels dirty. Christmas went great but it’s clear we’ll probably never be as close as we were. Perhaps in time but how much time does an 83 year old have?

Well, I wrote about 100 pages on my little Ghost Writing gig. the original writer seemed very happy with it. Happy enough to pay me an additional ten grand.
Now that I’m done I’ll dive into “Riddle”. I have Hensleigh’s notes through the end of the first act.
Dean Lorey and I have been playing “Return to Castle Wolfenstein” and holy cow is it amazing. The deathmatch is team based and you can play one of four different characters with different abilities. And on top of that the single player game is just plain killing fun.

I finished the outline on my Ghost Writing project. It’s a comedy. Pretty good too. Very funny. The deal was five grand for the outline. The oringal writer has another project due before Christmas as well so I offered to write the first scene. I got nothing better to do. May work on that now. Should be a funny scene.