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by arbi
4-20-16
monday: there was an $800 volvo on craigslist, exactly my 88 blue 740 wagon, but she sold it someone else for less than i would have paid.
tuesday i went to see zootopia for $5. it was great. i can't get a date in this town so i took my stuffed elephant and otter. the movie has elephants and otters so they liked it.
i had mentioned the rocky horror show i went to friday on reddit, and rocky and columbia both replied, so that was exciting. no blood draws this week, we just take the pill, so in theory i could sneak
in a cup of coffee. wednesday it's raining so hard my car almost got flooded,and sputtered for awhile but seems ok now.
yesterday i found some kind of coop community center that i try to find open at some point. trump and clinton won new york.

 

by arbi
4-21-16
i didnt sleep well last night so i'm tto tired to work on my memo, or that's my excuse.
it might have been that hypothetical cup of coffee. it wasn't my houseguests. my potential renters came over so i could get to know them better,
and i think i'm going to end up not renting to them. which will be awkward because they need a place, but it's not my problem.
as i wrote this they came back, and i told them, and it went ok.
i get stressed when deadlines approach. i want to have this lawsuit ready to go on monday when i meet with cocounsel.
friday: got aalmost nothing done on the memos. saturday: same. we are checking in now till monday morning.

 

by arbi
4-24-16
Today, sunday, I worked 9 hours and billed 8, meanwhile we are hear at the clinic getting stabbed 10 times.
I finished the second draft of the memo in support of a preliminary injunction, a 20 page document that is the heart of the case.
Tomorow afternoon I meet with my local lawyer so I wanted to have everything ready to go, and this isn't everything, but it's a good start.
a lot of the other stuff is just one page forms that i should be able to knock out, or shorter things anyway. this one will still take some proofreading.
so tomorrow we check out, i go home and take out the trash, put on a clean shirt, get ready for a meeting, might have a date tomorrow night, then i head to indy for a week.
then we come back for 3 more weeks. we lost a person today so 20 left of 24. i think i get a paycheck tomorrow too.

 

by arbi
4-25-16
I'm pretty upbeat about how today went. Woke up 5 am. stabbed and released by 7:30.
Coffeehouse to touch up the memo, then the pdf's wouldn't print right at kinkos, bought a suit and tie for the meeting, which went well. Still wore my orange converse lowtops.
The lawyer started in pretty tough about the weaknesses in my case, but it turned out he's just being a good lawyer and we talked through all that and i felt it went well.
Back to the coffeehouse, got in an hour of dumpster diving, went back to work and stabbed again, then home where i've just relaxed instead of unpack the car do dishes work on the case based on his
suggestions today. And it's bedtime already, I was only on reddit for a minute.. gonna take a bath and unpack the car.

 

by arbi
4-27-16
yesterday my alrm was turned off so i got a wake up call from work but made my blood draw on time. billed 3 hours on some long emails to cocounsel.
today 4 short emails with his staff, got stabbed one last time, now we have a week off. it was tornadoey so i waited a few hours and got packed and now at noon i'm heading off to indiana.
the next time i sleep could be at home in my own bed. i have two homes right now, i'm almost bicoastal.
i'm probably forgetting something. oh! the cosmos seedlings in the back yard, i want to bring some of those home.
objectives for trip home: get plate for this car, fix the volvo wagon, meet with xander and helen about case. collect rent, make sure house isn't falling apart, pay dumpster bill.

 

by arbi
4-28-16
i am home in my bed in indy after a 24 hour road trip. cant sleep. 750 miles. 5 clubs. went to the post office and 2 banks. made $100 for moving money between accounts. enough to pay for the battery
i bought in paris illinois, luckily battery died next to a walmart. flowers got back ok. house is still here. bills are mostly paid. new plate is here for the car.
i will be able to plant the garden, do some housecleaning and yardwork, while working on the nebraska lawsuit. that's the plan. first bath and sleep.
i stopped at a club in missouri, dodging severe thunderstorms, and Page was working, who i met on the way out, but she was less fun at work then when i met her on her day off. and the guy i liked at
unload trunk of car. attach plate. clean car. compute mpg, trip expenses. email ian. clean front porch. fill dumpster. sort mail. fix roof. conquer world. revise memo.
the illinois club quit it seems, and it's hard to get to with the bridge out and badly marked detours. so lots of frustrations but a little fun.
house was kind of trashed except where chris has cleaned up the front porch. i threw away a bunch of spoiled food, and the roof still has a hole. so there's stuff to work on here.

 

by arbi
4-29-16
I didn't get much done today. Put $2000 in the bank after I realized a certain evelope wasn't junk mail but was a check for the volvo I wrecked. I mowed the lawn and brought the laundry upstairs and
discussed roof repairs.
If I'd gotten up earlier I could have hung out with Bernie Sanders who was in town, possibly trying out for ninja warrior. Or I could have gone to the pretend comic-con. It's called comic-con but it's
not one of the real ones. I did stop by 3 clubs where I used to be a regular but saw no one I know.
space left blank for tonight's adventures if any.
I have a few emails to send and I should be working on my memo.

 

by arbi
5-03-16
this just in! live from the union staion ballroom in indianapolis
ted cruz just dropped out, concedes to trump.

 

by arbi
5-03-16
collected $950 rent paid $300 bills. $15 helen's baby shower. $15 drink $15 tips, $3 coffee. no wonder i'm not tired. forgot the espresso.
I actually feel like I got a lot done today. 3 meetings, 2 clubs, bank, had dinner with a client, planted flowers, went shopping, revised the complaint so billed 2. hours.
I now have $25K in the bank, a goal it's taken me about 2 years to get to.
My big adventure was they wouldn't let me vote and I got it on video so i might have a new case.
Then I made another video of Ted Cruz withdrawing from the race.
tomorrow i finish errands, pack and drive back to nebraska.
then dinner with xander and sukie, got a lot of work done there. went to a club and revised memo between dollar dances.
i stopped at the metro for 1 drink because it used to be illegal to drink on election day before 6 pm. made friends with new bartender ian. so all in all busy.

 

by arbi
5-05-16
$29 gas plus when i fill up. $46
spent 14 hours on the road yesterday/this morning, so i'm back in nebraska. no sleep. unpacked.
just booked a screening for another big study after this one. fingers crossed.
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=82566
i am trying to get the video playlist together for the voter ID incident,and i have county state and federal investigations going.
we are fasting now prior to checkin tonight, so i can't eat the lunch i just cooked. i had grits and decaf this morning at a truck stop.
it's "hippie christmas here in town with the students moving out for the summer, so i hope when we get out saturday there will still be some left.
she prorated the rent so it was $250 not $425.
and now i have an hour before i go check in.checked in. weighed, pissed in a cup, blood drawn, ekg, blood pressure, a few check in questions, bags searched.

 

by arbi
5-08-16
friday was routine. 10 blood draws. wrote a short memo on the new voter ID case, sent it around to some lawyers and media, otherwise wasted the day on reddit and solitaire.
saturday morning i blew $46 on some perrennials at the campus greenhouse. it's nice to get stuff that's not the run of the mill items. now i will need to get them home.
saturday got out 7 am, it was hippie christmas in lincoln, with the students moving out. 3 carloads of dumpster diving.
there was a band playing at the infoshop so i stopped in, gave them some coffee, but the band sucked so i went home to start processing.
1/2 hour worked on memo at coffee shop.
sunday one more carload, i think i'm done. today i got a tent and 6 unlabeled bottles of pinot noir, 10 cans of tuna, more shoes books food tshirts etc.
yesterday's best score was probably the minifrige. i have a lot of sorting ahead of me. going to take more coffee to the infoshop today.

 

by arbi
5-10-16
yesterday it rained hard so i stayed in. found out this morning there was a tornado and hailstorm. need to check on my rare perennials, $50 worth, that were outside. and i should ask chris to check
the hole in my roof back home.
this morning i booked a screening in ohio right after i finish here in 9 days for a $5k study in july. it involves a study for a generic to abbvie's best selling drug.
abbvie is a company that tortured me, fired me, and now won't answer their mail. so i had this idea that i could start importing generics from india thru canada to undercut abbvie's 10 best sellers.
there's a big market for hep c meds for prisoners, as one small example. just another coffee fueled idea i'll never implement.
meanwhile the primary is today and i did not get my lawsuit here filed yet, so i've missed a soft deadline,and i should work on getting ready to file while i'm still in nebraska. @ coffeeshop.

 

by arbi
5-15-16
i've had an unproductive few days, not getting much done.
today is sunday and we took our last pill and get stabbed every hour.
3 more days here, then i drive all night to ohio to screen.
i dont have my lawsuit here filed yet. i'll be putting a few things in storage and throwing away some stuff, because i can only take two carloads home.
i had a great time here and maybe i'll be coming back every now and then.
i probably spent $1200 of my $7500, so it worked out pretty well.

 

by arbi
5-16-16
a news article in indiana mentioned one of my cases today from 20 years ago, a fusion case. not the kaboom type of fusion.
yesterday was our last pill, so today it's wake up, blood pressure, blood draw, bag search, leave. went home, did my scrap run only $12, did some gardening, started cleaning up the apart-ment,
took one load of stuff to the storage locker, gave away a box of food to some guy from craigslist free section,
still need to make a trash run, take in the recycling, and put more stuff in the storage locker, then wednesday i cram everytghing i can into my car and drive home.
thursday i'm in cincinatti. the 30th we come back here for the final checkout. I put $1212.27 in my pocket today, in checks.
i still have like 6 loads of laundry to do tonight. and i should get some sleep. i'm drinking lots of fluids to clean out my system.
my indianapolis law firm for the insurance case fired me, so i talked to two law firms here about it today, nothing definite yet on that so it's on tomorrow's list. i still have laundry to do.

 

by arbi
5-17-16
so far today i've done the laundry, closed my bank account, delivered two boxes of food to random craigslist people, dumped 3 bags of trash, set 3 handfulls of free stuff at the curb, still a lot 2 do
i need to clean out the apartment today so i can leave first thing tomorrow after blood draw and ekg.
i hope tomorrow will be tornado-free. it's too tempting to just get online and waste hours; i need to keep moving. so this is a short comic.
i should have made my screening in ohio for the 20th not the 19th. none of the rooms are done, but all of the rooms have progress.
part of my "solution" is that I'm moving extra stuff to the storage locker. i can either deal with it when i come back the 29th, or if i bring my station wagon i'll have room.
6:15. two rooms done. 2 to go.

 

by arbi
5-18-16
Woke up 5 am. went to work, piss in cup, blood draw, ekg, weight back up to 180, took stuff to storage locker, cleaned the apartment. went to stortage locker and filled car. got on the road.
it's noon. i'm somewhere in iowa. hope to make it out of iowa by 6. my weight being back up to 180 means i'm over the depression i had in december, when my weight was down to 165.
I wouldn't mind being that thin again, as long as it's not because of being sick. I have 24 -23- hours to make it to (city)
this is day 43 because we come back on the 29th for an end of study visit.
800 miles later i screened in (midwestern city) it went ok. but i have to cancel my milwaukee screening because i forgot they don't consider me done yet, since i have one more followup. so $7K i
cant screen for. i probably need to crash for a day now. i'm slowly unpacking.

 

by arbi
5-20-16
friday: so far today is mostly a day of rest. post office, bank, walmart, bought some periennials for the front yard and a houseplant to replace one i killed. sorted mail. need to finish unpacking.
then i should work on the nebraska lawsuit and do some housecleaning. maybe a club tonight. pretty much stayed in bed the rest of the day.
saturday, sunday: barely got out of bed. the electric coffeepot by the bed makes it so i hardly need to get up for anything. i'm not sure where my phone got to, it usually goes off in the morning.
saturday was a games of thrones marathon and a james garner movie with a bruce lee cameo. today just videos solitaire and reddit.
monday i dragged myself out of bed around 4 pm, made a call, went to the bank, got a haircut, stopped by the club, but now i'm back in bed. so more than nothing but little accomplished.
tuesday similar. post office bank money order paid electric bill a bit of shopping took out trash looked at a house i want to buy but not much done yet.

 

by arbi
5-24-16
this is maybe the first day where it's just really hot, and slows me down. where was i: tuesday similar. post office bank money order paid electric bill a bit of shopping took out trash looked at a
house i want to buy at auction june 1. I turned the fans on, watered plants outside, cleaned the trunk, started laundry, plugged in the bug zapper, emailed helen and rick, counted my cash,
just mundane tasks like that. i need to keep cleaning my car, empty the roof bucket, finish the laundry, make a better list.
i need to find the pdf form to print off and notarize,and work on the lawsuit,and the other lawsuits, and the werle problem, and report the salvation army to the lincoln police for the $34.27 they
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83096
stole from me. i'm the arbitrary aardvark. i fight crime. i'm not very good at it. crime usually wins.
i got the above story, about the wisconsin voter ID trial, linked at the electionlaw blog, which didn't run my column about why hillary should put the libertarians in the debates.

 

by arbi
5-28-16
wednesday didnt do much. thursday i got a call saying i got into the ohio study. so did polaris.
i passed up sex with linda, one of my roommate's friends. she was kinda old. seems nice tho, we might go to a movie sometime.
friday i started driving. got to iowa around midnight. crashed at a rest stop. it's around 6 on saturday. i'm in lincoln.
tomorrow is day 40 of 40, our final visit here. i stopped at the outlet mall and bought brooks brothers underwear. other than that i've only bought coffee and gas this trip. will go see ian in IL.
monday morning. I'm at a starbucks in indiana, too tired to make a proper comic yet. finished the study. 80 miles to go to get home. this is my 5th cup of coffee.
I guess my next steps are to go clean out my storage locker and grab a hotel room. so i did that.
former housemates weren't home so i couldn't grab the cable box. the banks are closed so i'm holding my $2800 check.

 

by arbi
6-01-16
monday i rested all day and slept all night after the road trip. tuesday i was lazy and watched a couple of movies and didnt do much. today is wednesday and it's been interesting.
today i woke up on time, got a certified check from the bank, and went to an auction. 64 houses for sale. i bought the one i wanted, at a bit less than i would have been willing to pay.
it's next door to a house i owned that the city tore down, and it's on a street i've lived on, and it's a block from one of my other houses. rough neighborhood but ok.
then i got a call saying i'd been dropped from the $6K cincinatti study i was supposed to start next week, so instead i am going to drive to west virginia tonight to screen for a $1200 4 day study.
http://imgur.com/gallery/jHwr5 here's a much better webcomic than mine
quite a letdown but i'm calm again, no big deal. there are still at least 6 clinics i can go to. but that was the closest.
i got a late start so drove horribly tired but it went ok. also booked a screening for a $3300, but it's in fargo.

 

by arbi
6-07-16
saturday and sunday i spent sick in bed, so9mething flulike after pushing myself too hard on the west virginia road trip
they wanted me to come back to repeat my urine, which i'm not going to do, so it was a wasted trip. i missed the woodruff place yard sale which is a big annual social event. this weekend is pride, or
maybe i'll be on the road to n dakota. monday i did some laundry and cleaning. i can only do a little before my back hurts so i went back to bed.
got stood up for plans to go for chinese with ashley. watched game of thrones.
it's now tuesday, and i'll need to drag myself out of bed, make a list, figure out what i'm doing today. bath, clean the trunk, there's a pdf to print and notarize, maybe get back tio working on the
nebraska lawsuit.

 

by arbi
6-07-16
my internet went down today. turning it off and on again didn't help. so i got stuff done instead, and now i'm at a coffeehouse.
i did some laundry and got fans going in the basement and attic and pruned the apple tree and cleaned out the trunk of my car and moved my other car for the first time in 2 months and took out trash
and hung up clothes and found the case file from one of my old cases i've been looking for, and picked up trash around my new house, and took the recycling to the recycling dumpster and swept the
front walk. being present at my house instead of lost inside the internet as usual. i was going thru some junk mail from my car,and realized somebody is offering me way more than usual for my texas
property, so i came here to send an email about that, which i might do if i don't get distracted. too early for hillary news. sent 5 emails, looked up two phone numbers, called about a study. off to
check a dumpster then early to bed, CLE and bar association tomorrow. Coffee $3.

 

by arbi
6-08-16
to do: take out trash. sort boxes. get pdf ready to print.
Didn't sleep well. Decided not to go to the CLE. The one friday is better. The bar association did not meet this month although it was on google calendar. Paid my water bill. Went to the muffler shop
but the wait was too long so I came home. I'm not good at waiting. Spent an hour on hold with cable co finally got thru to Tony in tech support who fixed my internet and got me $5 off and a credit for
the outage. cancelled my internet in nebraska but i sense i will have to fight them over the bill. laundry is done and put away.
3 of the 5 people i emailed yesterday wrote back so progress there. I still havent sorted last night's 30 pounds of cheese. done. Found a nice orchid too. oncidium.
I didnt buy a lawn mower yet, and my back already hurts, but I have a few more tasks that can fill the rest of the day, which is going pretty well. I did a first draft of a thing called a lis pendens.
Roommate asked to "borrow" $10 and I said no, I'm too soft a touch. At least she didnt whine about it.

 

by arbi
6-09-16
http://www.remax.com/realestatehomesforsale/ 205-eastern-indianapolis-in-46201-gid600034632295.html
thursday my main task was a meeting with a realtor to see the house i bought. the meeting went well and the house is what i expected. outdated electric, a blocked drain in the basement.
she drove a convertible, was gung ho. we broke in thru an unlatched window and looked around. she thinks she can sell it for $15K, the number i suggested. might be all talk.
hardwood floors, some new windows and classic older ones. the neighbor Paul keeps the bums away.
I got a pdf file printed and notarized and have to mail it. Not much else done today. Dug up some burdock weeds in the yard of the new house. Pawn shop was out of lawn mowers.
friday i didnt get out of bed except for a bath. trying to rest up for a road trip. i do not expect to get in the study because i'm still sick from last road trip. first i'll stop by pride parade.

 

by arbi
6-15-16
i'm home again in my own bed. 3 1/2 days, 2000 miles, 2 screenings, 1 hotel room, $200. 8 cups of coffee.
i screened in fargo n dakota and columbia missouri. they both went pretty well so i might get one or the other or both.
i went to pride downtown for a couple of hours on saturday and left from there. my car radio barely works but it's been pretty nonstop about the orlando shootings.
got home to some drama - one of the roommates got back together with his ex, which puts his live in girlfriend in a tight spot. i told her she can stay in the living room for now.
i slept 12 hours, headed to a bath, then i'll need to clean out the car and plan my day.
mow the back yard if it's not too wet, get an oil change, check the po box, the usual stuff.

 

by arbi
6-17-16
i've been back several days and done nothing. i did call today and found out i got in both studies, and the time is right i can show up for both and if i get sent home from one i'll do the other,
maybe even do both.
so now i need to get off my ass and out of bed to check the mail. roommate mowed the lawn and took out trash. i need to clean the car.
and come home and make a list and clean the house.
if i had a bunch more panels i'd tell the story of how a scotsman asked my ex if she was traveling unafraidy.
no, i'm not afraid?

 

by arbi
6-17-16
income $4 outgo $140, 250, 70, 2.
so far i started laundry, took a bath put on clean clothes went to the po box and bank. got some very good news in a letter, that i'm not going to detail on stripcreator. mowed some lawn. cat got out.
made payments on two credit cards and now i should put the laundry in the dryer, go pay the electric bill, done, plant the tomato plants i bought this week, put away groceries, and make a list.
i sent emails about selling a couple of my properties, maybe i'll hear back on that someday. i have some more leads i need to follow up on, so i should go through this crate of paperwork. and do
these few dishes, and clean my room. it took a few days, but i'm up and out of bed and it's sunny and nice out, so i should make hay. i celebrated with an artisanal soda - tasted like dr pepper.
I need to clean my room, make sure bills are paid, open this letter from the zoning thugs, without spiraling into depression. i strongly dislike those letters so they pile up unread.
i got a $4 check from the Tom's of Maine settlement, and i mailed the notarized complaint to the state about my not getting to vote at the primary.

 

by arbi
6-20-16
my to do list for monday had 13 items. instead, i only got 3 things done.
i bought another saw because my guy broke the first one. i bought a lawnmower for too much $ and mowed the lawn at my new house. I havent even taken a bath yet. Oh I cooked some eggs -
it's the first time I've cooked in weeks. It's about 90 F, and that just increases my tendency to stay in bed all day. It's hot and it's raining and that's my poor excuse for not going out to clean my
car right now. But I have no such excuse for not working on the nebraska complaint.
I'm not unhappy. I just don't get out of bed. It's not due the car wreck/back injury - I noticed a bit of pain carrying the boards upstairs, but I had not trouble mowing the lawn. 20 minutes of
actvity is a full day's work. I'm just lazy and shiftless maybe.

 

by arbi
6-21-16
I didnt do much today. Back hurts from yesterday's mowing. I should go mow one more lawn today. (But I didn't, and now it's raining.)
my best friend helen came over, 8 months pregnant, to see me before she moves to ohio.
update: the "offer" for my texas land turned out to be bogus, a mistake, so i'm not rich after all.
i told my tenant who is fixing the roof he doesn't need to pay rent next month - we agreed that's fair. i made a few business calls and had some emails with my sisters about family business stuff
left a message for the folks who might want to buy my texas oil rights.
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=83721
i got a story posted to the election law blog, listened to a fourth circuit oral argument, caught up on the supreme court's cases yesterday, but mostly i've been looking up risque emma watson photos.
and as always redditing too much.

 

by arbi
6-23-16
today the supreme court decided its penultimate set of cases for this term. monday will be the last ones.
the court upheld affirmative action in texas, 4-3, upheld breathalyzer tests but not blood tests for dui's, and decided 3 other cases, 2 of them 4-4 splits.
polls are closed and odds are uk votes "remain".
The court, 4-4, upheld an injunction of Obama's anchor baby amnesty program, so the inunction remains in force.
This will even increase the importance of this issue in the presidential campaign.
leave wins 52-48!
I'm not sure what happened in dollar general v the indians.
meanwhile i've checked into the columbia study, where it's 80% black and noisy. i forgot to bring headphones. i was even in walmart today, but forgot i was there to buy headphones.

 

by arbi
6-24-16
today i dosed, so i'm in the study. i'm #24 of 24. 8 blood draws so far. this is a $2000 study over 10 days. it's crowded and noisy, hard chairs, but i got a single room and the staff is nice.
the food is from the same company as last time but they say it's better, we'll see. wifi is a little iffy but usually works. i've gotten nothing done yet today.
we have procedures every other day. i forgot to bring headphones, need to order some from amazon, because the noise really gets to me.
north dakota postponed my next study so i have to rescreen and i lose 3 weeks, but the upside is i can go to the rainbow gathering in vermont. and brian's going with me to rescreen if they let him.
this space left blank in case anything more happens today

 

by arbi
6-24-16
Fattah
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/us/politics/ congressman-convicted-of-bribery-will-step-down-in-october.html
Fattah
Fattast

 

by arbi
6-27-16
today the supreme court finished its term, deciding the last 3 cases. none was a bombshell like the ones we have seen in recent years.
the court struck down a texas anti-abortion rule, no surprise there.
9-0, the court found that former virginia governor McDonnell gets a new trial on federal corruption charges.
e i e i o.
the court held certain misdemeanants can have their guns taken away. Sotomayor joined part of Thomas' dissent, while Scalia rolled in his grave.
that's all folks, see you next year.

 

by arbi
6-27-16
study continues to go smoothly. there are side effects, but bearable ones.
a new study is checking in and i worry i could lose my single room.
today is an "off" day where we had one blood draw in the morning and nothing else to do all day.
i still havent started back to work on my nebraska case. which is getting to be a problem. this is a pattern for me, prolonged writers block and work avoidance.

 

by arbi
6-28-16
it turns out the supreme court wasn't quite finished for the year after all. today the court announced 8 cases for next fall,and turned down other cases.
so we've got cases on atm machine machines antitrust, cases on whether cities can sue banks for discrimination, a case on welfare for deaf kids, a bankruptcy case,
one about when people can sue a foreign government that nationalizes their stuff,
and one on whether a dog can attend school.
justice thomas dissented from denial of delaware strong families v attorney general, a campaign finance disclosure case.
these 8 cases will be heard next fall by the current 8-justice court, so expect more 4-4 splits.

 

by arbi
6-30-16
http://mubi.com
So it turns out I counted wrong and we get to leave tomorrow, not the next day. No June 31st, although that wasn't the part I counted wrong.
I didn't get any work done while I was here. And I wasn't getting any work done at home, so I've lost a month on my current project. Plenty of time left, but it's a worrysome pattern.
Mostly I've been watching interviews with tarantino and kevin smith, and way too much reddit.
The single room has made this study bearable, otherwise it would be too noisy and crowded. Took my last pill and getting stabbed every half hour till lunch.
the internet went down as i was saving and it messed up how this displays. i can fix that later if i care.
Tomorrow I'll drive home and pack for a week in the woods; planning to drive to vermont for rainbow gathering, unless there's some other study to screen for somewhere.

 

by arbi
7-11-16
i have some catching up to do here. i finished my missouri study, was home for a few hours, spent a week in the woods with thousands of hippies
at the appalachian trail in vermont. drove there with a beautiful korean girl and her bf shareef
two days of lying in bed redditing, then off to fargo. i'm lost in minneapolis right now. i have about 14 hours left. a few hundred miles to go. 240.
then, i turn around and go to west virginia to screen for a $6000.
so of course i'm making no progress on my lincoln sign case, and i havent closed yet on the new house i bought at auction last month.
things are ok. house was trashed when i stopped by, i need to get home and work on that.

 

by arbi
7-14-16
http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=258
i'm in morgantown west virginia. i didnt get into the $6200 study i drove 1200 miles from north dakota to try out for. so i'm going to head home, but i'll need to sleep somewhere first.
i may update this later, just wanted to check in. i might still have gotten into the fargo one, the piss test was a bit inconclusive.
there's a new study in denver i could look into, but i'm going to go home and sleep and do chores first. house i kind of trashed since i've been away.
now i'm at boscoe's a newish gay bar in columbus. a dancer at tremont told me this is the happening spot tonight. we'll see. at least it has wifi. the toolbox saloon was as dead as usual. i sure miss
it turns out it's actually thursday
the bow wow club. i guess i could stop by U before i leave town. Denver called and has a $1150 study for me if i can work out the logistics - it sounds like a money loser but fun.
the club on wheeling island wasn't open yet. sudden rainstorm on way here, but missed the hail.

 

by arbi
7-19-16
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4tnhf2/ i_am_matt_damon_ask_me_anything/
friday saturday sunday i mostly lay in bed. it's too hot to move.
monday i made a 12 item list, emailed about the house i need to close on, spent $100 at places like big lots and dollar store, did laundry, cleaning, took out trash, wrote a page at least at the club,
found muffler mechanic, but i had an espresso at mcdonalds and then couldn't sleep so i did not get the muffler done today, or much else.
po box, just bills, bank, paid the electric bill, $160, found 30 boxes of ritz crackers, but mostly didnt get much done. put a flea collar on the cat, still need to bomb this room for fleas.
(none of the stripcreator characters look like matt damon)
i need to try again to get up early and get the muffler worked on, and check the list to see what else. i sent ian the link where he can get his meds free, if that works out.
got home, need a bath, but i've been wasting time hanging with matt damon on reddit

 

by arbi
7-22-16
got a story posted at electionlawblog about how the dems dont want to disclose their convention funders
wednesday and thursday i stayed in bed. it too hot to sleep, so i havent gotten up in time to take my car in for the muffler. penn and teller videos.
but today friday has been one adventure after another. my roommate dawn needed a ride to court and hasnt returned so i'm guessing she's in debtors prison, can't afford to pay for her ankle bracelet.
i got bumped $400 on the closing, got charged $4800 instead of the $4400 i bid, but i paid it anyway. also paid $40 on my internet bill and gave dawn $20.
on the way back i stopped at a new coffeehouse. my neighborhood may be finally gentrifying a little. it's a coffeehouse/cider factory/coworking event space thingy.
then my car wouldnt start so i got the battery charged meanwhile walked home. closed on my new house, stopped by my new house, dumpster dived 10 bottles of two buck chuck merlot and some groceries.
mark paid $150 rent, still owes $1050.
emailed an old friend about being the caretaker at my new house - he got forclosed and has been living in his garage.
i am skipping an event he told me about. might go to the club. might lie here. need to go get my car.

 

by arbi
7-23-16
I got more than usual done today. Muffler repair and battery cable repair $220, took hours. Got car back home. Washed car. Got gas ($1.59 gallon). Went to a store i heard had a sale, bought nothing.
mowed a yard and a half before the mower smoked and a wheel fell off. did laundry. went over chores with dawn. went to club. spent time downtown, had coffee. took shower.
cleaned car and put away food. watered lawn. made list, checked it twice. didnt pay texas taxes. didnt update insurance or fill dumpster.
did not get with kc or go swimming or give dawn a written list. made ice. did not revise nebraska memo. did not pack for n dakota trip. pnc wasn't open. went to bank. so 16 things done.
monday: did not get out of bed.
3 productive days out of 7. left blank for sunday, plan to sleep in. will now put away laundry and make more ice and eat something.
sunday i didnt do much but met kc downtown and went to food not bombs. showed him the new house, he;s on board. dumpster dived a flat screen tv and 10 beers.

 

by arbi
7-27-16
i'm stuck in a hailstorm near minneapolis, close enough to a truck stop to get wifi.
i started driving tuesday night. it's wednesday afternoon now. tomorrow i check into a study in fargo. hope i get to dose after this long trip.
last night i stopped into the lucky horseshoe in chicago just before it closed, and breakfast today in wisconsin dells.
i want to find the mall of america while i'm in this area, i've never been. i like window shopping.
sounds like the truck next to me won't start, could be flooded. luckily this car is already hail damaged, which is part of why it was just $600.
his truck just started. probably was just "flooded".

 

by arbi
7-28-16
the mall of america was fun. 7 stories tall and i am afraid of heights so a little tricky. didnt buy anything.
stayed at "motel 7" for $50, an hour from fargo. then i get a call saying they've pushed checkin back until tuesday. so i'm trying to line up an airbnb.
i started to drive home, but realized i would just have to turn around when i got there, so i'll stay here, somehow.
the upside is i get to drink coffee, so that's what i'm doing. and i picked up my computer from walmart that they were holding for me.
they had it mispriced and really didnt want to sell it to me, but i insisted, so they got one in, only took 3 weeks.
i guess now i should check couchsurfing. my other option is i found a $20/night campground and i could get a tent at walmart.
so i'm in fargo with no plans, gotta figure out what to do next. update I found a nice $30/night airbnb.

 

by arbi
7-30-16
thursday night i checked into the airbnb, my first one, liking it. some yuppie couple's extra bedroom. they set a low rate and have enough guests to pay their mortgage i think.
friday i just stayed in bed redditing and finished watching hornblower.
saturday i found the downtown, a farmer's market, an art theater, a bookstore, the library, an asian market, that sort of thing. off to a club next.
$3 coffee $6 movie $50 3 books, $5 juice, $8 cover charge. $25 parking ticket. $30/night for the room.
sunday i have no plans.

 

by arbi
8-05-16
http://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/op-ed-columns/4087975-robbin-stewart-letter-voter-id-statute-factually-wrong
it's been a few days. right now i'm home in indy. i am missing first friday and gencon, by not getting out of bed. on tuesday we were supposed to check in, after i stayed 5 days in fargo waiting.
tuesday they postponed till next monday. so i drove home. they say they will pay $500 more, but i have a feeling i wont dose.
came home. dawn's gone, stole stuff and cut off her ankle bracelet. today i rented her room to "tammy" who seems nice. so that could be another $250/mo if it works out.
yesterday po box, car broke down, but started ok later. so i'm a little scared to drive back to n dakota. will anyway.
tomorrow i head back.
today bank, collected rent, put drain cleaner in blocked drain in new house basement.
doing laundry. cleaned the bathroom, cleaned car, took out trash.

 

by arbi
8-08-16
saturday: slept in, didnt go to gencon or much else. hired rudi to clean up a bit at my talbott st house $100.
sunday: drove 850 miles to fargo. drove by circus world museum in baraboo wisconsin
$50 motel 6, ready to check in. got car inspected, needs major and minor work on struts and tie rods.
photocopied the grand forks herald editorial i did, at library. we better actually check in this time. this is the study that's been postponed 4 times.

 

by arbi
8-09-16
so i dosed this morning. it was touch and go as theytook my blood pressure 3 times, but i'm in. i did not get into the colorado study i was in line for. if i finish this study ok i'll be at about $19k
for the year so far, in income from studies.
since the last time i was here, they got comfortable chairs, and we're going to be able to use both sides of the room, but it's mostly the same routine - sit all morning, with the damn tv on.
don't know if i'll be able to get any work done. forgot to bring blanket and pillow, and it's cold.
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by arbi
8-12-16
it's noon on friday. we checked in monday. so i guess this is day 5. the days all blur together. i turned 56 yesterday, so from here on in it's harder to find studies.
from 9 to 1 we sit in comfy chairs in rows, watching the olympics. watching tv is not optional. in some studies the sitting is for observation and medically required, but here they just do it out of
habit. plus there's nowhere else to go. there's your bunk, your comfy chair,and they have hard chairs at tables where we eat on the other side of this big room. it's claustrophobic.
apparently ragu is leaving stripcreator. he's been a regular for a few years now. he was always friendly and supportive. a few of the old regulars have stopped back recently.
i havent gotten any work done here yet. i should make a list. it's not a place conducive to working, but that's my responsibility.
i just got a call and booked a screening on the east coast after i get out of here. on the other hand the place in texas that emailed doesn't actually have anything.

 

by arbi
8-14-16
day is day 7. nothing really happened yesterday. our only change in routine is a blood draw before we dose in the mornings.
tomorrow is the day we get stabbed 12 times, the day after that we get out around 10 am and i start driving toward new jersey.
today i mostly watched horace and pete all day, which of course is louis ck's self-made show.
monday we got stabbed all day every hour on the hour. tuesday they cut us loose with a $500 bonus check and i'm somewhere in wisconsin.
I just found out I don't need to go to new jersey thursday, so I can head home tonight. I'll probably have dinner in madison and go to a club in boystown and get home at dawn.
Although Dawn no longer lives at home, she's either in jail or on the lam, because she cut the bracelet off her ankle.

 

by arbi
8-16-16
vincent, do you know the price of a royale with cheese in Paris?
sanc franc?

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