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by arbi
2-04-13
went to ohio and back today. turned out i didnt get to screen because i wasn't qualified for this one,
but i think my roommate might get in. and we did some shopping on the way back.
got my mail, tomorrow i'll pay bills and do a scrap run.
deposited: 3000, paid: 600. impulse buy:$5.
next day: deposited checks, paid overdue utility bills, nice walk with roommate, did not get to the scrap yard.
two more bills to pay.

 

by arbi
2-06-13
did: paid the rest of the bills. did laundry got a haircut made a scrap run bought coffee and medicine. took out trash.
electric $450 water $140 texas taxes $400 insurance $200 haircut $13 dollar store $25 scrap run made $25.
didn't: call the realtor, call about studies, call mom, buy a bike, make a list..
found out our pile of scrap bikes in the garage is missing and found out a former tenant stole and scrapped some of my tools.
mardi gras is this weekend so i need to decide if i'm going
to do: clean room, sort mail, read mail, call scrap yard, fill out 2 forms, make a better list.
bike not fixed yet so not going to the club tonight.. thursday: did nothing.

 

by arbi
2-09-13
didn't get much done friday. went with jake who bought a volvo wagon much like mine, $1300.
stopped at a couple of clubs on the way home.
i was with ray and aaron at the club a year ago and there was a cute guy there and aaron made out with him after i struck out, turns out they've been a couple ever since.
today at 2 i meet a realtor to look at a house i want to buy.
tonight at 5 we head off to buffalo for the exit interview.
later this week i go screen in n dakota.

 

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by arbi
2-15-13
once upon a time there was a man with a bag of grain, a wild goose, a stoat, and a goat.
he came to a moat with a boat. the boat can only hold the man and one other. the goat can swim across by itself.
how does he get everyone across?
if he takes the stoat, the goose will eat the grain.
if he takes the grain, the stoat will eat the goose

 

by arbi
2-15-13
i just spent 3 days and $250 on a trip to north dakota i could have avoided with a phone call.
8 buses, one hotel, 2 indian restaurants, 2 apple gins, 2 feet of snow.
i'm not even upset with myself. a learning experience. always call first.
i knew that, but i forgot. i'm a phoneophobe.
monday i'll call kalamazoo and kansas city.
meanwhile i got outbid on the $8K house offer.

 

by arbi
2-18-13
saturday, slept in. sunday, slept in, laundry, looked up studies, talked to mom,
monday: made 4 calls, booked two screenings. off to omaha tomorrow
picked up junk from robert, emailed a realtor, went to the post office but it was closed, presidents day, got groceries, bought seeds at walmart, made eye
contact with my cute friend who is the walmart eye doctor, took out trash changed some light bulbs, bought megabus tickets, it's getting dark, need to make a new list.
http://craphound.com/homeland/download/
tues: just waiting to get on a bus. 14 F in chicago, strong winds, 4 hour wait.

 

by arbi
2-22-13
omaha went pretty well and i think i have a shot at getting in. i call for results on monday and if that goes ok i still go back for a doctor's visit and ekg.
if i get in it's 20 days for 3600. if i don't, i have a screening in KC march 1.
studies are going well but i get nothing else done. it's snowy and icy outside today so i might not get out to check my mail or look at a house to buy. can't be any colder than north dakota was so may
be i'll just force myself to go out.
i havent made a good list in a while. i mostly just lie here in bed and reddit all day.
checked out a house, went to the post office and bank, shoveled the walk, didn't get much done.

 

by arbi
2-23-13
saturday: went to the club last night and was up till 6 online so it's late afternoon now. just a little housecleaning and laundry so far.
might get out on my bike and go look at some of the 9 houses on my list that will be up next month at the tax sale.
looked at two houses, got lost looking for a third, it got dark, i came home, got nothing else done.
to do sunday: up by noon, look at houses go thru mail read jake's court thing make a list. more laundry, call mom.
about 10 miles by bike looking at houses, more laundry, but otherwise did nothing.
didn't realize the oscars were tonight

 

by arbi
2-24-13
and the winner for best picture is 'argo.
I liked the part where steve buscemi puts the other guy in the woodchipper.

 

by arbi
2-25-13
currently reading: cowboys full, a history of poker
i get to go back to nebraska for the doctor visit which means i'm probably in the study, unless they make me an alternate or don't like my ekg.
an ex roommate came by for his mail and we went for lunch at a hole in the wall mexican place and talked about the house he bought. $6. for the burrito; the house was $22K
i have so few friends that i feel awkward when one does come by but it was nice.
i might hit up a club tonight. i can drink but not have caffeine, and then tomorrow i get on a bus.
stayed in. bought my bus tickets, $130 round trip.
bus cancelled due to snow. i don't know yet if they'll let me reschedule. ok rescheduled for friday

 

by arbi
3-02-13
i'm in chicago, having a Paneric cup of coffee. I went to world market and got hello kitty candy. I'm going to take the 6 pm bus for 15 instead of the next bus fo $30. It's snowing, but otherwise nice
weather for chicago and i've been wanting to check out this neighborhood. my feet hurt, i'm tired, my bags are heavy, but i'll stash the extra laundry bag somewhere and wander around for awhile.
i did not get into the nebraska study. missed it by -that- much. 2 out of 3 EKGs were ok, the 3rd one put me over. i have mentally drafted the nastygram - they did not tell us there would be 3 ekg's
at the second screening. i walked 6 miles to the bus station, got to omaha, took a taxi to catch my bus, which was then an hour late as we waited outside in 26 degrees. the wifi on the bus worked so
i had an ok trip. 5 days of buses, trains, a bike, 3 taxis, more buses, one hotel, $200ish.
tonight i'm going to get off the bus, get on my bike,and go to the club before going home. still have $150 cash, should be no problem. chicago on a saturday is a ghost town.

 

stop!
it's hammer time
by arbi, 3-02-13

 

http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ZMannZilla/sets/tochangealightb/
How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
by arbi, 3-02-13

 

how many engineers/accountants/architects does it take to change a lighbulb?
how many do you want it to take?
by arbi, 3-02-13

 

what's black and hangs in front of an asshole?
a stethoscope!
by arbi, 3-02-13

 

by arbi
3-03-13
today i slept in and caught up on sleep, might have washed a few dishes.
i try to do one of these every day, but some days not much happens.
tomorrow i should make a list, clean the back yard, pay a bill, make some calls, get my bus ticket refinded, email greyhound again, buy a bike, get out of bed, take a bath, hang up clothes, sort my...
i made three calls, started the back yard, but didnt make a list, send emails, pay the bill, or much else.
the yard will take all week at least.
tuesday: snowing. did nothing all day. wednesday: still snowy, did nothing.

 

by arbi
3-07-13
got up early, so far i paid bills ($504), planted flowers, bought moosetraps, bought a bike, made a list, made a call, sent an email, bought minutes for phone, did laundry.
still to do: sort mail make bed make better list another call another email a letter make a poster of to do list for door, arm moosetraps, order seeds, clean room go to club.
back in the 80's I had a Meese problem.
well, 4-legged tripod, i'm just going by the amount of noise they make. did i ever tell the moose story here?
i already had a buspass, so i went and got my mail. $30 box rent, $40 water bill, collected checks $500ish.
that took 3 hours so it's bath, reddit, make better list, head to the club.
the club was dead - they raised the cover back to $10 for all you can drink night, so i went to the diner and the metro which was just ok, and came home. $18.

 

by arbi
3-12-13
saturday sunday and monday i spent about an hour each cleaning up the yard. it's not done but we made a good start.
saturday i went to the mexican strip club across the street for a beer, which i do a couple times a year. it's not quite my scene, but we can always hear it, so have to check it out now and then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdst7XfeU-E jon and marty
today, monday, i sorted mail, swept, bought 4 jars of coffee and some sage seeds at aldi and a bike inner tube. the pawn shop wouldn't tell me which things of mine rick pawned there.
i added minutes to my phone but didnt yet make the calls i need to.
finished seven pillars of wisdom, the T E Lawrence book i've been reading online. watched 20 episodes of jon favreau's dinner for 5.
sprang forward, so it's 3 am already. tuesday i made 3 calls and booked two screenings.

 

by arbi
3-14-13
I'm on a bus, somewhere between cincinnatti and shelbyville. Had a screening today, nice people but i'll find out tomorrow if it was a wild goose chase.
i found a 5 story bookstore, a 7 story vintage office furniture place, a bakery with good coffee but no wifi.
after i screen, i drink coffee and alcohol because i can, and because i'm going to be on a bus, and because i was on a bus all night.
my roommate jake is kind of famous at this clinic so i just dropped his name to get the gossip flowing. i've never done a study here yet.
today is pi day. i had it mixed up with st pats, and then my cake day on reddit is the 19th.
Q: what's 8 x pi? A: octopi!

 

by arbi
3-14-13
iconoclastic/550752/
hey mr, wanna buy a cow?
whatchew talkin' about, Willis?

 

by arbi
3-15-13
item #73 on the to do list:
send brad $10 to cover the 8 years i've been freeloading on stripcreator
didn't get much done today. a few minutes cleaning the back yard, planted sage sunflowers and marigolds. rode bike aimlessly. found out about a study.
mostly watched hulu, read a book, too much reddit.now, noodles, then off to the club.
this comic is rather minimal because i'm just tossing it off after a bath before leaving for the club, so i dont get there too late.
if i drink tonight, i'll end up not getting much done tomorrow. i want to make a scrap run, take in the recycling,and i need to make a 73 item list.

 

by arbi
3-18-13
sunday: went to st pats at the local irish pub, a real one, been there 75 years still run by the 5 sons of the original owners. got sort of hit on by a granddaughter.
k*** me, i'm irish
i'm tragically delicious
monday: scrap run $53. took the recycling. dug up part of the garden. went to an LP meeting. been reading the transcripts of today's oral arguments in the arizona voter ID case. planted some flowers.
other than that i didnt get much done. didn't make a list, pay the water bill, call mom, clean my room, book any studies, or any of that stuff.
tuesday plans: another scrap run. call ohio clinic. keep digging garden, cleaning back yard.
to do: email greyhound, call megabus, make a list, plant some flowers, plant some veggies, sort emails into folders, put away laundry, draw up plans to take over world. the usual.

 

by arbi
3-26-13
today the supreme court heard arguments about gay marriage. deeply divided, the court may dismiss the case on standing grounds
http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/26/supreme-court-hands-down-florida-v-jardines/
but first, they handed down jardines holding that a drug sniffing pooch on your porch violates the 4th amendment.
the last time i was in the supreme court building was 12 years ago, when my roommate joell had a case about whether the police dog who sniffed him at a drug roadblock was a search.
they upheld the dog sniff part but found the drug roadblock unconstitutional

 

by arbi
3-26-13
thursday i went to cincinnatti, all night on a bus, and undured a horrible 4 hours niacin test and a repeat blood test, and then they told us they changed the study date to a date that didnt work for
me. i didnt get in because i don't have high cholesteral, which i could have told them at the beginning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdUx3gRzM8U
friday i slept all day. saturday i went to the club. sunday it snowed. monday i listened to "quite interesting" shows on youtube, stephen frye's gameshow thing,
and monday night jeff garlin podcasts. so i'm not having a productive week so far. havent made a list, barely get out of bed.
http://www.earwolf.com/episode/will-ferrell/
tuesday: i think it'll be more jeff garlin

 

by arbi
3-28-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkiIaFv5As dylan moran
weds: didn't get much done today. 3 loads laundry, took out trash, dug up half the garden after 2 cups of coffee. found out the club is closed now T and W as well as monday, so i wasted a trip there
last night but went to the diner instead. onion rings, coffee, 2 gin and tonics, $14. cute bartender.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGKq0fY68Q one direction sped up
didn't make a list, didnt work on the items that should be on the list, didn't make a scrap run or go to the post office or send emails or make phone calls or pay the water bill or clean my room.
i didn't listen tot he audio of the DOMA oral argument from this morning, but i bookmarked it for later.
http://www.hulu.com/smash
mostly listened to some dylan moran shows. stopped in accross the street for a bit, dead over there. if i'd gotten up an hour earlier i could have gone to a drag show that gets a good wednesday night
crowd.

 

by arbi
3-29-13
thurs: went to the club, had a great time, was able to refer a friend to the lawyer she needs. drank too much so waking up hurt.
friday, scrap run $30, post office, recycling.
(he's not british, just looks sort of like that)
scored some free tickets on reddit to a jeff garlin show at mort's comedy joint.
front row tickets and he asked me about my shirt and we got into a whole conversation about my life and my philosophy of dumpster diving and not wanting a job. he gave me his water bottles to recycle.
http://www.earwolf.com/show/by-the-way-in-conversation-with-jeff-garlin/
then we hit up trader joes on the way home.

 

by arbi
3-30-13

 

by arbi
4-01-13
saturday sunday monday pretty much did nothing. i'm in a pattern of internet all night sleep all day
i did make more progress cleaning up the yard, getting the garden ready for planting. i have my box of seeds here. havent decided yet if its warm enough to plant under a cold frame.
i rarely get out of bed, and i need to make my bed, it's accumlating too many books papers shoes keys sweatshirts stuffed animals...
didn't call the realtor. havent decided yet if i want to make an offer on the house i looked at saturday.
so far, banked, paid the bills, called the scrap yard, burned brush, planted tobacco and flowers, filled 60 buckets for planting. set up cold frame.
tuesday i should bank, pay bills, make a list, shop for 1/2 price easter stuff, call the scrap yard,
i pity the fool

 

weds: was up all night watching endgame reruns, did nothing all day. planted flowers, took out the trash.
tomorrow i shuffle off to buffalo, for a screening for a study i dont expect to get into.
by arbi, 4-03-13

 

by arbi
4-06-13
thursday-friday: went to buffalo with a stop in columbus, screened, probably won't get in. $102, 1000 miles.
hawaiian restaurant $7. club $18. bus pass $4.
rip roger ebert 2013
saturday: my computer broke so best buy $300. they didn't have the chromebook i wanted. walmart didnt have vegetable seeds.
so now i'm messsing around getting used to a new computer.
sunday: i'll need to clean the yard, do the laundry make a list and find the dead mouse that is somewhere in my room.
i'm reading a novel set 100 years ago in buffalo, it's pretty good.

 

by arbi
4-08-13
i didnt get much done today. got my reddit submitted karma over 6000.
i planted half the vegetable garden, looked up some studies, washed the dishes, found last years seeds, made a list, made a blog post.
corn tomatoes beets parsley chives broccoli lobster cauliflower watermelon cuke zuke lettuce eggplant
tomorrow maybe i'll remember to go to trivia night at the red lion
plan involves making some calls, planting the rest of the veggies, a scrap run, and pick up tax forms.
spinach radishes cress zukes patty pan acorn squashes more eggplant collard marigold zenia sunflower
tuesday i planted the rest of the veggies and booked a screening tomorroww in cincinatti

 

by arbi
4-11-13
so the cincinatti screening yesterday went ok and i got in as an alternate, so i should make $500 and then $1800 in the next round of the study.
today i bought a volvo, 4dr 1989, $800.
tomorrow i go to cincinatti for 3 days. it'll be my first study there, and it's only a $15 bus ride away, so this is good news,
given that 3 of the places i did studies closed last month, although 1 that closed last year reopened.
so i should pack, get some sleep, not miss the bus. i guess now i should do some gardening and laundry.

 

by arbi
4-14-13
sunday: i didn't get much done today. i looked at 3 houses, plan to make an offer on one. laundry, cleaned up the alley a bit, made a list, helped jake move, went to the club, found some scrap metal,
had coffeee downtown, bought flower seeeds, watched smash.
saturday i guess i slept in
the megabus was 3 hours late, so i grabbed a ride with a guy who decided he'd just drive, and we talked for an hour, the most human conversation i've had in a long time.
friday i went to cincinatti, but they sent me home, for something they could easily have screened for wednesday
i'm enjoying these trips to cincinatti, but getting skeptical about whether this place actually has any studies for me.

 

by arbi
4-17-13
monday: didnt do the main thing on my list, or much else
tuesday, i was 2 minutes late and the bmv was closed, but i finally went to trivia night at the red lion, $18.
weds, went back to bmv got my plates, $38, the house i wanted is sold but i found another house i want. the city is suing me over junk in my yard.
had a flat 6 miles from home, walked an hour then took the bus. my henchman is fixing it now.
i booked a screening in kansas city next week.
no big plans yet for hitler's birthday saturday

 

it was the 18th of aapril of 75, and hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that faamous day and year of the midnight ride of paul revere.
by arbi, 4-17-13

 

by arbi
4-17-13
today the court heard arguments about whether the right to remain silent included this murderer's trip downtown to the police station,
where he wasn't technically in custody yet.
also today the court announced that the cops need a warrant for a blood alcohol test, except when theey don't.
this was actually an improvement over before.
yesterday they decided a couple of boring cases we won't even tell you about
also this week they didnt take that gun case from new york people were watching to see if they would.

 

by arbi
4-23-13
thursday: did nothing. made one phone call. friday - the wire, season 1. saturday, the wire, season 2. sunday, the wire, season 3.
monday: got a ride to kansas city with former roommate brian, who sometimes reads these comics.
tuesday: $70 hotel room, checked out by 11:00. cofffee, saffron rice, a movie. silver linings playbook. pretty good. $4.25.
so i'm wandering around inthe rain in the neighborhood where my parents grew up and i had my last year of law school. it's cold but i'm having fun.
the screening got rescheduled for weds morning, and i forgot to bring extra socks.
i'll take a megabus home tomorrow i hope. the plan is i'll sleep in the van tonight.

 

by arbi
4-24-13
this laptopis heavy to carry around but its much better at getting online at random wifi spots.
it's thursday morning /wednesday night. i'm on a megabus near st louis - oh there's maggie obrien's, i know where we are.
couchsurfed last night at a villa full of antiques, cats and kids. brian dropped me off at the clinic.
the screening went ok, and it paid $100, so i almost break even for the trip. maybe a 50% chance i get in.
it took a few hours to figure out how to get a bus back to kc. lentil soup, espresso at the plaza, a chinese foods warehouse, got on the bus.
my feet are still wet from the rain and hurt from walking. i'll get to chicago around breakfast and get another bus home - don't feel like walking around chicago.
i found a hotel where i can stay if i do the study - i don't want to impose on my cousins who live near there.

 

by arbi
4-25-13
this just in. the supreme court ruled yesterday that an illegal immigrant cannot be deported for having a small amount of drugs
so, hypothetically, he's a teenager from canada who passes a joint at a party, and it winds up on the internet,
hypothetically, eh?
shocking his legions of preteen girl fans. and that one pink donkey guy. we can't deport him?
i think you're being a little hard on the beiber, ward
this conversation can only be headed one direction

 

by arbi
4-28-13
thursday i took the bus home. friday i waited for the call to find out if i'm in, but it didn't come yet.
saturday scrap run $50 and clean up the yard a bit. sunday started dumpster diving the apartments across from campus - it's finals week.
http://stream-tv.me/watch-shameless-us-online/
i might have a screening in kentucky if i don't get this one.
i'm not doing well at making lists or getting anything done.
study postponed indefinately. i havent worked since february. another month like this and i'll get nervous.
finished watching all 5 seasons of the wire. started watching the american clone of shameless.
monday: made a list, made 4 trips downtown. bought a bike. worked on cleaning the scrap pile in the driveway. found a house i want.

 

by arbi
4-30-13
today was too hot for long pants. i'll need to find my shorts.
i didn't get much done today. i made a few calls, booked a screening, and one that's a maybe.
i went to the post office, did another round of dumpster diving, testdrove the new bike, cleaned the driveway some more.
http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1de1m2/how_to_get_a_cab_in_new_york_city/
i got 1500 useless imaginary reddit points for reposting about how to catch a cab in nyc, so i have over 20,000 points total.
$650 in checks in, $900 in bills to pay. two offers on my oil well.
i was thinking that the screening's not till next month, but today is the 30th, so i guess i have to take a bus or train tomorrow to be there by 6 am on the 3rd. packed for a possible 15 day stay.
note to self j's birthday may 5.

 

by arbi
5-03-13
indy: 83 F. Lincoln: 38 F.
i went to lincoln neb and got into a study. i'll at least be an alternate.
it wasn't easy. got off the train at midnight, froze for 6 hours, then they wanted a note from the doctor of the last study i did, so i got that and it worked, and i kept my blood pressure low enough
to pass although i was mad. i got lost looking for the $46 cheap hotel.
warren buffet's in town with 30000 of his friends, and it's graduation, so there weren't many rooms. this one had a broken bed and no key, but the bath water was hot.
some strange bugs got into my clothes, so i'm drowning them freezing them, etc.
tomorrow i'll buy extra socks. sunday i'll check in.

 

by arbi
5-13-13
i went to nebraska and while i was there for 3 days as an alternate, i broke my computer, so that's why i haven't made any comics lately.
i'm on a chromebook, and it'll do, for $200, but it's too small and some of my usual keystrokes don't work. it'll be a good computer to travel with but i'll either fix my laptop or get another.
didn't do anything yet today except make calls. booked two screenings.
yesterday was gardening mostly. moved buckets around, planted seeds, took stuff to the dumpster.
friday i bought the chromebook, went drinking, saturday was overhung.
there were adventures in nebraska, but that's history by now.

 

by arbi
5-21-13
9 days since my last entry. today i missed a train by 10 minutes, so i got back to chicago 22 minutes after my train left, so i didn't go to nebraska. probably didn't get into the 5800 waukegan study.
i made it back home ok. sore feet. tired. my chromebook died this morning, but i guess it just needed to recharge for 5 hours and now it's working again.
on sunday tommy emailed me out of the blue, and we had a nice chat and i might go visit and try to bring him down here..
even though it's may it's already summer hot,and i've been not very productive lately.
the clinic was about a mile from where the map said it was, so that might be why i was 10 minutes late, but mostly they wasted my time.
no, not tommy anders. the other tommy.
i have to decide whether to try next week to go to nebraska again, it's probably too late to get in.
and i'll check again at some other clinics. apparently i've been doing these studies for 7 years now - i thought it was 5.

 

by arbi
5-22-13
caught up on sleep, booked a new screening in nebraska for friday, switched my train ticket, bought a bus ticket to chicago, emailed tommy with plans update, mowed the lawn a bit with this push mower
robert gave me, transplanted some sunflowers and zinnias. that's been my day so far.
too rainy to go downtown so i got another 30 buckets ready and planted limas cukes carrot rocket endive lettuce and cosmos.
instead of staying in to work on stuff that needs to get done.
i think it's too late in the day to call the bedbug guy.

 

by arbi
5-24-13
so i'm in mcdonalds in nebraska, waiting for the bus to omaha so i can get a bus to chicago so i can get a bus to kokomo or home.
i did not get into either study i screened for this morning, the 4800 one or the 3800 one.
on the train i made some progres updating the 72-item to do list, and figured ou how to work on google docs while offline.
i convinced them to do my ekc, but it took an argument, so my blood pressure was too high, so i didnt get into the first study.
then i flunked the ekg for the second study - which is the one i would have screened for wednesday if i hadn't missed my train.
update! i got into the chicago study. (i still could end up just being an alternate)
so it was a partial sort of victory - what they wanted me to do was come twice to not get into one study, and i was able to come once to not get into two studies.
now i have to see if tommy is ready for me to come visit him on my way back. waukegan hasn't called yet - i don't expect to get into that one either.

 

by arbi
5-27-13
greyhound wifi isn't letting me post the comic i made. grr.

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