Thank you Kay and Val, it does feel good to be able to vent a bit and feel like someone listens and cares. The thing about the computer problems that is most upsetting is I know it's something I have to fix somehow, since I contract out and am not an actual employee, it's my responsibility to get things running. When I can't work, I am not earning any money. 7 hours now I've been stressing over all this and trying to get things working. Also I'm one to just obsess over something that I can't get working instead of taking a break for awhile and just relaxing.

The dog has been a distressing situation for awhile. I can't really see it much (wooden fence around the yard between us), but I have seen it once or twice from afar. It's a little white spitz type dog or maybe a pom or pom mix. David talked to the owner once about him, the guy that is home all day. He is an older "good ole boy" type and said his wife had wanted the dog but he didn't. So she got the dog anyway and there it sits. It disgusts and angers and depresses me to no end. I'm considering lodging a complaint with the animal control officer since the humane society is unable to look into it as a cruelty case since the dog has food/water and shelter. I'm hoping if Animal Control threatened them about getting complaints from neighbors, they would find it a new home. Anything has to be better than the way it is living. Its entire life is sitting on a short chain and barking. I wish I could even call it a he or she but I don't even know what sex it is. The man at least is always at home, he's retired, and he's often out in his yard doing things, but seems totally deaf and blind to the dog as it cries out constantly for some kind of attention.