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by arbi
12-05-08
So I got into the study, so i'll be gone for a week as of sunday. If i dont get sent home as an alternate.
That makes $13,00 gross for the year from studies, another 7,000ish from investments.
Today we got some electric going at the new house, $450, so jake won't freeze to death while i'm gone, or burn the place down with candles.
still to do: plumbing, windows, etc.
i'm coping. there's some things i'm way behind on, and other things are going ok.
i probably won't get a lot of memos written while at the study.

 

by arbi
12-17-08
My lips are chapped, so I stayed in and watched movies on cable today instead of doing stuff. I did go to the bank and ran an errand,
and last night we dumpster dived a few boxes of books, after I came home from the club, where i spent around $100 celebrating being out of the study.
8 day study, was fairly routine, except my roommates wouldn't turn off the tv, when the rules say they have to, and when i complained i was called a troublemaker and won't get to do studies there
anymore, so i'm ticked off about that.
did: paid rent and bills
i read a few books, but with the tv always on i wasn't able to get anything done on memos, so i'm beind deadline as usual.
to do: i need to email justin and paris and visit my house and call mom and check the mail and pay the bills and the rent tomorrow and collect rent and then start on the to do list and do cle's and..

 

inspired by christopher7murphy/450766/
If you are taking up cross-country skiing,
it helps if you start in a small country.
by arbi, 12-18-08

 

Oops
I warned you not to hit the "clone panel" button.
by arbi, 12-18-08

 

Oops.
I warned you not to hit the "clown panel" button.
by arbi, 12-18-08

 

rip majel roddenberry 1932-2008
by arbi, 12-18-08

 

by arbi
12-19-08
I've gotten nothing done for the past two +1/2 days
and then today i tried to melt some garlic butter from a plastic bucket by putting it over a pot of boiling water, unattended.
so now i have one less reverware 2-qt pot, and an aprtment full of toxic fumes,and the windows and doors open when it's this cold out.
so all in all, things are going well.
currently reading the autobiography of alice kramden

 

by arbi
12-20-08
http://ghastlycomic.livejournal.com/9525.html
Comics where room mates are furries who all go to the same school and work at the same place who are transported to a fantasy dimension where they sit around and play videogames and make sarcastic
quips, should be avoided.
Stick figure comics. Unless you're being ironic then avoid a stick figure comic.
Sprites, stick figures, cut and paste will all suck the life out of your comic strip pretty damned fast making it tedious and monotonous to read.
i acually spent some of today catching up on megatokyo. it had me but then it lost me.
Lined Paper. For the love of fucking god people! Don't use lined paper for your comic.
Nothing says "I'm a Fred Gallagher Wannabe" like a shittily drawn manga-esque comic in pencils.

 

by arbi
12-21-08
arbi/427123/
this is the first time i've seen one of my own comics show up on the stripcreator main page.
meanwhile, i didn't do anything today, but i went to a party, and i got a couple business cards to follow up on.
the executive director wants my resume so he can submit my name for volunteer positions in the *itch Daniels administration,
and the host might want me to be his medical study broker.

 

by arbi
12-22-08
It's 2 am, and 3 degrees out. I'm about to drive to evansville,and from there i'll go to the east coast. So if my car breaks down I'll probably freeze to death.
Time to go pack a blanket and munchies. andf pack, i should do that too.
I have an invite to meet someone in maryland, but they havent given me an actual address.. some people like to play games games on the internet, it might or might not be real.
I did my xmas shopping early this year. And now i can't find where i put the presents.
I've basicly gotten no work done on memos all december,and i didn't take my cle's so i'll have to do them in january and pay a late fee.
it's getting to be time to do the year end did/didn't list, where i inventory the stuff i put off for a whole nother year, again. stressful, especially when the irs is involved.

 

i'm getting a message that says "only donors can edit comics" although i'm a donor. although it wasn't much, and it was years ago.
so comics will have more typos than usual until situation resolved.
by arbi, 12-22-08

 

by arbi
12-26-08
/luckyguess/451195
Concerning Governor Blablablaovitch, we have no reason to believe....
Wait what? How'd he get in here? Where's that pink donkey guy?
luckyguess/451161
So I'm at my mom's for the holiday (festivus, yule, neo-kwaanza) and my sister-in-law is trying to install the digital tv antenna for my mom. Lots of margaritas involved.
Life goes on. My brother's laid off, but he's a unix god and will be employable. My sister just got divorced (verb is passive not active.) My nephew is liking music college in boston. I'm still a bum.
I wasn't inspired for xmas presents and was running out of time so people got chocolate, books, and the bucket-0-margaritas.
I asked the guy at the liqour store if this brand of teqquilaa was any good and he said sure... for margaritas anyway. [typos left intack for versimilitudisnous..]

 

by arbi
12-26-08
(to do: insert url for pretttierthannapoleon.com)
I'm at 47 books read (at least started) this year, with about 4 days to go. For the past couple years I've been reading and blogging 50 books a year.
It's one of those internet memes i picked up somewhere, maybe from will baude's gff.
of course, the 50 books Will reads are stuff like Justice Story's 3 volume history of the constitution, and the books I read are like "Girl Genius", a book version of the webcomic.
And then Will's day job is law clerk to the dread Justice Roberts, and my day job is.. basically nothing.
Now and then I get paid to have mad scientists stick me with needles. It's a living.

 

by arbi
12-26-08
In 2007, my goals were to reduce my stress levels, make some money, and have some sex.
2 out of 3 aint bad.
In 2008, my goals were to buy a house, make more money, and have some sex.
2 out of 3 aint bad. not the same two.
For 2009, my goals are to move into the new house, make more money, and lose 20 pounds.
I'll settle for 2 out of 3.

 

christopher7murphy/451261
by arbi, 12-30-08

 

by arbi
12-30-08
This just in: Blago has appointed Roland Burris, some distinguished old black dude who will be played by Morgan Freeman, to serve out Obama's senate term.
But the secretary of state won't sign the form, and the Senate Democrats say they won't seat him, unless, y'know, he turns out to be black or something.
stripcreator idol time: vote in the comments section for which character should play burris.
Two thousand zero zero, oops, we're out of time.
tomorrow night i'm gonna party like it's 2000 and 9.
vote Cobb in 2028

 

by arbi
1-01-09
an old friend of mine stopped by for some antibiotics for a family member. we had a nice visit.
can i borrow a cup of drugs?
last night joell had a party. i stopped by with champagne and brie on crumpets, but by then people were in the passing out drunk stage. it all got eaten anyway.
i have a screening in w va on the 5th, otherwise i'm not getting much done, as usual. parties, unpacking, books, errands.
what i was supposed to do today was work on writing out my to-do list, which so far i haven't started.
this panel will get updated if i get anything accomplished.

 

by arbi
1-02-09
I made a to-do list of 15 items and got the first 5 done. This is the first day all week I've tried to do more than drink and sleep and read.
I went to the post office the bank the hardware store got a haircut did the laundry. By then it was too late for an oil change.
I might have gotten an earlier start if i wasn't up till 5 playing spider solitaire compulsively, not wanting to/able to sleep.
Some of the items i just havent gotten to yet, others are things i have aversions to or phobias about, like checking my answering machine.
I could have gone out to the art gallery circuit tonight, but i was trying to be be responsible so i stayed in and washed my hair and played more solitaire. Off now to drink and sleep and read.
the thing i really need to get done is pay my car insurance, it's late.

 

by arbi
1-05-09
Imperial storm trooper
Metric storm trooper
http://xkcd.com/526/

 

by arbi
1-06-09
yesterday: 36 hours, 850 miles, $60, screened in west virginia, won't get in, had a fun road trip.
it's nice to split the costs with my new roommate/study buddy. maybe one of us will get in. it's 40 days for $4000.
now i have to get up and unload the car. 4 crates of books, some groceries, a couple suitcases, the usual stuff one finds on a roadtrip.
anybody want a dozen old japanese 33 /13/ records? I can try out the record player (circa 1952) that i brough back on the previous road trip.
of course, until i get moved to the new house, i'm running out of room to put this stuff.
parkinson's law of junk.

 

by arbi
1-11-09
/www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3050
r u ok?
my halo!
http://xkcd.com/528/
it's better than Vista
true
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/9/
A rhombus is the kind of rectangle a BITCH would draw.

 

by arbi
1-15-09
Please deplane using the emergency exits to the left.
Boss! Deplane!
fine corinthian leather
i am not a number. I am a free man.

 

by arbi
1-15-09
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2133475.ece
The UK Sun reports today that life has been discovered on Mars.
Some NASA boffins will hold a press conference tomorrow - that's today for Amerifags.
Methane in the atmosphere is likely caused by bacteria living in the icy soil of the red planet.
Google doesn't turn up any other mentions of this story - might be a hoax.
And now, page 3.

 

by arbi
1-22-09
Today: 500 mile road trip to kalamazoo and back for a physical they didn't give us when we were there Tuesday.
After 4 espressos, I just gave up and let him drive the last few miles. I don't want to fall asleep at the wheel.
There's 2 feet of snow in Kalamazoo. We stayed in a homeless shelter one night - my roommate's even more frugal than i am.
apparently after a couple messy divorces he stopped looking for work and just does studies. used to be in management.
Earlier this week we were in West Virginia for 3 days and I only made $130, and he got too sick to stay for the $4000 study.
Meanwhile I did the dishes but not the laundry, cleaned the apartment, am on my way to the club, where jax and i have been spending time (and in my case money).

 

by arbi
1-22-09
[imagine a bathtub. it's easy if you try]
I've lived here going on three years. Nice little apartment among the mansions, $425/mo, can't complain.
Today I noticed, again, that when I fill the bathtub it's nice and hot at first, but as it fills more cold water goes into the water heater so it comes out not as hot, + if i overfill it it's lukewarm
one thing i really hate about all the places i do studies is none of them have bathtubs.
so for once i got out of the tub, went to the basement, turned the water heater up a few notches, and now it's hot no matter how deep i run it.
it'll cost an extra $5 or $10 a month but worth it, and in january there's no such thing as waste heat.
i leave the computer, tv, lights on all the time, because it's 100% efficient, because i'm running electric heat anyway.
off to the club. at trader joe's i found a nice bouquet of pink tulips i'll give to one of the drag queens.

 

by arbi
1-22-09
Yo better check yourshelf before you wreck yourshelf.

 

by arbi
1-23-09
i missed a phone message yesterday, and they didn't bother to email me, so i missed getting into a $5000 study in west virginia.
they called me back today and wanted me to come in at 3 today. i don't think i can drive 400 miles in 2 hours.
and monday would be too late.
i guess the moral of the story is i need to carry a cell phone

 

by arbi
1-23-09
This just in: French former leader Jacques Chirac hospitalized after Sumo attack.
also, the supreme court's been doing a lot of stuff we havent bothered to cover.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1126136/Former-French-President-Chirac-hospitalised-mauling-clinically-depressed-poodle.html?ITO=1490
submit your snarky french punchline in the comments section
surrender joke?
nah too easy. how about something snarky and obscure in french for a punchline?

 
by arbi, 1-25-09

 

by arbi
1-27-09
i've gotten nothing done for the last couple days. barely got out of bed. played a lot of spider solitaire.
my roommate ended up finishing my laundry, because i'd left a big heap of it at the new house half-done. my big accomplishment today was i put away some socks.
but then i had a date tonight. expensive but worth it. dinner and a show, then to the club. ok, it was fries and kareoke at the varsity but that still counts.
corey was at the club without ben for once. we hung out all night and might go out thursday if he remembers when sober.
snow is getting deeper. corey called. went to hardware store.
it turns out i've now dated guys named mccoy and hatfield, although not at the same time.
weds i find out if i go back to michigan for more screening for a $4000 study.

 

by arbi
1-28-09
we got a foot of snow today in indy. tried to dig my car out, failed. i passed the next step of the screening for the michigan study.

 

by arbi
1-30-09
vaguely inspired by ragu4u/453669/
One shirt,
two shirt.
red shirt.
Blue shirt!

 

by arbi
2-04-09
i didn't even get to go imbolc caroling this year
just back from kalamazoo. at the clinic there, this site is blocked because it's funny or adult or something.
after 3 trips up there, we ended up not getting into the study. probably too old to hear the high pitched sounds in the hearing test they gave us.
today i was turned down for a $2300 study in madison, because i'm blacklisted in evansville, same company.
so i'm going to be doing some major bitching because i shouldn't have been blacklisted.
and today was a deadline for some discovery memos that i didnt get in in my federal case. and it's like 9 degrees with more snow.
so except for the session with my latest rent boy, today didn't go so well

 

by arbi
2-05-09
Recently my kitchen timer fell on the floor and now doesn't work.
I had some milk so I put it on the stove to heat up for mocha and went back to the computer.
An hour later....
It's a revereware pan, so if i spend a few hours cleaning the burned milk out of it it'll be fine.
Next time, use the microwave

 

by arbi
2-06-09
You may have already heard that Justice Ginsberg was in the hospital - her pancreatic cancer was detected early and she's had an operation.
So she's doing well- for a person with pancreatic cancer. Retirement likely in Obama's first term, but not soon, she'll fight it.
My dad died of pancreatic cancer. Took him 2 years. He worked in a chemical lab and smoked lucky strike.
This just in! Giant rat wins in New Jersey Supreme Court!
howappealing.law.com/ 020509.html#032460
Go rats, smash state!

 

by arbi
2-06-09
today after three days of phone calls i reached a truce in my fight over being banned from studies at covance - for now, i'm only on probabtion and not banned. not sure how this will play out.
i payed my credit card bill and took my car in to have the brakes checked. the estimate was $500 so i said no thanks,
but something got stuck when they tried to put it back together so right now my car's in the shop and i'll have to walk to mitch's party tonight because the guy who borrowed my bike hasn't fixed it.
the house i was thinking about buying is on temple, not the next block on eastern, so i'm not gonna buy that one, i was looking at the wrong house.
tomorrow i have a brunch date with the couchsurfers, in walking distance. and it's our neighborhood's casino night, maybe i'll drop in.
so except for paying the electric bill (which is still in the car in the shop), i got some of today's to do list things done. but tomorrow's lis tis now just get the car back.

 

by arbi
2-13-09
highly unproductive week. saturday - the free brake inspection at midas cost me $250, they broke my master cylinder.
monday - drove 1200 km, w virgina and back for a followup for a study i didnt get in. paid $250.
rest of the week - didnt do anything. went drinking a few times.
today i went to pay the electric bill, bu t the line at the bank moved so slowly the electric company was closed when i got there.
i promised myself i'd come home and make a to do list, but that hasn't happened.
mostly hung out at /ck/

 

by arbi
2-17-09
Welcome to Gallery Video. How can I help you?
Do you have Kemuri Kusa Monogatari (The tale of the Smoke weed)
Oh, it's on now bro.
hai
to be continued
??

 

by arbi
2-17-09
today i did nothing. paid the rent.
yesterday was productive. i made a list and did most of the items.
i bought rotors for my car, called midas about getting ripped off, started a complaint process there, booked a screening in w v, emailed pix of the new house to my mom, talked to covance,
took a package to the post office but they were closed for lupercalia or something, still didn't submit the amended complaint or call about the ticket. went to the club did some shopping.
the electric bill's paid, bought seeds. joell's moving out so that's $300 less a month to live on, maybe i can sell or rent that house.
tomorrow i go to the dentist for the first time in years.

 

by arbi
2-19-09
today at least went better than yesterday. got my teeth cleaned, look ma no cavities. $125.
picked up my mail and mailed a package, scored some free carpet and drywall for the house, sorted out a gross gross of eggs and wound up with 7 dozen, went to the club, just had coffee.
still didn't file the amended complaint, call about the ticket, make a better list, or review the transcript of the deposition, so that's stuff i could do tomorrow
now i'm either gonna go thru all this mail from the west virginia case, or compulsively play spider solitaire. i'm at 21% wins out of 300 games.

 

I really didn't do anything today, but that meant I was home when kansas called and i booked a screening for a $7,000 gig next week. If I get that one I'll be ok for the year.
I went downtown to review a deposition but by 4:30 on friday they were closed.
by arbi, 2-20-09

 

by arbi
2-24-09
monday. 24 hours. 800 miles, 14 degrees. 4 states. one screening. 2 tubes of blood. 4 cups of coffee. home, 4 miles by bicycle, 3 gin & tonics.
i don't have to do this again till next week.
the judges' clerk says i have to revise the memo, and i forgot to file a motion with it, so i should do that today, but i'm just resting
for values of resting that include 4chan and /.

 

by arbi
2-25-09
watchmen trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4blSrZvPhU
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who sweeps up after the janitor?
oh don't be so Juvenal

 

by arbi
2-28-09
I'll have the jumbo shrimp. Tee-hee.
I'll have the shrimp skimpy.
That would be the "shrimp scampi", sir.
He must be new here.

 

by arbi
2-28-09
http://www.webcomicsweekend.com/?action=page&url=official-guest-list
I didn't get much done this week. I got my brakes fixed. I did a lot of cleaning at the new house. I made a list of some of the crisis stuff I need to get done.
I didn't revise and resubmit the memo. I have it as an open word window, lurking at me, but I haven't done a thing with it.
http://evil-comic.com
Got the car cleaned out. Tomorrow a 500 mile road trip to Kansas City.
On Thursday I got outbid on a house at an auction - just as well. Already have one house too many.
I guess I'll go by tonight and see if Joell got moved out, or is having a party, or what.
I'm reading a bio of GBS, volume 1, because I misplaced the bio of Sara Bernhardt I'm reading. I get her mixed up with Sandra Bernheart.

 

by arbi
2-28-09
Let's play free association. Ron...
Paul.
6 foot rabbit...
Harvey
legendary one man network from 1933 to 2009
Paul Harvey Aurandt

 

by arbi
2-28-09
Ogyaf/455909/
Oggy likes to set mice free, not realizing that if you don't take them 5 miles away, they come right back
Durian is a tropical fruit that smells offal but tastes foodgasmic. Somehow, we don't really have a durian character, so feetforears is sitting in.
durian durian
In touch with the ground I'm on the hunt I'm after you
Smell like I sound I'm lost in a crowd and I'm hungry like the wolf

 

by arbi
3-01-09
Welcome back to "30 days to a more powerful redneck vocabulary" I'm your host, kevin bacon's less talented brother.
Today's word is "exstole". I think you can see where we're going with this.
My exstole my heart, my dog, and my truck. But I still love her and I'll find her someday.
A bitch like that doesn't come along every day.
dual carbs, extended cab, she had everything.

 

http://xkcd.com/550/
by arbi, 3-03-09

 

by arbi
3-04-09
I didn't get much done today. Checked the mail, did laundry, confirmed WV alternate gig. I don't know if not getting much done corresponds to having had 3 gin and tonics at the club last night.
Sunday-Monday: 1100 miles, kansas and back. Didn't get into that study, can screen for a $2000 study later this month.
In Missouri drove past a place I used to live and a place where my mother grew up - that always feels strange.
Drove around looking for the Dixie Belle, forgot it closed a year ago, so I went to sidekicks, a gay cowboy bar.
They were having some kind of aidswalk burlesque benefit. There was a really cute clown riding a unicycle, and some drag queens that were really girls,
and a crippled but twinky Mr KC Gay Pride sang some love song... all in all best show I've seen in some time.

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