We went back to da hood today. It was hot as hell, but we didn't get shot or any bricks bounced off our heads.

Same old dirty looks and stares, but we did get two, " thank yous ".

One of them was from an old black lady standing in an above ground pool. We could only see the top half of her face as she talked. It reminded me of " Kilroy ".

As she talked, it became apparent that she was cleaning the pool liner with a plastic snow shovel.

Anyway, she thanked us for boarding up the house behind hers. Yelling over the noise of her 2 1/4 lb. dog trying to eat the chain link fence so it can kill us she said, " Doze kids be breakin' da glass and gettin' in. I don't know what dey be doin' up in there. This is an emergency ! "

We be goin' back up there tomorrow. I kinda missed goin' up there.