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by arbi
8-17-16
aafter driving 900 miles in 24 hours, i made it home. had a good time in madison, met a dancer named rae. got home went to the bank paid bills. went to the club to see Jade which went well. unloaded
car, met dawn's replacement. very similar late 30s grandmother tattoos ankle bracelet. seems nice. took a nap.
i didnt have the state fair coupon i thought i had. i did have a $10 aldi coupon so i bought 20 jars of coffee, $30. ran into kc at greg's. he might be my new roommate at my new hoiuse, we are still
working out details. kareoke night at the all night gay diner, had fries and coffee. did dishes sorted trash. relaxing in bed right now, finally got a bath.
i need to make a list and figure out how to be productive for the next 3 weeks before i go back to fargo.

 

by arbi
8-18-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCnw2RIiXsw super
didn't get much done today. 2 loads laundry 2 phone calls mowed the grass in the back yard po box bank.
went to the club hung out with kitty had two drinks, feel drunk.
http://watchseries.cr/series/leverage/season/2/episode/1
friday: did not get out of bed. binge watched 8 episodes of "stranger things" instead. it's dark now, and may have rained.
saturday: did not get out of bed. binge watched season 1 of leverage.
went to state fair because today was the last day. stopped at metro for a tonic and lime. i'm thinking i may cut down even more on drinking. i've gone from 3 a week to maybe 3 a month. could be more.
state fair was fun, same old stuff. should have worn more comforrtable shoes.

 

by arbi
8-23-16
Monday I didn't do much. A few people came by. I paid rudy $40 for some work he did on one of my houses, and $25 more on tuesday. Went shopping, and spent 20 minutes cleaning the bathroom closet.
Tuesday I swept the floor at the new house while rudy mowed the lawn, and we checked the Talbott street house to make sure it was ok. I paid $95 on the internet bill and charged my phone and am about
to take a bath. So did a few things but less than I need to do. I think next is laundry and put away food. Did dishes. Mostly still bingewatching.
Tomorrow I have a bunch of bills to sort out and pay. I need to make a new list. I did end up spending some quality time with my newest roommate. Batshit crazy and probably won't be here long but fun.
paid lawyer dues $180. laundry is in. did some dishes.
wednesday i forgot i had a CLE so i got there at 2:15 instead of 9 am, and missed the best part. then we had a tornado and the power was out for hours, but i scored at 4 out of 4 dumpsters so it was
a good day. stopped by the club. oh also told linda to stay away from my house - i've been having a skank problem lately, comes with being right on rt 40 in the ghetto.

 

by arbi
8-25-16
$215.
paid car insurance. called credit card about a $5 charge i didnt recognize. my texas taxes seem to be paid. sent some emails. didn't go to the hamilton county courthouse and it's too late now i think.
so i could go check my po box instead, not sure i need to. but it's something to do.
read a few briefs. foolishly made an offer to write an amicus
i put out ant bait which might or might not work, i have these tiny ants snooping around my bedroom.
tomorrow i have a cle, maybe saturday i can focus on car repair or go to the greek festival.
friday: at cle. $275.
oh i'm remembering now my car is full of groceries, some of which i want to take over to the new house. so i'll do that. done. and i need to fill the dumpster tonight.
coming back from the po box, i stumbled on coalyard coffee, which i'd never been to before. i'm not going to stay for jazz night, but it's a nice hangout place.

 

by arbi
8-27-16
friday night i went to 3 clubs but mainly the white rabbit for a cameron esposito show. she's a comic. $20 plus a couple drinks.
this is the first time i've paid for a comedy show. worth it. she's the star of "take my wife, please" and has a podcast. i liked her act except for the pro-clinton rant.
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=86038 “Black Activists in Missouri are Fighting to Preserve the Right to Vote”
saturday i did not get out of bed except for a bath. i can't drink like i used to. was supposed to get car repaired or go to greek festival or do something from my 28 item list.
i'm on season 3 of leverage by now. sunday and monday did not get out of bed, finished leverage, watched a series called the green room.
tuesday i went to the club. it was an hour later than i thought so my 2 dances cost $40 instead of $24. computer had reverted to north dakota time somehow.
so a mad dash up to hamilton county courthouse to cross an item off my list. they can't find the case. went to a coffee shop then 5 grocery stores. at panera now, watermelon strawberry lemon smoothy

 

by arbi
9-01-16
so i'm doing laundry then i'll cut some grass then i need to unload the car and write an eviction letter.
yesterday, wednesday, i did not get out of bed. today was a little more productive. i took a bath, took a dozen roses to that dancer i like, had fries for lunch at the club, paid my property taxes
$1650 and credit card $400 and did a public records request - part granted part denied so could be a new case, and found out one of my old cases was closed in 2005 so i can cross it off the list.
water bill $100. grass cut. car partly unloaded. collected rent $250.
i need to mow a lawn that i just mowed about a week ago, so that's on tomorrow's new list. i found a blue volvo wagon for sale, a 1992 740. I've owned a 740 blue volvo wagon and and 1992 blue volvo
wagon, but this would be my first 1992 740. so i should get up and go to the bank before 6. i talked him down to $1600 if i have the cash. i got the cash but he said come back tomorrow.
i need to put away laundry, finish car, put minutes on phone, go thru list.
tomorrow i need to pack and get reaady to go back to n dakota. i got so little done these 3 weeks i was home it seems like. but i got a few things done. even had sex once,
with a new roommate who seems to be gone again, just as well. update: the cat just tripped a mousetrap. wasn't supposed to be cattrap.

 

by arbi
9-02-16
just realized its first friday so i can go to some events before i hit the road. - but then i didn't.
today my main adventure was not buying a volvo. i didnt like the way it handled on the test drive. so i put the $1650 back in the bank.
other than that i'm mostly cleaning the car, need to pack. it's pretty bad when i can do a whole load of laundry from stuff that was in the car. so it's probably ready for the dryer now.
now it's 8 pm and i havent started to pack but it's almost time to go, so i'll end up packing in 10 minutes like usual, and forget something.
bought roach stuff cuz i saw some in the kitchen. 9:15 and i'm packed but haven't left.
tonight i'll drive to chicago, then tomorrow i'll drive all day and get to fargo for checkin sunday
finally put more minutes on my phone. last weekend my phone buttdialed somehow and used up 100 minutes until it was out.
i always leave a little extra time because who knows what will happen on the road.
i checked my list and i've only done 4 of the 32 items.

 

by arbi
9-04-16
day 10 of 18. i left indy at 9:30 friday night, stopped at the lucky horseshoe in chicago - the club was boring but ok walk around the neighborhood. stops in wisconsin dells and minneapolis. 850 miles
so i'm in fargo now at a $54 super8, waiting to check in this evening. they are letting me check out as late as i want, got here around 2 am after my usual hotel was full.
nothing i really need to do in fargo before i check in. walmart, maybe the indian buffet.
will update after checkin. strange, i remember updating this comic but that part's gone now.
it's day 3 of the second half -so day 12- and we've settled into a dull routine. it's too noisy to get any work done. i just kill time on reddit mostly.

 

by arbi
9-10-16
every day is the same, hard to sleep at night in a barracks of 20 people, then we sit in our hard chairs all morning then crash out in our beds till dinner.
so tuesday wednesday thursday friday went by that way. i never even opened the file i needed to be working on.
i thought i made a comic covering some of this but it might not have saved.
i played some chess and monopoly, but mostly i'm on reddit all day and podcasts. i have headphones on to drown out the football on tv. there's been a lot of adam sandler movies.
tomorrow is our busy day then we get out monday morning. still not sure i'm going to be paid $4000 or just $3800. I might have a screening lined up, and there's a rainbow gathering on lake superior.
i'm about to have another dinner of ground beef slop and a salad of iceberg with kraft ranch. most meals are some variant of this.

 

by arbi
9-11-16
updates to follow: ok, the missouri clinic just said come in tomorrow, so no camp out for me. I couldn't leav e fargo till i knew which way i was going.
it's sunday, so we are getting stabbed once an hour. then tomorrow they let us go and hand us a check.
tomorrow i make a phone call and find out if i'm headed to missouri for a screening, or to the woods in minnesota for a rainbow nation event.
reddit status: 5 years in, 73,000 meaningless karma points
I was home in indy for gencon and didnt go, just cuz i didnt feel like gettinbg out of bed. then, while i was busy not going to new jersey, i could have gone to the worldcon in kansas city with my mom
and my brother and his wife, but i didnt think about that till later. i probably won't go to the first nations oil pipeline protest, even tho it's relatively nearby. my schedule consists mostly of
monday morning i'm in a coffee shop and the clinic isn't answering their phone so i guess i'm off to camp near lake superior.
work and trying to fit in a little camping in between studies, plus i should be home deep cleaning the house and setting up the new house.
right now i just need to grab a shower between blood draws. i should probably glance at my to do list.

 

by arbi
9-13-16
drove 750 miles in 20 hours.
My screening today went ok. I'll know in a couple days, and if I got in I come back Sunday for 5 days.
I'm sort of headed home, but slowly> i napped for 2 hours this morning but am loopy from coffee and lack of sleep. Met a cute barista. Had a late breakfast at a diner that's been around since 1934.
350 miles to get home.
Toast is still $1, same as 20 years ago when I lived here. I'm killing time so I can hit a club in Illinois tonight. But I should probably just get on the road.
It always feels a little strange passing through a town I used to live in. I won't drive by my old house.
had a just ok at the illinois club. got home around 5 am. got into the study so i go back sunday.

 

by arbi
9-14-16
slept. bath. club $40. post office. deposited 3300 credit union. shopped kroger dollar tree save-a-bunch $20. paid $400 on chase card owe $100. got 50 $2s. paid $108 pnc. gas $20. talked to tenants.
coffee $3. letters saying they want to buy my house -junk mail. oil check $320. brought in plant but it looks already dead. took out trash.
to do: put away groceries clean car laundry make better list public records letter werele problem blog fill dumpster do cash count update calendar need 1 hr cle this year. make bed. clean room, house.
take a nap. so that's my plan for the day. nap taken, laundry in, car a bit cleaner.
title is arbitrary and unrelated to the lap dance i got from mariah.
thursday my alarm didn't go off so i'm still in bed.

 

by arbi
9-16-16
today i didnt get much done, it's midnight and i still don't have the laundry in. but i did make it to my 1 pm only a little late.
it was a $50 study at a local lab, a strange one that involved electrodes on my head and shocks to my arm and hand dexterity tasks. i'll do it twice more this month.
I waited for the last minute, left 1 am.
then tomorrow i'll get around to driving to missouri instead of waiting for the last minute.
if i time it right i can stop by a couple clubs in western illinois/east st louis.
i didnt get a lot done while i was home. one of my housemates is waiting for a $400 paycheck to clear, so i may or may not see some of that.

 

by arbi
9-19-16
the drive here was uneventful. got within 30 miles, stopped at a truck stop for a nap. i try not to drive when i'm too tired. had brunch at two of my favorite spots then checked in.
today we dosed. wanda is here and marcus and even my old enemy kurt stopped by for a screening. marcus took me to my first burning man event a couple-3 years ago.
i have to go get my blood pressure checked again now. it's been running high and most places wouldn't have let me in. also i think my weight's back up to 185, I got fat again without noticing.
one thing this study does right is we get 4 meals a day, second breakfast. the wifi is bad, but the food got better than the last 2 times i was here. it's crowded and noisy with no quiet room and the
132/87. that's pretty good.
tv's blasting a football game so my blood pressure is about to be high. and they took my dr bronner's so i'm stuck with baby shampoo.
only 3 more days, so i can put up with all this no problem. 22 blood draws per day.

 

by arbi
9-20-16
another pill, another 22 blood draws, 4 meals 2 snacks. my blood pressure was 162 at one point, a side effect of the pill.
my main hassle today was the wifi kept cutting out.
got home ok
i'm not even trying to get work done. i have a dozen tabs open at least, reddit, jalr.org where i moderate a forum for lab rats, my blogs, the election law blog, gmail, and watched some bruce lee vids
tentative plans to explore a tunnel under indy this weekend.
i will need some resting up time after this study so i dont have any screenings booked or specific plans yet.
4 day campout at the end of the month. right now day 4 is going well, so we are nearly done.

 

by arbi
9-24-16
I got home thursday. Hit the clubs on the way home, got in late. Friday I didnt do much. Bank, started laundry, cleaned the car a bit. Mowed lawn at the new house. blogged.
Saturday I didnt do much. 3 loads laundry, collected $400 rent, paid $381.50 electric bill, PO box, shopping. $130 income. $45 outgo. might hit clubs tonight. It is still hot in indy. Took out trash,
swept the stairs, mowed the yard. time to make a list. i am taking a month off from studies. want to build up my red blood cells again. need to clean the house for real. my room, basement, attic,
garage. front porch etc.

 

by arbi
9-28-16
sunday, stopped by food not bombs, got put on the guest list for Rise Against at the Murat Shrine Theater. Good show.
Monday I barely got out of bed. Tuesday I did some shopping in the rich county north of here. 1 hour cleaning the kitchen with Dawn. The girl not the dish soap.
Today I had a guy look at the electric at the new house. Went to the club. Gave a new dancer her first tip. I am cooking potatoes and rice for a campout in ohio that starts tomorrow. Yurts pictured.
So I will be offline for a few days. I may have broken my computer, might have spilled ice tea on it, and there are some files not backed up. I'll let it dry out for a few days. I'm on my $109 walmart
computer right now. It's finally getting to be fall weather. aha, my computer is healed.
you're welcome.

 

by arbi
10-04-16
friday ad saturday i camped at the burn. i couldn't get into much.
sunday drove home. monday stayed in bed mostly.
tuesday awake at 6, remembered at 2:30 i had a 3pm appointment, was on time, made $50, spent $10 at goodwill, $10 at a beer and books store, $30 at the club, mostly with sasha
went to the bank, did laundry, dishes, trash, blogged, not much else. deposited $600 from rents.
drove around the rich county north of here, did some shopping. it's bedtime already. or bathtime.

 

by arbi
10-06-16
new girl at mcD filed the cup with espresso so that's 8 shots for $1.09.
Today was somewhat productive. I missed an appointment with Chase bankers about a home repair loan, but spent the day with the electrician at te new house. $220 home depot, $10 dollar general $1 McD
$30 at the club $12 chinese takeout $20 loan to dawn. Possible 4th tenant at $275/mo.
Cleaned the bathroom, took out trash, Mowed the grass washed some dishes blogged did some laundry got a haircut made a list. Has fun at the club then ate Chinese with Dawn.
Yesterday I did less but helped KC move stuff to the new house out of the garage where he was squatting. He's only 58; I always thought he was much older than me. He's bald with a long beard.
ended up going to 3 more clubs, had fun. now 4 am.
KC is an old friend from the bars. He got gaybashed, head injury, so he became spacey, lives as a monk. Tomorrow back to Home Despot, check the mail, pay some bills, start revising a memo.
Spent most of last night bingewatching freaks and geeks, and one episode of shameless.

 

by arbi
10-07-16
friday i didnt get much done. home 4 am from the clubs. noon meet with my electrician guy. i went to 6 electric wholesalers looking for a circuit breaker. they will have to order it.
startled a squirrel who ran out the front door. startled a neighbor who called the cops thinking we were vandals.
dishes, bank, po box, a phone meeting with the bankers, can't get a home equity line without homeowners insurance.
this is the first cold night of the fall.
update: i've neither cleaned my room or done the nebraska memo.
lay down for a minute before going out to first friday, only i never went. i'm still in bed at 2 am. just had pie for dinner.
it's hard to say which is more pressing, cleaning this room or starting the nebraska memo.

 

by arbi
10-18-16
well it's been 11 days since i've made one of these. no good excuse for not keeping up. i'm at home with nothing better to do.
the main event is that i think i've sold the new house. got an offer for a rent to buy deal with a family that lives across the street. $15K over 3 years.
I might have an offer of $5K for the talbott street house, but I expect that to fall through. Basically the city has taken it by putting liens on it.
i've been home, going to clubs, a bit of shopping, a lot of reddit. i'll do a separate comic for today's adventures in voter ID.
some days i just stay home and binge watch stuff like hannibal, shameless, peaky blinders, i forget what else.
i do chores around the house but never seem to get ahead of the game. oh we did most of the electric at the new house.

 

by arbi
10-18-16
today i left the house about 3:30 to go to city hall to look into one of my houses. they took it for back taxes so the offer for $5K from some investor will probably fall through.
but while i was there i went to early vote, and they said i couldn't without ID, so i raised a bit of hell over that and they will probably fix it tomorrow. i met with the democratic county chair and
some folks in the clerk's office and sent some emails including a public records request and notice of tort claims.
one thing that has happened since last week is they put up some signs directing people to the early voting entrance, probably because i complained last week after i had to go through the screening.
did i mention friday i'm going to evansville to be interviewed for a Vice documentary on lab rats. and next week i go to texas for my aunt's memorial service. i can't screen at the clinics down there
because my month isn't up yet. i gave myself a month off from studies so i could catch up on other things, which is only partly happening, but it's my first break all year.

 

by arbi
10-19-16
so far today has been mostly mark maron podcasts, reddit and emails. but i'm about to get up, put out the trash, then head downtown to see how early voting is going, maybe get some video.
it looks like the gop is going to give me pollwatcher credentials, not a done deal yet.
i need to get that done soon enough to fit in an oil change.`oil change $30, repair estimate $250. i got to arm wrestle some 8 year olds who were hanging around the shop.
vote test went fine. stopped by the club, $50, stopped by the bank withdrew $200. Paid $100 on the water bill last night. Took out the trash.
http://fox59.com/2016/10/19/impd-investigates-officer-involved-shooting-on-east-side-of-indianapolis/
I need to do laundry, take a bath, clean my car make my bed start the nebraska memo, the usual.
there were 15 cop cars a block from my house. i think the cops shot a guy. fox news says he lived.

 

by arbi
10-20-16
later thursday: woke up late. went to a dinner i'd been invited to, ate left came home back in bed. got nothng done.
3 am, can't sleep. may have had too much coffee today, and a coke. i got 17 things done, and 6 things not done.
i cleaned in the kitchen, bathroom, basement, foyer, hallway, and my room. i went to city hall, the bank, the mechanic. did stuff on 3 of my cars, emails about 3 of my houses. sorted mail. blogged.
paid $90 internet bill.
made a list. made a comic. shopped. took out trash bins, picked up litter in the yard. need to hang up clothes,
didnt: work on the memo, sort the crate, make my bed, post a house rules memo, spray for bugs, mail my taxes, fill out insurance paperwork, email lindy and x, john, clean my car, etc.
http://blazersatdawn.tumblr.com/ post/152022748303/pokemonlife
stopped doing chores at midnight but i'm still awake. i have one event tomorrow then i drive to evansville for friday. i guess i have my day mapped out. feel like i'm forgetting something.
need to collect rent from guy downstairs, he's 20 days late.

 

by arbi
10-22-16
it' s 4:20 am and i'm back home in my bed. i drove almost 400 miles without leaving indiana.
did an interview with vice magazine about being a lab rat. more after i wake up there was a 3 hour traffic jam from an accident, so i cleaned my car while waiting. found my gas cap.
saturday: up at noon. club $50. cleaned the kitchen 1 hr, need to find my tux for the masquerade tonight. i don't have a date, but it's for charity so i'll probably still go, if i can find my tux.
i should clean the basement and haul some stuff out to the dumpster. 2 emails need to get written and some memos and i should make a list.
masquerade tix $160. had a decent time. borrowed a red bowtie from one of my teddy bears.
met some nice people at my table, casey, westin, kyle, pat, and some rich old guys whose names i didnt catch. sunday, did not get out of bed.

 

by arbi
10-24-16
monday joe and i missed each other for our 2 pm meeting at a rental house we co-own. but i met with kc and helped him move a pile of computers and talked over some stuff.
coffee at the neidhammer coffeehouse then back home where i'm watching season 2 of hannibal. finished season 2.
tuesday night i start driving towards texas, for a memorial service for my father's older sister. his younger older sister just got moved over to the alzheimer's wing of their retirement home. my dad
was the youngest of his family, and died around 20 years ago. my mom was the oldest, and her siblings are still alive.
23,933 + 51,063 update (24,000 · 51,072)
i did another voter ID test at city hall and they flunked again, although they were politer about it.
about to hit 75000 meaningless reddit points.

 

by arbi
10-27-16
so yesterday i left at noon instead of midnight, but i got as far as dallas. parked at mcdonalds, now i'm at starbucks, a few more hours to austin, found the hotel on the map.
so about 800 miles so far, 2-300 to go.
friday we had a memorial service for my aunt. 11 of the 13 cousins were there, 31 relatives total
saturday a zoo out near the lbj ranch, plus we eat out 3 times a day. then we saw 1000s of bats in austin; they live under a bridge and come out at dusk.
tomorrow people have early flights and i'll check out austin then start driving home. today i wrote a memo and
booked a screening for a $28K study in phoenix that i won't get into, for next week.

 

by arbi
10-30-16
sunday i slept in, hub out at a kava bar and comic book gallery and went to ittle shops near where we saw the bats. i got as far as dallas before i grabbed a $53 hote room because the battery is
acting up so i wil drive in the daytime.
monday i finaly got out of texas. $230 replace alternator. $6 whataburger
to be continued
the comic boook shop had a nice cerberus collection, but i didnt buy anything there. bought some vintage stuff at a junk shop. $20.
i'm in little rock now. there doesn't seem to be any nightlife so i'll just roll throuh and try memphis.
now i'm watchin a french movie where two women try to kill a husband
this might not save, it's havin some trouble

 

by arbi
11-01-16
tuesday, i woke up west of nashville tn, had coffee there, nowhere to park so back on the road. took back roads through indiana, the fall colors small town scenic route.
got home trash laundry hit the club. now i'm going to crash. i made a list for tomorrow - it's a deadline for one memo.
wednesday i did the top 6 things on my list. ot my new po box keys, voted, turned in a tort claim notice, then at night i was sick and crashed out.
thursday i'm still in bed, collected rent $250, got my return plane and hostel reservations, ready to fly to phoenix tonight from chicago.
i need to get up and go pay some bills, but that's about it. renewed my health insurance, that took an hour on the phone.
i may be forgetting something major, not sure.

 

by arbi
11-06-16
i made it home. maybe i'll fix this comic tomorrow.
$430 total expenses for the phoenix trip
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=88894
today, sunday, i went to food not bombs for an hour but otherwise i'm in bed sick. watching person of interest.
i got a smoking gun letter from the city saying i had no right to a provisional ballot. it's a major development.
monday, picked up my poll watcher card and went to the bank but oth erwise still sick in bed. just a mild stomach problem.
you have died of dysentary

 

by arbi
11-09-16
monday night i helped kc move some heavy file cabinets out of the garage he's getting evicted from, then i set my alarm for 6:15 election day, but it didnt go off,
so i only poll watched from 2-4. they were totally freaked out by my quietly reading a book, so they kept asking me to leave + got the fire station guy to tell me to leave, but i didn't, only later i
we got trumped
felt sick and didnt want to puke on their floors so i went home. was up half the night listening to returns.
orange is the new black
thursday: stayed in bed. not sick just lazy.
today i did laundry took out trash paid electric bill checked some circuit breakers but really didnt do much. swept the stairs. blogged. cleaned the fridge a bit.
i'm eating solid food again and might be better, i'll see how tomorrow goes. being sick was a good excuse for being lazy.

 

by arbi
11-11-16
friday i was up and out the door by 5pm. got to the post office just as a realized it was closed for veterans day. did some shopping came home.
that's been my whole day.
http://ballots.blogspot.com/2016/11/some-video-from-last-nights-anti-trump.html
saturday i went as a tourist to the anti-trump protest. it didnt turn into a mini-riot till after i left.
sunday i met kc at food not bombs and hung out at a coffee shop with wifi for a bit, then came home.
monday i had plans and a list but didnt get out of bed. called about one study but no luck.

 

by arbi
11-15-16
tuesday i mostly hung out at home watching season 1 of dexter, but i also went to the post office, went to a cattle call type job interview at kelly girl, which was on the northside so i did my north
side run so now i need to unpack the car. i updated my resume from 10 years ago but didnt get it printed off yet. i called about a few studies and put 440 minutes on my phone.
wednesday i applied for 3 jobs online. otherwise i'm just watching dexter. i havent even unpacked the car yet, or gotten out of bed.
i unpacked the groceries, burned brush in the back yard, took some broken doors out to the dumpster. so more than nothing.
i didnt make my bed, sort the mail, hang up clothes, or fix my tax and insurance issues. i should take a bath.
i used the hose for a while to make sure the fire was out before bed.

 

by arbi
11-17-16
thursday called my internet co to complain about bad signal, finally printed signed + faxed a form the insurance company's been asking me for before they will talk settlement.
the lady at the fax place thought they sold homeowners, and i liked her quote, but they actually only sell renters ins. dollar store for roach stuff. the roaches have been eating from the cat food
bowl, and multiplying. and i typed out and put up the house rules because the old copy had fallen down and some rules here havent been followed lately.
so that was my day, then i went to the drag show and gave flowers to calico, a dancer i like.
i slipped out between numbers and scored about 60 pounds of food from a nearby dumpster at the food bank. that's where i got the flowers.

 

by arbi
11-18-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzADupi72Ds the wire: the musical
friday i didn't get much done. mark finally paid $400 for this month's rent and a month of back rent. i spent $60 on stuff like bug spray, and $20 at the club, 1 drink.
i want to start keeping a running total of how many drinks i have in a month. it's less than in years, but non-zero. heavy rain all night.
i paid off a credit card and got a late fee waived and sent some emails. i'm blogging in one screen and watching dexter in another tab. season 3 jimmy smits subplot isn't very good.
i took out the trash and put away some dishes but mostly am getting behind on chores, i sprayed for bugs at the worst spot, and asked mark to help me find a lawyer. i have a couple letters i should
write tonight,and i still need to make my bed. it must have gotten cold last week because my tomates and zinnias died before i could get them inside.
i made a list for tomorrow but need to make a better list. i applied for another job online but am hearing nothing back. the damned bellringers are out already at the store.

 

by arbi
11-20-16
dawn cleaned the basement, did a great job.
saturday was cold and i stayed in bed watching dexter.
sunday i bugbombed my room for roaches and i'm doing laundry and made a list and took a box of food to food not bombs where i socialized with sarah and the usual group.
i went to the club (brad's brass flamingo) for fried pickles, and will go to the club (zonie's closet) for the show tonight.
i wrote the first line of a new memo, a complaint for my latest voter ID case. so i could be working on that but mostly i'll watch dexter and waste time online tonight per usual.
monday i'll probably call to sign up for the brain study that propbably pays $250, since that's all i can find right now. it's a creepy study where they zap my head and arm with shocks while i do some
hand motor skills tasks.

 

by arbi
11-21-16
sunday night was fun. went to the show to see calico, the dancer i like. she did 3 numbers including a sierra version of the stones song about a red door painted black.
then she invited me to greg's, a gay bar, then we went to the all night diner where i got a lap dance from her. also fries and coffee and vince bought me a shot of fireball. i spent $50 total.
i plan to ask sara if she wants to go to an alan cummings concert. and i have some loose plans to go dumpster diving with some girl from reddit.
it's 3 am and i'm home and i guess i'll watch more dexter, because i had coffee so i'm awake. i could work on the memo. i put away laundry and did dishes.
monday i didnt get out of bed. it's only november, but i'm ready to hibernate.

 

by arbi
11-23-16
tuesday all i did was pick up my houseguest, arturo, at the airport. he's here from mexico for the colts-stillers game.
wednesday dishes trash laundry more laundry cleaned the basement till my back hurt. quality time with dawn, and with little boots, the new kitten.
negotiating with mark about spraying his room for bugs. to be continued.
i showed arturo the bus schedules so he can go to a mall before the game, and we plan on ethiopian for dinner with kc.
the electric kettle keeps tripping the circuit breaker on the powerstrip, i'm not sure why because it didnt used to.
i am editing today's comic now that the cat is off the keyboard. still havent made the bed or started the memo.

 

by arbi
11-26-16
thursday arturo and kc and i had friendsgiving at axum, the ethiopian place next to kc's.
i seem to have rented out the dinign room for $250/mo, nice old guy.
friday i took arturo to the mall for black friday then the airport, then i went shopping, spent $170.
bought computer stuff, a bike, a suit, 2 shirts, headphones, this and that, coffee.
saturday stayed in bed on reddit.

 

by arbi
11-29-16
sunday: foodnotbombs, not much else. the club was closed.
monday: stayed in bed.
tuesday, didn't do much. dishes, po box, bank, groceries, more dexter, almost finished. might do some laundry.
might have made a couple phone calls, almost transplanted some plants.
wednesday i went to a cle, continuing legal education class. it was a talk by a judge about lawyers who are depressed, miss deadlines, do a bad job of keeping up witht heir clients. so me basically.
the reason i do these comics is i'm organizationally challenged, barely functional,and the near-daily comic helps me stay motivated and a little more together. but i'm a mess.

 

by arbi
12-02-16
a clinic in baltimore says i should call back jan 4th and they might have something
thursday, i went to a noon CLE, went to the club, fun dance with alice,did a few things at home, went to see calico do her drag show, then we went to greg's, a bar. i had a cider and got too drunk too
fast from one drink so i decided it was time to go, but i guess she stayed longer playing pool, because she hadn't shown up at the diner by the time i'd eaten my kettle chips so i went home.
i guess now i'll make an omlette and maybe finally do laundry
i passed up an offer of a hot tub with a drunk old guy. friday i only did 3 things. CLE, haircut, bath, lawyer christmas party was dull but well-catered.
i got home then realized today it was first friday, when all the galleries have a party, so i was going to go out, but i didn't get out of bed so now it's too late.
i called a clinic in texas but it would have been a 3 day screening for a $1550 study so i passed. also passed up a local $100 study involving stool samples.
the other clinic in texas hasn't called back about a ragweed study.and i picked up a job application at a warehouse but it's just $9/hr so i'll give it to my deadbeat roommate.

 

by arbi
12-05-16
saturday and sunday i went to club, 1 drink total, and made my bed, which today i barely got out of.
took out trash put away food moved books spent two hours cleaning the floor next to my bed. what i was supposed to do but didn't was to go through the box of papers that had been on the bed. it's
partly the past month's mail and bills and such, and a few hundred others pieces of paper ranging from junk to very important.
so i guess that has to be my plan for tomorrow, and maybe take the car to the shop.
tuesday denver called so i will go out there friday. which means leave tomorrow.

 

by arbi
12-09-16
wednesday i drove from 1 pm to 1 am and got a $50 hotel in salina ks. it's snowy and way cold.
thursday i got into denver around dark. the hostel i usually stay at got shut down so i'm at the $34 hostel.
in a few minutes i'll go drive to the clinic for my screening i'm hoping my car hasn't been towed.
i have a cold from how cold it is, but that probably won't keep me out of the study.
bertbertbert.com
didn't get in. blood pressure too high. so now i'm in the middle of kansas, drinking mcdonalds espressso trying to stay awake for the drive. hope to hit kansas city by dawn. i probably won't get back
in time for the bert kreischer show tonight at morty's comedy shack. i am home and there's time but i might fall asleep first.

 

by arbi
12-15-16
today is thursday, so i'm a few days behind and might do a catchup comic next. i had a busy day.
the mexican mechanic presbyterianed me down to 12,000 for the house, so we closed on that today. i wrote a deed and filled out the disclosure forms and the lead paint disclaimer and we got stuff
notarized and filed. i put the 12K in my credit union, paid $900 in bills, went to the post office, got groceries, bought shoes, started xmas shopping, went to the club but calico wasn't there so came
home with more groceries.sent emails. made a list. made a comic. i have fries in the oven, i made an omelette and a mushroom broccoli green curry and real coffee.
brian got ripped off, bought a $700 van with a bad title, so we are looking into that. he's staying here longer than planned because he sold his car when he bought the van.
brian's a former roommate, the mooch, who shows up now and then; he's one of my study buddies. i still can't find work; it's slow and i'm too old.

 

by arbi
12-15-16
saturday, on no sleep, i drove back from denver in time to catch the bert kriescher stand up gig at morty's. almost $50, and i got stood up, but the show was good. it's the 2nd time i've paid for a
comedy show. he did the will smith story and some crowdwork and closed with a truncated 'the machine!' story.
i probably have to sort that box next, because i promised the insurance guy an email, which depends on what's in the box.
sunday brIan and i went to the club, where i got a dance with Peaches and apps were $2 off. missed food not bombs. it was cold and rainy anyway.
monday and tuesday i didnt get out of bed. it was bitter cold, but that's a lame excuse for not at least sorting my box of mail.
wednesday i met with isac and we haggled, at which i lost, but we hammered out a deal so he bought the house. did some laundry.
which brings us back up to thursday when we closed on the house. Friday I moved my stuff out of the house into my basement.

 

by arbi
12-18-16
saturday night brian and i had a good time at a couple of clubs but on the way home my alternator belt fell off and the car was overheating and the idiot lights were on so today i bought new belts and
hope to get them installed tomorrow.
food not bombs went well enough. i made corn on the cob and brought canned goods and such.
idiot lights are on in the volvo wagon too, so i could end up snowed in as temperatures head to below zero tonight.
i did the dishes and took out trash so now i should do laundry and check my list twice.
monday: not getting out of bed

 

by arbi
12-20-16
monday i had trouble getting out of bed, it was 5 F out, but eventually i walked to a local garage and arranged to get my car fixed, $125. dihes trash, moxed boxes to downstairs, booked a screening.
tuesday up at 6:30 to drop off car, back to bed, car done at 2:30, po box, nothing there, bank, shopping, sprayed mark's room for bugs, rented the dining room for $75 for this week. club to see AvA.
rent will be $250/mo starting january. I made an executive decision not to start driving east until i've gotten more sleep, so i will go in the morning.
Headed to my mom's for xmas with family. That will leave me one day to shop I guess.
i should do my taxes while on the east coast. and make a better list. I also need to calculate mark smith's rent to show him how far behind he is. probably $400, but i need to doublecheck.
1 mile down the road the belts broke again and a pulley came off so now i'm be gryhouding to east coast. i hate greyhound.

 

by arbi
12-21-16
my car broke down 1 mile into my trip so it is back in the shop. so i took a bus downtown to take a bus to cincinnati to get on the chinatown bus which i just got on. it's the last one for tonight.
the driver took cash, because i could not get my ticket online adn no one answered their phone. recording was in chinese. i walked across cincy to get here.
i have about 5 hours battery time i hope, because i did not bring a cable that fit their sockets. i don't know if we stop somewhere. i don't know our route.. i might be able to get off at philadelphia
new york to delaware should be easy. this route is $50 cheaper than greyhound, plus free trip to nyc, in the winter. i havee enough cash to make this work. so now i can just veg out on reddit.
i am very glad i was not stranded in cincinatti all night, or forced to go greyhound. i has short trip to the casino because greyhound wifi didnt work. nor did megabus.
i rode next to a cute twink on the megabusbus but was too shy to talk to him. i have no game.

 

by arbi
12-22-16
chinatown was fun. i was there from 8-12ish.
delaware before dark, caught a city bus to mom's, got unpacked and settled in, cleaned her fridge,
password here is greensun201, if you were wondering.
then i had some sweet spicy tofu when we went out for asian food.
now i get to sleep, do any shopping i can within walking distnce, since i had to leave presents behind.
it's the 23rd now, so i shopped. books, buttons, booze, coffee cherry tea, a couple of trees.
xmas went ok. i gave away some of my warmer clothes so the trip home could get tricky, or i should shop.

 

george micheal is dead
so i guess no 5th season?
by arbi, 12-25-16

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