Turnstyled and Junkpiled

He's dead set on graduating and going to San Jacinto Junior College, where he wants to get an associate's degree in computer electronics and go to work for the school district as a computer technician.

"You make plenty of money. It's a pretty neat environment. It's not dirty. It's a pretty nice life, from what I understand."

Watching his back: Mickey with Miss Lilly, detective Jason Shirley, associate pastor Jerry Bennett and Julie Shirley.

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I will buy you a new life: Mickey with new bicycle, new apartment.

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It is noted that he seems to like fixing stuff.

"Yes suh, I've studied a lot of stuff. I'm pretty intelligent when it comes to fixing stuff. Only thing I haven't figured out much about is fixing software on the computer. That's what I'm gonna start studying pretty soon. I'm used to the actual hardware, that uses your hands to fix instead of using your mind."

He has heard that computer techs make up to $40 an hour, and when he starts pulling in that kind of money, he says, he'll probably sock most of it away for retirement.

"I figure the more I have for retirement the better off I'll be."

Until then, he seems proud to be working for the school district for pocket money and happy to have settled into his new white apartment. So far, government programs have covered his bills-paid rent, but that's just temporary. He's going to have to start carrying part of the load, but he says he doesn't know when, or how much. He says HUD is supposed to send him mail soon to let him know.

And if, in the meantime, he should happen to see his dad on the street, he says, he'd just walk by and not say a word to him.

"I probably wouldn't like to see them again, because of the fact that I don't trust them, and everybody knows him around here, and they don't trust them. And he's never been a very good father to me."

He has used "he" and "they" interchangeably, but no "she."

What his reaction might be if it were his mother he spotted walking down the street, he doesn't say. And one can't bring oneself to ask.

E-mail Brad Tyer at brad.tyer@houstonpress.com.