Nilly!

What in the world are you doing up at this hour? Googling "shitheel"?

Yeah, tommyrot, that is exactly where I was: "Dude's going to burn down my house to get high on the fumes."

I guess I could relayed a request to the judge to let me help the dude out with some kind of job and a place to stay in one of the way empty bedrooms in this old farmhouse.

I think he's already spent enough time in your house, Gus. He may be a victim, but so are you.

A self-preserving shitheel, Gus. That situation may not have been the best.

I concur.

If you really want to do something, try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can help.

My mama still curses his name. Not as um, strenuously as Shrub, who gets "Wire"-grade expletives. So sorry, Gus. I am touched by your concern for him, though.

Also, this guy needs more than a place to stay--he needs access to AA, some structure, medical help, steady meals--and he may actually get a lot of that in the jail system. He's going to jail, right, not prison? Well, there will be social services available to him there, and folks who have dealt with a lot of homeless and a lot of addicts.

If you really want to do something, try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can help.

The Golden One scores a hit. In WI, of course, it is more like "try checking around to see what support services exist in your area for the homeless and find out if you can" ... start one.

I'm down with it, though. First chore tomorrow: Get the ball rolling in rural WI on homeless help.

eta: Robin, he is going to prison, near Milwaukee (the big city hereabouts), on a State "rap", so there might be some of those things you talk about. Maybe.

WI, and all notwithstanding.

What in the world are you doing up at this hour?

Trying to work on a paper due on Sunday for a "History and Philosophy of Science" class. A really interesting class, an excellent professor, and a horrible dead-line for the paper. It's tomorrow here, already, for the record.

Get the ball rolling in rural WI on homeless help.

You're awesome.

Gus, I am awed by your mensch-liness. Seriously. I'd like to think I would do that, and I try to help people, but I mostly *know* them. I'm proud to share the planet with you.(And not just cause the world needs more Wireheads.)

You're awesome.

Oh, that more women recognized this fundamental truth.

ita, go to Mozambique. In fact, let's all go to Mozambique.