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by arbi
4-15-17
saturday was fun and productive. got up early picked up the car. i sort of stole it because he wasn't there so i havent paid him yet. took tommy to the clinic. it turns out this is the day the
dentist is there so tommy got inspected - 4 cavities, none immediate, and he'll go back for cleaning and fillings. and i got one of my bad teeth pulled. then we visited his mom in kokomo and looked
at a van i'm buying from her. we went antiquing, i couldn't find helen's house, we came home, with 3 boxes of groceries. minor fight with dawn who is trying to stay but has been ordered to leave.
my dogwood tree is doing well, the azelea has flowered, the tulips are up. the redbuds are blooming. i watered the garden and picked up trash. i forgot all about going to comicon, too late now.
tomorrow is easter. i should dye some eggs. did; dyed.

 

by arbi
4-18-17
i'm on my lunch break. found a jamacian joint where i can get wifi with my rice and beans. we just qualified on a science question since the books are coming slowly for our main project.
yesterday, monday, i paid the mechanic $268, paid the electric gas and water bills $412, went to the club, forgot i was supposed to be at the antelope club for a libertarian meeting. the usual not
enough sleep. left the house late but got to work on time, even remembered my badge today.
< pop reggae in the background >
oops lu7nch break is over.

 

by arbi
4-18-17

 

by arbi
4-20-17
forgot to turn on my phone so the alarm didnt go off but i was awake. i dont sleep much lately.
today, thursday, i had a flat on the way to work, and pulled over by the chocolate factory i've been looking for. the taxi never came so i walked 2 miles to work and was an hour late. work was ok.
i called in so i didnt get fired for being late. i'm scoring more books than anyone else in our group. i got a ride back to the car and changed the tire in the pouring rain.
i'm on the waiting list for an insomnia study in nyc but i dount it pays enough to go. they were evaasive about the details.
i found a mexican tire shop still open and had just enough cash to buy a tire.
so i got home too wet and beat to work on the 50 item to do list i made at lunch.jerked plaintains $1.60. i caalled fargo and booked a screening for 4/29 for a $3500.
i am online instead of doing pushups or cleaning the house. i havent washed or eaten and it's already past my bedtime.
it's the same study i did last year that involved too many trips to fargo, but it's work. so i will have to postpone my dentist appointment, and my teeth hurt.
but i will be able to get to the tomato plant sale before i leave, and should get back in time for tuesday work. possible stop in madison.

 

by arbi
4-21-17
i'm in the parking lot a few minutes before i go to work on friday. FM 91.9. WITT.org. Wifi from the jerk shop. Maybe someday I'll try the curried goat, $11. Today i'll get the $2 vegetable patty.
The fargo screening is may 29th, not april 29th. that makes way more sense. but they moved it to the 30th.. first of many delays?
I need to get my scorched nuts tickets, for myself and tommy. He was in a better mood last night, but we barely see each other because i work all day and then i get home tired but can't sleep.
more to come later. meanwhile season 3 of fargo has started, i missed season 2 with kirsten dunst, might have to bingewatch.
make a comic was an item on my 50 item to do list from yesterday. i forgot to bring the handwritten list with me but i'll check it online at lunch. work on the voter ID complaint i think is my lunch-
time task.

 

by arbi
4-21-17
friday i worked, beating my previous record foor work done, got a bit done at lunchtime on the voter id complaint, got off work paid internet bill $35 and went to the bank and the hardware store $60,
veggie slider and onion chips at white castle with tommy, thrift store, revereware and an ll bean shirt, then cider at the ash and elm, so now i'm home in bed a little tipsy, not doing the things on
my list. the day's biggest news was we got authorized to work overtime so i could make up to $750/week gross instead of $500.
tommy called about the fargo study but chickened out. he's also smoking again, he made it a week this time.

 

by arbi
4-23-17
saturday i didnt get much done, but i cut the grass on one lot, got an expression of interest from a neighbor about buying it.
reddit, then tommy and i had quality time, thrift stores, coffeehouse, sushi bar, drag show, gay bar. his bartender friend there turns out to be the same realtor i've been emailing with.
sunday for food not bombs i made steamed broccoli and brought grapes strawberries tortillas oj and mandarins. dawn is in the building but i dont know how to call 911 from my cell phone.
kc gave me carrot and pumpkin seeds, and next we are headed to visit andrea and i have to mail some stuff to brian. done and done.
we took a walk along the canal downtown.
monday i remembered at 7:15 we start at 8 now. i worked till 6 got home at 8, houseccleaned the kitchen a bit, now i have an hour for bath and internet. i scored 640 books, 2ce previous record.

 

by arbi
4-25-17
i got very little done today, aside from 7.5 hours work. work was slow so no overtime today. i'm up past my bedtime again tonight. cats woke me at 4 am.
some lawsuits notes at lunchtime, a little kitchen and car cleaning, watched better call saul, took a bath changed clothes. 10 pushups. had a whole list but didnt get to it.
on y breaks i've been digging up sone raised bed gardens that were sitting there neglectd, plantd beans today, maybe flowers tomorrow. it's past midnight already. must turn off light, close computer,
try to sleep. i made my bed, fancy new sheets. now i have to lie in it. so now i'm up at 6, after 5 hours sleep, and i have 1 hour to do stuff. coffee time.
worked on the complaint at lunch, 15 pushups, po box, dollar store, left work at 4 instead of 5 because i was too tired to function.
went by talbott st, my stuff is still there. left a note. my irises blossomed. storm coming in.

 

would you like your palm read?
by arbi, 4-27-17

 

by arbi
4-27-17
i worked 8 hours today instead of 9 1/2. sometimes i get too tired to keep at it. not sleeping well. was awake at 2 am til 4. checked out the chocolate factory dumpster but didnt dive it because
it was daytime. a tonic and lime at the metro then home. did some gardening, pushups, sent an email, worked on the voter ID complaint. now i'm home and i need to sort boxes.of mail that i've been
putting off. and clean the car. and fill the dumpster. and and and. will probably crash out instead.

 

by arbi
4-27-17
i worked 8 hours today instead of 9 1/2. sometimes i get too tired to keep at it. not sleeping well. was awake at 2 am til 4. checked out the chocolate factory dumpster but didnt dive it because
it was daytime. a tonic and lime at the metro then home. did some gardening, pushups, sent an email, worked on the voter ID complaint. now i'm home and i need to sort boxes.of mail that i've been
putting off. and clean the car. and fill the dumpster. and and and. will probably crash out instead.

 

by arbi
4-27-17
i worked 8 hours today instead of 9 1/2. sometimes i get too tired to keep at it. not sleeping well. was awake at 2 am til 4. checked out the chocolate factory dumpster but didnt dive it because
it was daytime. a tonic and lime at the metro then home. did some gardening, pushups, sent an email, worked on the voter ID complaint. now i'm home and i need to sort boxes.of mail that i've been
putting off. and clean the car. and fill the dumpster. and and and. will probably crash out instead.

 

by arbi
4-29-17
friday i worked just enough to get the 40 hour bonus, which effectively bumps our pay from $14 to $15. so i'm making what the liberals want to be minimum wage. then i bought 230 tomato plants at $.10.
each. psa: on tuesday, 4-8, jimmy johns has $1 subs. get the veggie ones please. expect a line.
saturday i went to get a tooth pulled. we waited 3 hours, then i ended up getting 8 pulled. a $600 value. tommy got his teeth cleaned and a referral to a place that might do his wisdom teeth.
so i'm in bed on a mild opiod resting up. the reason i'm getting teeth pulled is to get dentures; i had gum disease. i should go plant some of those tomatoes now that it stopped raining.
or i could sort those boxes of mail.. a task i put off. finished the bert kreischer book at the dentist. ok book, laughed out loud a few times.
did i mention i might go see his cincinnati show next week?

 

by arbi
5-01-17
monday. worked 8.5 hours. sent email from the parking lot. was 6 minutes late to work. made a list. dumpster dived my lunch.
i found out that tommy, like me, is a lapsed wiccan, i didnt do anything special for beltane today. i planted some tomatoes in the garden at work, but i was going to do that anyway.
update for tuesday, flat tire on way to work, so 15 minutes late, worked till 6. 480 nooks yesterday.
big black guy comes up to me in the restroom. "so i hear you are the fastest? got any tips?" so i gave him my elevator pitch for pattern recogition.
fixed the tire at lunch,$1 jimmy john's veggie sub, put on the fixed tire when i got home. tommy was hiding; we had a big fight yesterday, and he might move out.
i noticed the tahs on my volvos are expired. i better fix that before someone calls the zoning thugs.

 

by arbi
5-03-17
today, work by 8, was up late watching better call saul. made a 50 item to do list but haven't done it. good diving after work. made up with tommy. filed a police report on dawn, who stole the pain
pills i got after they took my top teeth out saturday. bought otc pain pills at break. they sent a fat bored cop who wouldn't take a report on the pills. this was after a wild goose chase where tthey
said i had to go to thee station, but didnt mention it was closed. so i stopped at goodwill and got a little pot (revereware) and a brooks brothers shirt.
by the way there are a gang of geese that hang out in the parking lot at work.
the state department wrote me today about my passport, from a letter i sent 6 months ago. so that's progress. discussed with kenny and belinda about when they are getting out.
collected $100 from mark. he suugested common cause for my voter ID issues, a useful tip. now, pushups then bed.

 

by arbi
5-05-17
today they moved me from science back to writing, which is way better than getting fired. about 2% of the time the science grading instructions are wrong, and i'm not willing to do that.
it's the reason i quit and or was fired there 10 years ago. better boss this time.
i got a few minor things done. booked a screening in w virginia, sent an email, put away the laundry, stopped by the cops shop but they were closed, bought two brooks brothers shirts and a tie.
jogged but havent done pushups yet. stopped by the club and got a dance from quincy, which has been on my to do list for months.
got rid of a trespasser visting my tenants-who-won't-leave.
i should be sorting boxes and writing memos and cleaning the car, but i'm resting up to go out for cinco-de-mayo.

 

by arbi
5-06-17
it's saturday, my one day to get stuff done, and i've barely gotten out of bed. i made potato soup, weeded the garden, and did 32 pushups, but nothinbg from the 42 item to do list.
sunday i went to food not bombs (broccoli, bok choi, chocolate, red bananas) hung with kc, dived canal court at the end of the year hippie xmas, mowed a lawn.
monday 8.5 hours work, put away stuff, made a new 34 item list but i dont seem to be doing much on it. 2 hours till bedtime.
tuesday i added to my police report, jogged, pushups, watched better call saul.
wednesday walmart, added to my police report, they want visit 6. pushups, trimmed beard, found a peck of apples, bought seeds.
but mostly i didnt get anything done. new science question, i'm the fastest already but only average at it, getting better. 9 hours. the commute is about an hour each way. dentist appointment for noon

 

by arbi
5-13-17
got my lawnmower running with some premium gas and cut the grass.
thursday with no warning they laid us off till wednesday, so they can adjust the computers.
so friday i ran some errands, po box bank laundry. thursday night the club with kc. plans for chess with rudi sometime.
so i took it to the vacant lot but it wouldn't start.
saturday we got up early took tommy to this big dental event where he got his wisdom teeth taken out. i got a dental checkup but nothing else done. then i slept all day and watched "going with style"
brought it home and it started fine.
tuesday morgantown for a screening. it'll be a waste of time because my blood pressure is too high. and i'm worried about my car for a trip that long, i didnt get to the mechanic today. so mechsnic on
monday maybe. i should make plans for the rest of today. pushups and cleaning mostly. gardening.

 

by arbi
5-17-17
around 4 am i decided i wasn't really going to drive to west virginia with that slight wobble the car makes, so i turned around, went home, went to work on one hour sleep, worked 7 hours. the layoff
is over and we are back on overtime and optional saturdays. i put $800 in the bank and paid $300 in bills and dived my dinner, some fish from aldi. and now i'm home vegged out in bed, need to do push
ups and a bath. i folded towels and put them away. i planted mint and coriander in the little garden spot at work today. still need to plant coriander here, maybe some dill if i have it.
i bought a dress shirt and a chess clock at goodwill. every day i can take a slightly different route home, with little adventures.
i guess getting a decent night sleep is enough of a task for now. i have some deeds to draft for kc and the house needs cleaning in the aftermath of hippie christmas. i have piles of asian grocerys
to sort through and put away somewhere.

 

by arbi
5-19-17
yesterday i weeded the rasberry patch, today i planted red corn. i do this on my breaks at work. it's friday night, i'm at home relaxing, going to havr onr drink then review my to do lists.
i bought painkillers for tommy, and took pictures of the vacant lots to prove they are kept mowed. i have not yet gone to kinos. i checked my oil and added oil after noticing a small leak.
the question i was working on today is graded in way that has little to do with reality, so i felt frustrated all day. i figure it better to be undercover than to quit, but it raises ethial dillemmas
and it's a question about a pair of presocratics and personal intergrity, so it might be ironic. or ionic. i stopped at 5:30 from exhaustion.
drink, pushups, bath, then plan my night. i work 5 hours tomorrow. yesterday i paid the electtric bill $220 and a credit card.$150?
i kinda like the job but i just had 10 years of not having to do this, so i'm a little rusty. i still need to clean the car, the house, etc.

 

by arbi
5-22-17
today might be our last day at this gig. theey are sending people home, one by one. i've had too much coffee and feel jittery. the strawberries are ripe and
my sunflowers and lettuce are coming up, in the little garden i had here.
at library printing 3rd notice to my trespassers in residence
i am getting rid of my tenants, and i can't find any studies, so soon i will have almost no income. long term, i'll need to do something about that. short term,
i'm ready for a vacation. i'll be in the rockies with family one week in july. probably not bringing tommy.
wrote this on my afternoon break, now back to the salt mines. i leftt at 4 insyead of 5. braindead and too much coffee.
now it seems like we might make it though the week, but next week is iffier.

 

by arbi
5-22-17
http://live.scotusblog.com
this just in! the supreme court took no action in masterpiece bake shop
we like cases with tasty names. the court summarily affirmed jim bopp's case challenging soft money. that is, the government wins this round.
19 dead in uk terrorist attack at an ariana venti concert.
but the big news is gerry mander v north carolina. 5-3, thomas and liberal wing found against gerry. it's hard to quickly summarize the decision.
the twitterverse is doing it's thing.
it's late may, so the court action tends to speed up as the end of the term looms.
so the justices can go on recess for the summer.

 

by arbi
5-22-17
http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/the-one-with-wil-wheaton/
so it's 1 am, can't sleep, i realize i should have taken an allegy pill 4 hours ago, i wasn't just tired, i have a cold.
i listened to a podcast about wil wheaton after running into him on reddit tonight
but it didnt help me drift off to sleep. a few weeks agi i didnt qualify for an insomnia study in new york, because i spend too much time in bed, awake but trying to sleep.
i'm not sure they have a good handle on what insomnia is. so i'll be braindead agin tomorrow and likely to leave early that is if we don't get laid off.
since i'm hopelessly awake now anyway, i might as well see if tonights better call saul episode is online yet.
so work says we will get laid off thursday. i planted canteloupe and ate a strawberry. i'm at the rasta shop for lunch.

 

by arbi
5-24-17
tuesday night i remembered to take my pill so i got some sleep. still have bad cold. forgot to turn on phone but woke up anyway, worked 8-5 wednesday scored 1600 books, they were hoping we might do
600. so the bosses like me right now. maybe they'll find work for me for friday, maybe they won't. planted pumpkin and soybean and weeded. the lettuce and sunflowers are coming up. did not have dill.
i got general tso's tofu takeout in broad ripple. tommy liked it. i've had better. nice walk around broad ripple. i just realized i forgot to put aa scythe i found into my car.
i bought some overpriced milk thistle, trying ti get my blood pressure down for fargo trip, which will be a wild goose chase. the geese are gone from the parking lot at work, i'm not sure why.
he's a fu lion, not a dog,
i took pictures of the 4th notice to my deadbeat tenants for kc who texted,and the laundry is in the dryer now, and the trash is out and i made a list and i'm up past my bedtime.
i should do a last check to see if i can find tickets to the burn this weekend, but the plan is to not go.

 

by arbi
5-25-17
we were expecting to get laid off at the end of the day, but we got an extra week, so i will work every day till wednesday, then a month off, then maybe more work in july.
so i will blow off going to north dakota i guess.
i made a 70 item list but won't have much time to work on it. post office closed before i got there so went home, almost bedtime now. i should put away the fish in my car. i put away the laundry.
too dark and wet to mow the lawn. i suppose i could go to the club in a bit if not asleep yet.
friday we went back to the warehouse part and spent the day filling in the dots with a number 2 pencil.
i was always good at that; i can't do much else in life, but i can darken an oval. put $840 in the bank and we are on overtime now. about 4K gross from this gig so far.

 

by arbi
5-27-17
did n't get much done today. worked 6 hours overtime, checked on the price of an oil change and tuneup, weeded the garden, made a 10 egg omelet. just time to eat, pushups, bath, possiblly wash some
sheets. the warehouse boss guy likes me and is fun to work with so we might hang on to the job a while, day by day.
sunday and monday we got time and a half to do this deadly dull task of seeinf if all the bubbles had been filled in correctly,
so i was happy to get laid off at the end of the day. call in a few weeks for the next project. got out just too late to drive to north dakota, so i didn't.
vegging out at home , with a month long stack of chores that need doing.

 

by arbi
5-31-17
tuesday i slept in, enjoying it, eventually got up did laundry bought a tire. $50. rescheduled fargo for next tuesday.
wednesday i stopped by bucks to make an appointment for tomorrow, filed an eviction lawsuit $127 . po box, bank, city hall. 20 pushups. scrap run $28. found some flowering plants that might live.
need to clean the house, the car, the yard, sort the boxes, maybe mow some lawns. more laundry, more gardening. revise lists.
60 pushups, transplanted 25 tomato plants, some cattail. mowed 2 lawns. laundry is in the dryer. time for a bath. took out trash, put away dishes.
to do: photocopy eviction documents. I had a good meeting with KC. I wrote a memo about something that happened to me in the small claims court today.
I got to the photocopy place and reaized i left the documents at home so i came home and wrote the memo, so now i'll go back, after i put away laundry. made my copies and now it's midnight.

 

by arbi
6-01-17
thursday i took the car to the shop, took the bus downtown, filed the lis pendens, paid my real estate taxes ($250) and my texas taxes ($880), came home, rode my bike to pay my water bill ($250).
my last paycheck will cover that. then i helped tommy clean the kitchen, because something was starting to smell. it looks and smells better now.
so now i'm resting again, then maybe i'll wash my sheets. this has been a week of catching up on chores now that i don't go to work every day.
i still have 4 boxes of stuff to put away, but at least it's newer stuff. watered the garden, weeded, moved the tomatoes to a sunnier spot.
i should review the long to do list to see which easy items i can knock off, or tackle the boxes of mail. i might repot some indoor plants.
oh if today is a thursday in june, that means tomorrow is first friday! things in june include the woodruff yard sale, fargo trip, pride, talbot art show, etc.

 

by arbi
6-03-17
friday i didn't do much except get my car worked on. $700 of work on a $600 car, but it was worth it. the wobble is gone. the rattle is gone. i have struts, and front signals, and better brakes, and
fixed tie rods. i remember already making this comic, but maybe i didn't. i looked for studies and looked at temp agencies. repotted some plants.
saturday i went to the woodruff annual yard sale. instead of taxes, they have this annual sale that raises funds for the neighborhood.
i bought 2 pairs converse size 10, art books, luggage, plants, and i'm going back tomorrow for a tiller.
i did some gardening. i gathered mullien plants from the railroad track which if they live, i'll replant in my front garden.
tommy wants to go to burger king for veggie burggers so i'm off. $9.50 veggie burgers and onion rings and waters.

 

by arbi
6-07-17
comic didnt save so it may come out weird.
I didn't get into the fargo study. as expected my blood pressure was too high. the nurse was kind of snippy about it.
car's in good shape for the trip as long as i keep adding brake fluid. i am happy about having spent the money to fix it, although there's still more to do.
things are tense at home with the tenants who won't move out, which could explain part of my high blood pressure.
i am, right now, effectively unemployed, but not bothered by that. i have a long list of chores to catch up on, and i always have my law practice to fall back on between gigs.
i will sign up with some temp companies when i get back. until i fix this blood pressure problem, there's not much point in trying to get studies.
the house needs cleaning top to bottom,and there's a handful of memos to be written. might hang out in minneapolis a bit tonight; there's no hurry about getting back.

 

by arbi
6-07-17
by wednesday, i'd had too much coffee to sleep, but
not enough sleep to keep driving. finally napped at a rest stop in illinois, or indiana, then made it home around dark.
steve moved out and left his room really trashed, so i spent a few hours getting started cleaning that.
found the missing forks. now i'm in bed, going to try to crash out for a while.
thursday i mostly rested. a couple hours cleaning steve's room, spraying house for roaches, bank. tomorrow road trip to kokomo, saturday pride.
friday got the van from the mechanic to his mom's house and took tommy to the hospital to lance a boil. he's the opposite of stoic. nice chat on way home.

 

by arbi
6-11-17
saturday was pride. i went for a couple hours, it was very hot, had one drink, came home and did nothing much.
sunday the usual food not bombs, brussel sprouts and carrots in the pressure cooker, dried pineapple, apples, spinach salad, bananas. too hot to get any work done. stopped for coffee at the library
and a tonic and lime at metro. jake is here with his father in law ron. tomorrow we will do plasma and drive to kokomo to get the van.
it ended up being a busy night around here, with jake and ron and tommy aand kevin and dawn and mark all hanging out out front, different people who used to live here.
some of us still do, but we used to, too. we even had 3 cats, a new record.

 

by arbi
6-13-17
paid $499 on credit card and deposited $800.
tuesday. slept badly, got up late. watched better call saul, reddit, podcasts. po box, bank, walmart, dollar store, aldi, laundry, made a list, stopped for coffee, fixed dinner. it is dusk and time to
sort boxes or procrastinate. sorted some laundry. got soda, drink mix, watermelon, coffee.
today i had 1 beer, a moxie, a homemade coffee soda, and various coffee. staying hydrated.
i'll start the procrastination by weeding the garden. it finally rained today, some of my crops died when it got hot while i was in north dakota.
will try to find new plants on colorado trip next month. i forget if i mentioned we picked up the van yesterday. so it's too hot to do much but i do a little most days.
i got out of the house 5 minutes too late to go to the other bank that closes at 5. gardened, reset a mousetrap.
tomorrow i have a CLE and might drop off an op-ed i was asked to write. took tommy out for a drink that might turn into a job interview at the local dive bar.

 

by arbi
6-17-17
wednesday i had a good cle and worked on a 10 item to do list, banks and memos and printing, etc.
thursday haircut chores visit with kc then i found a pile of copper and a dumpster from a fancy resturant that just closed. oh i tried to put in an offer on a house but it had already sold.
friday i didnt do much except get $76 for the copper, mowed a bit of lawn.
today, saturday, a bit more cleaning up steve's room, got some coffee in fountain square, didn't, yet, go to the talbot art fair or the county fair. it's too hot to do much.
judge mathis show called, might take my small claims case to tv. < stay tuned >
i still havent fixed the brakes, updated my car insurance to add the van, or sorted my boxees of mail.

 

by arbi
6-18-17
it's hot. i havent been very productive lately. most recent crisis is my computer is no longer charging. when the battery runs out, that might be it. $109, lasted me a year.
right now i cant tell if its the computer or the charger that's bad. it's been working less and less well the past couple days.
so either i make a run to walmart or some such place, or i could be offline for a bit. 60% remaining.
i should be saving my files, not being on reddit.
fnb went ok. i made - not gumbo, that other cajun stew. and miso soup, and brought pita and candy.
i need to look at my list of to do stuff.

 

by arbi
6-20-17
monay i made a short list: buy some bags, bag stuff up, put it in the attic. i bought the bags and bagged some stuff up, but taking it up the stairs was just too much work, so i'm surrounded by boxes
and bags right now. but an important task started,
tuesday i set an extra alarm so i wouldn't miss court. go there on time, through a maze of blocked off streets. hurry up and wait. because i'm a lawyer, we only had to wait 2 hours, not 3. my tie came
in handy for once. i won against belinda, she has to leave by end of the month. i have to refile against kenny and mark if needed.
coffee at goose the market and soda at the coop on the way home and a paper at the gas station.
so that's done so i need to start on chores, clean the house, clean the car, go through my 92 item to do list.

 

by arbi
6-20-17
this was just in yesterday. so far there hasn't been any big blockbuster case to end the term. the excitement is more about some cases they will hear next fall, about gerrymandering.
In PTO v Tam, decided yesterday, the court held that for First Amendment reasons, the Patent office couldn't deny a trademark to the Slants, a asian boy band,
on the basis that Slants is an ethnic slur. The Slants are trying to reclaim is, or use it ironically, or something like that. Re-appropriation.
The lineup was unsual. They all agreed, but there was a 4-4 split anyway, on some parts of the opinion,so it is a tnagled web of which opnion actually controls. Gorsuch abstained, and Thomas partially
dissented, but only to say certain issues need not hqave been reached.
Justice Ginsberg concurred in an 8 page opion in Chinese, a first for th court. Or not.

 

by arbi
6-23-17
wednesday i had the basement waterproofing guy come by. his estimate was twice what i paid for the house.
thursday i couldn't sleep so i got up early and started cleaning my room, bagging up cloethes, went through boxes of mail till i found that $300 check i was looking for.
went and got kc to cosign it, had dinner with kc, went to the post office and bank. walmart and BuyMore to look for a charger, no luck. but kc got this one working a little longer.
forgot to pick up the van from the shop, forgot to go to the country fair, so maybe do those today.
so i need to look up what computer this is and order the power cord online.
and then do the next 42 items on my lists. or go back to bed. so now it's 1 pm and i should get up.

 

by arbi
6-23-17
i spent maybe half of today lying in bed doing nothing much, but in between that i got a few things done.
i was a half hour late for a meeting with joe, my partner in a rental property. we had a productive session and got some of the income/expense data i've been looking for.
i did some cleaning in the room of the old man who moved out. i washed dishes, sorted a bushel of eggs, ordered a power cord from amazon (my once a year amazon purchase), 15 pushups, bagged up some
clothes, emailed the state gop caucus staff attorney to suggest a time to meet, checked with my mechanic who is not done with the van yet, charged my phone and computer, withdrew funds at bank and
saturday i went to tthe county fair, saw the dog and pony show.
paid electric bill 161. It was too rainy to go to the county fair. Roof leaked a bit. I had an energy drink so i was up half the night.
The supreme court decided 3 cases today and has 6 left for monday. Nothing major today. Murr was mixed bad news for takings fans, 5-3.

 

by arbi
7-15-17
posting from a coffeeshop saturday night. internet is down at the house, plus i'm kind of taking the week off. a little garddening and housecleaning.
maybe i'll go shopping for fnb tomorrow. plans are to take some tomatoes to kc.
cleaning the house is stirring up a lot of bugs, so we have late night fights.
meanwhile i'm planning to head out to coloraado next week for a family thing.
fnb: coffee ice grapefruit juice, orange drink, 1 root beer, ice sculpture, fruit plate: banana apple mcintosh plum nectarine
tomatoes to kc. might pick up a rug.

 

by arbi
7-17-17
monday: tommy gave plasma again and interviewed for a babysitting job. so for him, that's initiative. and he returned his videos on time.
i hit thrift stores and dumpsters while driving tommy around. haven't done much else today. mowed the front yard with the electric mower.
tomorrow is court with mark i think, after i drop off tommy at his new babysitting thing on the northeast corner of town. where the good dumpsters are.
i am continuing to clean the house bit by bit. mostly moving stuff from room to room. the judge granted the eviction, a little slowert han i'd hoped but end of the montth.
naturally tommy quit his new job before day 1. meanwhile i'm on the road to a faimily thing in the mountains up the hill from boulder colorado.
at a coffeehouse near where i went to law school, just long enough for coffee.

 

by arbi
7-20-17
made it to the cabin in tthe mountains. 1200 miles, less than two days.
got to the colorado border in about 24 hours.

 

by arbi
7-20-17
made it to the cabin in tthe mountains. 1200 miles, less than two days.
got to the colorado border in about 24 hours.

 

by arbi
7-20-17
made it to the cabin in tthe mountains. 1200 miles, less than two days.
got to the colorado border in about 24 hours.
now, a week later, i'm headed home, but stuck in small town colorado till morning when they fix my car.
i'm at a diner with a cute waitress, but it will be a long boring night alone.

 

by arbi
7-24-17
so i'm in colorado, about 10 miles from estes park, about 1 mile from rocky mountain national park..
the wifi sucks.
mostly i've been shopping rather than mountain climbing.
my crazy cousin eddy showed up, which makes things even more fun.
some kind of party tomorrow for my mom then i'll head home via denver.

 

by arbi
8-24-17
i haven't made one of these in a month. i've been in a summer stupor.
i got back to indiana from colorado, but hope to get back soon.
today, thursday, i got an offer of 3K on one of my vacant lots. we are still haggling.
I offered to sell him both lots for 5K.
oh, and i bought a house, $8K.
2 days ago my geo blew up, it lives in the back yard now, blown engine. looking at a $1000 saturn from buck. driving the van now. had to spend yesterday replacing a tire.
he's "re-tired" now.

 

by arbi
9-06-17
i haven't done one of these for two weeks. i'm a little behind on everything right now.
today i tried to play catch up a bit. 3 loads of laundry, line drying, but then it rained.
it's been a long process, not yet over, to get my 3rd worst tenant out. his stuff is downstairs waiting for him.
i took the recycling to the drop off place, put the trash out, but labor day was monday so trash might be delayed.
i made a list and checked it twice, got 4 out of 5 things done. didn't call mom.
i swept up mark's room again, bought bug stuff and sprayed and put out baits. roaches and mice mostly right now.
i thought about cleaning the attic but didn't get that far.

 

by arbi
9-07-17
solipcism rant ommitted this time.
yesterday's strip brought a comment. i suspect this comic has an audience of about 20 people, which is enough. of course i'd like to be the next QC, but this strip lacks, among other things, cute 20
something protagonists, actual art, humo*r, reliable daily postings, tshirts, a subreddit, etc.
i camped out in marks room last night. had visits from 1 mouse, 1 roach, 1 bedbug. The mouse got away. I'm herre partly to check out the infestation levels - not as bad as i feared.
This just in! wait, where am I?
marrmot aka whistle pig, woodchuck, groundhog.
Yesterday I met the marmot that tommy's been telling me about. lives in our garage i think.
marmots are close cousins of prairie dogs, and it's rrecently been discovered thst prairie dogs have advanced language abilities, so i wonder about marmots; somebody should study them.

 

by arbi
9-08-17
thursday: mark came over with a truck, got his stuff off the porch, gave me my keys back. so my house is my house again.
the candyman stopped by at the same time, i am holding but holding off from using any, i think i need a break, but my willpower is low.
i found out that weed by the mailbox is called lamb's quarter and is said to taste like spinach. lunch, tommy cooked, is king crab and french market coffee.
i still need to call mom and joe today, didnt get that done yesterday. or visit kc. we did plasma yesterday and some thrift stores.
there's no tear-down order on the house i'm trying to buy so the closing might go through eventually. i should talk to the owner.
i paid the water bill, went to the bank.. oh! forgot i was in the middle of mowing the lawn. so i'll do that next.

 

by arbi
9-10-17
saturday i got 5 teeth taken out. 4 to go. so now i'm just resting up.

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