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by arbi
12-05-13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JLaeUUVVQ joe rogan podcast w bert
thursday i got home around dawn after clubbing in chicago and driving home, so i slept in
except for a run to the bank when i thought i was going to hit a strip club later, which i didnt.
so i'm in bed, 2:30 am, eating a burrito, and somehow i maybe bit my own tooth? so now i have a loose tooth, a front one that i can't just ignore,
but if i go get dental work i might have to drop out of the study and lose 2 grand.
so maybe tomorrow i'll go and get some estimates and explore options. i;m supposed to be back on monday, so i'll leave sunday night, doesn't leave a lot of time.
friday i didnt get out of bed. saturday either.

 

by arbi
12-10-13
my solution to the tooth situation so far has been to ignore it. sunday i drove to wisconsin, arrived around dawn. bought snowshoes.
monday i checked in, dinner and sleep.
tuesday took a pill, cancelled two screenings since i'm here instead, book a flight to mom's for xmas.
tomorrow is another pill, more vital sign reading then they kick up out into the snow before midnight.
i don't know if i've gotten the placebo twice, or if it just doesn't do what it was expected to.

 

by arbi
12-13-13
day 6 of 11. they let us out, zero degrees, i drove home. stopped in boystown, went dancing at some hole in the wall. there's nowhere in indy i like for dancing. drove home. arrived at dawn.
thursday, post office, bank deposited $1K, laundry.
today friday i drove around looked at a place a i want to buy. 10K, ok house, 6 outbuildings, 1 acre, near a ghetto.
i also looked at a $9K 3BR near my old house that burned, but it's more ghetto on that block. nice woodwork.
it's friday night and i'm going to hit up a club, maybe go downtown if i get bored. i'm having coffee and chocolate and alcohol today because the study restrictions haven't kicked back in yet - i go
back in 5 days. then i fly to moms for a few days then fly back to finish the study. my taxes will be complicated this year - i'm making too much money to write off everything.

 

by arbi
12-16-13
saturday - not much. went to a club, went to asiamart, stayed in at night.
sunday: not much. cleaned a shelf in the bathroom.big day. caught up on hulu. friday there was a CLE i forgot to go to.
https://archive.org/details/BruceLeeTheLostInterview
monday: made a list. got new brake pads installed. made 4 calls. made photocopies. checked my bank statements. 2 items still to do.
tomorrow - court. that's always fun ... court went ok..
http://infolocata.com/mirovia/irrefutable-proof-that-santa-is-odin/
i went over to the new house to close up the windows and sweep a bit. tonight i'm headed back to wisconsin via illionois. then i'll fly to the east coast.

 

by arbi
12-19-13
drove all night, had adventures in illinois related to finding work for february, made a wrong turn arrived here a bit late,
couldn't piss in a cup when they needed me to so here was panic and sense i might get sent home, but got checked in ok. all we have today is dinner, then tomorrow is busy.
to be continued

 

by arbi
12-26-13
i've been offline for about a week while traveling to mom's and back.
drove to the airport, flew to detroit, flew to brooklyn, took a subway to manhattan, a bus to philly, a train to wilmington, a taxi to mom's.
had xmas. brother took my to philly, plane to chicago, plane to milwaukee, shuttle to car, swept foot of snow off car, motel 6 charges for wifi, got here on time, wifi was down, now it's back up.
getting back was about a day faster, but this was the cheapest way to do it.
i think once i add up my expenses i can deduct all he income from this study. i still have too muh net income for the year, my taxes will be tricky.
haven't heard yet if i got into the next study for early next year. here we just have tomorrow then one followup.

 

i went back to wisconsin for my followup and drovehome. i bought 2 pairs of converse in chicago, groceries at fresh market, dr bronner's at trader joes. dumpsterdived trader joes.
i got home in time,and with enough money, to go to the club, but i was too tired.
by arbi, 12-31-13

 

by arbi
12-31-13
got up around 1, made a 10 item list, did laundry and dishes,swept the stairs, went to the post office and the bank but they were closed today, so was the dentist.
it was a productive trip anyway, bought gas, took recycling in, bought coffee at aldi, dumpster dived 4 boxes of stuff.
i am missing a pitch-in dinner right now because i don't have directions, but i have a barfleet party to go to tonight.
i need to get my brakes fixed, make a better list, file a police report, go to the scrap yard, write a motion for default judgment, water a plant, mail some late presents, revise my tax estimate etc.
http://imgur.com/HDMI6Y8
i went to the barfleet party, which was ok.stopped by the alleycat in broad ripple and the metro on mass ave. hung out with some drunk lesbians.got 5 boxes of dumpster dived stuff. pies, flowers,
a mercedes car cover.

 

by arbi
1-01-14
i should have just stayed in bed. nothing was open.
so i made the bed nd swept the bedroomand the kitchen and maybe i'll do more laundry and read this letter from a potential client or coconspirator and update my blogs and maybe get around to revising
my estimated taxes and or beginning a draft of the motion for a default judgment.
or, read grisham, play solitaire,and reddit.
idrank only moderately last night and it seems like everyone else is hung over while i'm not.

 

by arbi
1-02-14
free blooming onion at outback today only password is "outback bowl!"
offer expires today, january 2, so by the time you see this it may be too late.
so far today i went to the post office, put $3k in my credit union, went to a club, bought a phone cuz i can't find my phone and i need to call work tomorrow.
it's 11 degrees and snowing heavily, so i'm not sure i'll go get my free onion.
this is my 1960th comic, and i was born in 1960. so what...
so i went and got the free onion for $4. it was ok, more than one person should eat at once so i feel a little bloated. the clubthat was supposed to have dancers tonight was closed when i got there.

 

by arbi
1-03-14
http://www.hulu.com/watch/555182 the wrong mans, on hulu
today i stayed in and did nothing.it's 14 F right now, bur headed to get to 10 below in a few days.
i set up my new phone but couldn't get thru to the clinic, so i probably did not get the $5000 gig that starts tuesday.
this space left blank for now
well they've postponedthe study till the end of the month so i don't have to drive to chicago in -15 weather.
but it means no paycheck this month, and i have to screen again friday.
so nowi have a few weeks where i could write memos or clean the house.

 

by arbi
1-03-14
ftc 171 entry
So, I'm very excited about being here for open mic night. Let's start out with a "knock, knock" joke. Knock, knock!
Knock, and the door shall be opened. Seek,and ye shall find. Ask, and it shall be given. Lucky Luke 11:9.
Wait, what? Um,ok, can i have a banana?
here is your curved yellow fruit. do this in rememberence of me. johnny quest 6:53
i should have asked for a new volvo. or whirled peas.

 

by arbi
1-07-14
it's still 12 below after a day. the hot water to the shower is frozen but otherwise good here.
it's supposed to warm up to 12 above today. after noon, it got all the way up to 1 degree.
7 degrees right now, not bad.
lunch was a pumpkin pie and some rice pudding. dinner was barley with secret aardvark sauce.
no, really the stuff is called secret aardvark sauce. i got it in nebraska at a coffeehouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejc5zic4q2A bo burnham what
I suspect my orchids will die. It probably got pretty cold near their window. My crackhead roommate sold off most of our spaceheaters. I still havent called the cops on him.
.

 

by arbi
1-11-14
drove to chicago and back. well it's actually waukegan. snow, rain, floods, fog. made $50, spent $200. i probably passed the screening.
the $5000 study got pushed back a few weeks, so instead of grossing $5k in 2 months, it will be 3 months, which is not as good, considering that i will spend $1k of that on driving back and forth.
had adventures in chicago and kokomo on the way back. it took 6 hours to drive across chicago. i took the scenic route through skokie.
stopped into a couple of clubs. i am missing an auction for the wishard hospital right now, forgot, but it continues tomorrow.
i had to repeat my ekg, passed the second time but it made me late, got caught in rush hour, and tommy was asleep or not home by the time i got to kokomo, but at least i found his house this time.
i'd heard the clubs in kokomo were sleazy and low rent and this turned out to be delightfully true.

 

by arbi
1-14-14
sunday i caught up on sleep. i did get a blog post linked at electionlaw.com. and i got around 1000 reddit points. monday i didn't get out of bed hardly.
today two of my heroes, richard winger and brad smith, said they liked my hit piece on the campaign legal center.
tuesday i made a list, went to the post office and the bank, got some groceries, spent $1.50 to see ender's game and last vegas. i might do the laundry but otherwise nothing on the list is done yet.
i need to fix my phone number, call a guy about a house, find out the auction schedule, write back to mom, mail a birthday present to my ex, mail a xmas present to my nephew, buy gas, deal with the
internet bill. i need to buy some brake calipers, look up cle's this month, outline a motion for injunction, and make a better list.
when i'm at a study, i just lie around in bed reading reddit. but when i'm home, i just lie around in bed reading reddit.

 

by arbi
1-15-14
didn't do anything today. tomorrow i get to drive an hour, snow optional, and take 12 hours of cle classes.
that'll be $325 +25+ tax. muffin?
i might go. i think i know how to set the alarm on my phone. or i could just stay up, but then i'd fall asleep in class.
my plan this year is to get my law license back. should run about $3000, which i have.
$3000 is about how much i've made by being a lawyer over the last 20 years. it's an expensive hobby.
now i'm gonna take out the trash and maybe go to a drag show.

 

by arbi
1-17-14
i'm waching a boring video about pensionfund accounting in divorce. it's not that i care about this stuff, it's that i needed the 12 hours.
it just finished! i thought i had another hour. ok it's 3pm, i skipped lunch so i'm right on time. time to brave the snow heading back to indy.
the clinic just called and they want me to check in monday, a week earlier than expected, so fine.
i will haveto get to a bank tomorrow and write to the court for a continuance, otherwise this works ok.
saturday i met with my friend joe who is a landlord and left some money with him since i'll be out of town for next week's tax sale.
and i'm getting packed and resting up for my trip to waukegan tomorrow.

 

by arbi
1-21-14
sunday: drove north of chicago. stayed at a $40 dirty hotel room. either in sense of it needed cleaning or there was bad porn on the tv.
monday, checked into the study. went fine.
this time, they didn't call the bomb squad on my luggage, but they did quarantine my dr bronner's because it has hemp oil.
tuesday: so far 6 blood draws, 4 ecgs, 8 blood pressure checks, 1 x-ray, 2 needle shots in the stomach area, 2 piss tests. got in and dosed. 4 out of 16 were sent home.
the dose came 1/2 hour late so the scheduleis messed up so we just guess about what comes next. should be dinner.
this is an easy study for what it pays, but there are 7 followup visits, in the winter, north of chicago, over the next 2 months.
i need to make a plan so i get something done while i'm here.

 

/bigworm/558997/
Mr Clinton, is that a new shampoo?
It's called "something about Mary"
by arbi, 1-21-14

 

by arbi
1-23-14
20 hurt, 3 dead, pileup on 94, the road i'll be taking 6 times in february.
the study's going fine. one great roommate, the other guy's a bit noisier but ok. after the first two days we don't have much to do. a blood draw today, an ecg tomorrow.
i walked a mile, 5 pushups, made a list and sent an email, otherwise i've done no work yet.
staying caught up with my korean soap opera.
reading a long voter ID case from PA.
Tomorrow I have to call the court to say I won't be there Tuesday.

 

by arbi
1-23-14
avast! be that a bee ye be holding?
aye.

 

by arbi
1-26-14
every day is like the one before. hang out in my room. 1 blood draw, 3 meals, lots of reddit.
i will probably stay in town for a few days since our first followup is so soon and the weather is bad.
i didnt get any work done but i did accomplish one thing. i bought a house at the tax sale. it's clyde's old house, next to my house that burned. paid $4000. have kind of a partnership deal with my
friend joe who went to the sale and is already a landlord on that block to help me fix it up and rent it out.
so now i have 3 houses, 5 units. my goal is to buy a house each year till i have 5, and get some rental income for when i get too old for studies in 2 years.
now i need to call mom and leave a message for the court saying i won't be there tuesday.

 

by arbi
1-28-14
DAY 9 OF 9. we got out around 10. my car was one of 3 that wouldn't start. 12 below out. got a jump, still wont start. went to walmart bought a battery, still wont start, bought some heet, still won't
start. asked if i could do a courtesy stay, they said no. so i'm next door at the fancypants hotelat the discount rate of $65.
my usual hotel is $45, but i wasn't going to walk 2 miles in this weather. the indian owned place downtown is $40 but too far and a real dumpcompared to my usual place with the nice old chinese couple
this place has wifi and a hot tub and breakfast.i think i'll stay 3 days till the first followup. there are about 7 followups, mostly on tuesdays.
henry yee's was closed, frozen pipes, so i went next door for taco tuesday
obama's bragging about how well he's doing. i'm going to watch memento instead.

 

by arbi
2-01-14
I stayed two days in the fancy hotel, my car unfroze when it got up to 20something, spent day 3 at my usual hotel. Bought books, ate chinese, saw the lake, transferred funds to cover money i owed for
the new house. followup appointment, drove home the scenic route, snow.
deposited $2800.
home, laundry, post office, bank, inspected my three houses.as usual when i was away my roommate didn't water the plants and some died.
the new house seems in ok shape. stuff to clean out, wet basements, but looks like it will be something i can rent for $300 a side. 3 rooms per side plus basement.
the days' highlight was hanging out with the new food not bombs crew, which i am joining. it'll be a place to get rid of some overflow of food that i find. it was nice to make some new friends.
then i went home and didnt get out of bed instead of going clubbing.

 

by arbi
2-02-14
sunday: i made a ten item list, did the first two. still a good day.
punxatawney phil saw hs shadom, so 6 more weeks of winter. instead of a month and a half.
i cleaned out my car, it was starting to look lived in. and i hauled 10 trash bags out of the house i bought. still need to go back and do the basement. that was just 1 side, the other side is locked.

 

by arbi
2-04-14
today i went to chicago and back. no sleep. now i'm home in bed. the trick is not to fall asleep at the wheel. can't stop to nap or could freeze to death/catch cold.
got there early. follow-up visit went fine. $650. $100 gas. dropped a guy off at union station, went to chinatown, went home. much snow.
made it back in time to pay water and power bills before they got shut off. $570. bought a mango $0.50 and some sujo $7. went to the all night gay diner for chips and coffee.
hurried home before the snow got too deep. need to unpack car again.
reddit, sleep, get up, make list, do things on list. car repairs to start with.
woke up 4am now half the day is shot. dragging self out of bed for coffee.

 

by arbi
2-06-14
wednesday i didnt do much, unpacked the car.
thursday i gathered my gardening supplies, did laundry and dishes, went to the new house and cleaned out the basement, put the trash by the curb, watched 2/3 of sinatra's ocean's 11.
it's 12 out and headed to -5 tonight so i might stay in. i need to clean my room and find a certain auto part so i can get my car fixed.

 

by arbi
2-07-14
they sky is cold and the floorwater is too hard to drink
but i have my handcoats and the spacelight is warm
listen! the flappy planes are beeping in the stick towers
it's 5 below. the shower and toilet are frozen. i'm staying in bed.

 

by arbi
2-09-14
today was good. 9 people at food not bombs. big fun. i brought juice, salad, apples, and coffee.
dumpster dived a bunch of stuff, stopped at 3 clubs. the pipes unfroze.
sunday. didnt get out of bed. mild headache right now.
tomorrow i drive back to chicagoland in 5 below weather.
either i'm sick, or this is day two of a hangover.
tuesday: went to chicago and back. wednesday: stayed in bed.

 

by arbi
2-14-14
thorsday: didn't get much done. went out to get an oil change but it was too late in the day. did the post office and bank runs, bought some revereware, dropped off food at the food not bombs house.
friday: i thought today's cle was in town but it's 50 miles east so in an hour i'll drive out there and have a boring expensive day watching a video.
frea'sday: it actually got above freezing for a few hours yesterday.
3 inches more snow. it took me 3 hours to come back 50 miles from my 6 hour class.
saturnday: today's food not bombs was fun again. i brought salad, fruit, veggies and bread. am fitting in ok so far.

 

by arbi
2-19-14
sunday and monday i apparently didnt do much. tuesday i went to chicago and back for my weekly followup.oh and i planted some seeds indoors, it's about that time of year.
wednesday i made a 13 item list, did the first two so far.dropped off a carload of food for food not bombs. did some cleaning at my new house. went to the bank, did some dishes, set out the trash,
i had fun adventures in kokomo, but tommy has moved so i have no way to find him now.
washed my car. found out that a bunchof my professional-type pans have been stolen. presumably by roommate.
calling the cops is the next thing on the list, but i keep avoiding it - it depresses me, and i avoid the things that depress me.
today i got the serial number of the lawn mower he stole.
now i need to read the list again, see what else i can do today

 

by arbi
2-28-14
9 days since my last comic. havent been very productive. tuesday trip to chicago went fine, just was very tired for driving.
yesterday i went to cincinatti and back, didnt get into a $7000 study,bit of a wild goose chase. went to jungle jims after, spent around $80, drove home scenic route through indiana back roads.
went to a club after, i need to keep it to two drinks there, they mix them strong. tonight is a food not bombs dance party i'm kind of looking forward to.
i made a big pot of soup but i'm not sure i like it. i might just bring the "happy divorce"cake. flowers and veggies i planted are coming up. house is trashed, and not making progress on to do lists.
i have to figure out what to do today instead of just lying here. my productivity tends to be very low on days after i drink.

 

by arbi
2-28-14
9 days since my last comic. havent been very productive. tuesday trip to chicago went fine, just was very tired for driving.
yesterday i went to cincinatti and back, didnt get into a $7000 study,bit of a wild goose chase. went to jungle jims after, spent around $80, drove home scenic route through indiana back roads.
went to a club after, i need to keep it to two drinks there, they mix them strong. tonight is a food not bombs dance party i'm kind of looking forward to.
i made a big pot of soup but i'm not sure i like it. i might just bring the "happy divorce"cake. flowers and veggies i planted are coming up. house is trashed, and not making progress on to do lists.
i have to figure out what to do today instead of just lying here. my productivity tends to be very low on days after i drink.

 

by arbi
3-03-14
today i'm sick, so i mostly lounged in bed not being able to sleep. but in an hour i have to drive to chicago in zero degree weather.
thursday i go to missouri for a screening.
friday was the fnb dance party, then we did the saturday serve and a sunday one at the catholic worker.
i ran into sarge kevin who was living in a hobo camp we took food to, so i have him staying at my talbot st house checking out the electric.
and i made some keys and went to the bank before climbing back into bed.
saw a bedbug tonight first time in months.

 

by arbi
3-04-14
i cheated a bit and had two cups of coffee to stay awake long enough to get to waukegan. the doc says i'll live. slight fever.
so now i'm crashed out in the $66 hotel room with the king sized bed, and i'll probably go straight to st louis a day early (so i should call and change that time.)
the st louis place is under its 4th set of management after the last group went bankrupt last year. it's not very well run, but i'll see how thing are there now, even if i dont get in the $4000 study.
they'll probably say my back is too hairy to have a morphine patch on it for the study.

 

by arbi
3-04-14
i cheated a bit and had two cups of coffee to stay awake long enough to get to waukegan. the doc says i'll live. slight fever.
so now i'm crashed out in the $66 hotel room with the king sized bed, and i'll probably go straight to st louis a day early (so i should call and change that time.)
the st louis place is under its 4th set of management after the last group went bankrupt last year. it's not very well run, but i'll see how thing are there now, even if i dont get in the $4000 study.
they'll probably say my back is too hairy to have a morphine patch on it for the study. or my labs coud be messed up from being sick.

 

by arbi
3-06-14
i made it home ok. went to the club, because last night i was too tired to go to the club i go to there.
ordered a gin and tonic. got a glass of gin with a little splash of tonic. drank it. went up to the bar to get a cranberry, but he saw me coming and made another gin. drank that one.
didn't realize till i got home that i'm too drunk, and i'll be hung over tomorrow.
i ate a pizza and drank a bunch of water, but it's hopeless.
anyway the screening seemed to go all right. i stayed in a motel 6 last night.
i spent yesterday driving thru snow and hail through towns like woodstock, harvard, normal, and glen carbon.

 

by arbi
3-06-14
i made it home ok. went to the club, because last night i was too tired to go to the club i go to there.
ordered a gin and tonic. got a glass of gin with a little splash of tonic. drank it. went up to the bar to get a cranberry, but he saw me coming and made another gin. drank that one.
didn't realize till i got home that i'm too drunk, and i'll be hung over tomorrow.
i ate a pizza and drank a bunch of water, but it's hopeless.
anyway the screening seemed to go all right. i stayed in a motel 6 last night.
i spent yesterday driving thru snow and hail through towns like woodstock, harvard, normal, and glen carbon. TIL rockford is named for a ford on the rock.

 

by arbi
3-07-14
box rent $31. water $73. deposited $1600.
i wasn't hung over, but a bit worn out, so i tried to make it a day of doing chores.
laundry, trash, post office, bank, paid the water bill. sylvia and i took the carload of food over to the foodnotbombs house.
i transplanted some seedlings, took the hibiscus outside, met with kevin about the progress he's making on talbot, so he's here taking a shower.
still to do: look for brake part. sort mail. call mom. get with joe.make bed. get rid of box spring. make a better list. cle's. memos on cases.
i guess i should start with the box spring. or check reddit for a minute.

 

by arbi
3-11-14
did: x1 make bed x2 box spring x3 joe werle x4 angelos $58 1/2x 5 5 get majors case file from courthouse x7 clean car 1/2x 9 fix car x10 get gas $50 x11 scrap $11 1/2x12
x21 make better list x 27 test vacuum x 32 plant seeds 1/2 x42 clean yard
also, took a ladder to kevin, cleaned up yard on temple, swept temple, cleaned up yard on hoyt, went to a movie with sylvia, then she did her laundry here.
so, 13 done out of 50. not bad.
saturday and sunday did serves with foodnotbombs, spent time with sylvia and ninetails. monday i didn't get out of bed.
i'll see what else i can get done tomorrow.

 

by arbi
3-12-14
went to bar assoc, recycled, made key, took drywall, cardboard at hoyt, got batteries and baking soda.
a bunch more things i could do, but there's a pineapple beer party i'm going to go to tonight. some of them were my pineapples.
i count the thing i get done, but i don't rank them from important to trivial, so it's a system that doesn't really work well.
i was in line buying overpriced baking soda when i remembered where i have more baking soda, but i bought it anyway. trying to lighten up on my "spend nothing" usual regime.
the pineapple beer party was awesome. lots of musical instruments, punk folk anarchist songs i didn't know. met a cute guy who the party was for and we liked each other. dumpster dived a palm tree
near the end of the party, i went out for 15 minutes and came back with the tree and some some lamps and such. i don't expect to get anything more done today, will hit the club tonight.

 

by arbi
3-13-14
6 am to noon: lie in bed horny and a bit hung over from 3 glasses of pineapple beer.
noon-4. do 5 of the 6 items on my daily task list. get an espresso. come home to send an email. 4-5 lie in bed checking reddit.
still to do: sort bank statements. blog. read letters from zoning thugs.label keys. make list for tomorrow.
6 - use daylight savings time (scam) to go mop floor on temple street. that's the plan anyway.
didn't: get to the scrap yard before 4. did: 1) finally found the state supreme court records office in the basement and picked up my case file from a case from 10 years ago.
2. paid $300 on water bill. 3 dropped off cardboard recycling. 4. sorted out st charles problem, no longer banned from the study. ok, that's only 4 things, i guess i have to go mop that floor. done.
best dumpster score so far today, not counting last night: 9 little bottles of booze and a mop bucket.

 

by arbi
3-14-14
i've had this week off from work so i've been trying to catch up on some chores. today's list had 9 items.
i took a load of food to food not bombs, called mom, mopped a floor on temple, swept a floor at talbott, installed light bulbs, did a load of laundry, ordered auto parts, started cleaning the porch,
sent 5 emails. checked for studies. i forgot to go to today's cle, and didn't get to the scrap yard. didn't write any memos or open these letters i need to go thru. haven't yet made a better list.
last night i called a guy and asked for a date and he said no. i have no game. but to even make the call is great progress. so i went to the club and 5 of my friends were there. i gave adrian the
norman mailer book on marilyn monroe and he liked it and gave me his number because i'd lost it, and aloha was there too. i kept it to one drink.
still to do: move boxes at talbott. recycle more cardboard. clean the porch. clean my old bedroom. make a better list. do taxes. join the gym.

 

by arbi
3-19-14
monday-tuesday i had to go to chicago to finish the study so we made a roadtrip out of it, 4 fnb folks. we came back with 8 boxes of groceries.
wednesday i got $69 for scrap, got into the st louis study, and took james to the airport.
tomorrow maybe i get my car worked on then head to st louis for friday check in.

 

by arbi
3-19-14
http://salvageco.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post.html
monday-tuesday i had to go to chicago to finish the study so we made a roadtrip out of it, 4 fnb folks. we came back with 8 boxes of groceries.
wednesday i got $69 for scrap, got into the st louis study, and took james to the airport.
tomorrow maybe i get my car worked on then head to st louis for friday check in.
i should pack, and clean my floor and draft a schedule change request for the court.

 

by arbi
3-22-14
happy william shatner's birthday
so i'm here in st charles. it's not the worst clinic i've been to (that was little rock) but it's bad.
20 days, 1 room, 40 people. hard chairs. top bunk at night. tv blaring. 70% are african american males, not who i want to locked up with.
naltrexone is an unpleasant drug, so i'll be feeling woozy with an upset stomach much of the time.
but it's $4000 in about a month, so i'll probably stick it out. i dose in about an hour and they haven't kicked me out yet.
i'll try to make comics so you can watch my general deterioration. there's no outlets near my chair, so my battery will die during the 4 hours we have to sit here today.
i've already given up on the idea of trying to get any work done. it'll be about just trying to hang on. i guess if i worked that could be good distraction.

 

by arbi
3-22-14
i didnt know it at the time but it was the first soup of spring, the vernal equinox, a high holiday among my people.
thursday i made a list and did most of the items. made $26 at the scrap yard but spent it at the club, and went to another club later. recycled cardboard and bottles to try to get the side yard
cleaned up a bit. took more boxes of food to the food not bombs house, moon mansion, hung out there and had soup. went to the hardware store, the post office, the bank. packed for the study.
apparently it's called ostara, which i didnt know
friday i got 4 hours sleep, drove to st charles, with a 1 hour nap on the way. the alarm clock on my phone is turning out to be a very useful tool.
had to go in early to fill out extra paperwork they forgot at screening. ate at my usual chinese buffet. was early so i walked around the lake and drove aimlessly for a bit, then checked in.
a lot of hurry up and wait. this clinic has new owners since last time and it's a bit disorganized so far.

 

by arbi
3-22-14
it turned out to be an ok day. we dosed, which in this study means getting a patch put on. and we sat around for 4 hours getting blood drawn taking a pill getting blood pressure done etc.
but after that most of the guys went to bed - the stuff knocks us out - and it got quieter and i started to get used to it.
i've found a room i'm using as my office, me and one other guy when the staff doesn't need it.
and i got an email asking me to help out with an amicus brief to the 6th circuit and i like the case so i'll maybe do that, so i get to feel engaged and busy.
on july 31 i'll have been here 10 years.
plus if we win it might win me back some street cred at the national convention in ohio this year.
3:30, sunday, the next day: i'm well into the first draft of a brief. i'm going to take a break for a while now, been writing 3 hours.

 

by arbi
3-24-14
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/kate182/560575/
day 4. have the runs, and blood pressure has been through the roof since we dosed. tired every morning after we take the pill. otherwise ok.
i was locked out of my "office" today and it's been too noisy to work or read or anything. the drama levels are extreme. place is deeply ghetto. after dinner i got into a different office and got
one page written on my brief,and came up with a settlement idea, but all that is going slowly, behind schedule already. will take a break and try to get in another page later.
day 5: finished a second draft. made friends with two guys here. some rddit. much solitaire.

 

by arbi
3-27-14
i got up early and put in a couple of solid hours work putting the finishing touches on my brief. then openoffice crashed and won't let me reopen the file, or yesterday's backup. i can restore from
yesterday's email if i have to. so i'm taking a break for now.
i think this is day 7 of 12 in this first half of the study. the last two days we'll be out and just come in for a blood draw.
the breakfasts are all the same and the lunches repeat every few days. i think the dinners are different.
it's quiet and dark in the dorm during the day. half the guys just sleep the day away. so i have about an hour before i have to recharge my battery.

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