Today was a total waste

Stayed home.  Stayed inside.  Did some editing this evening.  Trashed Clermont Middle School, again, on Great Schools after deleting my earlier review. Not nice.  But I spoke the truth.

Today was their first day back to school. I am so relieved that I am not a part of that anymore.

Feeling some sense of loss during this, my second retirement, but not so much as I did.

My last paycheck from Lake County comes in day after tomorrow and things will become a bit "lean" again for me, financially, although my loan from the state employees credit union will be paid off the first of next month.  That will mean $500 more income each month and that ought to help.

The car will be paid off this coming year as will my debt to the IRS, possibly as soon as February 1st, 2019.  Going back to work that one year was stressful but it helped massively in economic terms.

Some local preteens may be targeting me.  Yeah. Ma Barker gone. So are the skanks across the street. Both houses are still empty. A gaggle of little boys stopped at the entrance to my driveway this afternoon, about dusk, lingered a moment or two and then moved on. I recognize one of them as having resided in the "skank" house across the street at one time.

Perhaps it is nothing. I hope that it is.  I am weary of stupid. This neighborhood is nothing like it used to be when I first came here 26 years ago.  People used to respect one another.  Some of the elements that have come in since then plainly do not. The issue isn't the kids; the issue is the parents. It usually is.