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by arbi
12-16-06
yesterday went pretty well, although my bike got stolen and my roommate hasn't paid the rent yet and the post office was closed when i got there
i filed the order that the judge asked for, got some racy emails, made sure i had cash for my trip, hung out with my mechanic, did some laundry, went to the club
where the cute guy who moved to florida was back. i learned his real name, and we might have plans for tonight.
which, i guess, means that i'll get stood up again, odds are. but that's an ok risk.
i couldn't get online much at the coffeehouse - place was full of folk musicans, actually quite good.
library is closing , or i'd keep rambling.

 

by arbi
12-16-06
I was waiting to use the computer, and idly perusing a 1987 Doonesbury, when...
You rang?
Michael Doonesbury?......................... Uh, this isn't Walden, residence of..
Nope..................... ........................ Michael Doonesbury and the lovely Mrs. Doonesbury, yes.
Oh. So who are you?
I'm the maid.

 

by arbi
12-16-06
@ 1987, G.B. Trudeau
It came special delivery. Must be important
It's from the Agency.. Finally! There're all moved into the new offices at the World Trade Center! I start work on Monday!
Really? Hey wonderful news Mike! No kidding! The best!
It sure is. Somebody's finally bringing an income into this house.
I know. It really takes the pressure off all of us.
It does NOT, Zonker!

 

by arbi
12-25-06
http://science.slashdot.org/science/ 06/12/25/0458231.shtml
So here I am, stuck in a tropical paradise for xmas.
Saw a whale. Went to a hula xmas pagent. Condo on the beach. Party last night with all sorts of cool people. Surf, flowers, tropical fruit, board games. Windmills.
Went to a hippie town with a health food store, hemp shop, art galleries. Went kayaking, saw a firedancer.
Had a traditional if overpriced plate lunch. Haven't had shave ice yet. Found a pirate camp. Drove past the nude beach. Trying hard to maintain my cynical midwestern, um, cynicism
That island over there? The Hawai'ins cut down all the trees and the soil washed away. Then it was a penal colony, then a bombing range. Now it's.. nothing. Looks nice in the sunset though.
Trying to figure out an angle to make a buck. Nothing yet.

 

by arbi
12-26-06
http://slashdot.org/06/12/26/
Out here on the islands, I don't get much news.
Top stories: 1) George Orwell was right. 2) When Nobel laureates attack 3) Vista= suicide 4) Big Box offers overpiced robot house 5) flying cars from switzerland 6) a linux xmas 7)
http://volokh.com/posts/ 1166823609.shtml
oh here's one from volokh about the maui menorah and the aclu. this really happened.
all for now, it's late, i'm tired.

 

by arbi
12-30-06
snorkeling was amazing. i'm starting to see why people come to the islands. shiska-luau last night was fun.
today we drove up the volcano. saw the observatory. didn't see the ne-ne, a nearly extinct goose. tomorrow, fireworks and 2007. yesterday i spent $10 on a cover charge but the cute guy had left.
i've been alternating between having fun, and stressing from work deadlines, internet withdrawl, other stuff withdrawl.
i made a list of jobs to apply for - (just took a break for spaghetti and civil liberties discussion...)
to be continued next year.

 

by arbi
1-02-07
zack chris and james are playing halo. in the car, zack's doodles looked like this
hannah, 9, is fixing lunch.
pretzles? fried baloney?
i'm on the couch here till my flight gets in in a couple days

 

by arbi
1-02-07
I rode down to little beach, the southwest tip of maui, a gay nude surfer hangout. I met this guy, who was either an enlightened mystic teacher, or some drunk.
We talked about being in the moment, not judging, finding peace and freedom, getting in tune with the surf and the sunset.
Then we segwayed a bit and discussed personal soveriegnity, alloidial title, ucc-1 filings, the fringe on the flag, copywriting your capitalized name, and all that patriot stuff.
i think i'm starting to get the hang of this "hang loose - slow down - it's not the mainland" thing.

 

by arbi
1-02-07
2000 - on paper only, i made so much money the irs now wants a big chunk. joell wins supreme court roadblock case and moves in my house. i run for judge.
2001 - i lose my mind, job + lifesavings, when the zoning thugs send 50 letters threatening lawsuits,and tear down my buildings.
2002 - i survive the 50 lawsuits and a car crash.
supreme court turns down my free speech case appeal, filed a day late. oops.
2003 - a guy i'd hired to cut grass turns out to be the neighborhood burglar, and tries to kill me. wil shows me how to blog.
2004 - false charges, jail, torture, reputation destroyed, second nervous breakdown. i start this comic as art therapy.
2007 - who knows?
2005 charges dropped, i manage to pay off the lawyer, calm down a bit. staying at a place with rats. roaches, crackhead roommates.
2006 - i live out of a hotel after a burglary, move to nice neighborhood, get a temp job, resume my law practice, broke and stressed. visionquest to maui.

 

by arbi
1-02-07
the american black chamber C 1931.
next to the hippie beach, there's a 4 seasons resort where we watched fireworks, and a golf club 19th hole where we ate a fancy brunch.
i read a memoir of a guy who ran codebreaking in ww1. turns out my mom had already read it - sometimes i forget she used to be a spy.
12:00 1/1/2007
we packed up the condo. i'm at my sister's till my plane comes.

 

by arbi
1-03-07
Perhaps this will refresh your memory.
https://www.thurberhouse.org/store/ products.asp?cat=3&pid= 36&sub1=7&sub2=0

 

by arbi
1-03-07
O'Bama: admits trying coke and pot in high school
bush: wouldn't be prudent to remember high school
O'Bama: almost as black as tiger woods or colin powell. Absent father from Kenya, white mom, raised in polynesian hawaii.
AA: african mammal, lives in usa, posting this from maui.
O'Bama! Tamari!.......... ............. ..... Let's call the whole thing Orf
O'Sama! Daktari! ................... ........................ Let's call the whole thing Orf.

 

by arbi
1-04-07
yesterday, i had access to a computer, peace and quiet, and plenty of coffee. i got a lot of work done on the memo that's due in a few days.
aloha: a: the spark of energy from the rising sun. lo: eternity. ha: the breath of life. you wouldn't understand. respect da cultcha!
i've been stuck here in paradise, and spent half the time worrying about whether i'd get the memo done on time. tonight i fly out.
(sung) my bags are packed i'm ready to go. something something it's early morn.
tomorrow i hope to have breakfast at the airport with my most recent exboyfriend or roommate or whatever he was. i don't know if i'll be able to afford to come back soon or ever, but i'm glad i came
buh-bye. here's your lei and a coconut. now leave already. mahalo.

 

by arbi
1-04-07
aloha means goodbye 4, or, how to rob a bank
once i get the memo for work done, there's another memo to write, a business plan to flesh out some ideas we've been talking about here.
it started as a running joke about making the trip tax deductible by having a few meetings.
then we had the meeting. much alcohol was consumed, the dress was informal, but the ideas were pretty high quality.
Q: how can we make some money? A: rob a bank. Me: the best way to rob a bank is with a good business plan, get a loan.
It was all so tentative I didn't even get everybody's business cards, and i think it was just drunk talk at a party. But I want to write it up, take it a little further.
I find it helpful to make a comic before formalizing things elsewhere. It helps get past some of my writer's blocks.

 

by arbi
1-08-07
So I got on a plane, got stood up for breakfast in phx by adam, got on another plane, got on a train, walked around the chicago loop carrying suitcases, got on a bus, got in a taxi, got home,
left some of my luggage in the taxi so i had to drive back downtown, somehow find that same cab, found it, drove home, drove to the club.
hawaii was fun but i missed the club. the club in hawaii was fun too, but not the same. slept like a rock, got up to work on the memo, but the library was closed.
so i headed to the coffeehouse, ran into joh and dan. we went for dinner to a lesbianese place, where the cute waiter, adam, was a guy who stood me up for a date 5 years ago and i'm still sulking.
we went to joh's and i made a blog entry out of the waiter's picture, which i still had, and worked on the memo. sunday i worked on the memo all day, finished it, went to the club. fell hard for a new
dancer. we hit it off and he gave me his email, oliverclothesoff17 at yahoo. it just bounced. so i'll probably never see him again? sulk. i wonder if his name's adam.

 

by arbi
1-08-07
i set the alarm for 8, got up by noon, put on a tie, printed and filed the memo, got caught up with the court staff on what's happened while i was away, met with the client, sent some emails,
made some blog posts, made a to do list, took out the trash, threw away moldy stuff from the fridge, drank too much coffee, made soup for tonight, gave my deadbeat roommate some job leads,
went to the bank, made a comic, checked the mail. i guess i have time to go eat the soup before i head to the club tonight. i could start some laundry.
I've been so focused on the memo i haven't planned much past that. "3.- get a job." oh, right, that.

 

by arbi
1-08-07
http://www.arcofdescent.org/ scpuritytest/scresults1.php
You are 60% pure.
I guess I'll be needing a volunteer for the ****job and oral sex categories.

 

by arbi
1-08-07
This actually happened today. I had filed a lawsuit to fix the election so people could vote, and my temporary restraining order was denied, so i asked why.
Rule 65 B 2: the applicant's attorney certifies to the court in writing the efforts, if any, which have been made to give notice and the reasons supporting his claim that notice should not be required
sigh

 

by arbi
1-09-07
Today I woke up with symptoms of a hangover, so i went back to bed until noon. Call it a sick day. I had one drink over my limit last night. I am at no risk of alcoholism; hangovers aren't worth it.
But I drove around looking for work, got a few leads, did some shopping. I stopped into an army surplus store and wound up selling them some surplus I had in the car, so I more than broke even.
I have this roommate who, while I was away, didn't get a job, got behinder on the rent, used up my toilet paper and his gasoline, didn't do the chores I asked him to, seems to just watch tv all day.
I've been that guy myself, so I'm trying to be compassionate without enabling. I'm giving him another week before I have a guy break his legs. I mean, ask him to leave.
[insert smartass comment]

 

by arbi
1-09-07
So I sez that there thermal plasma inverter ain't gonna generate gravitons by itself.. wait, what's wrong?
Excuse me a moment while I slip into something a little more compatible with your species.
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ umunhum/379724/
Now, take me to your leader.
Uh, that might be a problem

 

by arbi
1-11-07
the setting - arbi's apartment. it looks like this, but full of clutter. there's also a basement with a troll and his three billy cats gruff, and more clutter.
i woke up to a bill collector calling. that made my anxious, so i took a hot bath and a good book and went back to bed. i made a list of 17 things to do today and have done the first three.
the next three i can do here at the library, and one item will have to be put off till tomorrow.
did: post office bank paid gas bill before it was shut off
blog, write thank you letters send birthday email update resume write cover letter write bill collector write memo re purchase agreement scan purchase agreement make better list check federal case
case status, put air in tires, ups.com, bus ticket refund, write client re legal fees and campaign finance forms call in to see if i work tonight.
i just want to go back to bed and see how the book turns out
when i was younger, before i knew i was depressed, i'd sometimes take a semester off to read in bed. this may be why i flunked out 3 times before later going back and going to law school.

 

by arbi
1-11-07
at the gas company last night
we don't take debit cards. you'll need to go to your bank and get cash and come back before our guys come and turn off your gas
at the bank
your ID is broken and your old ID is expired and your other ID isn't government issued and your other government issued ID doesn't have a photo and we won't tell you your pin number for the atm
at the BMV yesterday
Well we're sorry the TSA broke your ID at the airport but we can't issue you a new license until next month, unless you want to buy a replacement for [twice what the fee used to be]

 

by arbi
1-11-07
www.atrandom.com
I'd mentally composed this to be a blog post, but I'll give it a try as a comic first. I found some books. This AM I got upset after woken up by a bill collector, so I took a hot bath and a book.
Another day in the frontal lobe, 2006, Random House. It begins, "The brain looks like tofu, the soft kind, if you know tofu." I was hooked already.
http://www.amazon.com/ Another-Day-Frontal-Lobe-Exposes/ dp/1400063205
It's the story of a woman brain surgeon. It's funny, very up to date, and has a dry matter of fact tone I like.
She explains how brain surgery is part scientist, part mechanic.
After lunch, I reluctantly had to set it down and start my busy day.
Did you get yet to the part about dipping gerbils in liquid nitrogen?

 

by arbi
1-13-07
http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/ showthread.php?postnum=240904
I havent been able to get onto stripcreator lately.. they needed this room for the OPC awards show.
For best life imitating art award, it's Bill Clinton for his satyrical portrayal of John Travolta's role in Primary Colors, and whoever that was in Wag the Dog.
For "passions .. of.. the .... christ", it's Billy Shatner.
Bible, Wrath of Khan, what's the difference?

 

by arbi
1-13-07
volokh.com
My productivity's been low for the past few days. I stay up at night watching tv then i can't get up before the computer lab closes, so I get by on 20 minute increments on the one free computer
at the coffeehouse. Had some nice email from professor barnett at the conspiracy, and bickered with the buyer over the terms of the sale of the house.
drafted a letter to mom, spent a few hours wrestling with the scanner at the library, so i didn't get to the irs letter or drafting the next appeal in the voter id case.
I offered to the owner here to loan him some of the old computers i have in my basement so he can have more public terminals.
indianapolis cults just won 15-6.
Some people don't understand my comics, because they are rarely funny. But then i remembered apartment 3-G, terry and the pirates, brenda starr.
it's not a joke a day, it's a story that evolves over years, with the ending yet undecided. signing off now so somebody else can have the machine.

 

by arbi
1-13-07
The little shop of coffee where I hang out when the library's closed has a help wanted sign. It says, "be creative. make your own application. a collage or something.
Ten reasons you shouldn't hire this aardvark: 1) militantly vegan, not counting termites. 2) the customers will think he's weird and scary 3) like his friend hippie joe 4) he's not cute
5) sometimes i don't hear so well when there's backgound noise, so i worry about screwing up an order 7) i can make a different soup every day, and i like them, but others might not
6) takes recycling a little too far. 8). doesn't make real comics, like avery does. 9). every restaurant he's worked at is out of bisness. coincidence - or conspiracy?
10) too punk for the mundanes, too mundane for the punks. 12) doesn't know how to count down to ten
11. he's a lawyer. nuff said? 13) we could keep this up all night

 

by arbi
1-14-07
http://www.stripcreator.com/ comics/arbi/380130
Yesterday I made a comic as a job application. It actually got me an interview.
The owner of the coffeeshop is always friendly and cool, but is usually too busy to hang out, so this was the first time we've spent an hour talking.
We played chess. I eventually won, but not until after he'd made me sacrifice my queen. We went into my personal history, explored theory of games and politics,
and it turned out he's known my tenant since he was a little kid, and he knows all about the parties we have there. everyone knows joell, and we all run in the same circles.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395251/ www.gencon.com
he found me charming and we both had fun, but of course i won't get the job. he might set me up with a workshop at gencon though.
then i went to the party, which was boring until we watched "the producers." I wanna be a producer!

 

by arbi
1-15-07
arbi doesn't have anything to say yet. so he's not here. waiting for inspiration.
today he interviewed for 2 jobs, called about another, found a bunch of books, took lots of them here to the bookstore. so i didn't buy coffee like usual.
bob dole syndrome: talking about one's self in the third person. there's a word for it, but i forget.
good chitchat here tonight, about minimum wages, gay dentists, etc. The millieu here is snarky ghetto libertarian.
that's all we got for now.
no wait! we could announce the night of january 16th day tomorrow.
the libraries were closed today in honor of ayn rand's play, or something. rand stands for r and d, research and development. some odd glitch in the display software tonight.

 

by arbi
1-16-07
I am determined to own a complete set of the"Birds of" each state. However, many of the volumes you sell are the same book with different covers.
Sir? Birds don't read. my comics anyway. Publishers of such books attatch covers focusing on each state to appeal to local interest.
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ christopher7murphy/380367/
That's the way to sell books these days. Whatever the book is about, there needs to be 4 covers: mystery, scifi, romance, selfhelp or adventure, because market buyers rarely read outside their genre
oh rats. making this comic pushed a choadwarrrior off the main page before i'd read it. i feel unworthy. i can go look it up...
The butler did it. In space. Nude, and just in the nick of time.

 

by arbi
1-16-07
http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/ showthread.php?postnum=240910
My sensitive nose tentacles are twitching. It's the aardsignal! This just in: LuckyGuess was almost mugged of his laptop in a mall parking lot this afternoon. You help is needed to apprehend
or at least mock the miscreants. Quick! To the Aardmobile!
They were about this tall, wearing tuxedos.
Putting out an ABP now
If you have any information leading to the apprehension or mockery of these miscreants, call 1-800-hot-tips now!

 

by arbi
1-16-07
I spent all day on stupid wild goose chases related to trying to collect rent from my deadbeat roommate and the crackhead mechanic who lives in my garage.
This morning I was in the bath when some shady lady at the door wants my roommate for an emergency, on the day when he was supposed to have his tax check and pay the rent, so i totally went off.
It kind of cleared the air, and he showed me the paperwork for the check, explained the scam he was running, got him to sign an agreement to pay me, got his financial data, took him to a job agency.
The check hasn't come yet, and i missed the mechanic when he came by with $, but i filled out a job application at the agency, so that trip wasn't wasted, although the roommate won't work tomorrow cuz
he forgot to bring his driver's license. I have a second interview at ups tomorrow, but it doesn't look good. I'm here to type up a to do list, so I'm making comics instead.

 

by arbi
1-16-07
So I was at the club last night and this guy mike asks me if he knew me from somewhere, maybe manhunt? I explained he knew me from kareoke night at the metro, but what's manhunt?
So tonight instead of getting any work done I check out manhunt.net, and run into a guy who i've been meaning to stalk lately. we had one date years ago and i can't stop thinking about him.
so he wrote back and said nice things, although he's offline and didn't get my last message yet about could i see him sometime.
I explained how i think about him every time i go by his house, but have been too shy to knock.
So I'm thrilled, but also scared of rejection.

 

by arbi
1-18-07
I have a lot of anxiety these days. I'm broke, no job, and stopped smoking pot. I usually feel inadequate like I'm not getting anything done. But today was more than zero.
Job interview last night - won't get it. Watched cary grant/hepburn movies today, then worked 4 hours on my rental property cleanup, got turned down for a settlment offer in a landlord dispute i tried
to mediate, got a friendly but noncommital email from the guy my last comic was about, might have a date tonight if i log off and go call a guy, got two offers of free portfolios, and a date with some
fat guys to watch a movie saturday. i won't bother to list the things i -didn't- get done.
http://www.stripcreator.com/ forums/showthread.php? postnum=240910
the muggified thread is coming along nicely. another crime neatly wrapped up, well sort of.
those penguins won't be failing to steal laptops in this town again!

 

by arbi
1-18-07
lately I've been making a few efforts to make the comics interact with the real world.
Like, i made a comic job application, submitted it, got an interview, didn't get the job.
Like, I made a comic about being nervous about asking out a guy i know, and sent it to him.
Like, i made a comic about a forum post, and it helped inspire a funny comic and some discussion.
I still need to figure out how to add comics to my blog and resize them.
This one's not real deep, but the library closes soon. Off to the club, where I have money for the cover charge but not for tips, so i won't stay long.

 

by arbi
1-21-07
Last week i was filled with anxiety and stress that I would never get a job before all my money runs out and I'm doomed
That's probably the accurate assesment.
the rainmaker by john grisham was fun
This week I'm calmly hopeful, reading in bed in the mornings, doing tasks and chores until bedtime.
I must be delusional.Meanwhile I just spent 5 hours not getting anything done, wasting time online. flirting and talking to old friends is important too i guess.
my tenant and i were talking last night, trying to work out the details of him buying the house. his email today made it clear he doesn't get that at all.
oh by the way there's like a thousand dollar water bill. again.

 

by arbi
1-22-07
Today's going pretty well. I had a cup of my roommate's coffee last night and I didn't get to sleep till 7 am. So I was still home when Candee called with a real job interview.
Then I paid the electric bill before it got disconnected,and still have enough to pick up the order at the hardware store for the windows my last deadbeat tenants broke.
The only job I had applied for today was to be an experimental animal for a big drug company. i've done it before.
The crackhead mechanic who lives in my garage says he'll have some money for me today. I'll believe it when i see it.
I worked three hours on the amicus draft and circulated it to an election lawyer list i'm on.
didn't call the water company yet. Overall, a good day. It helps that I'm reading "the firm" by grisham. a good book improves my mood ; i forget my worries for a little while.

 

by arbi
1-22-07
I've been meeting new people on manhunt.net, part of a plan to in 2007 find a job and a social life. So I got invited for dinner by these two fat old trolls who are into jesus. Nice guys actually.
I explained that I'm vegan, but wasn't sure it would go well.
Porkchop sandwhich?
More porkchop sandwhich?
I got there at 6, and it turned out better than I expected.
They stood me up.

 

by arbi
1-22-07
http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/ showthread.php?postnum=240899
Debbie, your blind date is here.
Oh boy! Yay!
ghastlycomics.com
Pleased to meet you Debbie.
Oh boy! Yay!
4chan.com
Debbie, your blind date is here.
Oh, boy! Yaoi!

 

by arbi
1-24-07
Today's going pretty well. I think I got the job. Then I stopped in and met the Davids. That went well. Then the cute guy i've been stalking gave me his fone number and we have a date for a driving
lesson and breakfast. I'd offered him breakfast the night i met him at bar 5 years ago, and he said "i'm not hungry. Let's just ****" ok that's not quite what he said but it's the jist.
The first david hit on me twice in the first thre minutes, but i was clear no meant no, we had a wonderful talk for a couple hours. I now know his life story.
They had a good excuse for having stood me up. friend's cute young boyfriend had died, OD. don't do drugs, kids.
now to do a reverse look up on the fone number, so it's a not another fake like kelly last night. ok it's a sprint cell fone in my town, that'll work.
got some groceries, nice email from my exwife, didn't get back to the hardware store today, or finish the memo yet.

 

by arbi
1-24-07
So it turned out there was a little box i had to check off, so now you folks can leave comments. Next task: learn to save comics into paint and post them to my blog.
This new place I hope to start monday makes screws and nuts and such. henceforce it shall be known here as screw U inc.
Good afternoon. Screw U! How may I help you?
*click*
They keep hanging up. We don't know why.

 

by arbi
1-25-07
So I got the job. Now instead of not having money, I won't have time. I'll have to learn how to go to bed at 10 to get up by 6. It pays enough to live on! If i can keep it.
I cleaned the living room, picked up the windows at the hardware store, had a long talk with roommate, made a care package to mail to my ex.
At the coffeeshop, the guy i was to meet was there too, but we didn't recognize each other. Caught up by email later. Nice chat about heroditus and sparta with a barista.
I got no work done at the library, wasted time flirting and catching up with my chat buddies. Didn't blog, didn't edit the memo, am making a comic and then I'll stop by the club to celebrate getting
Now if i can just not get fired....
a job, then home to do laundry or read a bit. might have a date tomorrow. it's iffy. might have a date sunday. Now if I can just get my online work caught up.
And see a dentist, and do the 10 other crisis things i need to deal with. But a job and a social life, already, and it's only january!

 

by arbi
1-27-07
I got almost nothing done today. called the water company. gave them $200 not to shut the water off this week. repairs may run over $500. roommate fixed my broken headlight for me.
My jail lawsuit survived the recent attempt to dismiss, but now the judge wants to hurry up the discovery so i can't help but lose. i've -thought- the letter in response, but need to write it up.
Both items too stressful to handle. So i wasted the day on myspace and manhunt and here and there. Made a new to do list. Didn't do any of what I came here for.
This next envelope is a bill for taxes in texas. I don't want to even open it. The more I try to do, the more futile it seems.
I got my broken cell phone replaced with a new one, that i don't know how to use. I really want to go back to bed. Have a movie date tonight with the davids.
Start new job on monday. Fix the water, sell the house, pay the bills, keep the job, lose the lawsuits, it could all work out.

 

by arbi
1-28-07
I didn't get anything done today at the computer lab. Unless flirty emails count. Cleaned my closet floor, did some chores, called mom. I got stood up for a date to give a guy a driving lesson,
but at least it was his voice on the phone message. He's being kind of a tease, or I'm being kind of a stalker, or something. We don't get together, he just leaves little clues.
I have to go straight home now, get to bed, get some sleep, get up and go to work. I'm probably so nervous I won't sleep well, worried I'll miss the alarm and be late to first day on the job.
Talked to one guy tonight, we are trying to find time and place to meet for coffee. He's still on dialup, can you imagine? says the guy camped out in the school library.
Told myself I'd make a comic then straight home to bed. That could work. I have an hour. No stopping by the club or the coffeehouse on the way home. No reading that edgar pangborn book all night or
watching cable. Must sleep. Must get up and get to work on time. Must not lie awake all night worrying that I won't be able to get to sleep and will miss the alarm. Must...

 

by arbi
1-30-07
No Comic last night - I didn't get on because i took a nap so i could go to the club after my bedtime. Lynette recently turned 21 and can get in now, so we hung out while she kissed the cute dancers.
It was like i figured, I laid awake and went to my first day of work on 3 hours sleep, but the job is fine anyway. I literally spend much of my time screwing nuts and bolts together.
The guy i was chatting with read some of my comics. Yay! I recruit my few readers one at a time. That makes 11 now I think. He's a banker, going to school to be an undertaker.*
The guy who stood me up for a driving lesson says he overslept and we made plans for friday. Well, we planned to make plans for friday. At least he finally emailed.
* there's a joke there somewhere, i just havent found it yet.
I turned down an invitation for a superbowl party at the davids.
I figure i have about half an hour before bedtime if i start now, to maybe get some actual work done. Or make some comics.

 

by arbi
1-30-07
Screw U Inc.
I actually can't remember the real name of the company I work at. Automagic Manufactured Products, something like that. Screw U will do.
All 4 of the mexicans in the shop quit yesterday, so now the other new hire feels free to play her rap music.
The ads on the rap station are pitched toward gullible fools. The sort of thing that makes nigerian spam look legit by comparison.
If there's one thing I hate about temping, it's other people's music. The work itself is fine.
Today's work involved sniffing glue and acetone in an unventilated area, assembling tiny components. I stopped and got gloves and safety glasses - most of the men in my family die from cancer,
so I'd rather not get this stuff on my skin. I used a tool and die set for the first time, while putting part A into part B over and over.

 

by arbi
1-30-07
My tenant came over tonight with a third version of a contract to buy the house. It was still wrong for the same reasons the last three were wrong, and the price was 4,000 lower.
Partly he's never bought a house before, partly he's trying to weasel out of some key terms, partly I hadn't made the deal clear enough yet.
I called him on it, went over in detail what the terms of my offer are, crossed out a bunch of stuff that was wrong, and showed him how we could do what we want in one paragraph, not 5 pages.
It was a useful and productive session, and we're getting closer.
I've played monopoly against this guy. I know he's utterly ruthless, and I have to be adamant about not getting screwed out of my house.
Now it's bedtime. I've caught up on emails, made some comics, but not done any actual work.

 

by arbi
1-30-07
http://vark.blogspot.com/ 2007/01/blog-post.html
I think this worked.
Step 1: make comic at www.stripcreator.com
Step 2: save as a .png file.
Step 3: convert to jpg, save in my documents.
Step 4: save to photobucket.
Step 5: post to blog using img src tag. Viola!

 

by arbi
1-30-07
I had to pay my credit card bill by the end of the month, to avoid a fee. I was going to get a money order, but it was suggested I might use my debit card. I have a checking account but no checks.
You can't use your debit card. Would you like to pay by check over the phone? Oh. You can drive to you bank, get the routing number and account number.
Hello? I'm calling to pay by check over phone to avoid a fee.
There's a fee for that. But you can pay in person tomorrow at the bank if you get there by five.
5:05. Got it done the next day.
I got off work at 4 but it was 5 by the time i got home. I can try again tomorrow.

 

by arbi
1-30-07
January started with a bang. Fireworks at the 4 seasons in Maui, and a visit with a mystic gay nudist surfer sufi.
I decided I'd go home, file the memo, get a job, make some friends, get a date, sell the house,and learn to post webcomics to my blog.
I went home, filed the memo, got a job, made some friends, got a date, am selling the house, and learned to post webcomics to my blog.
At midmonth, I was falling apart under the stress, but I got it done.
It's now nine minutes past my bedtime. Alarm set for 6 am.
Tomorrow: Go to work, go to the bank, collect rent, write some memos, get some sleep.

 

by arbi
1-31-07
The job is going great. The cute boy i've been stalking emailed me twice to set up a date for friday. It was so cold today, I opened the windows to try to freeze out the roaches.
It's 8 pm and feels like 3 am.
3 am? that's when i got up, because i'd left a pot on the stove and the house was full of smoke.
stopped by the asian market and the aldi on the way home.
we were too tired to do the art for this strip.

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