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by arbi
3-28-14
i didn't get much done today, but i figured out how to mail yesterday's draft as plaintext, and i worked on my taxes, and i made a 60 item to do list and a 40 item did list.
the internet comes and goes. there's no outlet near my bed or desk. it's around 90 degrees in the dorm at night. the tv is loud, the patients are louder.
i'm reading a book by alec guiness about being 83. he's more upperclass british than i realized. art museums and opera and such. i'm an anglophile and snob, but i don't travel in those circles.
the patch comes off tomorrow, then we get set free monday, with 2 returns, then 2 weeks off.
i have some dumpsters and a strip club and quirky sciencey museum place to explore on my coming day off.
i was going through my files when we were offline and i find i've already read that aa milne mystery novel i'd saved.

 

by arbi
3-28-14
i didn't get much done today, but i figured out how to mail yesterday's draft as plaintext, and i worked on my taxes, and i made a 60 item to do list and a 40 item did list.
the internet comes and goes. there's no outlet near my bed or desk. it's around 90 degrees in the dorm at night. the tv is loud, the patients are louder.
i'm reading a book by alec guiness about being 83. he's more upperclass british than i realized. art museums and opera and such. i'm an anglophile and snob, but i don't travel in those circles.
the patch comes off tomorrow, then we get set free monday, with 2 returns, then 2 weeks off.
i have some dumpsters and a strip club and quirky sciencey museum place to explore on my coming day off.
i was going through my files when we were offline and i find i've already read that aa milne mystery novel i'd saved.

 

by arbi
3-29-14
it's saturday. we got the patch off, took two pills, 4 blood draws, 4 meals, a shower.
i didnt really even try to get anything done. a couple pages of notes on a tax issue. trying to keep my laptop charged and online. it's bedtime now.
tomorrow's an easy day - i made a list - then monday we get out early.
overhearing stories of a $7500 study shortly before it went bankrupt last time. these places are not set up for long studies and the mob went stir-crazy.

 

by arbi
3-29-14
it's saturday. we got the patch off, took two pills, 4 blood draws, 4 meals, a shower.
i didnt really even try to get anything done. a couple pages of notes on a tax issue. trying to keep my laptop charged and online. it's bedtime now.
tomorrow's an easy day - i made a list - then monday we get out early.
overhearing stories of a $7500 study shortly before it went bankrupt last time. these places are not set up for long studies and the mob went stir-crazy.
day 9. not much useful work done. started a motion for an injunction in my evansville case. made some notes on my to do list. but it was too loud to work. watched wolf of wall street. just counting
down hours til we get out. i will probably come back for the second half. it would be tempting not to.

 

by arbi
4-03-14
i'm sitting in an alley leaching internet off my friend's house. i didnt pay my internet bill and it won't be back on till tomorrow.
so this one will be quick and dirty. i made it home to indy ok. greg cleaned up the yard really well. i'm just running around doing errands and chores.
our first day off from the study i dumpster dived and got a haircut. the second day i hung out with polaris, a new friend i made at the study.
he showed me a new neighborhood in st louis, the cherokee district, so i went back there later to an art bar a hipster coffeehouse/bar/bookstore. and
tonight, the club. tomorrow, CLE near chicago
got home, no sleep, post office, bank, other bank, dropped off food not bombs stuff, recycled some cardboard, supplies from dollar general, looked at houses.
supplies!

 

by arbi
4-04-14
i have internet again. comic to follow later. had a good day.
got up early, put on a suit, drove 3 hours, went to an election law conference in valparaiso. met brad smith, one of my heroes in the free speech about elections movement.
http://ballots.blogspot.com/2014/04/i-am-at-cle-at-valparaiso.html
dumpster dived on the way home, got home too late for first friday events. met an old lady who might give us a fridge.
saturday's serve went well, about 80 people. i got there late but helped make the salad and dressing, and built some shelves on the back porch.
tommy called me from where he's stranded in texas, he's supposed to get back in a week and i am eager to see him. this was another day i did not take the car in to get it fixed.
i sorted a box of spices they need, and this week i've brought them a food processor, juicer, waffle iron, and mousetraps.

 

by arbi
4-07-14
sunday we did the westside serve. we get to use an old union hall which is great building. we don't have customers there yet, nobody knows about it.
i made stirfry and salad and tea- have i already made this comic?seems familiar.
then we got the roof fixed so that's done for court tomorrow, and i went dumpster diving. i got the cars moved from the driveway, charged up a battery and bought gas.
today it was too rainy to work on the car. i sorted the food i found last night and i'm catching up on my korean soap opera. i sent tommy $20; he's stranded in texas.
i didnt go to the club today - it would have meant getting out of bed.
i've misplaced both of the grisham novels i'm reading,which is driving me crazy.

 

by arbi
4-09-14
didn't get much done today. woke up late for a bar association meeting, wore a tie. took pics of one of my houses for insurance reasons. took food not bombs compost and buried it in my garden.
kevin who has been staying here cleaned the back yard and raked the garden and dug a hole for the compost. plan is he'll do the brakes tomorrow if it doesn't rain.
got minutes for my phone. was a hassle. took out the trash. need to wash my jeans. went to the post office and shopping. need to do my taxes this week and open an ira.
put air in the tires of my other volvo and drove it. $8 for scrapping some cans. wrote a memo for a possible voter ID case. went over my todo list.
found out i've already read both the grisham books i bought. might reread them anyway. blogged and posted to reddit.
forgot to pick up scrap metal from robert. emailed tommy. went to a movie last night with sylvia about urban farming in detroit. not quite a date.

 

by arbi
4-10-14
I didnt get much done today. We found out the control arm on the volvo is broken, and the first two junkyards didn't have the parts.I bought a battery for volvo #49. $41 I call my volvos 48, 49, 50,
based on how many cars i've owned. the van was #51. i did two loads of laundry, and i found out that a set of headphones i found work fine, even though they have been wet for a month.
so greg is calling more junkyards. i'm drinking real coffee today and a bit wired. i better run to the bank now, i have a date with a stripper tonight + the guys want something for working on the car.
i said "once it's finished." i didnt make a comic for tuesday yet so that might happen later. some things are backwards today.
it's already 5 pm and i havent checked my daily task list for the day yet. done. planted some bulbs and seeds. may plant more. it's a few weeks early so might have to replant later.
iforgot to go to the bank first so i got there at 6:01, illegally parked in front of a cop, and still got in the bank and got out $100. took pictures for insurance and bought gas + loaded cardboard .

 

by arbi
4-12-14
friday i drove across town to my insurance guy and he was out, but igot a few boxes of stuff while i was out that way so not a wasted trip.
xander came by and we took took groceries and gear to moon mansion where i made some not very good borscht and we had beer and shots of beet and carrot juice.
saturday i wore a tie and went to a libertarian county convention. later started cleaning the garage and burned brush for the garden. it's about time to plant the garden.
sam still didnt have my insurance stuff ready so next week a 3rd trip.
tomorrow we do another cook at the union hall, and i need to get my taxes done and open an ira.
and reserve rooms for the national convention in columbus in june. dug up half the back garden, now i need to wash and change if i go out.

 

by arbi
4-15-14
sunday we had a pretty good serve at the union hall. called mom. don't remember what else. washed a futon i found that smelled like cat, it'll go in the back of my car, if washing worked.
monday it snowed. good thing i havent planted yet. health and hospital goon came by and threatened me so i spent the day in bed depressed and angry.
tuesday, today, i forgot to go open an IRA, or to get cash from the bank to pay taxes with. idnt get my tax forms done. turbotax isn't working, will try taxact next.
but i did go with xander and we picked up a donated refrigerator. it just fit in my volvo, and we took the back door off his house to get it inside.
i've mostly been catching up on episodes of shameless and rake. dishes and trash and sweeping.
tomorrow is car repairs. thursday i have a yard to mow then pack and drive to missouri for 12 days.

 

by arbi
4-15-14
daddy, what does this button do?
I am Rhom. Welcome abord the Rhombus. We will be cruising at an altitude of 370 feet. Our copilot today is Mal. Mal Asian.
These earthlings are no match for our puny weapons.

 

by arbi
4-16-14
i didn't get much done today.still no progress on the taxes. post office, bought gas, car is fixed, paid the guys $20 each, took out trash did some laundry.
$12 at the scrap yard. planted potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, black eyed susans, corn, forscisthia, lilac, wysteria.
found a bunch of bakery trays. didn't scrap them, they might be useful. made two calls. not much else. i should pack. i have a pretty busy day tomorrow.
wrote an article for my blog about the aclu suing a town in rhode island for censorship. i could write a brief in support.

 

by arbi
4-18-14
thursday my internet was down so i didnt make my daily comic. despite or because of this, i got a few things done.
laundry, trash, bank, paid elecric bill, renewed my homeowner insurance, dived 5 boxes of groceries for fnb, built a squirrel-proof? cold frame and moved seedlings outside.
packed my bags, dishes, cleaned the car, locked up the talbott house, went to the club, a few other things.
didn't buy paint, didnt call the cops on greg, didn't get my taxes done.
now it's friday. i'm at a st louis bread company, which is basically a panera, i'm eating a paneric sourdough roll and having decaf and wifi. drove around an antique section of st louis but nothing's
open yet, it's early. check in is at noon or 3, they arent sure which. maybe i can get in a another nap, i've had two naps instead of a full sleep.

 

by arbi
4-19-14
we checked in yesterday, got the patch applied this morning, took our daily pill.
it's the same routine as last time. crowded, noisy, ghetto, subpar food but at least here we dont have to eat all the food, unlike the place i usually go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
77 degrees, too hot, these places never ever have openable windows. i just learned the clocks have temperaure also.
subjects are 80% black, which affects the noise level. yesterday staff announced a no cussing rule, 3 strikes and you're banned, but it isn't being enforced.
tomorrow's a big holiday, hitler's birthday, so we are going to color eggs or something. just got my third blood draw of the day so typing onehanded.
i have an ok start on an amicus brief about rhode island's political disclaimer statute, which the aclu is suing about. usually though it's too noisy to write.

 

by arbi
4-21-14
day 4. blood pressure 145/95. headache. dizzy. short of breath. this place has turned into a zoo and i'm stressing out.
145/97 on second try.
154/100 on 3rd try
no work done on the brief today.

 

by arbi
4-22-14
the supreme court today, after announcing two cases, discussed the constitutionality of ohio's truthiness commission.
michigan's anti-affirmative action rule was upheld, andjustce thomas was ok with another drink driver's arrest, 5-4 with scalia dissenting.
susan b anthony list v driehaus isn't yet about the merits of the case -ohio is going to lose - it;'s about whether the case can go forward,
or get dismissed on a technicality
5 of the briefs cited majors v abell, a case by a certain aardvark.

 

by arbi
4-22-14
today was a good day, not counting this morning. blood pressure still high. didn't get much written on the brief,
but it was a good day at the supreme court,and people here are singing, and i'm reading grisham and blogging. good chats with mark and polaris.
weds: noisy, crowded, headache is back, got no work done, booked a screening in utah i probably won't go to.
thursday: we are awake. it's noisy. about to get a blood draw and take a pill. i need to make 2 phone calls today.
friday: it's downhill from here. possibly doing a roadtrip to utah when we get out. or not, it's kinda too far for my car and the other guy just backed out.
colorado isn't answering the phone. saturday we got the patch off, be able to shower soon.

 

by arbi
4-27-14
it's sunday afternoon. we are counting down the hours. it's pretty quiet, most folks are sleeping. tomorrow we get out, then for two days we have outpatients.
i'm going to skip utah. 1300 miles is too far in this car to screen for an easy $4300 study. i will probably take a few weeks off.
i want to get my teeth worked on, plant the garden, do some stuff around the house, maybe write another brief.
the brief i wrote for ohio did not get filed in time, but the guy says he did use a bunch of my arguments in oral argument.
the one i'm working on now, for the aclu in rhode island, is going slow but coming together.
i hope i won't get distracted and not get around to finishing it - it's almost ready now if i stop writing and start editing.

 

by arbi
5-12-14
It's been over a week since my last.My wifi isn't working, and I lost my phone while camping in missouri, some burning man thing, and the new phone i bought didn't work right, so i'm in a dead zone
right now. it's monday morning in indiana, i'm at a starbucks waiting on an oil change. i just deposited the study check.
what i'v been up to: errands tuesday and wednesday, cle's thursday and friday, plus hippie christmas, 5 carloads of student junk that now i need to sort out. i'm doing some of that laundry today.
food not bombs all weekend, court tomorrow, bar association weds. went to the dentist, need to go back. so i will put off my next study till after dental work.
we are hosting a regional food not bombs gathering next weekend, then i need to get to ohio for a libertarian convention. which reminds me i need to go see sam about insurance, and buy paint today.
i've done 7 things on this morning's list, but it's going to be a busy hectic day. i wonder if my oil change is done yet. more later.

 

by arbi
5-20-14
a week later, still no internet. at fnb for an interminable meeting.
we had a pretty good fnb midwest gathering this weekend.
i went to the dental school, but they wanted to take out all my teeth, so i'm not going to go back. i took the month off from work so i could go to the dentist, but,
now i'm getting offers to work that i'm having to pass up.
meanwhile, i dont have much of the garden planted yet. making some progress on painting. court went badly last week.
and there are H + H problems with my talbott st house.

 

by arbi
5-22-14
thursday: the cable company didnt come between 2-4pm like they were supposed to so still no internet. i'm at a mcdonalds at twin-aire where some nice old guy is screaming.
i didnt get much done today. trash dishes laundry a little sorting, found my CLE form and the H + H letter.
we had a good meeting yesterday about a housing cooperativ buying my talbott house to be the next moon mansion.might happen, might not.
i am disorganized and not getting much done - when i'm here online i forget which things i need to look up, and when i'm home i dont have internet. i should go buy a phone and some grapefruit juice so
as not to stay at mcdonalds too long
got the usual $1 side salad with newman's own non-vegan southwes ranch.

 

by arbi
5-22-14
last night i was at a meeting about maybe selling one of my houses to a coop, and the godzilla movie came up.
i mentioned that i want a bumpersticker that says "Godzilla is my copilot."
thisus an entry for a cc competition. we now return to the usual laundry lists.

 

by arbi
5-25-14
sunday, 4 more trips in the volvo cleared out the storage unit for the bar association.
weused the food left over from yesterday for today's serve, including the pasta salad and the yogurt dishes i made.
the pasta was overcooked and too much arugula but otherwise good. i got s politeno thanks from a cute couchsurfer i hit on; i don'tusually act that fast but she leaves tomorrow.
yesterday the indy 500 parade kept us from our usual spot.
still no internet. i was mowing the lawn at talbott when i ran over the cord in the dark. i'm at the parking lot of a closed starbucks in irvington right now.
maybe i'll get up early and dumpster dive the indy500 cmpgrounds, looking for tents. maybe.

 

by arbi
5-26-14
got up early, went to the campground where people stayed for the race. didnt find any tents so filled the volvo with cans and a few lawn chairs and such.
then i cut the grass at my talbott house and picked up 6 boxes of books from my neighbor robert. tired from honest work, i'm lounging at a starbucks. also outlined a brief draft while at the club.
i have a bunch more items on my list for today but i probably won't get much done.
it's memorial day, and my thoughts are of phil and dannon, two friends of mine who died of aids.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187701/
phil had been a sailor in san diego, and i got to know him from a dignity support group when i was in law school. we used to go dancing at a little club out in the country.
dannon's death was self-inflicted. he went off his meds and was the life of the party at the all night gay diner for a year before he died in his sleep.

 

by arbi
5-26-14
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/ edoggydog/566573/
i just want to be an aardvark.
aardvark costumes are actually pretty expensive.
i'm sort of back online. tethered to a wire from the modem in the attic, the wireless isn't working yet.
so i only got the 1st 4 things on my 19 item list done, but internet is crucial. off to the bank.

 

how my day went:
make list. do item 1. do item 2. do item 3. cable guy shows up, sort of fixes internet. spend rest of day on reddit.
by arbi, 5-27-14

 

by arbi
6-07-14
for 3 days my computer said "please wait..." so i took it to the shop. well, the shop is my friend sylvia.
and i went and bought a $75 laptop just to tide me over. i think it's a thinkpad from 1983 or something, so programs load slowly.
other than that it's the usual round of errands and dumpster diving.
today was the woodruff yard sale, kind of kicks off the summer. i bought a book "spanking city hall" from a libertarian dominatrix i've been hearing about.
sort of like marten's mom
http://questionablecontent.net/ view.php?comic=2719

 

by arbi
6-09-14
monday. awake at 4 am, out of bed around 4 pm. reddit and solitaire mostly.
did: added minutes to phone, called mom, finished laundry, cleaned fridge, have a cle tomorrow, called joe. installed microwave in my room so i can stay in bed longer.
didn't: make a list, write any memos, go get the battery for this POS $75 computer, many other didn't too numerous to mention.
there was a two week gap in comics recently partly due to cable modem problems followed by computer crash. no phone, no computer, no doorbell, i was hard to reach
both my dentists agree that my teeth are shot and i should get them yanked out for dentures (upper) and a partial (lower) so i've decided to do nothing for the moment. so i took the month off from
work sort of for nothing, but i did need to get my teeth looked at so that's done. in other news, possible trip to hawaii around thanksgiving.

 

by arbi
6-12-14
it's late enough on thursday that i'm just going to call this friday. the main thing i did today was trade up my $75 laptop for the $115 one, and it's a bit better.
i also dumpster dived ice cream, pasta, salads, chili sauce, curry powder, organic coffee, etc, and took it to moon mansion.
planted flowers in the front yard and potatoes out back. that reminds me, is it matthew lush's birthday yet? i usually send him coffee.
biggest news this week is we are trying to rent a 20 room building for $700/mo to be a collective house. waiting to hear from the landlords.
went to the club, same old same old. didnt get much else done today. this week i got in more cle hours, so i should be getting my law license back real soon now - that was one of my big goals for the
year. now that i have a better computer, maybe i can make more comics. i'm also ready to go do a study somewhere, maybe after the convention in ohio.

 

by arbi
6-13-14
got up late, which happens after nights i go to the club. $18 at the scrap yard, booked a screening for a study in WI which I probably won't get into, cleaned the car a bit, not much else done today.
i plan to mow along the back fence, take the recycling to the drop off spot, maybe send a couple more emails, plant some potatoes.
i feel like i'm forgetting some social event on fridays - oh! it's a booze tasting at a store downtown where i know a guy. not that i need more booze.
tomorrow is pride fest and the 10th street fair where we will have a smoothie booth and the italian festival which i will skip this year, so a busy day. must find sunscreen.
greg paid $40 rent
in order to mow the back yard, i'll have to get out off bed and off the computer.
i mowed the lawn, planted potatoes, took the recycling, took 5 boxes of food to fnb, had a drink at 2 clubs, now i cant sleep

 

by arbi
6-15-14
today was pride, and barfleet's 10th birthday. i wound up going to 4 parties and having 4 drinks.
went dancing with xander and helen and mitchell at talbott st. silvia couldn't come because she doesn't have ID.
so it was pride, then we did a smoothie booth at a neighborhood festival where we jumped in a bouncy house.
then ian invited us to barfleet. mitchell couldn't get in because he wasn't on the list, i got in because i'm a member. so we went to talbot, which they'd never been to, and apparently mitchell's gay,
which i didnt know, because he was dancing with a cute boy. i ended up being drunk and told mitchell my life story at some point in the evening.
all in all a good day, now i need a bath, done, and some sleep. it's 3:20 am.

 

by arbi
6-16-14
monday night, too hot to sleep. this computer is so slow i havent been making daily comics. court in the morning. i didnt get much done today.
i did a load of laundry but the dryer broke so i airdried. i called w va to try to book a study but i was on hold an hour then they hung up. i found $500 on indianaunclaimed.gov. yay.
i made a list and checked it twice, but i need to make a better list. i bought coffee $26 and gas $25. planted some flowers and bulbs. kevin's been landscaping.
nebraska called me on a phone i thought was broken after it had been left out in the rain - it seems to have healed itself partly after 2 months.
sunday was the usual serve. fun but i am thinking those are a waste of time. 5 people 8 hours to serve lunch to 20 people. i sent a memo outlining options. now i'm thinking food truck.
i went into greg's room and washed the floor with bleach, but the smell is still there. he claims to have a new high-paying job.

 

by arbi
6-16-14
pussycat pussycat where have you been?
i've been to london to see the queen.*
pussycat pussycat what did you there?
i caught harry styles with a drop bear.**
my porn name, if i ever needed one, is pussycat brentwood.
you know, name of your first pet and the street you grew up on, like you do.

 

by arbi
6-18-14
court went badly. next month they may be putting me in jail, for not being able to make my house pretty enough for them.
the meeting afterwards, with several upset citizens, went well, if preliminary.
then i took a couple computers to the shop, then a dinner meeting of the housing collective - we got the 20 room w michigan place for $600/mo as of july 1.
went to a club. oh and my fuel pump on #48 was going out so crawled home going slower and slower.
it's now 5:30 am. too hot to sleep. i need to make a list and a plan for the day. maybe a haircut. maybe check the mailbox, write those two emails.
testing testing - i had to re-log in due to resetting some options after downloaded a trojan in a solitaire game. nope looks like it won't save this comic. ok 3rd try worked.

 

by arbi
6-18-14
i didnt get much done today. haircut. post office. bought parts for kevin to tune up the volvo, he also did more yardwork.
i ordered quotes for the eaves work from 2 companies. couldn't find an amish roofer yet, i should try the mexican roofing companies.
cle: continuing legal education
moved some compost. cleaned the #50 car, put greg's dirty clothes into bags, bought clothespins and clothesline and some ozium.
tomorrow we are working on the temple house and i have a cle in the morning, i hope the last one for me to get my license back, if last week's 3 hours end up counting.
ran into a guy i had a 3some with one time. they made him go to rehab, and he's a bit of a mess, looks years older. had a drink at the metro so i saw chet and ted and ivan and some people i don't
know their names. i have two more emails to send then it's bedtime. i guess i need a second bath after handling compost. must set alarm. probably wont be able to sleep.

 

by arbi
6-20-14
thursday was a good day, if expensive. dropped kevin off to work on the temple street house with joe, then i went to a cle, $320, by a california rabbi on ethics. thai lunch buffet $12.
took the rabbi to the airport afterwards so we had a nice chat about my anonymous speech cases project.
found 3 boxes of food on the way home, took them to foodnotbombs where we had a sorting and cleaning party where i made guacamole and got to flirt with helen,
then off to the club for fun with chase, then took syliva home, now it's friday and we are going to some burmese event in a hour so i'm getting up, a couple errands to run first. bank, electric bill,
monday road trip to wisconsin. the burmese lunch was good, many cute girls. i vegged out with reddit for awhile, hung up my laundry on a clothesline, dumpster dived 300 mangoes, had a gin and tonic.

 

by arbi
6-24-14
this morning i screened north of milwaukee for a $2800 1 week study. it went ok but i won;t know for a week.
tomorrow i screen n of chicago for a 3 weekend $2800 study.
so i'm in the fancy $66 hotel, not my usual $45 one. suite, hot tub, free breakfast etc. i should have remembered to just put a mattress in the back of the car.
i dumpster dived like $400 retail of groceries tonight so the cost of the trip is covered even if i dont get in either study.
i slept a bit earlier but it's 3 am and i have a 7 am wake up call so goodnight
now i'm awake, bright eyed and bushy tailed, off to my screening, then home.

 

by arbi
6-29-14
since the last comic, i spent 3 days in columbus at an LP convention, came home, so tired driving wasn't very safe, some good networking with libertarian lawyers.
today we moved into the apartment building called "no limits", and now I need to pack up and drive back to waukegan to check in tomorrow.
in columbus i bought some cute little animals that detect earhtquakes, a mexican folk art thing, and a $15 luchadore mask to be part of my arbitrary aardvark costume; cheaper than getting a fursuit.
soon i'll be ready to fight crime. the part of the city the building is in has a lot of crime.
for the kind of crime fighting i actually do, my law license is ready to be turned back on as soon as i send in the $200 and 6 boxtops.
I need to pack, take the laundry off the line, take a bath, gas up the car, and i'm gone, till thursday.

 

by arbi
6-30-14
yumping yimminy!
it's monday night, almost bedtime. i'm at the clinic in waukegan.
i'm number 23, and they only need 18, so they will probably send me home tomorrow, but that could change.
i can't believe
just watched most of ender's game again. a guy i know brings a hard drive with lots of movies - i missed the one about the spelling bee, because
i've been sleeping after driving all night. forgot to get a shower today. there's a downpour outside.
she ate the whole thing
since i don't know yet how long i'm here, i had to leave behind boxes of bananas and bread, but i did pick up a box of books.
i can feel myself coming down with a cold, so even if i get in i could wash out. it's from when i got rained on in columbus saturday.

 

by arbi
7-01-14
so last night 11:30ish i feel a sudden need to puke, and the bathroom's locked, and the other bathroom's locked, and the main bathroom with the showers is too far and i puke in the hall and then into
a wastebasket in the laundry room. also again at 2 am. so i'm almost definitely off the study.
turns out i wouldn't have gotten in anyway, ekgs and labs bad.
i wrote in last comic that i felt i was coming down with something after getting caught in the rain.
i don't think i can blame this on the bad tacos we had for lunch.
so i'll find out in an hour, and get sent home, and about break even for the trip.
tomorrow i'll find out i didnt get into the wisconsin study which was my backup plan. so probably no income this month.

 

by arbi
7-01-14
i made it home eventually. dropped off a full carload of supplies at the new house, which is called 'no limits'.
i'm home in bed after a bath, oing to try to sleep for a few days till i feel better. so not off to the club right now.
the puking is over but i still have the trots and a pretty good excuse for feeling tired and worn out.
i need to call mom, check my mail, call wisconsin, email joe, water plants. sort clothes. sort stuff. clean cars. pay xander $175, pick up computer, sort stuff at new house.
call a few study places. email the guy about the eaves bid. doesn't sound like i'll get much sleep.
friday is first friday, maybe i can drink free wine.

 

by arbi
7-02-14
i did 12 of the things on my 15 item list.
i didn't call mom, make a better list, or get a $200 money order.
thursday: internet's been up and down all day. i didnt get much done. put the new dryer in the basement and took back the extra cord to the garage sale guy. called mom. off to the club. $111 in my
pocket. the computer shop forgot to give me my power cord back, but at least this time the battery they gave me works. the first 3 didn't. spent $6 at the club; slow night.
daily task list for friday will go here:$200 money order. cash for the weekend. clean xander's yard? email joe. set up phone for kevin. iron pill. clean stairs. sort clothes. make bed. move matress.

 

by arbi
7-10-14
it's been a week, so i have some catching up to do. i've been off having adventures.
i was in waukegan for 1 day and got sent home, and got waitlisted for wisconsin and either they didnt call or i missed the call.
yesterday i had pizza with ivan in buffalo, got thrown out of canada for not having a passport, didn't get into the study, and drove home, so i'm home.
home is this big castle of an apartment building i share with 7 other people. it used to be a barber shop. it's in the ghetto on the west side across from a junkyard, but it's kind of off by itself
with trees and fields. there's a lot of cleaning to do, and unpacking and such, even though we've been here a week already.
saw and liked "jersey boys". i see one movie a year, ok this is the 2nd i saw that mary poppins one a few months ago.

 

by arbi
7-11-14
our new home looks like this place. 2 stories, 20 rooms 8 people 1 cat 8 bikes 3 volvos.
i got 7 things of a 23 item list. i went to the credit union, gassed up, dove, went to a club, changed an internet setting, moved a fan, replaced security lights, dishes,
bought filprinil and boric acid, moved plants, brought over clean towels and such, bought a jigsaw, got the wiring inspected.
still need to sort mail, call mom, write some short memos, make a better list, do laundry, check for studies.
a hobo we knew died of cancer, we just found out today.

 

by arbi
7-13-14
today, sunday, we did the meal at the justice center, then i build some shelves and cleaned a bathroom, took out the trash, talked to mom.
i have to bring in a fridge, clean my car, take out the compost, do some more dishes, make a plan for tomorrow.
today i just did potatoes and blueberries.
yesterday i did the mango punch, potatoes, corn, guacamole, salad, freeze pops, garlic bread, and celery.
went to a dance club late last night but just stood around watching other people dance. wasn't drunk enough?
there's endless cleaning to do here so i need to make my lists and do some of my own projects as well. but i'm having fun here.

 

by arbi
7-14-14
woke up 6 am, got going at 4 pm. got my money order, took my broken laptop to geek squad because it's still under warranty, made a list, took the recycling, bought stuff at a korean grocery, obtained
a box of mexican pastries and 2 crates of sodas, did laundry and dishes, made strawberry nectar, got coffee at the food coop, found a vintage table that i made into shelves, and some 78's.
i replaced light bulbs in the basement, took out trash and compost, got some herbs for the garden, cleaned the fridge, sorted the spice cabinet, wrote a draft of a short memo,
didn't vaccum, didnt find out how to check my voice mail or make my phone ring louder, didn't buy screens or spray for bugs, saw a bug at the new place, the horror.
actually did most of my list today. didn't print the memo i need to print. didn't call nasa about a study.
tomorrow is tuesday and a new list. have to get up early, meet joe, borrow his ladder.

 

by arbi
7-15-14
had a pretty good day. worked on the house i co-own with joe. i scraped paint while kevin did plumbing. i mowed and swept, vaccuumed and mopped.
then to no limits for a meeting about chores, went ok, then i dumpster dived and hit a couple of clubs.
i didnt find much, just a vaccuum, a humidifier, a box of clams, shelves, a pie, 100 pounds of hardware.

 

by arbi
7-16-14
joe didnt let me borrow the ladder today so kevin couldn't fix the eaves, so we will rent a ladder tomorrow and hope it doesn't rain.
i'll need my #48 volvo, the house keys, the extension cord, and to set an alarm.
instead we cleaned up the bsement room for a possible new tenant, an old mexican with a dog.
then i came back to no limits (name of our co-op) and did a bunch of chores, list in comments.
didn't print the memo for reinstatement, or do anything online, just wrapped up in mundane items.

 

by arbi
7-18-14
it's past my bedtime so i cant make a comic for friday right now.

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