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by arbitrary
11-11-21
this morning we dosed, taking a purple pill for the next 5 days one guy went home. i'm guessing bj is across the hall, haven't seen him since we checked in.
i am psyched about being in this study because it is only my second one this year. study #52 for me.
i signed up for the baltimore subreddit and posted about how i will be here bored for a couple months, looking for work or cheap digs or dates.
last year in nebraska i got a gig as a dishwasher in between my study, maybe i can find something here.
i should find a law library if they still have those. this study pays twice what amazon does so i am glad i put off taking that job.
i sent tommy some money and told him to go do plasma, which he has been putting off. i listened to a supreme court case about signs from yesterday. more later.

 

by arbitrary
11-14-21
friday saturday sunday did nothing. watched movies and reddit. my cot is next to the air conditioner so i'm freezing, might have a cold, tryin g to make sure they don't notice i'm sick.
our real dose of the study drug is tomorrow. so far we are just taking the purple pill.
our day looks like ekg blood draw purple pill breakfast ekg lunch dinner snack. easy $200 a day. once we get out it'll be $200 a day to bum around baltimore, weekly returns, then do this again.
so it's a long study but an easy one and pays enough to cover the hostel/hotel, miles, etc.
brian's plan is to crash out in his van. he's a few beds down from me but incognito, we dont talk, just email.
i emailed the county auditor about the tax sale stuff and requested my fbi file.

 

by arbitrary
11-15-21
day 6. they woke us up early to put a tube in our arm so they wouldn't have to stab us 11 times day. went in with no pain.
we took a pill, had breakfast, took another pill, sat upright for 4 hours, had lunch, the usual reddit all day.
tomorrow we will get out, return for a blood draw in the evening, have the rest of the week off.
i have some vague plans of trying to get a bunk in a hostel from airbnb. the old hostel closed.
my stock dipped below $1000 then went back up. some republican lady introduced a bill to legalize weed federally.
i didn't work on the brief all week or make needed phone calls.

 

by arbitrary
11-17-21
days 7, 8. more of the same. they just had me fill out a questionaire, so i guess that means we get out tomorrow. the mumbler two beds down is getting on my nerves.
day 9 we got released. my blood pressure was crazy high and the repeated the ekg but good to go.
stayed at the hostel $40, had first repeat friday.
i blew $350 on a motel cabin in the woods, hostel seemed a little crowded. it's nice here. i guess i forgot maybe i should go to delaware for thanksgiving.
have a second repeat tomorrow, and maybe go to hare khrisna temple for dinner.

 

by arbitrary
11-25-21
i've been in the hotel about a week now. enjoying it, think i'll stay another week.
for thanksgiving i had a can of beans, tortillas, tahini, yogurt, mangosteen drink, a breadfruit, coffee. ,
reddit and youtube all day all week. no writing done.
friday and saturday were more of the same.

 

by arbitrary
12-01-21
sunday i had a blood draw, went to the flea market, got a little lost looking for trader joes, went to historic ellicot city, antiques $22
monday and tuesday i did not get out of bed except to take a bath.
wednesday i forgot about my lawyer's zoom, and did not get an oil change or do the laundry,
but i shopped at trader joes and dumpster dove til my car was full, and redecorated the hotel room, and ordered a new pay card, which has $4000 on it so far out of $12,300, assuming i finish study.
i bought 5 shares of ARKG on sale, and sent tommy his first of the month allowance. happy december! i listened to some of today's oral argument about reversing roe v wade; we'll see how that goes.
maybe, just maybe, i'll start on the brief soon. have not touched it in a month, which is why i don't practice law - killer writer's block.

 

by arbitrary
12-03-21
thursday i stayed in. i looked into a baltimore project, openinsulin.org which is using bacteria and yeast to make cheap insulin. patients like my mom are paying $1000 a month; this place could do it
for 1/10th of that if they could get past the fda. have not yet visited their lab.
friday i paid the rent 350 got a $19.99 oil change for $23, list of what all is wrong with my car, $5 kim chi cole slaw in koreatown.
nothing much, just the brakes engine tie rods tires and alignment. i'll get the brakes done, but not there.
sunday i took 5 boxes of food to food not bombs after my blood draw. got some video of a christmas parade.
monday and tuesday i slept in and did nothing. a bit of legal research.

 

by arbitrary
12-10-21
wednesday i don't remember.a bit of exploring locally. thursday i stayed in and did nothing.
today, friday, was spendy. $120 for two more hotel days. $140 for brake repair. $15 for a phone charger, that doesn't work well with my computer, so $300 for a chomebook,
although all i needed was the power cord, but they don't sell those separately. also some long johns since it is winter now. $6 bowl of rice at honest vegetarian indian restaurant. $10 asian groceries
dove two boxes of food. tomorrow i will pack up and get ready to head back for 9 days in house on sunday morning.
i was looking like a bum counting my nickels to get a bowl of rice when some nice guy offered to buy my lunch. i thanked him and said no, but it was my most human interaction all day.

 

by arbitrary
12-13-21
so yesterday we had checked back in, and my blood pressure was high but that was fine.
but then this morning we were just about to dose when they repeated my ekg, and some qtc number was too high, so they decided not to dose me, so they will sending me home today, not what i expected.
i'm already packed, and am waiting on a few exit procedures, and i'll go up to wilmington to see my mom before heading back to indy. i don't think i have any east coast business.
i'll probably get paid something like $5k for the month i was here. i guess i can go work at amazon maybe. i'll have to sort out my plans.
in this business, you don't always know where your next meal is coming from.
no complaints really. i'm just a little surprised.

 

by arbitrary
12-20-21
when i checked out of baltimore, i accidentally left my laptop, and did not notice until i had already crossed the chesapeake at susquehana, so i wasn't going to turn around and go back for it,
and they are refusing to mail it. so for about a week i could not access any of the sites i was signed into, like my email or this site. i eventually got it sorted out.
shortly i will driving to missouri to try out for a little study, now that it has been a month since my last dose. i'm gonna skip the hotel and just drive all night.
let's see, during the past week i visited my mom, came back to indiana, visited tommy, had a good food not bombs yesterday,
and i've just read the petition for certiorari in the case i've been following, so now i really need to get that memo written,
an amicus brief to the supreme court. i've had really bad writers block about it for months.

 

by arbitrary
12-31-21
trip to st louis went ok. i'm probably in, but with a good chance of getting sent home when i check in due to high blood pressure. did nothing for christmas.
sunday i cooked a bunch of food for food not bombs. by wednesday i was still unpacking the car. the writer's block has been rough, but i started writing yesterday.
my set at the club tonight went well. 4 or 5 people said i did good. i have a new routine where i write down some bullet points from the earlier comics, then tell stories based off those, so it looks
fresh and spontaneous, which some of it is, and i plug in a few jokes that fit.
i got a $12 parking ticket at my usual spot, and picked up two boxes of food that i had to go back for later because the sheriff department van was there. so now it's 4 am friday.
i put $1200 in the bank, paid $200 on the electric bill, sent tommy $50 for his january allowance. eating garlic to lower my blood pressure.

 

by arbitrary
12-31-21
friday i haven't left the house. banged out a first draft of the brief in about 5 hours, then for 5 hours i've just surfed youtube and ate a bit. made some phone calls.
neighborhood pyros waited till today to shoot off the new years fireworks. i might have slept through the ball dropping. it's not like i watch tv.
now i'll either crash, or do some editing, or waste more time online.
i do have two other memos to write, but the brief has been my priority.
once it's ready, 40 copies to print with a cream color, plus submit electronically.
it might or might not all get done.

 

by arbitrary
1-03-22
sunday i did food not bombs and that was all.
today i was going to do a scrap run but it did not get done. i sorted some mail, am headed to the drug store, and will write a short memo later.
my tesla was up $2500 today on good end of the year numbers. if i had bought the stock in 2019 when i wanted to, i'd be rich now. but what i bought last year has doubled.
my buddy didnt get into the study i'm doing but he gets to screen for another study. no progress on the brief yet today.
i just realized i miss first friday again this month, unless they send me home.

 

by arbitrary
1-18-22
i haven't made one of these in a week or two. i need to get back in the saddle.
today is tuesday, for a few more minutes. last week i went to st louis to check into a study, but my blood pressure was 150, too high. so i am taking a break from studies. i am just hibernating at
home. i wrote the brief, although it is not signed printed or mailed. i got two more weeks. so now i have two more weeks.
i fell off the wagon and was high for a week, so now i can't screen for a study for two months.
my car died in the driveway, dead battery and the hood won't open. i'm just chilling inside, coffee and omeletes.
i got a bunch of stuff done yesterday, but nothing today.

 

by arbitrary
1-19-22
the internet ate my comic for today

 

by arbitrary
1-20-22
so i forget what i said in yesterday's comic that got eaten by the internet. something like, it's been a week, i went to st louis, got sent home, high blood pressure, came home, fell off the wagon,
and meanwhile my car won't start. dead battery and hood release jammed. so i've just been chilling at home. sobering up now.

 

by arbitrary
1-20-22
i just realized i forgot to go do standup tonight. the show started a few minutes ago and i'm not there.
anyway, so tommy called me today so i got up, got dressed, took a bus to the bank, where i did not have an appointment so i was not able to get my cash out, and then did plasma.
i got $100 since i'm a new patient again, so that's what i'll do this month, plasma twice a week, to make up for the money i'm not making in st louis. if i hadn't fallen off the wagon i could have
gone to springfield to screen for an easy $7000 study, but now i have to wait 2 months.
i sent tommy $50. i literally bleed to keep that boy in cigarettes and dog chow. he's worth it.
he's understandably freaked out that his mom is unvaccinated and hanging out with relatives who are covid positive.

 

by arbitrary
1-21-22
today i got up late. forgot my mask so i couldn't take the bus, so the next bus was 15 minutes later, so i ended up missing bank #2 by 11 minutes after walking two miles in the cold.
so i went to a bar and a random guy bought me a drink. drink #2 for 2022. then bank #3 to get $100 so next kroger to pay my electric bill $200, then walked home.
my car is broken down so i'm walking more. normally i'm sedentary. tomorrow plasma again.
bath and cocoa. so i didnt get anything else done all day and i have to try bank #2 tomorrow if i get up earlier enough.
tesla fell $100 this week so i might get 2 or 3 more shares monday to max out.
the comedy club i go to closed for a bit, then reopened with a new lease.

 

by arbitrary
1-25-22
saturday wasted trip to the bank, well no, i didnt do what i went there for but i did something else. then the plasma center was closed. bus home. reddit.
sunday i didnt get out of bed.
monday i barely slept. bought 2 shares tesla at $903 so now i'm maxed out at 25.. plasma $125. now it's tuesday and i'm trying to wake up so i can go to the bank and buy a battery to fix the car.
tomorrow tesla 4q earnings report which should be good news.
2 mile walk. forgot to bring the check. got cash and groceries.

 

by arbitrary
1-26-22
this just in! supreme court justice steven breyer to retire end of term (this summer)
president biden has promised to appoint an african-american female. the timing has to do with an expectation that the dems will lose the senate (and house) in the midterm elections.
jeff toobin had this story last week but no confirmed second source.
most americans cannot name all 9 supreme court justices, or nazgul.
nein?
ya!

 

by arbitrary
1-27-22
once upon a time, a man had a fox, a goose, a bag of grain, and a rowboat. today i had a dead battery, did not have the tools to remove it, and the auto parts store wouldn't do it because i was 5 feet
off their property line, and rules are rules. so i bought a battery, $169, and hooked it up to drive into the parking lot, where he installed it 3 hours later. then i drove to the place with free air
for the flat tire. too late for the bank or the po box, but my set at crackers went fine, and i got 4 boxes of free groceries on the way home
my hobo roommate made a list of things to fix around he house, since we both know he hasn't paid rent in a year. he bounces between here, his girlfriend's, and some land of mine tommy gave him.
i should call tommy. just did. maybe go for a visit this weekend. for now, i need to put away food, work on the brief, do dishes.
when i started this comic 15 years ago, i was not doing standup yet, but here i am.

 

by arbitrary
1-28-22
friday's going pretty well. i overslept, got out out of the house at 3. bank, other bank, move funds to trading account, buy 4 shares of tesla. that was going to be my cash reserve, since i am
funemployed, but i still have some cash other places, and tesla is easy to sell if i need to. then po box, bank, currently at starbucks celebrating with an americano.
gonna head home with good intentions of spending 20 minutes cleaning my room. we'll see how it goes.
i still did not write a memo and some emails i meant to do last night.
if i get those things done, i might reward myself by stopping by a gay bar. i'm not much of a barfly these days.

 

by arbitrary
1-30-22
https://gttodolist.blogspot.com/2022/01/ #5343744734668474134
saturday i barely got out of bed. watched season 4 of ozarks and listened to a podcast about dean martin and smmy davis.
sunday i made a bunch of food for food not bombs, a little dumpster diving*, came home, washed dishes for an hour, took out the trash, washed the car, washed the kitchen floor.
tomorrow i need to make a last ditch effort to finish the brief, which will fail. also plasma, and i'm forgetting something.
i should take the scrap metal to the junkyard and buy two new tires. big snow headed our way this week.
monday i bought the two tires, $80, and did plasma, $100, but i never called the guy about the brief and now it's too late.
i was too tired.

 

that was no lady, that was my bug.
by arbitrary, 2-01-22

 

by arbitrary
2-03-22
wednesday i did my lawyer's zoom call but nothing much else.
thursday i got the car unsnowed enough to go to the plasma center, which was closed. i did not call the supreme court like i planned, or apply for that doc review job that starts today. i sorted out
some of the boxes of food downstairs while i waited for the car to warm up.
so now i'm back in bed, probably going to waste the evening on youtube and reddit as usual. maybe i'll go to the basement and see if i can do laundry.
i did not get the brief in. i'm pretty upset with myself - why bother being a lawyer when i can't get one simple task accomplished?

 

by arbitrary
2-04-22
friday i went to city hall before noon to file for the township advisory board primary election but they were still closed due to snow, and now the deadline has passed, so i'm not sure how it will
go when i go back monday. sent an email to document the trip. did plasma $100, now i have $525 on the plasma card. called the supreme court to doublecheck the brief deadline. i could still get it in
if it switch sides and argue for the state's position, so i may do a snarky version.
i went to a first friday event, but it was pretty dead from the weather
tomorrow i plan to go to kokomo to visit tommy. so it's been a fairly full day.

 

by arbitrary
2-08-22
saturday i had a nice visit with tommy. laundry, goodwill, more shopping. he gave me a haircut and a **. i gave him a month's groceries.
i made stuff for food not bombs but i noticed a possible slight taste of mold so i scrapped it and didnt go.
monday i filed for state convention delegate but did not run for sheriff or anything like that. and did plasma.
tuesday i checked the po box and got some groceries, but mostly stayed in bed.
i'm supposed to be writing a motion for bmv, working on the brief, sorting groceries, but might not get any of that done. it's not that cold out, but i'm taking a snow day anyway.

 

by arbitrary
2-11-22
phone $40. tommy's allowance $50.
wednesday i went to the bank. thursday there were more comics than customers so i didn't go up.
friday i was doing plasma, $100, and for a whim i checked craigslist, and checked out a couple of jobs.
saw a dishwashing job at a country club, made a phone call, had an interview with the sous chef, who was desperate to hire anybody,
so i start tomorrow at noon. still have to meet the chef, so it could go south, but i think i got a job.
typically i stay at a gig like this for a month or two, not a year or two, but we'll see.
free golf on mondays. i don't really golf when i'm sober.

 

by arbitrary
2-13-22
first day went well. it was an audition, and chef liked me and hired me. we haggled about pay and i still don't know if i'm at $14 or $15 or what.
fancy food, good dishroom setup, cute teenage coworker, everybody was nice.
i came home and crashed out. been a while since i've done honest work like that. sunday up at the crack of noon, food not bombs, went to a club, tipped this dancer ken-doll who i've been wanting to
meet, $20 washed a few dishes, swept a little, but the house is trashed and needs help. i apparently have a rat, from the way the food in the living room was strewn around.
tomorrow plasma, possible $40 medical study. memo, brief, take out trash.
found a microwave, not tested yet, a backup power supply, that works, some eggs, some scrap metal.
no i guess it doesn't work. now off to test the microwave. which either doesn't work or i haven't figured out its buttons yet. it lights up but so far doesn't turn on.

 

by arbitrary
2-14-22
i feel like i got a lot done today, mostly between noon and six. i made an appointment tomorrow 10 am for a $40 study, then i'll go to work. plasma $100, took two hours. bought gas, $34, bought work
shoes at walmart $27, sent tommy vd card, printed off my new job's past healh code violations and bought a folder and yellow highlighters. i got 5 boxes of free groceries.
oops i forgot to hit clone panel. anyway, i got my income taxes sent in. i owe indiana $27. i went to the bank and asked for a check which work wants so they can deposit my paychecks. no dice.
i did the memo to the bmv, at least a month late, to reschedule a hearing. the post office was unexpectedly closed.
next up: rest, bath, unpack car.
i took out the trash and swept where the rat got into the bread. i made a better list and am making a comic. i got roses for tommy.
i stopped by the auto parts store but the right guy wasn't there. i emailed baltimore again about my laptop. so i did 9 of 15 items on my list.

 

Mr Putin, at what border will you stop your incursion into the Ukraine?
Crimea River.
by arbitrary, 2-14-22

 

by arbitrary
2-15-22
it's tuesday. just got home. this morning i did a medical study for a $40 walmart card, which was easy and fun.
then i went to my second day of work, as a dishwasher for the woodstock club. i caught up the dishes then started my cleaning magic, which is impressing all the bosses. it's a good kitchen but not as
clean as it's going to be. chef agreed to $15/hr, plus i get leftovers and free golf on mondays. i don't really golf, but i might try it for fun sometime warmer.
i cleaned the floors and the elevator and the potato and onion bins and the top of one of the ovens, and the fridge in the pantry.
i have the employee handbook to read tonight, then i work tomorrow at 2:30 after lawyer zoom.
for now i think bath and bed; i do not clean my own kitchen because i'm not getting $15/hr.

 

by arbitrary
2-16-22
today, wednesday, i went to the bank to pay off an overdue credit card, did my lawyer zoom, got a haircut $12, worked a 7 hour shift, checked my favorite dumpster, came home.
took out the trash. i could finish reading the employee manual, or work on the brief.
i think i'm going to have an easier time getting to sleep at nights after being exhausted at work.
today i cleaned the smoker and swept the freezer and scrubbed the floors under a lot of the heavy equipment.
they have two dishwashers where they really only need one. i'm expecting the other guy will get fired. he doesn't work much, then complains that it's slow.

 

by arbitrary
2-17-22
my new start time is 4 pm 6 days a week. so i spent about an hour cleaning up the area near the front door where i set down boxes of food on nights like tonight when i come in with boxes of food.
tommy used to put the stuff away, and without him here i've been slacking. there are still boxes up and down the stairs i haven't gotten to yet. i also cleaned scotty's room.
work went fine. i found a more comfortable pair of shoes. dishwashing is something i can do on autopilot, and then i did a bunch of deep cleaning around the dishroom area. i checked the first floor
kitchen but it was somewhat clean already. i caught the last 5 minutes of the comedy show, then drove home in the snow.
i am sniffling and sneezing like someone who just dumpster dove in a snowstorm.
off to a hot bath and waste time online.

 

by arbitrary
2-18-22
friday i only worked 4 1/2 hours. it was slow so i went home after doing a bunch of deep cleaning. they keep scheduling two people for a 1 person job.
this morning plasma, $60. time to get a new plasma place and come back in 6 months to this one. blood pressure still high.
i only made $12 at the scrapyard, but at least i got that pile of metal out of my driveway. i made progress on the brief while doing plasma.
i am probably too tired to get more done today. i was awake at 5 am for some reason.
i was able to log into the system that pays us so i should get paid thursday. talked to tommy.
having some dumpster dived aligator soup tonight.

 

by arbitrary
2-19-22
satyrday i didn't get anything done aside from working 6 hours.
we were busy so i did less cleaning than usual. swept and mopped the wine room.
chef gave me a 6 page memo on how to wash the dishes, which i agreed with. a lot of places i've worked never write anything down. chef is literate; uses a lot of notes, which is a good thing.
plan for sunday: drop off leftovers to food not bombs, work, go visit tommy.
i had some coffee so i don't know if i could go to sleep yet. today was another day of awake at 5 am.
sunday the other guy didnt show up so it was just me. monday i didnt get out of bed.

 

by arbitrary
2-25-22
it's now a friday several days later. strpcreator was down for a bit or maybe just on my end. i got my first paycheck.
i paid the water bill $100. found the electric bill so i will go pay that before work, is the plan. i should leave for work in an hour.
i got my blood test at the other plasma place so will find out next week if i can donate there for the new donor bonuses. work has been going ok. i've started wearing a tie with my black shirt and
black pants. brief still not written. it's just in my head. about a week before deadline. there's a doc review gig i could apply for.
oh shoot short month so i have less than a week.
parexel finally sent back my computer so now i have 3 working laptops. i should probably buy socks today, no time for laundry.
so i've just become one of those boring working stiffs with not much to say. i think of it as temporary, could last a month or a year.

 

by arbitrary
2-28-22
saturday and sunday i worked. sunday was slow so i got to clean a bunch. stopped by a club on the way home.
got passed by 21 cop cars on the way home. an officer got shot, but lived.
now it's monday, the day i either will or won't write that brief. haven't started yet. had an appointment at upwork but was missing some paperwork so rescheduled. ate at house of waffles and bought
socks etc, $20. the rat ate more of my eggs - i should put away those boxes of groceries. while on the west side i ended up not buying a pair of roller skates - $100 was too steep. i used to skate.
this space left blank for more monday adventures

 

by arbitrary
3-01-22
tonight i worked 2-9:30. got caught up by 4, when i usually start, so i had lots of time to deep clean.
i called wisconsin and got a screening appointment for a $9k study, which i won't get because my blood pressure is too high, but i better give myself a piss test before i go so i don't get banned for
6 months. one time i got banned for a poppyseed muffin. i did not have time to stop by the plasma center today. i did go to the restaurant supply store for a waterproof apron, but it doesn't fit well.
secret project tonight. lawyer zoom tomorrow, and i should go to the bank.

 

by arbitrary
3-02-22
typical wednesday. took out the trash, lawyer zoom, didn't write the brief. worked 6.5 hours. dumpster dove the usual spot.
i think my laptop got stolen out of my car while i was at work. i'm making this on my old one that i just unboxed. maybe my laptop will turn up tomorrow; it could have slid under the seat or something
other than that mrs lincoln, work went fine. came in a bit early and did plenty of cleaning as well as the dishes.
now to see if enough of my passwords work. this computer booted right up, still 33% charged after 2 months.

 

by arbitrary
3-03-22
today was the last possible day i could have done something about getting the brief in, and i didn't.
work is going well. looks like i will hit 40 hours. whoever stole my laptop from my car left a cigarette butt as a clue. not that cops would care.
the plasma center said my blood test isn't back yet.
i'm still closing on thursdays so i don't get to do my 5 minutes of standup.
i need to spend an hour cleaning my food storage situation at home. there's a rat that's been getting into the eggs on the stairs. i've been so busy not writing the brief.

 

by arbitrary
3-04-22
routine friday at work. i missed first friday events. wroked till 10:15. i paid $100 on the internet bill, did not buy gas, spent 20 minutes cleaning house and yard, washed my own dishes.
too busy to deep clean at work. the buzz is that chef is going around telling management what a great job i'm doing.
this week i have been a bad lawyer and a good dishwasher.
the old lady who had the job for 40 years and is off on a medical leave said i was doing a good job taking care of it while she is away.
my coworker is her grandson. he's kinda cute which can be awkward; we work very closely together.
i have taken to wearing a tie to work; it confuses them.

 

by arbitrary
3-07-22
saturday. routine day at work. chef gave me a belt. i don't mean he hit me or gave me a drink; he gave me a belt. and not leather either.
they are kinda impressed with me because i clean any time i get caught up on dishes, which the other dishies do not.
sunday some big banquet and the other guy didn't show up so i was in the weeds all night but got it done. gas $30.
it's monday morning and i'm at tommy's. we're going to do laundry and spray for roaches. i'd be grossed out, but i have a rat, so no standing to complain.
mouse left? no i aint going nowhere.

 

by arbitrary
3-07-22
today was my day off. i was up at tommy's. we did a lot of shopping. he gave me 5 pairs of pants. we did 5 loads of laundry. i bought some chuck taylots and a rat trap at a flea market, and we got
him a house plant at lowes, something dog-safe. tommy is not good with plants.
gas now $4.20/gallon. the pho restaurant and vegan bakery were closed because monday. dollar store. we went to two pet stores just browsing. kokomo does not have a zoo.
we went to the oasis, the bar where he was conceived in the parking lot 37 years ago. this was his first time back.
on the way home i scored at 5 of 6 dumpsters so my car is full, will have to unload tomorrow.

 

by arbitrary
3-11-22
tuesday i unloaded the car and went to work. wednesday i forgot my lawyer zoom. thursday the plasma center gave me the runaround so i went to work early.
did some deep cleaning, explored the country club. found a bike in the food pantry dumpster.
first full paycheck $920 net for two weeks, bought 1 share of tesla at $820.
read the state's brief actually written by campaign legal center in that case i'm following.
it's 4:20 am, can't sleep, and they want me in early today.

 

by arbitrary
3-14-22
friday saturday and sunday i worked, getting in 44 hours for the week, around $700 gross.
the other new guy has stopped showing up, so i do two people's work on sunday, then the cooks and waiters helped me close.
monday was my day off. i did not go to wisconsin or kokomo, so i ran around town trying to get things done.
i went to the plasma center [+10], the post office, $80, bank1 $80, bank2, [$500], cricket $100, goodwill $15 laundry $5 dollar tree $6 aldi $9.
i missed an appointment at upwork because my phone was broken.
now i have two hours to clean my yard, car, and stairs before dark.

 

by arbitrary
3-15-22
tuesday i didn't get much done, but i took out the trash, started cleaning the yard and the stairs, bought a share of stock, $768, dumpster dived and worked 8 hours, net $100.
this was the first time i worked in the basement kitchen. there's a bunch of cleaning i can do there. brought home leftovers, all i could carry.
tomorrow if i get up early i might go to upwork and or saturn plasma. or work on the stairs an yard some more.
i just caught and killed a mouse that was trying to eat my beet seedlings.
i'm mostly vegetarian, but i'm at war with the mice.
so that's what i did today, but i left out the didn't part.

 

by arbitrary
3-16-22
wednesday i didn't get much done, but i did my lawyer zoom, took out the trash, booked a screening in wisconsin two weeks later than the one i cancelled, got the ok at work to take that day off, got
my schedule ok'd to get out of work to do my 5 minutes of standup.
started cleaning the basement kitchen at work. stuff like finding a pile of old plates stuck behind the dishwasher because no one looks back there.
it's the kind of place where the fringe benefit policy is i get to take home the leftovers. my fridges are getting full, but i'm never hungry at home anymore.
i have to come up with a new 5 minutes for tomorrow night. so i'll be pondering that.
more later, as mark maron would say

 

by arbitrary
3-17-22
didn't get much one today, but i worked 5 hours, did 5 minutes of standup, stopped by a st paddy's day tent party over by where i used to live, dumpster dived some canned goods, and came home.
i didn't have a full 5 minutes, but i got up introduced myself talked about getting my schedule changed so i could make it.
i got more applause than laughter, which is not what you want, but it was well received and i kept it short. work was busy all night an i almost caught up before i clocked out.
so now i'm home and awake so i should be cleaning and unloading the car, but i'm just going to lie here for a bit and start again tomorrow.
i barely slept last night so it's ok to feel tired.

 

by arbitrary
3-18-22
so last night i clocked out early so i could go do standup, an apparently the guy who was supposed to cover for me didn't do a great job
so i got called into a closed door meeting with two of my bosses to discuss my schedule, but it all worked out ok
but then later it turned out my 3rd boss had actually seem me perform and remembered that i'm arbitrary aardvark on stage.
so my cover is blown. at least so far they don't know that i'm also a lawyer.
other than that it was a slow night so i cleaned the shelves in the walk-in. today i finally swept the stairs where the raccoons had had a party, and i bought more work clothes, and dumpster dived
some pussywillows. i'm gonna take a bath and have some decaf and maybe unload the car.

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