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comics/abri/468466/
by arbi, 6-28-09

 

by arbi
6-28-09
It's day 31 I think, 7 days to go.
The study's going fine. Usually, there's nothing to report, so I don't bother to make an additional comic like this every day.
I've read half a book all month. I think the drugs make our brains a bit slow. Plus I have a laptop,and the tv's always on.
Cattch-22 is playing in the other room, and some costner movie in this room.
The food isn't great, not bad, served lukewarm, and we're supposed to eat all of it. There's never enough so we're all losing weight.
I've gotten a lot done on the clarksburg project - have a brief part written, but nothing done on any of my other work.

 

spaceriker/468531/
I rike space.
I rice space too.
by arbi, 6-28-09

 

Billy Mays here with revolutionary new KA
by arbi, 6-28-09

 

by arbi
6-29-09
http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/
This just in! but not yet.
At 10:30, we're still waiting for Citizens United, the anti-hillary case. Following the liveblogging at scotusblog.
The court took 6 new cases, justice souter retires today, the firefighters won 5-4, another case went 5-4....
OK, here we go... Citizens United is held over for next term!
this just in - it'll be re-argued in September! not the usual October.
It'll be re-argued in the fall, to decide whether to overrule Austin v Michigan.
So either way, it's going to be a landmark case, a gamechanger. That's all from us for now, good day.

 

by arbi
7-01-09
We get out tomorrow morning, then 2 days of followups then i can go home. It's been a peaceful easy study.
My arm's kinda bruised from 42 blood draws.
I finished a memo today, a 20-page amicus brief in the clarksburg case. Some of the best work i've done lately.
I didn't get anything else done this month, except visit mom and weed the vegetables, a little dumpster diving and car repair.
Did I mention I got a a $10,000 tax bill on my house, some special assessment I didnt know about?
The institutional review board today turned down my appeal about being banned from covance. I dont have any more studies lined up yet.

 

The Man in the Iron Mask meets the woman in the cucumber-oatmeal mask.
AGGGh
AGGGGh
by arbi, 7-01-09

 

by arbi
7-02-09
9am we get released. coffee shop, law library, indian buffet, took a walk in a park, saw star trek and terminator 7.
had a shirley temple at some hippie bar. right now i'm killing time parked outside the other coffeehouse, too early to go to the gay bar yet.
i'm not sure i can find my alarm clock. if i oversleep it could cost me the $500 bonus.
i have return visits tomorrow and the next day, then i go home.
today in the coffeeshop i was reading an army of davids, the instapundit's book.
hey dave, it's me, dave
dave's not here

 

by arbi
7-07-09
Sunday: I'm at the club, car wouldn't start, i walk home, bike back, get it towed.
Monday: I'm at the bank, I turn around, somebody stole my bike.
I made one screening appointment today, nobody else has any work right now.
Tuesday: so i go to put air in my other bike but it explodes cuz i had the wrong sized tube.
I buy a battery for the car, $100. At first i didnt have the cables tight enough and it kept quitting, but it's working now, except the usual transmission problem.
I'm still finding west virginia ticks crawling around. Kinkos no longer does postage, so i've printed but not yet mailed a brief.
The club has doubled the cover charge for the two nights i usually go.

 

by arbi
7-09-09
shank/469453/
So I caught my wife in the bedroom feeling up my best friend.
Oh my gosh! What'd you say?
Bad dog!
.....

 

by arbi
7-15-09
picked up a hitchhiker in the middle of nowhere missouri. turned out he was going to see his brother two blocks from my house.
Stopped by a cop, late last night. Outta state tags, and no taillights. He said
"I oughta run you in but I'm letting you go,
the other hitchhiker spent the whole trip whining about how much he hates missouri, which is where he's from.
cuz there ain't nothin' wrong with your ray-ay-di-o.
Actually, my radio doesn't work either. Last night I got two written warnings and a verbal, about the tailight. 28 hours, 1000 miles, 1 blood draw, 1 cup to pee in, 2 hitchhikers.

 

DBoba/469843/
what the bleep? These aren't quatloos. Your earth currency is no use to me!
by arbi, 7-15-09

 

Where's my **** **** fish food, you ****ing ******fuckers?
A snitch in time saves crime. An elephant never, something something.
by arbi, 7-15-09

 

by arbi
8-16-09
I haven't made a comic in a month.
It's too hot.
I was coming back from some screenings in missouri and wisconsin when i spent a weekend in jail.
Since then i've fixed a taillight, paid a ticket, gotten my license back, have a plan to beat the charges, screened for a michigan study, finished the bookcase,
turned 49, hosted some counchsurfing gencongoers, agreed to stay with my mom when she gets knee surgery this fall, harvested some zukes and tomatoes
but mostly i've done nothing. it's too hot.

 

by arbi
8-17-09
I didn't get much done today. I went to the bank, the post office, the hardware store, got free tickets to the state fair, met with my tenants and handyman, picked up trash around my rental house,
went to a place i used to live and dug up my gun. it was rusted so i threw it away, but that's been an item on my to-do list for 3 years now. my couchsurfers gave me good references - couchsurfing
for the past couple days i've been needing to sit down and go over my to do list, havent yet. off to the club for now.
dot com is a reputation-capital-based economy.
we didnt get into the $3700 michigan study - that was a 1400 mile wild goose chase for $90. Did some laundry, got some groceries.
i invented a new drink, a peachsickle. peach yogurt smoothy and peachtree scnapps. i dont really recommend it.
my laptop's broken again so i did my surfing in safe mode, must call tech support.
when my roommate moved the lawn, he ran over the mint and the sweet potatoes. but he did useful work at my rental, which is above and beyond what i expect of him, so i'll live with it. and his cats :(

 

by arbi
9-01-09
Today was one of those hangover days of doing the laundry, checking the mail, didn't get to the bank in time, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned up after the possum...
yesterday, woke up in a hotel, got my blood drawn and checked out of the study, meeting with a lawyer, got work done on the car,visited my friend who is a gardener at a hare krishna temple, drove home
400 miles, went to the club
for a few days before that, i was in a study in w va, before that i was in a 3-car wreck in terre haute but i'm fine and the car still runs, just smashed up a little
i'm waiting for the insurance lady to call me back.

 

by arbi
9-02-09
Woke up at 6, got up at noon, made a list of 15 items. Those aren't the same 15 things I got done, but it was a busy day.
Went to the bank, met w the electrician, met w tenants, took the recycling downtown, cleaned rental yard, did laundry, hung laundry, attended an Obama rally,
random middle panel!
made dinner from my garden, ran my roommate to the post office, printed stamped and mailed 4 letters, sorted my wallet, sorted bills,
I wrote to a prosecutor about my case, wrote to a doctor about a dispute i'm having, sent in my lasped subscription to the one newsletter i get, and sent $25 to PETAa, people for the ethical treatment
of aardvarks. That one's been on my to-do list since 1992. Helped jake with the lawnmower. Rode my bike. Played phone tag w insurance co. Met w handyman. Redrafted a lease. Weeded flowerbed.
That's 24, not counting blogs and emails. Didn't call mom. Made a comic two days in a row now. Killed spiders and bugs. Found my keys. I was feeling too sick to go to the club but maybe now i will.

 

by arbi
9-03-09
woke up at 5, after not going out last night. made a list of 16 items. what have i got done so far?
i sorted boxes re project to clean out and rent the extra bedroom. moved a dresser. laundry. settled part of my insurance claim for $500, yay. paid bills $100. collected rent $60. mowed a lawn.
semi-random middle panel.
got a lease signed. i forgot to make copies and run errands after i was downtown to pay bills. still need to call mom. want to ride my bike. i need to catch up on joe's emails.
need to send yet another letter to the prosecutor. i cleaned off the table so we could actually eat on it someday. mostly i need to make a better list.
this panel intentionally left blank, since there's still time to do stuff today.

 

by arbi
9-05-09
so far for the past two days i haven't gotten out of bed. not sick, just lazy/unfocused/distracted.
monday update: now it's 4 days. went out a bit saturday night, otherwise nothing.

 

by arbi
9-18-09
for the past two weeks i've done basicly nothing. today for example i never even got dressed. i play solitaire and surf /ck/ and i'm trying to read a book on ian fleming.
this used to happen to me in undergrad, which is why it took me 5 tries to graduate.
a few things happened, some good some bad. charges dropped against my friend in the wv case i've been working on. now he'll sue.
voter ID declared unconstiutional in indiana, so my case looks stronger now. some guy might give me $300 for my truck.
i was kicked out of the second half of the wv study cuz i got sick in the first half, and the covance study got cancelled, so for a month i'll have no work.
i had a date and he fixed my camera so i've been taking pics for /ck/ which is fun. i really gotta write out my to do list - that's the step i'm stuck at.

 

r
If you must vote, vote pirate party.
It's not just for swedes anymore.
by arbi, 9-19-09

 

by arbi
9-21-09
I made a list and got 11 things done. I wrote and printed some letters, not yet stamped or mailed. One document still needs notarized.
Writing comes hard for me. I've had a massive writer's block since i was 8, which is why college took 12 years and I don't practive law for money.
I was printing stuff at the library downtown and saw a couple of rats.
http://www.ted.com/talks
There are 8 things on the list still not started. I've spent some time today listening to ted talks - check them out.
I have my laptop on the bed. I've barely gotten out of bed this week. I noticve i make a lot more typos, and there's a risk of getting a stiff neck.

 

by arbi
9-22-09
I didn't do a lot today. made an easy 10-item list and did at least 6 of them.
found stamps mailed letters got thing notarized went to bank paid bills mowed a lawn moved furniture pre-soaked a quilt.
At one point i was munching a stack of chocolate bars drinking coffee watching my favorite movie "earth girls are easy". so l really can't complain.
mom's knee surgery is postponed so i dont have to go to the east coast for october, so i can look for a gig.
i'll take another bath, wash the quilt, bike to the club, probably not write that letter to the boone county jail. tomorrow i'll need to make a harder list.

 

http://www.olahelland.net/giraffes/ ... http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi/474339
have you guys herd about the one million giraffes project?
check it out.
by arbi, 9-23-09

 

by arbi
9-23-09
i got a check for $700 and a tax bill for $700. can't get ahead. it cost me $350 to make that $700, 4 trips to WV and a hotel.
i didn't get much at all done today. mostly wild goose chases.
post office, bank, haircut. interviewed a potential roommate, seems flaky. (but just came in and gave me $50.)
I didn't even make a new list today. I think the haircut was from yesterday's list.
I had a date lined up today, but my phone picked today to break, so if he called it wasn't working.
I'm nervous about leaving my laptop lying around with a guy who for all i know could turn out to be a crackhead.
the saga of installing the new tub continues. a pipe broke and the hardware store was closed. i was perfectly happy with the old rusty tub.

 

by arbi
9-23-09
DrMorton/474371/
Avast! Iz zat some pie? Paw it over, or I'll buckle yer swash.
What makes you think I'd ever give you my delicious pie?
Actually, we should have done this a few days ago.
on talk like a pie rat day.

 

oh crap it is 18 o'clock already?
by arbi, 9-23-09

 

by arbi
9-25-09
http://www.cockerel.net/music/hopeandglory/12hellyes.mp3
well, i havent done anything on my lists recently, but it was a good day anyway.
went to the club last night, hoping to run into the guy i didn't have a date with because my phone is broken, instead,
a friend of mine is single again now so we and his friend went to the bathhouse and celebrated, and
then today i ran into a guy i've known from myspace for years but never met in person till today, had a nice visit,
http://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_macmaster_and_donnell_leahy _play_the_cape_breton_fiddle.html
so i've broken a dry streak that's been running since i moved in here in april.
tomorrow i can make a new list and get back to getting stuff done. (didn't)

 

by arbi
10-01-09
yesterday our internet was down for most of the day. phone, different company, wasn't working either.
so i got a memo written, first draft, that the judge had asked for the day before, and i went out and rode my bike.
today the internet's back up and i haven't done anything.
there's a moral here somewhere, but it eludes me.
happy fiscal new year everybody!

 

by arbi
10-01-09
yesterday our internet was down for most of the day. phone, different company, wasn't working either.
so i got a memo written, first draft, that the judge had asked for the day before, and i went out and rode my bike.
today the internet's back up and i haven't done anything.
there's a moral here somewhere, but it eludes me.
happy fiscal new year everybody!
today's task is i should go talk to my tenants and see what their excuse is for not having the rent this month.

 

http://vark.blogspot.com/2009/10/lolcats.html
I found this humerus
by arbi, 10-08-09

 

by arbi
10-08-09
monday - meetings w lawyers
ran into ray at the club
tuesday - went for sushi and to see movie "i hope they serve beer in hell" with ray and his friend.
wednesday- meetings with lawyers. went to kareoke w ray. stripper who said they'd come by after work never showed up, as expected.
thursday - lying in bed. have a memo to write, and need to call mom. 5 pm - memo finished not yet filed.
friday - memo will be due i think.

 

robot bees at harvard http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/07/2215208/Harvards-Robotic-Bees-Generate-High-Tech-Buzz
by arbi, 10-08-09

 

by arbi
10-09-09
My latest memos to the court were due today and i just got them in, 13 minutes to spare.
The lawyers who were supposed call today havent called yet. They might be taking my case, too soon to say.
now i can get back to looking for a medical study and working on my misdemeanor case and sorting out boxes and chasing strippers.
There was a knock on the door last night. It was this guy i once picked up hitchiking in missouri, who's from around here. I gave him a meal and let him sleep here - hope he won't steal much.

 

TheGovernor/476031/
by arbi, 10-09-09

 

by arbi
10-10-09
all mojo nixon albums for free at amazon
today i wrote another memo, a motion to compel discovery, that i'd been putting off while i had a deadline in the other case.
and i rode my bike in the aids walk/ride today. and i hauled a broken washerdryer out of the basement and gave it a scout scrap drive.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000QKA298/ref=dm_sp_adp
so it hasn't been a completely useless day. made a tentative coffee date with some star trek nrrd grrl who found me on some site.
i'll probably stay in tonight, mayb e cook something
didn't call mom, didnt sort boxes, didn't make a to do list.
it's almost 2010. is the singularity near yet?

 

by arbi
10-10-09
/ragu4u/476111/
how do they separate the men from the boys around here?
with a crow bar -caw!

 

by arbi
10-13-09
I didn't get much done today. or yesterday, or sunday.
I went to the post office, the bank, paid the water bill, printed out a memo but didn't mail it yet, went to a meeting.
Yesterday this stripper i've been chasing came over and borrowed $20. This is actually progress.
Both my phones are broken right now. Didn't want to talk to anyone anyway.
I don't really have a plan for tomorrow. I need to make a list, and i - oh wait without a phone i can't call about studies. My roommate's off trying to get into a $2000 study in michigan
I've been spending way too much time on 4chan's /ck/ haven't been keeping up with these comics. I long for some kind of sense of community somewhere.

 

Today I didnt have a plan or a list, and stayed in bed and haven't left the house. (no idea how abe vigoda got into this comic)
Well, ok, i did leave the house to pick some beets and had sauted beet greens for dinner.
by arbi, 10-14-09

 

by arbi
10-19-09
saturday i didn't do anything, except called mom, which i've been needing to do since my phone is broken, worked an hour in the garden harvesting a potato.
oh and i went shopping. took a wrong turn - rt 67 instead of 69 - wound up in the next county, but still scored good stuff, e.g pumpkin..
sunday i finally made a list. haven't done any of things on the list yet. did laundry, collected $40 rent, burned a brush pile, got my helper to pick up trash on the street where my rental is, hired
some neighborhood kids to keep it up, helped my helper dumpster dive bunk beds,
today the state filed a motion to block some of my motions, and the judge gave me 4 days to respond and i already filed my response so that was progress.
my roommate comes back tonight i guess he didn't get in his study. i need to call a place in missouri tomorrow re a study. and i need to finish a motion for a continuance in my misdemeanor case.

 

by arbi
10-21-09
went to the club monday night like always, ray was there, we ditched his ex, picked up a stripper, went back to my place for hours of drunk talk then a 3way.
it was a long term relationship, i took ray to breakfast after we dropped off hunter.
slept awhile, got up wrote and filed another memo.
didn't do anything today, but i got electionlawblog.org to link to the memos i posted on one of my blogs, and i emailed some lawyers.
tomorrow i'm taking ray to the big halloween dance, if he doesn't stand me up. $135 x 2 tickets. i only go every 5 years or so. hope my tux isn't wrinkled.

 

by arbi
10-26-09
didn't get anything done today, again. i'm a week late on one memo.
i fell off a wagon a few days ago. trip to hardare store $145. club $25.
had an ok time at the big dance saturday. i can put my tux away for another year.
a law review article covered my case. spelled my name right but got the case details wrong.
i tried sorting through one of my boxes of old papers. 34 boxes to go. i have a strong aversion to the process.
all in all for today nothing happned worth writing the internet about

 

by arbi
12-19-09
acme giraffe-a-matic
ok, just step into the machine here

 

by arbi
1-14-10
ok. haven't done one of these yet in 2010. i want to start getting back to them.
i didnt get much done today. went over to the old house to work on the furnace. my new tenants seem pretty shady. the guns and security cameras and strange people wandering around. but they paid cash.
i also rented a room here at the home/office, so i'm moving the resident bum down to the basement, so i've been working on the cleaning out the basement storeroom. ye gods.
mildewed books to throw away, computers to restack, clothes to wash, junk to throw away or move. glad i'm doing it.
i could easily spend the next month just going through boxes. when i moved in here last spring i never got fully unpacked.
i'm a pack rat,and as i get older i accumulate more boxes.

 

by arbi
1-14-10
Camel Lot
Honest Merlot they call me. How do I sell these slightly used camels so cheap? It must be magic!
Gee, Mr Wizard!
lima/484655/
for some reason the "1 panel" button isn't working

 

by arbi
1-20-10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BggBAQ1P7Lo
10,000 webcomics in this crazy world, and she has to walk into mine.
harrow, rick.
been listening to blood on the dance floor
this one's "i heart hello kitty"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIjW8kUkRXA
who let -him- in here? pshyeah.

 

by arbi
1-20-10
mattyboy requested a comic. he's one of my chat buddies, a freshman at middle of nowhere tex community collage. 71 pounds of ego and makeup.
we met at the malegeneral.com /ug/ board awhile back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbSdPWDClU "sexting" nsfw
he wants me to put in some plug for jeffree star. i get my music and fashion tips from matt so i can keep up with ray and the club kids.
hit me up make me cum wanna sext? ill show you some!!!! sticky drama all the way want my dick? you gotta pay!
you've seen what my thumbs can do time to use my tongue on you.......
I WANNA **** YOU HARD! I WANNA FEEL YOU DEEP! I WANNA ROCK YOUR BODY! I WANNA TASTE YOUR SHEEP ;p I WANNA **** YOU HARD! I WANNA FEEL YOU DEEP I WANNA AH! AH!

 

by arbi
1-20-10
this just in! the supreme court will hold a special session tomorrow. there is speculation that
the court might finally, at long last, announce the citizens united case. that's the one about "hillary, the movie".
we turn now to professor richard hasen, election law expert. is it true, will the court announce CU tomorrow?
at this point, all we can say is the court is just ****in' with us.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
tune in tomorrow!
it's in. and it's huge!

 

by arbi
1-26-10
I had a pretty good day today. I wrote a first draft of an amicus brief in the Leugue of Women Voters voter ID case.
The other brief i'm writing is going painfully slow. yesterday the court granted me a two week extension. i spend hours playing solitaire before i can face knocking out a paragraph or two.
it's been snowing today,and it's so cold there's ice on the windows. i didnt go outside all day - the closest i came to snow was defrosting the freezer.
i probly could built a snowman just from that.
i had some pea soup and a sourdough roll and some defrosted corn, but i'm ready for a break so i'll either surf /ck/ or make some food.

 

by arbi
1-26-10

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