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by arbitrary
7-26-21
monday i got up late and didnt get much done. i went to the bank right before it closed, paid the electric bill, planted a bunch of ginger, some yardwork, did two loads of laundry, found even more
ginger, came home. eating one of the three pizzas i found.
listened to elon musk discuss this quarter's earnings. i have a few shares.
did not get anything done on the brief, and it's getting kind of too late to file.
tomorrow plasma, sort mail, scrap yard? possible stand up at new place. and clean the kitchen counter.

 

by arbitrary
7-27-21
i am re entering this comic after it didnt post on my other chromebook: Tuesday i went to a new plasma place which took all day and had bad wifi but paid +$100. gas 29.
my buddy brian came by. he'll sponge off me for a week or two but i'm glad to see him. tommy's stripper friend from kokomo isn't moving in after all.
i went and checked out the new comedy venue i heard about at the weed church. i didnt go up. i knew half the comics. $8. brian had water and didnt tip.
i'm skipping a panel to make this shorter. nothing much at the food bank dumpster so we came home.
i paid off the credit card bill for the texas taxes with $500 from my credit union account. last night i paid $420 on the electric bill. irs wants $260 from 2016 which i will pay next, and i owe the
PA turnpike some tolls/trolls.

 

by arbitrary
7-28-21
wednesday routine: lawyer zoom went fine. they might come see me do standup some time. i took out the trash, sorted some mail, washed a few dishes, took a bath, activated my plasma card, went to weed
church, found my dinner, came home.
i might have gotten one paragraph done on the brief. 6 weeks in, i might just give up on it.
brian killed mouse #21. i bought more mousetraps. i listened to podcasts, surfed reddit, and i'm drinking an ale8.
tomorrow plasma, standup, and maybe i'll finally clean up the kitchen counter.
i do these "comics" because i struggle so hard to do simple tasks more effective people take for granted. i don't get much done, but without writing it down i would do even less.

 

by arbitrary
7-29-21
too many comics showed up so i volunteered not to go up. i did plasma in the morning +$100, and finally cleaned the kitchen counter.
slept all day after i was up all night. brian caught mouse #22.
i only got 3 boxes of groceries on the way home. might go out for more. took the recycling downtown, brought in the trash containers, did some gardening.
tomorrow there's more mail to sort, bills to pay. lists to make. i'm pretty tired. it's hot and i'm sluggish.
friday i printed and mailed a complaint to the hendricks county election board after a sheriff canddiate left a disclaimer off a postcard. and i worked on the brief a little, and did a
first draft of a letter to indiana's new secretary of state, about the unconstitutional disclaimer statute.

 

by arbitrary
8-01-21
sunday. got up late, but in time to take dilled cabbage down to food not bombs. had coffee at the all night gay diner. dumpster diving went well.
the three burberry boxers don't fit me. got some jeans, hats, food, medicine, 200 pounds of scrap metal. i found a $600 trump check, mailed it back to the guy.
https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money
i helped brian try to claim his $102 at indianaunclaimed.gov.
i'm listening to beethoven's 3rd, the eroica.
monday i did nothing.
i need to work on a letter to mt state's attorney general, who is actually someone i know; we worked on a case together once 20 years ago.
and pay my phone bill and call tommy and sort mail.

 

by arbitrary
8-03-21
oh i forgot i went to the po box, th ebank, shopping. $7.50. aldi, bulldogs, some third place.
my list for tuesday was pretty easy. plasma, scrap yard, state fair, southside comedy night.
i got none of that done. no plasma for a week while they run some bloodwork.
listed to joe rogan and ari shafir.
i made $50 from an oil check and $20 from driving brian to look at a $1200 van i convinced him not to buy, we haggled the price down to $900 then walked away.
then we dumpster dived our way home, doing pretty well, which made it too late for comedy night, and i have a coupon tomorrow for the fair 1/2 price, if i can't walk in by looking confident.
changed a lightbulb
i should unload the van now, because it's still hot out. i don't feel like unloading the van now, because it's still hot out.
tomorrow: email jill, zoom, print and mail stuff, fair, weed church.

 

by arbitrary
8-04-21
wednesday i did about half of what i planned to. the zoom went fine, the fair went fine,
i loaded up my scrap but drove away because the line was long, and the library was closed when i got there, and i skipped weed church to spend more time at the fair, but the day went fine.
i have my laundry out and i'm headed to the laundromat, but it's past midnight and i'm still on reddit, so i might not make it.
still didnt sort mail, didn't work on the brief today. it's wednesday so i took the trash out. bj bought a van last night, not the one we looked at. decent van.
i should go back and see when i got back from the east coast, so i can see if i'm ready to go screen for a study yet.
yeah, it's been long enough, so bj and i might do a road trip if i can find a study.

 

by arbitrary
8-05-21
thursday i didnt get much done, but i turned on my phone, called about a study but it was full, did 2 loads of laundry,
didn't get to go up tonight, they wanted me to have signed up last week.
then there was some marathon thing so i was stuck downtown so i dumpster dived a little and got home later.
only 4 hours sleep so i was groggy all day. i printed the letter to the attorney general but messed up the formatting so i'll do it again. missed the scrap yard again. talked to tommy.
bought moth traps and a light bulb, but it was the fixture that was broken so 11 bucks wasted.

 

by arbitrary
8-06-21
friday i didnt get much done, but i got to the scrapyard just before it closed, +43. sent the $ to tommy, as a bribe to get vaccinated, which worked.
gas $30. went to first friday at fountain square. tshirt $2.
hendrix county election board scheduled a meeting to discuss my letter. so now and then one of my letters gets a response. 8:30 am, the 27th, so i need to remember to go and not be late.
otherwise, i haven't sorted the mail, reprinted the next letter, worked on the brief, or cleaned the house.
so that was my day so far.
sauturday and sunday i did nothing except i watched 2 seasons of 'barry'.

 

by arbitrary
8-09-21
monday i slept late and didn't get much done, but i took out the garbage, cleaned house for 20 minutes. by the time i got to the post office the bank was closed, but i got the important letter; the
check really was in the mail. bj paid $100 before he left. i went to the dollar store, bought fan lube, the big fan is still broken so it's scrap now. i am spraying for bugs and putting out mousetraps
, cleaning the van. ammonia and bleach for chemical warfare on the bug larva in the garbage bins. next i'll take a bath and sort mail, might even work on the brief a bit today.
so now it's tuesday. i walked into the bank to cash the big check and it's no longer in my pocket. so now i have to sort all the mail looking for it. no dice so far.
i booked a screening friday in kansas, potential $5000 in september. i usually don't pass screening at that clinic.
i got ahold of my friend polaris. he no longer lives in kc, but invited me to a music festival in missouri, and i told him about a study in wisconsin, which is where he is now.

 

by arbitrary
8-12-21
so i'm in kansas. i'm in the parking lot outside a geek bar. i haven't found a cheap hotel.
last night i slept in the van, and screened in st louis this morning. it's not much moneyt and i don't like the drug, so i hope i get the kc one, but my blood pressure is high.
i redeposited the check they weren't supposed to send me. bj didnt get into his study so he's probably back at my place. tommy sang me happy birthday.
i went to denny's in terre haute for free hash browns on my birthday, as is the custom.
the denny's near me wouldn't honor my coupon so i had to call corporate and i got a new coupon out of it. might leave a scathing yelp review.
the van made it this far. if i get the study i'll buy something else; this transmission won't last much longer.

 

by arbitrary
8-14-21
i did not get into the kc study. bad ekg. i shopped around my old neighborhood in kc, then drove home. i am home in bed now.
i will call on tuesday to find out if i got into the st louis study. low pay and dangerous. i'll probably get in. i didnt see any other studies i can screen for anywhere.
i'm awake but i haven't done anything at home yet, was tired from driving all night.
i made $150 from kc and spent it on the trip, mostly gas and one lap dance.
so i should make a new list for this week and sort out what all i can get done. like maybe state fair tomorrow.
i turned 61 while i was on the trip. officially old and tired. edit: that's 61, not 81, typo.

 

by arbitrary
8-15-21
it's sunday. i caught up on sleep. i didn't go to church at 10:45 or trivia at 6 pm, but i went to food not bombs, and dumpster dived my way home.
all i found was a rug and bag of shoes and a box of chocolare, tea, coffee, peanut butter, etc.
killed mice 26-29, and bj saw a rat.
the front yard is getting out of hand, so i need to clean it and the van, when i get some time and energy.
let's see, today i was going to make a list. that hasn't happened. things aren't going well at mom's, so maybe i'll end up going back there in december. it's all tentative right now.
i didnt go to the state fair today. i do want to go one more time before it closes this week. it's cheapest on thursday, but tomorrow is open.

 

by arbitrary
8-16-21
for monday i made a list of about 8 things, but then i didnt get out of bed, so i didnt get much done.
my diet today was cake and candy and coffee, mostly stuff i could reach from bed. made 2 phone calls, paid a bill online.
because it's a street joke.
on tuesday i worked on monday's list. i got into the st louis study. i am at the laundromat doing laundry. i went to the post office and got a blood test at the plasma center. i took out the trash
i went to barringer's and workshopped my why did the chicken cross the road joke.
i ran into my old friend mitch and caught up. so far i haven't cleaned the van or the front yard or the fridge or washed the kitchen floor.
i have a couple emails to send that i could work on now. i might have left my list at home. overall, moderately productive day.

 

by arbitrary
8-20-21
i didnt get much done today, but i went to the state fair, did three minutes of standup at crackers,
listened to tesla's AI day. i had funnel cake, lemon shakeup, fries, pretzel bites, the usual
i opened and closed with a joke, then talked about being a crime fighting aardvark
tesla will be building a robot.
the stock will probably go down and then up.
i still haven't washed the kitchen floor. very minor progress on the brief.

 

by arbitrary
8-20-21
on friday i didnt get much done. mostly sleep and reddit.
i went around the house killing flies that got in when bj was here. i washed some dishes, put out mousetraps and a flytrap.
went downtown and paid $100 on the internet bill so it is paid 4 months in advance, gotta have internet.
i got some lentil soup for $4, big monthly splurge at a restaurant. it's the one under the comedy club.
i found some scrap metal i might go back for after dark. i'm gonna take a bath and have some ambitions about sorting mail or cleaning downstairs, but i'm tired.
made some real coffee but it didnt wake me up.

 

by arbitrary
8-23-21
sunday i took pita bread to food not bombs. the case of bananas went bad. i picked up that scrap metal i'd had my eye on.
i called about jury duty and it wasn't clear if i was supposed to go or not but i didnt, woke up at noon.
monday i didnt get much done, but 4 phone calls, turned on my pay card, cleaned the front room for an hour.
reset some mouse traps, cleaned the oven, put away some dishes, took out some trash.
reddit and youtube. tesla went up a little. tomorrow i'm going to kokomo to buy a van.
then wednesday i check into a study in st louis.

 

by arbitrary
8-25-21
yesterday i went to kokomo and bought an suv. $1150. $75 title and plates. $3 slurpee and drink. $36 gas.
then at midnight i drove to st louis. slept a bit in the clinic parking lot. just checked in at 3.
bag check, breathalyzer, piss in a cup, get assigned to a room. haven't met #6 yet. I'm #5.
the study will pay for the suv. a better study in wisconsin already filled up when i called today, but might get a 4th group next week for november.
tommy's not staying with his mother after all, she got him his own place, and he was afraid to tell me, so i just found out yesterday.
i did not like driving across the mississippi, so i will probably stay here for the 3 days we are off between study periods. maybe at the mark twain hostel, if it's still there.

 

by arbitrary
8-27-21
yesterday, thursday, was the busy day for this half of the study. took the dose, some kind of stimulant controlled substance, then 15 blood draws and some blood pressure readings.
suddent death was one of the possible risks, but i didn't die. haven't slept for 2 nights either. high risk for $1200. ordinarily i never go near stimulants.
i re-read the bonta case which will help me with the brief once i write that section.
AfP, a koch brothers front group, spent $1 million helping barrett get confirmed, but she didnt recuse in AfP v Bonta.
The passport office emailed me again so i may fill out some more of their forms just to keep that moving along.
there's a local diner where i'm going for breakfast after they let us out at 9, then i come back tonight and tomorrow, then i'm off for 3 days. i should go find a hotel.

 

by arbitrary
8-27-21
the diner was amazing. i had grits, grilled spinach, toast, decaf, $12. hotel $45.
i stay in cheap hotels a couple times a year. it's the only time i watch tv. pulp fiction and my cousin vinny were on.
in 1992 i saw my cousin vinny at the beach, and coming out, i got a ticket on rt 1, and it took me a year to beat the ticket, and in the meantime my license got suspended, and that upset the missouri
bar examiners, and that's the story of how i wound up in indiana instead. so it's a special movie to me.
i had my 9 pm blood draw, then there's one at 9 am, then i'm off till wednesday. gonna hang out here at the hotel. maybe the hostel would be cheaper; expenses are going to eat up a chunk of the $1200.
but it's a fun adventure. i should shower and call tommy and sleep. i shopped at asia mart and maybe tomorrow the city museum or the zoo or the farmer's market.

 

by arbitrary
9-01-21
i stayed at the hotel 4 days, getting nothing much done.
yesterday i went to city museum, slept in my van, and today i checked back into the study for the second half.
a little dumpster diving, a little shopping at asian groceries and thrift stores, but mostly i stayed at the hotel.
thursday we took a speed pill and had about 22 blood draws, which went smoother this time. ate same meals. brief nap but no sleep. reddit all day.
this morning we will get released, then two more blood draws and we're done on saturday. i need to return a call from a telemundo reporter.
i haven't decided yet if i'm going to a music festifal before i head home. i suggested to a pregnant woman in texas that she call the aclu, it's a hot topic right now. did not work on the brief today.

 

by arbitrary
9-03-21
didn't sleep. i could tell i was on speed. 9 am blood draw, released.
breakfast at the diner $8. went to the missouri botanical garden. did i mention i went to the aquarium on tuesday?
a bit of car trouble so it took a while to get back to the clinic, and in an hour and a half i have another blood draw.
i'll probably be able to sleep in the van tonight. i need to set my alarm. i drove by the zoo, but there was no way to exit, and i took a different route on the way back,
the music festival tickets sold out, so that decision is made for me. i'm eager to get home.

 

by arbitrary
9-03-21
didn't sleep. i could tell i was on speed. 9 am blood draw, released.
breakfast at the diner $8. went to the missouri botanical garden. did i mention i went to the aquarium on tuesday?
a bit of car trouble so it took a while to get back to the clinic, and in an hour and a half i have another blood draw.
i'll probably be able to sleep in the van tonight. i need to set my alarm. i drove by the zoo, but there was no way to exit, and i took a different route on the way back,
the music festival tickets sold out, so that decision is made for me. i'm eager to get home.

 

by arbitrary
9-03-21
didn't sleep. i could tell i was on speed. 9 am blood draw, released.
breakfast at the diner $8. went to the missouri botanical garden. did i mention i went to the aquarium on tuesday?
a bit of car trouble so it took a while to get back to the clinic, and in an hour and a half i have another blood draw.
i'll probably be able to sleep in the van tonight. i need to set my alarm. i drove by the zoo, but there was no way to exit, and i took a different route on the way back,
the music festival tickets sold out, so that decision is made for me. i'm eager to get home.

 

by arbitrary
9-04-21
alarm went off at 9 am. blood draw, piss in a cup, 3 blood pressure readings, the doc checks me out, they cut off my armband and put another $400 on my card, and i hit the road.
gas, coffee, load up my pile of scrap metal, drive around enough to engage the transmission, hit 270, cross the mississippi, stop at a dispensary in collinsville, 70 to terre haute for coffee and
internet, make it home 12 hours after the blood draw..
i'm at home in my bed. no burgaries. my trash cans set out on the sidewalk this whole time, because i forgot to ask my neighbor to bring them in for me. i can unload the van later. bath, reddit, maybe
a nap, maybe i'll go downtown and have 1 drink.
$25 gas. $64 redacted. $7 coffee.

 

by arbitrary
9-07-21
monday i went up to kokomo, picked up my new car, saw tommy, that went well, then we did our laundry and i came home.
checked for studies. there's nothing. i'll try to get one or two more studies this year. maybe i'll get a job.
mouse #32. i saw another live mouse. time to go through the kitchen cabinets.
i'll take out the trash, hit the po box and the bank, maybe go back up to kokomo to drop off the title to the van, work on the brief a bit.
i went to the po box, bank, store, then kokomo. did not work on the brief.

 

by arbitrary
9-08-21
wednesday i didnt get much done. i caught the second half of my weekly lawyer's zoom meeting. i went to bmv and spent an hour getting a simple $4 form.
i went to the library and printed off passport forms. i bought a tire $50. i worked on the brief.
https://www.stevehofstetter.com/calendar.cfm
i went downtown where i was going to catch the open mike night but spent $29 to see steve hofstetter, a comic i follow
who used to own one of the local comedy clubs. it was good but not great.
$2 tonic and lime at a drag show and came home. i took out the trash, didn't unload the car yet, bath next.
i had a chat with a reporter from telemundo about medical studies, and talked to tommy. i need to make a better list for tomorrow

 

by arbitrary
9-09-21
thursday afternoon. i dont know yet if i'll get to go up tonight, maybe not.
i got an oil change, bought an air filter, started unloading the car, bought gas, might have a lawyer lined up for my next indiana case, wrote a complaint, wrote a notice of tort claims, found out tha
that two of my opponents in this case are lawyers. which is good, because they are supposed to know better.
got an email from my senators office which is helping me with my passport. sent 4 emails, 1 phone call.
my study buddy friends bj and jake are likely to come by this week. mouse #34, put out more mousetraps.
i did not call mom, clean the house, get a job, go to the scrap yard, or even finish unloading the car, that i should go do now.

 

by arbitrary
9-10-21
friday it's dark and i haven't gotten out of bed yet. i need to bring in the trash bins and unload the car. my trip to kokomo got moved to tomorrow.
i got an email from one of the two lawyers i might be suing, over hendricks county's unconstitutional sign policies. so we'll have a chat before i narc on him.
cops were just outside so i calmly observed from a distance, and brought in my trash cans and got some stuff from my car.
anyway, my set last night went ok. wasn't my best, but i'm back to being comfortable on stage.
maybe i'll clean the fridge, or maybe i'll work on that motion for an injunction, or maybe i'll just lie here.

 

by arbitrary
9-13-21
saturday i went to kokomo and picked up a dryer, and the $800 for the van i sold.
i stopped at the hiphugger, an infamous strip club, and then dumpster dived a few places on the way back. kokomo is the other side of a rich county, so the stores have good pickings.
sunday i spaced out going to food not bombs, so some of the frsh food i found will get wasted. a young possum got some of it.
went back to kokomo and got the washer, which just barely fit in the car. bought tommy a microwave and we took the dog for a walk and watched a movie.
monday i had a chat with the lawyer, so he's ready to get sued and wouldn't budge from his position.
then i managed to knock over a jar of instant coffee into the bathtub so there was broken glass that got mostly cleaned up, but my bath felt riskier than usual.

 

by arbitrary
9-14-21
norm mcdonald, 61, died today of cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OVkkB3J-bU&ab_channel=I%27mnotNorm
jesus, that's my age.
it's 3:30. i should get up, run some errands, clean the boxes out of the front yard, unload the washing machine.
i got up, ran some errands, cleaned up a few of the boxes in the front yard, unloaded the washing machine. mice #36 and 37.
accident on washington street, and english and kitley streets were closed for construction, so it was a rat race out there.

 

by arbitrary
9-16-21
wednesday my meeting with amazon did not go well. they already have my social security card and birth certificate from last time, but they wanted to see the card again, and i dont have it.
so today i went to the social security office but the next appointment is in november, and the online site is not working. but they will mail me something in about a week.
i was upset at first because i might miss my start date, but i calmed down anbd realized that i can get hired on at amazon any old time so no hurry.
i did not get to go up tonight because i didnt bring anyone, so i stayed and watched the show. last night i went to helium comedy club, which cost me $5 plus $12.50 for a parking ticket.
first ticket for the new car. i switch cars every year so i don't get towed for parking tickets. did ok diving last night. made $17 at the scrap yard today, which i will blow on premium gas.
i printed off more documents at the library, working on my passport application, and reminded tommy to send me that notarized affidavit.

 

by arbitrary
9-18-21
http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/ 20-1944P-01A.pdf
on saturday i spent around $70 on a 1-day gencon badge and wandered arounbd the dealers room for an hour, but
i checked my mail and that case i've been trying to write a brief for got decided, exactly wrong on all the stuff i was going to write about.
so i wrote about it on a subreddit i moderate, and to a list of election lawyers, and started making some notes toward a new amicus brief that this time might be directed at the supreme court.
and so i went home, and stayed in today wasting time online as usual. planted some sweet potatoes and cleaned up the yard slightly.
bj left, scotty spent a night, jake didnt come by. so i have a new project while i wait for paperwork to come so i can go back to amazon and try to get a passport.
as usual i need to clean the house, call mom, fix the plumbing, move applicances into the basement, etc.

 

by arbitrary
9-20-21
today was actually some progress, maybe, but felt frustrating.
i got up early and called wisconsin, but the study was already full. they intentionally list studies as open that they know are full, which to me seems unethical in an industry based around informed
consent. then i went to the plasma place one county over. they told me i can't donate there because i don't have the paperwork from a study 4 years ago.
after a tense negotiation with a manager, i got them to change their position from a hard no to a maybe. so now i'll wait for a phone call.
the bmv responded to my letters about whatever happened to my hearing in 2018. so there's a new hearing next month.
i spent around $20 at some asian markets, $20 gas, most of my cards aren't working for some reason, so there's a new headache. maybe i'll work on the new brief tonight.

 

by arbitrary
9-22-21
tuesday i didnt get much done. po box, bank, walmart for mousetraps, found some groceries, came home.
i watched season 1 of ted lasso, which was pretty good. cheerful southerner coaches uk soccer team. fish out of water story.
oh i went to the pet store and looked at fish but didnt buy anything.
it's wednesday now. cold and rainy. shut windows and put out mousetraps. zoom meeting went well. waiting patiently on paperwork for amazon. i have seen at least two mice, killed #38 and 39 recently.
#40. i cooked a bit last night but my diet is mostly decaf coffee in bed online. off to the weed chuch shortly.
i submitted an op ed to the provicence journal that i'm sure they won't print.

 

by arbitrary
9-23-21
thursday i didnt get out of bed so i didnt make it to the scrapyard, but my social security card message finally showed up,
and the plasma place is coming around to seeing it my way, although they don't answer their phones so it's not all finished yet.
i'm about to go downtown and see if i can go up tonight but i'm not certain what my set will be. i need to work harder at writing out sets.
i paid a couple of bills online but the elctric bill wouldn't go through so i'll have to do that one by hand. if i hustle i have time to fix dinner before i go. (ate a slad)
i went to the show tonight. it was a showcase for radio, so i didnt get to go up, but, no internet there, so i started writing the amicus brief, and now it's 4 am and i knocked out a big chunk of a
first draft. also scored a box of cheese and tofu and such. should i just stay up? i need to go to the scrapyard and plasma. guess i'll get some coffee.

 

by arbitrary
9-24-21
i was up till dawn, then i woke up around 2. got to the scrap yard at 3 right after they closed the gates for the day. but i booked a screening monday in wisconsin for an $8k study, so it was a good
day. i unloaded the car again, went and snagged an item i'd set aside last night.
my tesla stock is up this week. i didn't get much else done all day. oh i mowed the lawn, and took the mower to the weed church to mow their lawn, but it was too tall and wet to cut.
i accidentally set off the horn alarm on my newish car, and the guy at the auto parts store next door showed my how to turn it off. i can't get the radio to work anymore. minor problems.
nice chat last night w tommy. maybe i should go wash some dishes or something, putter around the kitchen. oh i should take the washer and drier to the basement, i've been putting that off.
or maybe i'll take another look at the brief i started last night.

 

by arbitrary
9-28-21
saturday i guess i did nothing. sunday i took bananas and cranberry juice to food not bombs, did a little dumpster diving, gassed up, went to see tommy in kokomo, then headed towards wisconsin.
the road to laffeyette was blocked off, so i took random country roads aiming toward the windmills and the highway, found them. driving through chicago was just too stressful, so on the way home i
took back country roads through illinois, took twice as long but worth it.
i'm sure i did not get into the study. my blood pressure was way too high. they haven't offcially told me that yet though. so i'm just waiting to hear.
on the way back i stopped into lake geneva wisconsin, that gencom is named after. cute town. bought some books. went to a piggly wiggly.
today is tuesday. i slept in, burned some brush, sawed down a small tree, but not much else. there's a dumpster i need to go check so i should get dressed....

 

by arbitrary
10-04-21
my last two comics didnt post so stripcreator might be down.
i didnt get much done today, monday, but i deposited a check, paid 4 credit accounts, sent tommy his allowance, working on the amicus brief. looked at bidding on some vacant lots but they want a $10k
deposit for a $1k bid so never mind.
ok this one posted. maybe i'll re-enter the earlier one later.

 

by arbitrary
10-05-21
tuesday i didnt get much done. wasted most of the day on reddit. but i made a passport appointment for tomorrow (so the alarm is set),
and i called the plasma centter which didnt answer, and i started sorting the piles of mail, which i'd been putting off. oh and i bought a headlight.
so this was 4 of the 12 items on my list, not very productive but better than nothing.
wednesday was bad. i skipped the passport appointment because i didn't have my docs ready. the irs wants $8k for 2012, first i've heard about it. i made about 8K in 2012. my computer broke, so i went
to walmart and got another. when i got home it had healed. $250 computer. $250 texas taxes. paid off 2 credit cards. 400? deposited $350. po box. library to print documents. gave some food to a home
less lady, box of food for me. shoes at walmart didnt fit right so i still need shoes. maybe i'll go to the auction tonight.

 

by arbitrary
10-08-21
thursday i barely got out of bed. i watched the tesla shareholder's meeting, so i ended up being late to the club and didn't get to go up.
found a furnace, 13 beers, 2 bottles of liquor, 2 bags of cans. friday i went to the scrap yard made $32, but i blew it by seeing same morril for $32 at helium. he does a podcast i follow and i know
him through the bertcast, bertbertbert.com. bj and i dumpster dived a little, and now he wants to go to the strip club, so we'll do that.
i booked a screening monday in kansas city, for a study i probably won't get into. so i guess i shouldn't drink tonight to not mess up my liver enzymes. i should drink water instead. i had 2 cups of
coffee at helium so i have a buzz on. oh i updated my insurance info today, i can cross that off the list. so i'm making up for some of what i didn't get done yesterday. still want to do laundry.
paid my cricket bill $50, credit card $30. oh i guess that $900 was the electric bill, but i want to doublecheck it. i am not great at balancing my credit cards and bank accounts.

 

by arbitrary
10-15-21
my $600 stock is at $830 today. x 18.
sunday night to tuesday morning i went to kansas city and back. did not get into the study, but i have to keep trying. i'm 1 for 5 this year.
wednesday i slept in and didn't do much. skipped the lawyer zoom and church.
tonic and lime $2, samosa $4, gas $36.
thursday i had a preliminary hearing with the bmv via telephone. went ok.
i did not get to go up thursday night even though i brought a paying customer. worked on the brief. found a couple furnaces.
friday kinkos was closed when i got there to photocopy passport stuff. the passport office is softening after 6 letters from my senators.
i called 911 re a car crash at sherman and washington, same place i crashed my oldsmobile 15 years ago.

 

by arbitrary
10-16-21
saturday i finished bingewatching season 4 of goliath, with billy bob thornton as a disturbed lawyer. i went downtown and photocopied and mailed some stuff to the passport office.
tomorrow i'm going to kokomo to help cleanout tommy's mom's former house, then i have a tentative appointment with a lawyer for my next indiana signs case.
more later as mark maron would say.

 

by arbitrary
10-22-21
indiana to ohio to west virginia to pennsylvania to wv to maryland to delaware to pa to md to wv to pa to wv to ohio to indiana. just got home.
screened in baltimore for a $12k study. then delaware, my mother had a small stroke and is in the hospital.
couchsurfed with a cool cat in morgantown.
taught bj how to dive the east coast, came home full.
tomorrow i help tommy get his mom moved. i better go get a little sleep.

 

by arbitrary
10-24-21
friday we drove home and i slept a bit. saturday i went to kokomo, rented a 20 foot uhaul, and tommy and i cleaned out his mom's front porch + storage locker and moved it into his mom's new apartment
which has no doors near where the truck fits so we carried everythibng by hand.
i scored some fish tanks and a birdcage, so maybe i'll get a fish.
sunday i slept over, we moved another couch, i brought the truck back to uhaul. i watched 3 movies at tommy's so i guess i will crash here tonight too.
he bought us coffee and made a couple of meals and carved the pumpkin.
other than that i just wasted the day on reddit.

 

by arbitrary
10-28-21
monday i hung out at tommy's and then drove home. my stock went up about $2000, broke $1000 a share, all time high. it's now at 1077.
tuesday i stayed in bed. wednesday i did some housecleaning while the internet was down.
tommy $50, water bill $150, credit cards $300, 1 drink $11.
wednesday i had a zoom meeting, took out the trash, might have dumpster dived, but otherwise didnt get much done. baltimore didn't answer.
thursday i paid 3 bills, sent tommy his allowance, baltimore says they still don't know if i'm in the study. my set went well, i got laughs at at least 4 points. dinner was some fried clams i found on
the way home. i need to email my lawyer to schedule a meeting, and get some work done on the brief.
so coffee, brief, bath, bed.

 

by arbitrary
10-29-21
i had a drink thursday night, so i didn't get much done friday. but i picked up my mail - my passport finally came! need to send a thank you letter to my senators for their help.
i bought gas, logged it in my new logbook, bought bleach and bug spray, flyswatters, and found 2 boxes of groceries, talked to tommy, send a couple emails to lawyers.
my tesla stock went up another $600 today, another all time high. i did a rough estimate of my net worth. it's gone up this year while i've been unemployed.
i'm cooking some onions because i wanted to get them out of my car. not sure what my plan is.
i should make a better list and get some of my ducks in a row. halloween parade tomorrow.

 

by arbitrary
11-01-21
saturday was the irvington parade, which was nice, being out and about amongst people.
sunday was food not bombs, took a few boxes of food, and i found scrap metal, 20 clay faces that i put out in the front garden, a box of small kitchen appliances, silverware, etc.
monday my stock went up $100 a share. i called baltimore and they want me to go piss in a cup again on thursday so i will do that. so i should start drinking water now.
i looked up some info on a tax dispute i have, otherwise didnt do much today.
at fnb i had a cup of coffee that kept me up all night, and i wrote a paragraph on the brief.
so mostly i'm just being lazy in bed as usual.

 

by arbitrary
11-07-21
indiana>oh>wv> pa>wv> md>va>dc>md >de>pa>md >wv>oh>in.
repeat blood draw and urine in baltimore. hope to find out tomorrow if i'm in. saw mom and my sister in law. long difficult drive.
saw 11 deer, a groundhog, a fox, 2 rabbits.
friday i forgot to go to first fridays. saturday a meeting with a lawyer. good meeting, but he wants money.
sunday food not bombs. my ship might have come in, or at least be in the harbor. a vacant lot sold for $15K so now i'll start to try to get the money.
tsla is expected to fall tomorrow. update: i got in and tesla is recovering. and i might not get in the study.

 

by arbitrary
11-10-21
in>oh>wv>pa>wv>md> wv>va>wv>md>
1 deer. blew out a tire. $120. hotel $60. long difficult drive. 2 traffic jams. my driving gets worse and worse. i think i will stay in baltimore for the next two months, if i dose tomorrow.
i will find out tomorrow if i dose. but everything today went fine, blood pressure was normal. we are waiting for the covid tests to come back.
i paid my chase bill and updated my address with pnc. i need to work on the brief and make a better todo list.
we are here for a week, then follow-ups for 3 weeks, then back for a week, then follow-ups till mid january. $12,300. if i finish and get paid, it's be my highest paid study yet, after taking most of
the year off. tsla crashed hard yesterday but is beginning a recovery.

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