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by arbi
6-12-12
havent made a comic in a week. havent done much this week. i cancelled tomorrow's screening in nebraska because i'll be screening in missouri instead.
pride was fun. this year i came home early and avoided sunburn.
today was somewhat productive. i opened up the attic windows, and put compact fluorescent bulbs around the house. watered the garden, did laundry, dishes, sorted food boxes, fixed my closet, took some
winter clothes up to the attic. got a home insurance quote. didnt call mom, havent made my bed yet - i'm going to put up the futon frame, need to do another load of laundry. need to write a check, pay
update: it turns out they do need a belt
a bill, pay the cable bill, write some legal documents, go over my list.
these new levis are a 36 and fit comfortably without a belt. i was afraid of that. that means i'm fat.

 

by arbi
6-13-12
after we spent yesterday putting a fan in the attic, it was actually cold today. i made a list, woke up a bit overhung.
i mailed the texas taxes check, have done 4 loads of laundry, sorting out some of the stuff we found in may. bought some discount volvo parts.
we drove downtown and took a look at a house i want to buy, and i researched it online.
at $10K i can easily afford my half. it's the repairs that will cost. but i know a guy.
10 miles yesterday, but i still want to get out on my bike tonight. meanwhile i'll keep doing laundry.

 

by arbi
6-14-12
http://www.explosm.net/comics/2829/
what'cha got there?
instagram! just add water
so vintage!

 

by arbi
6-14-12
last night i went out to a club. it's about a mile from my house by bicycle, if i hadn't gotten lost and made it two miles.
had a good time but overspent, around $45. good thing i only go there once a year.
my scrap run this month was only $20, and i'm not doing plasma right now, but the studies are going well, i screen again on tuesday.
2 drinks, 6 lap dances, one pizza.
the bad part about going to a club is i don't get anything done the next day. however, i don't get anything done most days anyway.
i'll start saving up so i can go back with an extra $25 for a private dance and some onion rings.

 

by arbi
6-16-12
it's that time of year again. with two weeks to go, we are waiting on 14 opinions. expect some monday.
the big news will probably comne on the last possible day - that's the decision about whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Stay tuned, court fans.
http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/document/Elgin_v_Dept_of_Treasury_No_1145_2012_BL_143335_US_June_11_2012_C
The elgin case, announced last week, is turning out ot be bigger news than expected. It's insider baseball stuff, hard to explain to lay-people.
Elgin was fired from a federal gig because he didnt register for the draft. He says that's sexist,and mean. So he wants to sue.
continued next panel
The case, right now, isn't about whther he's right or wrong. It's about which court he can sue in,and whether he has to go through a pointless adminstrative hearing first.
The court, 6-3, by justice thomas, said yes; he can only go through the pointless hearing first, then file in DC court.

 

by arbi
6-16-12
what's this draft thing anyway? don't we have an all voluntary army, since nixon in 1973?
president carter wanted to send a signal to eurasia, which was at war with eastasia, my country. so he enslaved your young men by making them fill out a form at the post office.
but eurasia collapsed, and now we've been at war with eastasia for is it 10 years now?
we've always been at war with eastasia.
meanwhile, millions are spent each year on this pointless and possibly unconstitutional program.
what's your point?

 

by arbi
6-16-12
some of the other big cases we are waiting on include: Knox, union dues for state employees;
FCC v Fox, indecency. Alvarez, is lying about medals free speech?
http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/remaining-merits-cases-in-plain-english/#more-146833
Southern Union, about juries versus judges. Miller, is a life sentence for a 14-yr-old killer cruel and unusual?
crack cocaine,and some indian lands cases
will the court reconsider citizens united, in that montana case? find out monday!
Arizona v United States, can a state arrest illegal Elians, or only the feds?

 

by arbi
6-20-12
yesterday i went to springfield and back. 16 hours on a greyhound.
saw 2 deer, 4 bunnies, 100 koi, and a bat.
i call back friday to find out if i got in.
the blue house i wanted to buy has been sold.
however, it might all be for nothing. just took a bath and found out that the bedbugs have migrated into my room, and i have bites. which might or might not get me sent home from the study.

 

by arbi
6-21-12
the supreme court is releasing several opinions this morning
the court has expanded the right to trial by jury
the court has upheld first amendment rights of public union members to withhold dues for political purposes
9th circuit reversed again.
scotusblog.wpengine.com.
we go now to lyle dennison, liveblogging from the press office....
hello to all 70,000 of you, and the three people who read arbi's comic

 

by arbi
6-21-12
7th circuit reversed. take that, posner. crack users to get lighter sentences.
http://www.scotusblog.com/
FCC fine case restarted; there wasn't enough notice to the station, re wardrobe malfunctions
no word on the lion or the witch.
no health care opinion today.
that' s all for today folks, tune in monday

 

by arbi
6-25-12
stay tuned, comeek in progress
this just in!
MT campaign finance case reversed, 1 page dissent by breyer+3.
arizona v US mixed bag, US mostly wins.
arkansas can't put teenagers in jail for life
wasn't there one more?

 

by arbi
6-27-12
i'm in a clinic in sw missouri. 5 days 3 times over 2 months, for $2700, minus $800 in bus tickets or gas. day 2 of 15.
they didnt even notice i'm covered in bedbug bites. i could still get kicked out in a few days when procedures start and they notice.
walked from the bus station yesterday in 95 degree heat. did wander across an art museum, where they had a corot and a jackson pollock as well as the expected hart benton, and some nice watercolors.
the food is slop, the participants are nice, mostly older guys, a couple pretty girls, no troublemakers.
http://www.adolphmenzel.org/painting-Jean%20Baptiste%20Camille%20%20Corot-Rochelle%20Hong%20Kong-56943.htm
day 3. tube in my arm. they'll get us up at 4 am. can't sleep at night can't stay awake in the day.
day 4. the drug goes in via an IV, then 19 blood draws so far. tomorrow i take the midnight bus home.

 

by arbi
6-28-12
this just in! well, yesterday now.
healthcare upheld, but with a twist. dread justice roberts switched his vote at the last minute,and upheld healthcare under the taxing power.
also stolen valor act unconstitutional, narrowly
so it was 4 plus 1 to uphold, versus 4 dissent.
the dissent is apparently a copy of what would have been roberts' majority opinion to strike it down.
but they realized obama would return more powerful than they could imagine
the result is 5 votes to limit the commerce clause and necessary and proper clause. it's a landmark, a tour de force.

 

recently, mars was discovered to have more water in its rocks than previously known
by arbi, 6-28-12

 

by arbi
7-01-12
$5 ride to the bus station. $12 chinese buffet. $130 bus ticket home. $2 bus ticket home. the guys from detroit who were suppose to be my drivers to the rainbow gathering didnt show up,
so i'm trying to get with my backup driver. hope to spend the next few days in the woods in tennessee.
car is packed. now i'm just hoping my driver shows up.
i was going to ride my bike 4 miles downtown to the club. but i didnt. then i was going to walk across the street to the mexican club, but i didn't.
so i'm awake, with nothing much to do, but that doesn't mean i'll start on the to-do list. i might pack the car.
it's been so hot and dry tha1t most of my flowers and veggies died or never came up. but one of the zinnias i planted in the park across the street is about to bloom.
ended up going to the mexican club after all. $12. it's no smoking now,and the dancers were black, which is new, but one was pretty and we had eye contact. the most action i've had for a while.

 

by arbi
7-03-12
hardly got out of bed today. the backup driver for my trip to the rainbow gathering bailed - he hadn't actually committed, unlike the first guy - so i didnt go. he couldn't find a cat sitter.
havent unpacked the car yet. i've barely gotten out of bed today. gonna make some iced coffee and bike to the club.
my roommate wanted to borrow money to go drinking last night, so i opened a box of wine instead, but it had gone bad, but i sampled enough that i got buzzed.
i was supposed to go with him this morning to his work, an electric car repair shop where exciting things are happening, but my wakeup call didnt come so i spent the day on "it's walky!" instead.
so i go to use the bike and the brakes are gone and the gears are stripped and the seat's loose. i was gone 5 days.
it's hot. i went to put on this shirt i found yesterday, but it must be polyester because it's too hot to wear, so when i find the energy i'll change shirts, make coffee, bike downtown.
my other roommate, the autistic annoying one, keeps coming in to ask to borrow my bike and i keep telling him no. he did do the dishes finally and refill the ice,

 

by arbi
7-10-12
it's been a week since i've even made a comic. i made a 42 item to do list, but i only did a couple things, so today i made an 8 item list and did three of them
i had some time to kill, so i'm reading 'a time to kill' by john grisham.
yesterday: test drove a volvo my roommates gonna try to get his boss to let me have for $700.
yesterday: we were supposed to pick up my friend jain from kokomo, but he changed his mind and isn't coming.
i kicked out one roommate when i found out he'd been lying about my missing bike,and he also didnt have the rent.
found out i still have money in the bank after all, but might have a problem at my other bank. it's been 103 degrees so i mostly stay in.

 

by arbi
7-10-12
barfleet.org
saturday it cooled down enough i rode my bike to the barfleet party. i had the $20 to join, after all these years, but they said i needed a sponsor.
so i run into kirk in the hallway, and it turns out he read those lawbooks i gave him, and took the lsat, and got into law school in california. so he was my sponsor.
today i wrote a notice of tort claim, cleaned up the dining room, did dishes and laundry, bought dish soap,and just emailed eric holder (or a minion thereof.)
didnt call ray or mom, open the letter from the bank, or write the motion to set aside default judgment yet.
the neighborhood methodist church is for sale for $100,000 anyone care to lend me $100,000, secured by the church? it's brick and stained glass, 4 stories, covers half a city block.
by "cleaned up the dining room", what i mean is that now there is a path through the clutter, not that there's no clutter.

 

by arbi
7-13-12
drunkcomicing:
today i got a few things done. 45 minutes at bmv, changed my address, got an ID, but they didnt let me renew my license.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbjeQpSXU4k
printed the form and got it notarized to reclaim a lost check. harvested collard seeds, bought flower seeds.
stopped at greg's work. neat boss, neat shop, much bigger than i thought, they like my ideas, they will let me write grants for 15%.
i stayed up writing an article attacking NV senate candidate dean heller, so i probably won't make it to city hall today
i need to write up a memo of what all we talked about. can't do it while drunk.
rode bike about 18 miles today. if i can't sleep, i could start a drunk draft of that memo

 

by arbi
7-16-12
friday, saturday, sunday, didnt get out of bed. ddin't go to city hall, didn't go to the woody guthrie birthday party.
no new bites but i'm still sharing the room with the bedbugs. roommate paid $100 toward his rent finally.
some emails back and forth with the institute for justice about a local sign problem.
main event tonight was the breaking bad premier.
tomorrow, maybe buy a volvo, go to the bank, call ray
actually that's today, it's 5 am. still no rain. still hot.

 

by arbi
7-19-12
lately i can't sleep at night,and then i fall asleep around breakfast time, so when i am awake i'm like a zombie.
so i dont get anythuing done. did laundry, dishes trash, cleaned up a bit in the dining room but nothing important,
to do thurs: pay bills, scrap run, city hall? better list, phone calls.
didn't make a new list, didnt work on the old list, didnt make phone calls.
i have 5 days before i go back to missouri.
roomate has paid $235 in rent in the past few days, so there's that. i still need to deal with tickets and get house insurance.
if his boss keeps paying him he'll catch up some of the about $1000 he owes me. i got both banks sorted out so i have at least $3000 right now. a few bills i should pay, but i'm mostly caught up.

 

by arbi
8-07-12
i havent made one of these for three weeks. that's not very good, considering that all i do is lie in bed playing on computer..
i guess nothing major happened the week before i went back for part 2 of the study
the 5 days in missouri just flew by, piece of cake, but i didnt get any writing done.
$100 water $100 internet $183 car ins $270 line of credit
i've been back for a week. i don't do much. it finally rained. today i went to the bank, paid 4 bills.
tomorrow, city hall, 4 departments. i got up too late today to get it done today. bedbugs. the usual list.

 

by arbi
8-13-12
I'm in a dunkin donuts in buffalo, chargin' my battery. just spent 12 hours on a greyhound.
i plan to stay at a hostel tonight and do a pre-screening tomorrow,
yogurt and shampoo exploded in my backpack, so the computer tastes funny right now...
later the computer wouldn't work, but now it's mostly healed.got a few notes for an article done on the bus.
screening went well. might get in. headed home.
not much happened this past week. no progress on my 72-item to do list, except i did book this pre-screening.
about $250 in screening expenses, $3700 gross if i get in, which i don't expect to. been 8? 10? years since i was in buffalo last.

 

by arbi
8-23-12
back in springfield. day 13 of 15. study is going fine. i've gotten nothing done on my lists lately.
i did visit city hall and have three different disputes about my property taxes in progress. i finally got to meet with the county assessor, and i've asked for a meeting with the county treasurer.
my harvest this year from the garden was one pumpkin about the size of an apple, and there's some beets and there was a cup of potatoes.
seems like jake's gonna move back in for a month so i'll have some extra rent.
i'll have enough money in th ebank by the end of the year to pay cash for half a house, but everyone we look at gets sold out from under us, gotta move faster.
i go home for awhile then off to buffalo.

 

happy birthday stephen fry and rupert grint
by arbi, 8-24-12

 

contributions can be sent to the young nihilists of america in lieu of flowers
NBC is reporting that astronaut Neil Young, 82, has died.
Wait, what?
by arbi, 8-25-12

 

by arbi
10-26-12
ok, i havent done one of these for a few months
spent october screening in springfield, lincoln, cincinnatti
i'm curently in fargo north dakota, so of course it's snowing. i'm inside; i dosed this morning.
so i can cancel my kalamazoo screening
this one's a generic aids medication, which is kind of cool.
the clnic, so far, is kind of crappy. 2 rooms, one noisy with tv, the other has no internet. scylla and charbydris.

 

by arbi
10-30-12
day 6 of 14. tomorrow i go home for a week, if i can catch a bus.
greyhound is kind of messed up what with Sandy.
it's... tolerable here. we watch PG movies. we found the secret game cabinet.
i found a local election law situation to waste time on.
north dakota bans elections day signs, a clear first amendment violation. i need to get to a law library to look at the local cases.
i'm bleeding from a wound from a bug bite i got on my last study, but they haven't noticed.

 

by arbi
11-14-12
I was home for a week, then i went back to n dakota, but they sent me home on day 9 because i have an infected finger.
i willl screen in michigan at the end of the month so i might be in a study over xmas. the family trip to san diego never got off the ground i guess.
so we've had a problem with this one guy not paying rent and not following the rules and then not leaving after i told him to go, so i've been dropping subtle hints like taking his stuff out of
the house, his door off the hinges, locking him out when he went out for a smoke, and we think he's gone but who knows.
so that was all i did all day. some blogging and 400 meaningless reddit points
because of my finger, i'm just taking some time off, but i need to go thru my lists and make some plans.

 

by arbi
11-15-12
last night, went to the club, had a good time. today, i didnt actually get much done, but i made a 50 item list and reviewed my 72 item list.
i did the dishes bought charmin locked the tool cabinet charged my phone washed the floor did 25 pushups checked credit score.
still to do: sort the mail, clean the file cabinet (done) move the furnace download annualcreditreport.com check the attic make a comic.. oh wait.
one of my 50 items is get up late waste time online stay up late. it's good to have realistic goals.
since august i've done about 4 of the items on the 72 item list. but i did make around $5000 from two studies so it's not all wasted time.
the list shows about 6 memos to write. those are usually the hardest tasks. today felt productive; i'll probably go out again. $75 in my pocket, $7000 in the bank. 667 credit rating.

 

by arbi
11-29-12
road trip: 3 days, 3 guys, 800 miles, 2 screenings, got into at least one study, broke even on the trip.
saw lincoln. $9, spielberg, pretty good. i don't usually like costume drama except joseon koeran ones, but this worked. "how a bill becomes law", well told.
i wear a lincoln-type ringbeard and sometimes wear black hats, so people say i look like lincoln but a foot shorter.
i just need to make better use of my days home, instead of being on reddit all day.
i found a house i plan to make an offer on.

 

by arbi
11-29-12
it occurs to me i've made over $50,000 doing these studies over the last 5 years, maybe i should donate something to this site one of these days.
my bartender retired tonight. he's been my bartender for 18 years, 2000 gin and tonics.
he doesn't look any older. the dancers mostly don't look older. my beard has some grey now and i have more wrinkles.
i haven't accomplished much of anything in this town. some of it's been fun.

 

by arbi
12-09-12
so i waited a month after n dakota and now i'm doing another study. day 4? of 15, then some outpatients.
i'll be flying to san diego for christmas, flying back here for an outpatient, finishing jan 3.
The VA turned down my $10K offer on their $15K house, so i'll wait a week then resubmit at 11K.
i'm actually likely to owe taxes this year so i have to catch up to h+r block or somebody.
the internet here is very slow but it's an easy study. i mostly waste time on reddit all day, and walk a mile or two in circles in the hallway, 14 circles = a mile.
i havent gotten any memos written, or started. my head is fuzzy when i wake up. not from the pills, just a sleep cycle thing.

 

i considered entering the latest comic competition, but the quality and quantity of the entries has scared me away.
by arbi, 12-09-12

 

Find the edge, and go beyond it, they said.
Therefore, my entry will appear below, in the coments section. It is projected to run 1,111 pages, eventually.
by arbi, 12-10-12

 

by arbi
12-11-12
I didn't get much done today. It's day 6? of 15? The internet was up and down all day. Aound 11 I got one page done on a memo, after not getting anything done on it all week.
I booked my next study screening. I increased my offer on the house to $11,000, but there's another offer out there now.
I found some of my old files that i'd stashed in a yahoo group 8 years ago, so I went through and saved those.
I walked a mile, took 4 pills, ate three meals. It's a pretty easy study. 9 blood draws tomorrow.
just raised my offer to $12,000.
Didn't call mom. Still have time to email my ex with some old pix of us I found. Maybe write up a list for tomorrow.

 

by arbi
12-12-12
this just in - Bush arrested in Cayman Islands.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20679259

 

by arbi
12-13-12
oh, hey, i hear you were at the Earth First! rally yesterday, how was it?
oh, the usual hippes with their Earth First! signs. So I grabbed a sign and joined them.
um, what did your sign say?
"Mars Next!"

 

by arbi
12-17-12
it's day 12 of 16. we do nothing all day, then they feed us 4 times a day and at breakfast we take pills.
i finally got them to stop watching law and order all day every day. but i'm getting nothing done. the internet here sucks. it's just good enough that i keep trying, instead of reading a book.
trying to finalize the details of my house buy. since i'm not there to sign the papers, they are still taking other offers, and it could come apart.
i have gained 2 pounds. I walk a mile or two a day, around the corridors. machinegun fire fromt he videogame next to me, some cop show on tv. my room's quiet but no internet.
we had a "code black" come over the PA, but no news. tornado? explosion? plague?
it's at once very easy, and kind of hard. going slightly stir crazy. my writer's block is very strong.
i've got no writing done. 1 page one time, and that comic a few days ago.

 

by arbi
12-19-12
bork bork bork
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/us/robert-h-bork-conservative-jurist-dies-at-85.html?_r=
robert bork, whose supreme court nomination by reagan was defeated by biden, is dead.
so senator kennedy gave us justice kennedy

 

by arbi
12-19-12
day 15 of 16. stabbed 8 times today, on the hour. after tomorrow we have 5 outpatients.
it's been bearable. i've gotten nothing much done.
a few decent movies lately. 2 1/2 men marathon today. 400 more worthless reddit points.
they are doing an american remake of shameless, a funny chav soap opera. the remakes rarely work, but then i'm a snob.
the bags under my eyes are pretty bad. the drug makes me feel tired but i dont sleep much.
tomorrow i get out, print and fax a copy of the contract on thr house i'm trying to buy.

 

by arbi
1-22-13
ok, so it's been over a month since i've done one of these. even my brother, who was a loyal reader, has stopped reading, because i don't update.
he doesn't look like this, but i forget where the wizard character is.
i may or may not be on day 3 of 12 on a secret mission south of the border.
meanwhile, i spent xmas with my family in san diego for a few days which was fun.
i ended up making $17K from studies last year, $27K total, so my tax forms will be complicated this year.
i'm sharing a dorm room this week with my roommate-slash-study-buddy jake. before that we shared hotel rooms for two weeks. i've been home maybe 2 days in the past month.

 

by arbi
1-23-13
the main thing that's happened lately was my deal to buy that house fell apart. i wasn't willing to spend $400 on closing costs above the highest and best offer i'd made, so i'll buy something else
the last time i was here i got no useful work done, and this time seems to be shaking out the same way.
today i might have booked a screening in ohio in march for a $5K study, if more spots open up. otherwise
i got nothing done. just lots of reddit.
i got here by car instead of bus this time, so i'm well supplied with books and extra socks and all that.
i need to sit down and bang out a to do list and start working it, but i'm pretty good at distracting myself from work.

 

by arbi
1-24-13
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/23/just-look-at-this-shattered-ba.html
my big accomplishment yesterday was getting a picture of a frozen banana posted to boingboing, also somehow my blog got 500 hits.
today hasn't been very productive either, so far.
started reading zoe's tale by john scalzi
got a rough draft of my taxes done.
got 200 imaginary reddit points
day 6: wrote out a list. did nothing else all day.
mostly reddit

 

by arbi
1-27-13
I guess it's day 7. I might have counted wrong. It's all a blur after awhile. My routine here is that after breakfast/blood draw/take 3 pills, I go to my room and reddit all day.
I've reached the end of the internet, but i still can't make myself sit down and work on memos. Just had my daily shower, and later mom will call. I could have gone outside for a walk but we did that
my eyes are less yellow now, as my liver gets used to the drug
yesterday. I just think about the 3700 paycheck, and the house I want to buy if it's still on the market when i get home.
the end is in sight, we are pretty much counting down the days now. little noises or smells bother me, but nothing unmanageable.
day 8: same old routine.
i did a second draft of my taxes and am very happy with how it came out.
i'll owe the feds $300 and indiana $15.

 

by arbi
1-29-13
day 9. reddit as usual. watched two movies, ted and some mel gibson shootemup
things to do before i go: see if that bike is still for sale. buy pasta at pathmark. visit niagra falls. review jake's lawsuit docs. setle the hotel and gas money.
i have a screening set up in february for a possible study in ohio in march
ted is a movie about a guy with a magically live teddy bear who gets chased by 2 guys in a blue volvo station wagon
i'm a guy with a magically live teddy bear and i have a blue volvo wagon.
so it was something i could relate to.

 

by arbi
1-30-13
today got a catheter put in my arm for the blood draws tomorrow
the day after that we go home, and come back in a week for a quick followup visit.
blizzard expected around when we check out.
i watched a bootleg django, it was ok.
not much else going on.
day 11. blood drawn down to every two hours now. took our last pills and i'm drinking extra water to start getting it out of my system.
my roommate is trying to kidnap me to go to ohio for the weekend. i just want to go home. we don't need to be in ohio till monday. it's my car, but he's driving.

 

by arbi
2-02-13
3:21 am. we make it home. blizzards, elephants blocking i-70, it's been an obstacle course.
we got home at 3. the bar closed at 3. i'd really been hoping we'd make it , but i knew we wouldn't.
it takes jake 17 minutes to stop at a gas station to use the bathroom. all day he's been wasting my time on one thing after another.
i'm really glad to be home in my bathtub. monday, road trip to ohio.

 

by arbi
2-02-13
got uo. unpacked the car. drank a lot of coffee. watered the plantts that hadn't died while i was gone.
went out at looked at three houses. house #1. small, needs work, cheap. it's a maybe.
house #2 was amazing, big house, huge yard, former dry cleaning business, good neighborhood, dirt cheap. found out it's already sold.
house number 3, a brick office building for $10K, roof falling in, been empty for years, i'll have to pass.
so it's back to house #1, but i have to find out if it's ok that it just has a well.
getting a ride to the club shortly.

 

by arbi
2-03-13
today i celebrated the superbowl by catching up on glee, smash, and the new normal.
the places i've been had bad wireless so i havent been able to watch videos.
tomorrow i go to ohio for a few hours and come back.
got the brake lights on the car fixed. have gas and oil. just need to get my driver awake on time - it's always a struggle.
we've agreed to get up at 5 and leave at 6. that means we'll leave at 7 and be late.

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