Nathaniel Rattan's birthday. Very few days left in Leo, but the heat of summer lingers; tomorrow and the next day 'twill be in the 90's. Thankfully, the nights are getting long and cool. I've been seeing Friday (tweaking) all day today, first at the community center, where he was frantically, cela va sans dire, busy, trying on the one hand to buy food and medicine for an utter nothing of a beer-swigging girl's sick puppy, and on the other hand to hold on to his new boyfriend ("Scuba Steve"); both of which projects, by the time I saw him again this evening at the City Gate, had failed: The girl took her puppy's medicine-money and bought more beer; the boyfriend vanished.