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by arbi
6-29-07
It's been a week since I've made a comic, or done anything except watch the old movie channel and waste time online.
Today I started to get a few things done. Bought the phone charger, paid some bills, told my roommate to be out by the end of the month, weeded the garden, went shopping, went to the club, blogged.
and washed dishes. I didn't open the letter the from the lawyers, which is step one in beginning the next memo.
I didn't check the mail because I didn't leave the house early enough.
but the next day i didn't wake up till 4pm. i think they are mixing the drinks stronger than they used to.
I ended up having an ok time at the club. I got the email of a guy I gave roses to one time, and danced with a guy who teaches dance at arthur murry.
The cute guy I was hoping to say hi to didn't show up. So, I didn't do a lot, but more today than all week.

 

by arbi
6-29-07
now that was odd. i just got an automated phone call that wasn't a wrong number, wasn't insulting, said who they were came to point and got the thing done. that never happens.
Anyway, it's 4:56 pm, time to get up and start the day. I've had coffee. (hmm, coffee think i'll have another cup.) It's friday so the banks will be open late if any checks came. i'll go check my mail
or maybe i'll waste 1/2 hour making comics then decide it's too late to check the mail
for tonight i'm going to call the guy who stood me up last week and see if he wants to see the play tonight, its last night. i lead such an active social life.
anyway, that'll keep me too busy to start the memo.

 

by arbi
6-30-07
in yesterday's exciting episode, i was on my way to the mailbox, the bank, and to make a call to try to get a date
so i got to the mailbox on time. there were checks, so i can pay the rent this month from current income. the bank was closed by then.
I made my semiannual pilgrimage to WalMart, $74. Bought a heart monitor, $50, a gallon of soda $1, high top sneakers $17, batteries, tax.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0488424/ www.imdb.com/name/nm0187701/
I called my friend to see if he wanted to see the play we didn't make it to last week. He suggested today instead of last night. a mutual friend of ours is in it.
I was on my way to pick him up, stopped by the box office to get the tickets - it was sold out. I should have reserved the tickets last night.
That's the closest thing I've had to a date in ages.

 

by arbi
7-01-07
in yesterday's exciting episode, arbi goes to walmart and buys a heart minotor
It's july now. None of my tenants paid the rent today. I voted one of the off the island, but he hasn't actually left yet.
I'll deal with it in the morning.
Mid-June, Boloboffin asks: So soon?
Ok, so I had planned to spend june in ann arbor doing a medical study. I got tired from the drive there and caught a bug, so they sent me home.
The monitor shows that your heart isn't working right.. see where it's skipping a beat?
I'm pretty sure its just a termporary thing because i was sick at the time. But I bought a heart monitor so I can make sure it doesn't keep happening.
So that's my excuse for not having gotten out of bed for a few weeks. Nothing to do with being lazy and shiftless, or wanting to avoid starting this memo.

 

by arbi
7-01-07
OK, OK, so we haven't been around much this year,and now the supreme court's finished its term and we still got nothing.
A lot of these cases were just really boring, even to obsessed courtwatchers.
stay tuned. maybe something coherent this week
This past week was interesting , and we really should get around to telling you about it.
Wisconsin right to life! Guantanamo! Segregation. Stuff like that!
but mostly, the one case that got our attention,
Bong hits 4 Jesus!

 

by arbi
7-01-07
www.yourmometer.com/?which=206
I got a lot done today, sort of. I found a new webcomic, yourmometer.
Gents, I am a chipper young lass. And I have a magnificant ass. Not rounded and pink, as you probablly think, it is grey, has long ears, and eats grass.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795376/
I watched a movie with my friends the davids, and their friend ron. Eating Out II: sloppy seconds. It's comedy, not pr0n.
update: the star of the movie, Jim Verraros, has a myspace page, a real one.
He took it like a man, whining, begging, then a tantrum.
I pointed out to my erstwhile roommate that it is now July, he hasn't paid the rent, and owes $400 in back rent. Then I kicked him out.

 

by arbi
7-04-07
It's 4:40 again. A.M. this time. I'm still awake. Happy independence day.
For some reason, I thought it was time to make a comic. But I got nothin'
slept thru the parade. finished yourmometer. have a coffee date tonight.
Still reading "yourmomenter". Well-drawn, funny, cute. It's set in madison, where I'll be visiting next week.
I'll probably end up sleeping through our neighborhood's parade today. i usually miss the local events.
What I'm reading: a bio of princess grace of monaco
please - no more "prince albert in a can" jokes.

 

by arbi
7-05-07
It was an evening of advenure. I slept thru the neighborhood parade, but I had a date at 8 at the varsity club, where I can count on being the youngest and prettiest boy in the room -
- and I'm 46 and ugly. Then fireworks downtown, nice excuse for people watching.
dannon: http://vark.blogspot.com/2007/06/ i-have-date-friday-night-which-means-i.html
There was a traffic jam afterwards, so I pulled into an alley and parked, randomly next to a nearby bar where dannon* was doing his kareoke show. He said hi and gave me a hug.
At midnight, I left for the Vault, a straight bar downtown that has a fetish night, but I missed the slave auction.
Went to Joel's, ok party, collected rent, picked up my car with the shocks fixed, came home.
3:24 am and counting.. just had coffee. email from the merboy, my latest long-distance crush. 4:20 now, bedtime.

 

by arbi
7-05-07
what i was supposed to do today: 1... irs penalties form 2... buy minutes.3.... read filing re prison case 4... print letter re voter ID case. stamps.5...email lawyer re hit and run.
what i actually got done: took out trash, 2 loads laundry, made a list, wrote a first draft of a letter.
i'm off to the club, but it'll have to be a non-drinking night since i drank yesterday.
a bit later: sometimes, like tonight, the club is really boring when i'm sober.
so tomorrow i'll need to do the things i didn't do today. not gonna bet the farm on results. at least now i have a list.
cleaned up up the yard, put batteries in the caller id, tested my pulse (normal), tried to buy minutes.

 

by arbi
7-10-07
http://xkcd.com/c287.html
I'd like exactly $15.05 of appetizers.
Gimmee 5 1/2 orders of fries, stat.
Ketchup with that?
$2.75 x 5.47272727 = $15.05

 

by arbi
7-10-07
went to madison wisconsin sunday night. the hostel was closed by the time i got there so i wandered around all night.. gotta stop doing that. the town is on a strip of land between two lakes,
with the state capitol at one end and the university at the other, and a main street of hippie shops between them.
I rescued a damsel in distress. Well anyway she dropped her purse and i picked it up, tracked her down, and we had coffee. 19, broke, homeless, good kid. I told her about how to do studies at covance
The screening went ok, I probably won't get in this time but I'll go back there until I get in one. $100 gas and oil. $10 coffee. $4 glass of water at a bar at 2 am. Got back in time for last call.
I've been home for two days, havent done anything. Catching up on sleep.

 

by arbi
7-12-07
I spent a little too much time and money at the club last night. $30? Stayed sober and had fun anyway.
The cute customer I've been watching dance on monday nights for the last few months just started working at the club as a dancer.
It's too loud in there to really talk to him, and I'm not at all sure that he likes me, and it's mutually awkward, but I got a nice lap dance.
Right now I'm a total barfly, not even pretending to work, just going out chasing a social life. It's a Maslow's hierarchy thing. Money is ok right now, so companionship is the next unsatisfied need.
Today checked the mail, just bills, bought decaf $6, watched a sinatra/gene kelly movie. Several manhunt guys offering me coffee dates. Right now I'm making a stew with parsnips and sangria.

 

by arbi
7-13-07
http://vark.blogspot.com/2007/07/word-of- day-sriracha-wiki-xkcd-forum-is.html
Usually, my comics just document my life. Occasionally, a comic will affect my life in some small way, and I'll do a comic about that, setting up patterns of recusion that threaten to tear asunder the
space-time continuum, or pet schroedinger's cat, or something.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0000037/
In a comic today I mentioned I'd seen a movie with frank sinatra and gene kelly. In chat, she asked, Anchors Aweigh or On The Town?
So we talked about how these two movies have nearly the same plot. Then we talked plotting, to take over the world, and ended up making plans for coffee tuesday, 7:43 pm, the usual venue.
My bet is this time I won't get stood up. Or is it tempting fate to say so?
so far friday: paid off credit card, renewed driver's license, watered garden.

 

by arbi
7-15-07
Friday: errands, then went to the coffeeshop, didn't join the big frisbee game outside. got to club just too late to see the dancer i wanted to see.
Saturday: made a flickr set, stopped by a couple clubs, waste of time, went to joell's, was pretty good.
50 people came over, Lenny and Smurf had birthdays, we had a magician and a bonfire and a firedancer. I drank a bit over my limit.
Sunday: old movies, internet chats, hot and muggy, might be overhung.
Monday: will call to see if got into study. They say they'll call back tomorrow.
Stayed up to watch kurosawa's Rashoman, but fell asleep during it.

 

by arbi
7-17-07
I got into the study in Madison, so I'll be going up there tomorrow. Maybe I have time to buy a laptop before I leave.
Did: dishes laundry electric bill rent trash gardening checked mail called mom bought gas went to bank.
To do: not be late for my coffee date with a woman, in 38 minutes.Did: got a nice lap dance from that new dancer I have a crush on. Didn't: call corey.
I was on time. Had an ok date, just ok, probably won't get a 2nd date. Stopped by kareoke, and saw my dancer again.
To do: memos. Reschedule court date re parking ticket. Pack. Make better list.
A $3000 study will bring me to $8500, well on way to goal of at least $10,000 earned income this year. Solvent, debt-free, coping.

 

http://www.stripcreator.com/ comics/ivytheplant/400791
Hey, do I have a package?
Hubba hubba
by arbi, 7-20-07

 

by arbi
7-20-07
So I'm up in madison at pharmco, doing a study. Ate some radioactive pills, today's been blood draws, pissing in jars. We'll be here till august till it's out of our system.
I almost didn't get into the study -11 showed up for a 6 person study, they made me an alternate, but somebody dropped out and I got in..
It's the usual routine of movies, pool pingpong eating and a really slow computer.
I got caught in a flash flood on the way here, drove up an onramp in a foot of water, probably caught a cold from getting soaked, so I hope my cold doesn't get worse and wash me out of the study.
It'll pay $2800 to $3500, depending. I want to walk back into the club and overtip the cute new dancer, if he's still there when i get back. Fix teeth, get laptop, join gym.

 

by arbi
7-23-07
Day 4 of the study. We are past the busy part and have easy days, up at 7, piss in a cup, blood draw, nothing else to do all day.
The other folks here are a cut above the usual. Student types. My roommates are friendly and nice.
We've been having tournaments, monopoly, risk and other board games. The friendly cute girl went home this morning, as new studies started.
This place is a factory, doing multiple studies at once, not like the smaller places I've been going to. I'll probably be coming back here regularly.
Until I start glowing in the dark or soemthing.

 

by arbi
7-27-07
Day 8. The study's going fine. Today we learned that we'll be kept in till the last possible day. It means more money, but we'll be going a little stir crazy.
If I'd known they wouldn't have us wearing scrubs, I'd have bought some clothes.
I got out my memos last night and started making a few notes. It's largely stuff that is too far past deadline to do much good now, but I can draft some motions.
Finished the howard stern book - it was lightweight, which was what I wanted.
I have a couple peter whimseys if I get bored. Mostly we watch movies and play board games and eat.
Waiting for pages to load takes much of the day.

 

by arbi
7-31-07
Nothing new to report. The end is in sight. We count down the days.
Haven't gotten any more work done on the memos. It's just a blur of movies and naps and eating and mostly wasting time online with a very slow connection.
Basicly the same as I do at home, without being able to go out to the club or coffeehouse now and then.
Wasted yesterday checking out myspace pages of guys who work at the club, setting up a facebook page.
I've made $10K earned income so far this year, and there's time to get in a couple more studies.
Three local guys doubleclicked on my hotornot page, so maybe I can find someone to hang out with for a day when I get out. I might blow some money on a new pair of shoes.

 

by arbi
8-01-07
I had good intentions of working on the memos a bit more again today - I cary the paperwork around with me, but,
so far today i've lost two tournaments of Sorry, hung out on the "beach", a fenced in concrete patio, napped until noon, surfed hot-or-not, where i ran into a guy who married someone from one of my
of my forums, who mentioned control alt delete the comic in his profile. so i'm up to 2003 in the archives.
it's about these two guys who sit around their apartment playing video games making smartass comments senseless violence and surreal digressions. imagine.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/ comic.php?d=20030815
it has an ongoing story line, and tells about these guys lives. protagonist is cute, and every episode is funny. unlike mine.
bonus: it has a penguin

 

by arbi
8-01-07
So this really cute guy from a hookup site messages me early june, and we agree to meet for coffee "soon"
7/13: I'm out of town for a week, see you near the end of the month
7/18 : I'm out of town till 8/3, in madison for werk
8/1 : I'm out of town till 8/9. busy dancing with the radical fairies in the woods in MN for lammas
and the next duke nukem comes out "soon" too
hail seitan!
*sulk*

 

by arbi
8-02-07
EAMUS CATULI http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ mandingo/402347/
what's the score?
cubs are winning.
anyway, the study's finished tomorrow. i'll probably get home saturday night
Hi. Angelina JoLie? Yes, I'm free for dinner friday at 8.
ring ring

 

by arbi
8-11-07
well i haven't made a comic in a week or two. i've been a) off having adventures and b) sick in bed with the flu
so i could either make a buncha comics to try to catch up, or just let it slide.
these tend to be stream of consciousness; i don't know in the first panel what the third panel will say
hence the usual utter lack of a punchline
i'm freaking 47 today. on this planet anyway - on myspace i list my age in martian years.
i might go to hooters tonight for a free tshirt. not that i need another tshirt. i just never get to do the "something free on your birthday" game.

 

by arbi
8-11-07
Madison WI -
Bookstore #1: with a check for $3,500 in my pocket, I find myself looking at the same Lady Bird Johnson book I didn't buy before, and buy it. $20.
Bookstore #2: Clerk is like, don't I know you? Me: Couldn't possibly, never been to madison before. Us, a bit later: That riot twixt the anarchists and the labor history league at haymarket 1986. $15
Chicago, Clark and Halstead
You have to turn off your cellphone.
Three days later I realize my cell phone is still off. money spent: $0, even tho they had kurtzweil 'the singularity is near' at a good discount.
Evansville IN, suburbia. (book reviewed at vark.blogspot.com)
I'll have a double americano and a copy of vernor vinge's rainbows end.
$10.07. You want fries with that?

 

I can't quit you. Not when I'm gaining in the polls against hillary.
by arbi, 8-11-07

 

by arbi
8-11-07
http://www.vancedegeneres.com/ pages/art/gallery.htm
Hey man, haven't seen you since we got laid off at the volvo-ford plant. You getting by ok?
Yeah, Tobor's been modeling. It's a living.
http://vark.blogspot.com/2007/08/ vance-degeneris-brother-of-ellen-cute.html
dedicated to xtopher "7" murphy
gonna keep at it for awhile?
no, we keep running out of strippers

 

by arbi
8-11-07
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, wait,
My sister writes from maui to remind me that the leonoid meteor shower is tonight.
So, if you are away from the city lights, and it's not raining, go out and look up. Expect about one shooting star per minute.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/ article/0,,91210-1279518,00.html
It turned out to be cloudy here that night
er, i meant the persiads. i get those mixed up.

 

by arbi
8-15-07
Went to Kalamazoo to screen for a $4400 study. I'm becoming a regular road warrior, stayed in a hotel, bought a box of books, did my usual round of coffeeshops and bars
I almost got picked up in the parking lot of this one bar, by a cute young short hispanic guy, but i ended up telling him no, partly because i think my flu might be contagious
partly cuz i get paranoid about strange men in parking lots. but it was an upbeat moment at what is otherwise a fairly sad bar.
kalamazoo is a step above evansville, but is no madison or ann arbor.
on the way back i took the scenic route through horse and buggy country aound goshen indiana.
Evansville called. They said you got in the study.

 

by arbi
8-16-07
I got into the evansville study and didn't get into the kalamazoo one, so my next month is mapped out.. might get to see my ex in paducah.
Got a haircut, checked my mail. The last of my lawsuits has been dismissed.
I should just let it go, but instead I think I'll do an appeal. I feel ready.
Harvested more okra and tomatoes today. And a case of cola.
Still need to get my brakes fixed, and make a better to do list, and clean the car do the dishes and the laundry.
To do item #13: think of punchline

 

by arbi
8-16-07
but even unconscious, it's like he kisses 25 billion times better than you do
wow it's like you -want- me to leave you by the side of the road
http://www.friendlyhostility.com/ d/20070815.html
tonight: gencon? state fair? kareoke? or just the drag show at the club?
I dunno if you guys have been following Friendly Hostility lately, but if not you've been missing out.

 

by arbi
8-18-07
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy
I was having one of those "life is pointless, might as well not even get out of bed" days, so instead of getting up and going to gencon or the state fair,
I surfed around the net till I found a new webcomic, "Bonobo Conspiracy" found via the websnark.
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/links/comics.php
It's about a math TA who grades papers and makes snide comments, to a cast of sprites. Pretty darn good of kind.
I find out the guy really is a math geek, and was involved in getting sued when he reverse engineered one of the censorship filters a few years back - I think I remember his name from then, not sure.
http://centennialsociety.com/ business_reply/businessreply.htm
Otherwise, I paid the rent and boxed up some goodies for if I visit my ex outside paducah on my next adventure - she hasn't written back to say if I should come or not.
I'm making some angel hair garlic pasta rice-a-roni stuff that frankly smells pretty bad, like powdered ranch dressing kind of bad. But, easier to open a single box than to curse the darkness.

 

by arbi
8-24-07
I've been offline for a few days for work. At this clinic, you have to bring your own laptop, and I havent picked mine up yet - still in haggling mode w/ the vendor.
Had a nice visit with my ex in kentucky. It'd been 6 years since my last visit - which actually is how long we were together. We mostly stay in touch via email and UPS.
This morning I took a wrong turn at eddyville and ended up almost in Tennessee, so I was an hour late to my 8:30.
Hung out at that great coffeehouse in e'ville, took back roads home. The okra have grown footlong in just a week - need to go at them with a machete.
They are very particulart that the date has to be written xx-AUG-2007. Never mind that we are wigged out on neo-oxycodone, just get the date format right.
OK study. Crowded, hectic, pays ok. They tried to put 10 guys in the same room, mutinies ensued.
I don't really have anything to say, just wanted to catch up before I do this next comic.

 

by arbi
8-24-07
http://xkcd.com/305/
Say, have you seen my copy of September's underwater lesbian twincest guitar heroine around?
No. No I haven't.
http://wetriffs.com

 

by arbi
8-31-07
there'll be a new comic here soon.. trust me
have patients!
Ok, I woke up in kentucky - stopped in to see my ex - drove to e'ville for my outpatient visit, drove home, stopping at every starbucks, decided to check my mail and pay the gas bill
which decision ended up costing two hours in rush hour traffic
got home, watered the garden, picked more giant mutant okra. almost september, and the garden finally looks like a garden.
so i "vegged" out for a bit, caught up on internet stuff, will hit the club tonight, meanwhile off to buy a laptop.

 

by arbi
8-31-07
So yeah, yesterday I went to Kentucky. This time I took the main roads, didn't get lost, didn't have to ferry across the ohio.
My ex wasn't home when i knocked so i hit the surplus and antique stores, bought books and a dupont dynamite box. That's another one of my quirks/vices/ obsessions. Poor condition but $10, deal.
We had pizza and coffee and watched "a beautiful mind" - she was a math major, and i'm crazy, and i liked the book, so we watched that instead of another jet li epic.
A good job of making a good movie quite unlike the good book it's from.
We get along pretty well as long as I stay a couple feet away from her. I read some of her Peter Whimsy stories and hung out with our teddy bears that live with her now.
I knew I was in Kentucky when I was able to tune in an "all bluegrass all the time" station.

 

by arbi
8-31-07
So for the past week I've been offline in E'ville Indiana, 2nd of three weeks of an oxycotin study, but at least we get the weekends off.
The facility is old and rusty and crowded and hectic, but the pay is pretty good and there are some regulars who keep up the comeraderie.
We have to take the pills, but we don't have to eat the food - that can really make or break the study experience.
This study pays $3K. There's another one that pays $17K, but you have to know somebody to get on the waiting list.
$17K would be about right - a year's pay, but I'd be climbing the walls after two months in that place.
There's no place where it's quiet enough to read a book, and the water usually wasn't hot enough for a shower - if I could have showered with a tube in my arm.

 

by arbi
8-31-07
"morgue" is spelled right but looked wrong somehow. wikipedia says brits would use the term rose cottage as a euphemism around patients.
Where are we?
Morgue?
No thanks, I just had some.

 

by arbi
8-31-07
http://www.cookbookwiki.com/Okra
These mutant giant okra are revolting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okra
okra are tasty fried, gumboed or pickled, but i go away for a week and they've grown past the edible stage. i'll save most of these for seeds, cook or pickle the smaller ones.
literally

 

by arbi
8-31-07
"A few weeks ago, I got a bogus traffic ticket from a total arsehead cop. Help me vent my frustration with a comic about the police."
Happened to me too. True story. I was on rt 40 a bit east of town. Got a ticket for a california rolling stop.
I pulled off the road to a safe place, and the cop freaked. He did a terry stop and frisk, then went thru my pockets, then called for backup and a k9 unit to dryhump my plymouth sundance
I showed him my bar card - I'm a lawyer - and chose not to answer many of his questions. They threatened to take my car after I wrote down their names.
I usually have good intentions about following up with letters and depositions, but then I don't get around to it.
Maybe we can use stripcreator to shine a little light on officer friendly here. stay tuned.

 

by arbi
9-02-07
came home. did the dishes, the laundry, mowed the lawn, watered the garden, got the gas leak on my car fixed, bought a laptop, packed to go back to work for another week, did my annual shave,
so what is it that i'm forgetting? there's usually something.
that's all i got for now. if i can get online ok, i'll revise this later.. it's a test.

 

by arbi
9-02-07
stripcreator.com/comics/mandingo/405175
Dude that rawks! What are you playin'?
Fugue in A
Aw reet! Right On!
But what're you playin'?

 

by arbi
9-09-07
http://www.garfield.com/comics/ comics_archives_strip.html? 2007-ga070909
Hey Liz, wanna catch a movie? Matian Body Count opens this week.
http://www.tailsteak.com/arbuckle/
It's the prequel to Doctor Decimator Atomizes Mars .... OK, great.
www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi
We're seeing "Desire among the Daffodils"

 

by arbi
9-15-07
I'm having trouble getting back in the habit of doing a daily strip. I sit around on the computer all day long and still don't make a comic.
Anyway last night was fun. A friend called me out of the blue after a couple of months, and we went on a date to the club. He has some hisotry of getting thrown out of there for drunk and disorderly.
He hit it off with my second favorite dancer, the one i've mentioned here before. They ended up going home together after we all went out to breakfast although I'm told "nothing happened."
welcome to IHOP, may i take your order?
O'Bama 2008
So it was me, some girl, my date, and 5 hot strippers at IHOP at 4 am. Good times.
Took it easy today doing laundry and such -I'm not hung over, but I'm worn out from 4 nights of partying. Which is why I'm not at the irish fest right now.

 

by arbi
9-15-07
http://xkcd.com/240/
I made an appointment to screen for a study in baltimore next week, so i'll be on the east coast in time to catch the xkcd meetup in boston on the 23rd.
based on ^this^ comic, hundreds of people will be showing up
forums.xkcd.com/viewforum.php?f=16
so if anybody reading this is on the east coast and would like to aritrarily meet an aardvark, or has a couch for couchsurfing, 9/20-9/23,
drop me a message.
road trip!

 

by arbi
9-16-07
Two comics ago i was telling the saga of how my date picked up the dancer i've had a crush on. Hereinafter "corey" and "zeke"
So I got a call last night. They were at the irish fest and wanted me to stop by. I kept telling zeke I needed really specific directions to be able to find them.
"We're at the imax parking lot near washington street"
I drove around in circles, never found the parking lot, never found them, forgot to bring my phone, couldn't find a pay phone, then no answer at the number i'd written down.
So that didn't quite work out. Still, it looks like outcome of this is I might end up getting to know zeke outside the club, which would be progress, of sorts.

 

by arbi
9-17-07
www.realitymachine.net/20060122.html
René Descartes (French IPA: [ʁə'ne de'kaʁt]) (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), aka Renatus Cartesius (latinized form), was a highly influential French philosopher and mathematici
De`hors´ prep. 1. (Law) Out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.
n. 1. (Mil.) All sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.

 

by arbi
9-17-07
I wonder who Bush will pick for attorney general?
Moo-
I guess I should have known better than to ask a cow.
You didn't let me finish.

 

by arbi
9-17-07
Got up at the crack of dusk. Had 8 things on today's to do list. Did 3 1/2. 1) disconfirmed housing in boston for xkcd event. 2) went to pawn shop. my ex roommate, who i kicked out for stealing, left
behind a pawn ticket for what apparently is my tv. they admit they have it but won't show it to me. the police won't take a report over the phone, and i didn't feel like having the police come by.
interactions with police frustrate me to the screaming point. wrote a letter to the home office of the pawn shop complaining about how i was treated - looks like it will be more work to get tv back
than it was to get it in the first place. 3) went to the guy who sold me a laptop and finally got from him the password i need to get it to run.
3 1/2 called the landlord, let him know to come by and get the rent.
so i didn't get my plates, change the tire, fix the bumper, or do anything from the longer list, but i did more than nothing, more than yesterday.

 

by arbi
9-18-07
trying to reach the police to file a stolen tv report. they finally picked up on the 27th ring.
i started making this comic to have somthing to do while it rang. now they are saying someone will call me back. 10:58 - let's see how long i'll wait for the callback.
they called back 15 minutes later, i filed the report, got a case number. in a few days, it'll be typed into the system, assigned to a detective who won't do anything, and i go downtown and buy a copy
of the police report and go to the pawn shop and probably get my tv back.meanwhile i got a call to go screen for a $4600 study, so that's probably how i'll spend october.
reminds me i need to call chicago + cancel a screening tomorrow - because it's time to leave on my road trip. so i better pack and get some sleep. i'll be back in a week, maybe update from a webcafe.
no, it wasn't tomorrow it was the next day so i don't have to leave yet.

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