T-Minus 2 years until there are two of me. Melanie got tickets to the Red Sox game, she got four of them, and invited my parents. She told them that I was finally feeling up to going out after what happened to me, which apparently they hadn’t heard about, and that she wanted to cheer me up.
The truth is, I told her a few weeks ago, that I missed them, and that it was strange living fifteen minutes from them and not seeing them. So she put the plan together for this. We obviously won’t be telling them that it’s my pre-birthday, or even that August 29th is my birthday, but it will be nice to see them on my birthday.
The Red Sox aren’t one of the sports stats that I memorized in order to gamble on it—until 2004, when I’ll get myself set for life— so I don’t know the outcomes of individual games. It’s made going to see them much more fun. I don’t know if they win or lose today!
I’m officially finished a years worth of classes as of two weeks ago. Elliot has been working hard on planning on how to help stop Ruby Pegg, but in his free time, he’s also been helping me stockpile some of the parts that are already available for my machine.
He’s told me that he’s an engineer, not a physicist, which is why he’s so familiar with the parts involved. I’m realizing just how brilliant he is, because he’s done that, memorized the sequence of events with Ruby Pegg, and has at least as much gambling knowledge as me.
He jokes sometimes that he brought back a Gray’s Sports Almanac.
I asked him if I’m in the clear after my blood transfusion, and he refused to tell me. I’m actually thinking that perhaps he doesn’t know, although the meds wouldn’t be along to really get me through to complete this project until I would likely be past the point of no return.
For the time being, I have to act as if I’m positive, and hope that I’m not. My wife is upset that I’m not able to consummate our marriage, and she doesn’t seem to realize how sad I am about it.
But, we’re doing our best to keep things hopeful and good. Tonight should be great.
Michael Christopher Cole 
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