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by arbitrary
3-19-22
today was slow, so i got a lot of deep cleaning done. i scrubbed floors and walls and ceilings and shelves and equipment. 7.5 hours.
on the way home i stopped for a free drink (tonic + lime) at the all night gay diner, which now closes at 3 am due to covid. it was kareoke night so it was packed. i used to be a barfly, and i might
start going out a bit more than i have been, although i no longer drink much.
i drove by the gay gym i used to go to, and might start going to again now that i can afford it, but i didn't stop in tonight.
i want to wake up early enough to sort out what food i'm taking to food not bombs.
this was my cake day on reddit; i've been there 11 years now.

 

by arbitrary
3-23-22
sunday i took food to food not bombs, green beans and broccoli and peas/corn.
monday i went to kokomo. took the dog to the park, thrift stores, dumpster dived my way back home.
tuesday work went fine on very little sleep, mopped that one tricky corner behind the hobart mixer. 6 1/2 hours.
today is wednesday. had my lawyer zoom. i'll take out the trash. they are tearing a new manhole in the street in front of my house so i can't leave yet.
i'll take out the trash and maybe pay the electric bill. my tesla is up $9000 this week.
i should stop by the plasma center on my way to work to see if i passed my blood test.

 

by arbitrary
3-24-22
yesterday the plasma center gave me the runaround, wants a note from my doctor, not gonna happen, so today i went to a different center, which told me come back saturday.
i have a new work schedule with thursdays off so i can do standup. so i ran around doing errands. bank, paid electric bill, po box. no checks, just junk mail from the irs. dollar store, i bought pens,
a clipboard, and wd40 type lube. i sprayed my po box lock and some swings at a park i went to last week.
i found somebody's damp notebook at the park where the swings were, so i will try to return it. no name or address but there are some clues.
i did two loads of laundry, dove mcdonalds for lunch, found some cups that i will plant sweet potatoes in. i should rewatch that video about how to plant sweet potatoes.
meanwhile i'm off to the comedy club. i got my paycheck and bought a share of tesla for $995. it's at 1014 now. the pens are so i can write a new set for tonight.

 

by arbitrary
3-25-22
so thursday i took off work, wore a blazer and tie, had my new 5 minutes ready. but did not get to go up.
so instead i went to a benefit concert for ukraine. i found out there's an annis room at the historical society; that's one i'd missed. mr annis was my neighbor when i first moved to town, had his
engineering first in the mansion across the street when i lived at stewart house.
his foundation gave money to most of the museums and such downtown. i first learned about him by diving his dumpster
today, friday, routine day at work, 7 hours, then a dumpster score on the way home. i'm in bed instead of unloaing the car and cleaning the stairs. the raccoon got into the eggs again.
next friday is first friday but i'll be in milwaukee, not getting into a study.

 

by arbitrary
3-28-22
saturday: routine day at work. 8 hours. sunday: food not bombs, brought rice, drink, mac + cheese, more cheese, box of fruit, and a large bag of chips.
routine day at work. 5 hours. 31 for the week. every day i find one more thing to clean.
monday tommy was sick and didn't want company, so i slept in. found phone. charged phone. reset settings so it will actually ring now. returned call to wisconsin.
they did a bait and switch, cancelled the $9000 but offered me a screening for a 1 week $3500.
i went downtown to schwab and applied for margin on my account. found out i had two extra shares; i've been counting wrong. my stock went up $2500 today on rumors of a coming split. had free coffee @
schwab so i'm a little buzzed. i splurged at salvation army, $38, bought work clothes, kitchen stuff, a record, etc.

 

the comic i just made didn't post. i'll have to do it again later. bummer.
by arbitrary, 3-31-22

 

by arbitrary
4-03-22
so far the goldfish are still alive.
tuesday and wednesday routine work days lots of heavy cleaning.
thursday i had a fun visit with tommy. bought him a bike $10 a phone $65 a shirt and tie for me $5 and 30 goldfish $5 and goldfish accessories $15.
thursday i had a great set, several people told me so. wish i knew how to record my sets. my comic about it didnt post.
i had jokes, topical references, callbacks, announcements. partly rehearsed, partly spontaneous. got at least 5 laughs from the packed audience.
friday and saturday routine work. big party with a band so we were there late.
i've been cleaning the house and car and yard just a little, an hour a day, it needs 5 hours. i'll go bleach the fridge then head to work, today being sunday.

 

by arbitrary
4-03-22
we've got a great show for you tonight. jenny salazar is here. she's one of the best female comics working here tonight.
jenny's a lawyer too and had a good set and we made small talk after the show.
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i went fishing in kokomo today. i got 30 fish. they were 16 cents each at petsmart.
i was wearing blue blazer white shirt red tie, which set up this next bit:
i came in tonight and someone said "you look fancy"
what i should have said was, i might have been born just plain white trash but fancy was my name.

 

by arbitrary
4-04-22
monday, my day off, i didn't get much done. po box, aldi, dollar store, bank to close an account so it doesn't mess up tommy's welfare situation. a few phone calls.
my stock went way up and i cashed my monthly oil check and moved some money around.
i've been lying here for hours "about to" go do laundry. luckily it's open all night.
i didn't clean the fridge or the car or the house or the yard.
i didn't sort my mail or make a list. i did buy several different flavors of philly italian water ice at the $1.25 store, and fed the fish.
i bought trash bags so i could take the recycling but haven't gone yet. so groceries laundry recycling is the plan for the rest of tonight.

 

by arbitrary
4-07-22
tuesday after work i drove to wisconsin and screened for a study on wednesday morning. went ok, possible $3500 for a week, end of the month, won't know til then.
spent wednesday driving the long way around chicago via lake geneva (where gencon was from.) tommy was asleep/drugged out and didnt want to see me.
thursday up at noon, a little cleaning, had to fax something for tommy, went to mark normand show downtown.
i told mark we could go to the open mike night at crackers and he said yes but then he ghosted me so i eventually left.
so now i'm home and i should be back to cleaning the house and car but i don't think that will happen.
i got a 3 day ban at reddit so i'm feeling cancelled and rejected, so we'll see how the study thing goes; i could get a 6 month ban there if i flunk the piss test, but they probably would have told me

 

by arbitrary
4-12-22
sunday easy day at work. the new guy had things caught up when i got there, so i focused on scrubbing the floors.
monday nice visit with tommy. took the dog to a park, did errands, went for japanese dinner. tommy wasn't feeling well so we skipped the movie and laundry and i came home.
between the job, studies, plasma, a real estate deal, the stock deal, my oil check, a couple other things, i might end up making some serious money this year. a few years ago i was broke.
now it's already time to go to work and i have to unload the car; found a ton of groceries between here and kokomo.
and a big box of orchids and daffodils and such.

 

by arbitrary
4-18-22
i guess it was a routine week at work. thursday off, i slept in, had a so-so 5 minute set thursday.
sunday, easter, went in at 9 30 worked till 5 30, 650 people at a buffet, 3 of us dishing.
today, monday, i went in for 4 hours to finish up, so i missed my day off.
p o box, bank, tried to vote, was told i can't vote without ID.
this happens at every election since 2008, and is illegal.
i also asked for media credentials, which they have denied me in the past. i am on hold with wisconsin. it snowed today. next up laundry, and repot some tomatoes with the pots i got today.

 

by arbitrary
4-19-22
today i did some personal housekeeping stuff and worked 4 of my side hustles.
i swept the stairs, did 2 loads of laundry, cleaned the car some, bought gas $47.
I booked a screening in wisconsin for an $11K 1month study, although I gave up my spot in the $3,400 study that they wanted me to repeat my labs for. so i might get neither.
i checked my stocks and posted to reddit and worked 7 hours at my day job and brought home 3 buckets of leftovers, and found some clothes and canned goods along the way.
around 2 pm i put on my suit, stopped by the county clerk to verify that they had implemented the changes we worked out yesterday, and there were emails and phone calls about the 4 legal issues i
raised yesterday. the county sent a smoking gun letter showing they are enforcing the statute I told them was unconstitutional, and have beat them in court about before.

 

by arbitrary
4-20-22
so far today, wednesday, i took out the trash, bought another share of stock $994, took myself out to breakfast at this new hole in the wall bistro i've been wanting to check out. $11 grits potatoes
coffee. worth it. had my lawyer zoom. what that is, is i'm in a support group for lawyers with issues. we moved to zoom for the pandemic.
the racoon came back again last night so i need to sweep the stairs again, and clean out the car and bring in boxes off the front steps.
or "stoop" as us dutch-americans say. i'm mostly mayflower english, but one branch of the family moved to brooklyn in 1630 from belgium, and delaware still has some dutch and swedish place-names.
then i will go to work. i have tomorrow off, finally, so i might go to kokomo or clean the house or just sleep in.
i don't think i will get my tomatoes replanted yet; i should at least water them.

 

by arbitrary
4-21-22
thursday i slept in. my stock went up $100 based on yesterday's earning's report, then it fell back to where it was a coupl days ago. i watched better call saul and got out of bed in in time to catch
a comedy benefit for orphans in ukraine, $40. found an 8 pound hunk of cheese.
re-read a case from new mexico that the court got wrong on the topic i know a lot about.
transplanted some of the tomatoes. did not clean the house. did not go do plasma.
maybe i'll go to sleep. maybe i'll go through the junk mail. tomorrow i should get an oil change before work. work is tiring; it's like smoking dope, you don't have time or energy for other interests.
legal weed sales started in new jersey yesterday. i have no way to get to jersey; there's a tall bridge over a mile wide river and i have a phobia of bridges.

 

by arbitrary
4-22-22
by the time i got out of bed, i had time to either go to the plasma center or the strip club, but not both.
so i went to the plasma center after calling to make sure i could get seen; i get there and they tell me the doctor is not in today. i paid off $50 on one credit card and grabbed an americano at the
local coffee shop and now i will head to work, no time to get an oil change.
i wonder if i can get tommy to come for a few days to help me clean the house. i keep stepping over the pile of broken eggs instead of cleaning it up.
anyway, off to work. i will leave the $5 on the table for the coffee since it doesn't seem.. maybe i should go up and pay.
the other thing going on is my mother is being moved to a hospice in hawaii; she had stopped getting out of bed and didn't answer my phone call; i better call again.

 

by arbitrary
4-23-22
by the time i got out of bed, i had time to clean the stairs or go to the strip club, but not both, so i went to the strip club. got overcharged for a coffee and did not have a great time, but saw
people i knew and someone i will go back to see later.
then work. 9 hours. stayed to midnight to sort silverware and scrub the floor.
drove home past people out partying, but i just went home. bath, bed, podcasts.
the plan is to get up early enough to sort out all the food, take some to food not bombs, throw away the rest.

 

by arbitrary
4-24-22
i got up really early, around 1 pm. i did the dishes, took out the trash, took the tomatoes outside, fed the fish, opened 5 windows for some fresh air
this took an hour and now i'm exhausted. i still need to clean the stairs, sort boxes of food, take it downtown, then work all day. i may end up having some coffee. a bad habit that goes with being a
professional dishwasher. this sounds like a small thing, but my heart skips beats when i have coffee. about 9 per minute. premature ventricular contractions.
so i'm not supposed to have coffee, so some years i don't get out of bed. i used to be a coffee achiever, with hustle.
ok, must go clean the stairs.... must sort boxes... think i'll have some coffee.

 

by arbitrary
4-24-22
sunday work dragged. had coffee at 9 pm, that helped. i was able to get sunday's dishes done, but never caught up the stuff from yesterday that is still soaking.
41 hours for the week.
stuff i took to fnb included case of banans, box of pears, a cheese plate, a fruit plate, lettuce. i threw away at least that much. it got suddenly warm this week so my car doesn't count as a fridge.
now it's my day off and i have no plans. maybe plasma and an oil change, or sleep in.

 

by arbitrary
4-25-22
i had two goals for monday, plasma and an oil change.
so i go to the plasma center because they said the doctor was there mondays, and they tell me the doctor already left. 5th wasted trip. so i'm on the southside already, so i drive around aimlessly, do
some shopping. i end up at walmart to buy flowers, which i did, because the oil change department is open till 6, the sign says. but i go there before 6 and they are like
nope, not today, we aren't doing oil changes. so i was pissed, and thought about calling corporate, but i didn't.
but i had adventures, two of them involving fish. spent around $80 between walmart and an asian store. need to unload the car again.
it was a good day, but i didn't clean the house as much as i should have.

 

by arbitrary
4-26-22
tuesday i woke up in time to go to work. 8 hours. well actually first i went to a sculpture garden across the street from work, that i heard about from atlas obscura. check it out for your city. i was
able to walk all the way down to the river. this is part of the art museum/lilly estate, but a part i had not been to before. thanks reddit.
usually on tuesdays i do both the upstairs dishes and downstairs, but today was so busy i never got downstairs. i assume someone else handled it.
at least i caught up the pile of silverware from saturday before they rusted.
i moved some stuff from the car to the front steps. it's really getting out of hand. missed a call from the plasma place; apparently writing their bosses in japan had an effect.
it almost inspires me to write some of the other letters on my to do list.

 

by arbitrary
4-26-22
tuesday i woke up in time to go to work. 8 hours. well actually first i went to a sculpture garden across the street from work, that i heard about from atlas obscura. check it out for your city. i was
able to walk all the way down to the river. this is part of the art museum/lilly estate, but a part i had not been to before. thanks reddit.
usually on tuesdays i do both the upstairs dishes and downstairs, but today was so busy i never got downstairs. i assume someone else handled it.
at least i caught up the pile of silverware from saturday before they rusted.
i moved some stuff from the car to the front steps. it's really getting out of hand. missed a call from the plasma place; apparently writing their bosses in japan had an effect.
it almost inspires me to write some of the other letters on my to do list.

 

by arbitrary
4-26-22
tuesday i woke up in time to go to work. 8 hours. well actually first i went to a sculpture garden across the street from work, that i heard about from atlas obscura. check it out for your city. i was
able to walk all the way down to the river. this is part of the art museum/lilly estate, but a part i had not been to before. thanks reddit.
usually on tuesdays i do both the upstairs dishes and downstairs, but today was so busy i never got downstairs. i assume someone else handled it.
at least i caught up the pile of silverware from saturday before they rusted.
i moved some stuff from the car to the front steps. it's really getting out of hand. missed a call from the plasma place; apparently writing their bosses in japan had an effect.
it almost inspires me to write some of the other letters on my to do list.

 

by arbitrary
4-28-22
wednesday i guess i just worked all day. i got doxxed. the sous chef who hired me looked me up on linked in. that's a site i haven't logged into in ten years. so now he knows i have a masters in
addition to the jd, and was suitably impressed. i talked about this a little on stage tonight.
i passed the hat for the ukraine orphans, but the hat never came back. i forgot to hit record so i missed taping my set.
anyway, today i went out and did election protection monitoring at 3 early vote centers. at st marks united methodist, i got denied the vote, ordered to leave, and then threatened with a lawsuit then
with arrest. i said i had nothing better to do today, but the cops had not arrived by the time i left to head to the next place.
my next step might be to post the video to youtube. i only got snippets, missed the best parts.

 

by arbitrary
5-01-22
friday: worked. saturday: worked 10 hours, till 1 am, a wedding.
downstairs then upstairs. so much silverware.
i posted some of the videos to youtube. channel arbivark. sunday i cleaned off the front steps, did some dishes took out some trash, cleaned inside and in the car a little.
i am bringing hot potatoes, cooked purple cabbage, oj, tea, bread, wine.
tomorrow maybe i will do plasma? so i won't go to kokomo, so i should call tommy now. i'm gonna head downtown and check 'rogers before i drop off.
a few boxes of donuts, vegetable salads, flowers. 38 hours worked this week. called tommy, curbfound some work shoes and a dufflebag. probably will put off laundry.

 

by arbitrary
5-02-22
so far monday i did three loads laundry, got an oil change and air filter, bought cleaning supplies, got the lawn mower running. the grass is too tall and wet to mow yet.
i did not get up in time to do plasma. maybe i won't do plasma till after i screen.
i need to make a to do list of election law items so i don't lose track. i need to remember to try to vote tomorrow.
it was easier to buy another air filter $20 than find the one that's in my car. i should clean the car.
i didn't do much but i'm exhausted, so time for a bath and reddit break before i get back to trying to do things. maybe i will mop the stairs or clean the fridge today. i fed the fish and watered the
tomatoes.

 

by arbitrary
5-03-22
i voted today. went fine. provisional ballot, then to the voting center to fill out the affidavit saying i object to being photgraphed.
dude says he hasn't seen one of those since 2016. i got an email denying my media request because i'm an online journalist, which i forwarded to my lawyer.
and another email with some documents about an alaska lawsuit i'd been looking for.
now i'm off to wash dishes all day, so i will miss my lawyer's victory party - he is unopposed in the primary. i could have run for something more than state convention delegate, which i will lose,
because i'm on page 2. i'm not listed as "aardvark, arbitrary", which would have been a win.
i could have run for state rep or assesor or something like that, and been unopposed. it snowed on the filing day and the office was closed and i got confused.

 

by arbitrary
5-05-22
i didn't get much done today. didn't clean the car or the house. i didn't write the motion to intervene in the alaska case.
but i checked the po box, went to two banks, found some bananas, had an ok set to a very small crowd.
the delaware house passed a bill to legalize up to an ounce of weed. governor might veto.
i got my labs in the mail. passed my drug test, still hiv-, blood sugar was high. i don't know which lab they wanted me to repeat. i go screen again next week.
i did not do anything today to celebrate cinco de mayo, mexico's victory over the french.
it's still raining and i'm lazy so i won't go down to the corner store and pay my electric bill. maybe tomorrow. i got my paycheck and bought a share of tesla, then it dropped further but that's ok.

 

by arbitrary
5-06-22
never heard back from my lawyer about when and where we were meeting today, so that didn't happen.
i did three things from yesterday's list. i went to the strip club, got a cup of coffee, and wrote a draft of the motion to intervene in the alaska case. 1.5 hours.
I paid $150 on my electric bill, just a week late. I bought some premium gas for the mower. It's still raining so can't mow yet.
worked 7 hours. brought home leftover sushi for me and the fish.
wore the new hat and tie i bought at goodwill yesterday. now i'm home but it's midnight, i'll probably just take a bath and reddit for awhile.

 

by arbitrary
5-07-22
i didn't get much done today, besides 7 1/2 hours work. a little mowing, a little dumpster diving, i don't count getting 100 points on reddit a an accomplishment.
emails from two of my cousins. i plan to try to meet w/ some of them in colorado this summer and then go to the rainbow festival july 4th. i should check when the date of that study i won't get into
is. the fish ate the sushi i left for them. i don't have any official goldfish food.
tomorrow i go in early because it's mother's day and we'll be crazy busy like we were on easter. then i also work monday, my day off. i like to clean when there's no one there; i'll scrub the floors +
tidy up a little. then on my next day off i go to wisconsin and back.
my property tax bill of $1000 is due. i guess i'll put it on my credit card and use my next paycheck.

 

by arbitrary
5-09-22
sunday, mothers day, was a bear. new coworker doesn't like me and is unpleasant to work with.
mom is still at my sister's not in the hospice like i thought, but has stopped getting out of bed, and my sister was surprised she lasted through april.
monday i didnt get much done. i worked 4 hours. this was fun because we were closed and i was able to scrub the floors and organize a little after yesterday. i bought two pairs of work pants,
dumpster dived some stuffed animals and a case of energy drink. the post office was closed; they are having staffing issues. so i didnt get my new credit card or pay the tax bill. tesla down $3k.
i spent about an hour on yardwork, cleaning the car, mower wouldn't start, burned a pile of boxes, sorted the recycling.

 

by arbitrary
5-10-22
what i wanted to do today was go to the strip club and write out a first draft of the marion county complaint,
but all i have time to do is go to the pet store + buy a new filter for the fish tank. it stopped working and i need to get one quick before the fish die. this sort of thing is why i never have pets.
i'm not good with responsibility. i washed a bunch of dishes and started straightening up my room but didn't get very far.
oh i paid $1020 on my taxes that were due today, split between two credit cards. it would have been 10% higher tomorrow.
so i guess i should log into my bank account and see if i can afford to pay off one of those. i guess it won't post til tomorrow.
so online banking, pet store, try to get to work by 3. then tomorrow zoom, work, kokomo, wisconsin. i should start drinking water so i'm hydrated.

 

by arbitrary
5-13-22
wednesday night i worked late, then tommy and i did laundry and he gave me a haircut. this put me an hour behind schedule so chicago traffic was bad and
i was almost asleep at the wheel in milwaukee. made it to my screening on time but my blood pressure was high and i did not get in. i should have just redid the labs for that 3500 study instead of
shooting for this $11K one. 1000 miles. $150.
friday, slept, mowed the lawn with new $25 lawn mower. my irises are blooming. worked, dumpster dived 4 boxes. oh i got a ticket in rural indiana that i will fight. improperly displayed plate.
got along slightly better with fng coworker today, which isn't saying much.
i need to take a bath, write a memo, make a list, take out the trash, etc.

 

by arbitrary
5-15-22
saturday there was a wedding so i worked till midnight. new girl dishwasher is getting trained, hurrah.
sunday was an easy day at work. 40.5 hours for the week. fng worked upstairs while i worked downstairs although she yelled at me over something trivial. my guess is she'll be off the schedule soon.
for food not bombs i brought drinks, salads, peas, broccoli, potatoes, cabbage, bread, cake, ice cream.
tommy doesn't want company tonight so i might relax at home or sort out boxes.
i had a major life event today, but i'm not quite ready to talk about it here yet.
took a bath, now i'll probably reddit for a few hours.

 

by arbitrary
5-16-22
monday i didn't get much done. the bmv was closed so i couldn't switch my plates, and the new headlight didn't work either and i didnt have time to leave the car for them to work on it. and i didn't
clean the stairs yet. but i went to the post office, paid $140 on my credit card, leaving $300 owed, mowed the front yard again, found a box of clothes for fnb.
i have 2 hours to go pay my internet bill. $7.50 on two cups of coffee, found a new coffeehouse. looked at a vacant lot for sale.
the thing i wasn't ready to talk about yesterday is that my mother died. this was expected, and peaceful, in hawaii with my sister, so i'm not too upset. tommy was shaken up more than i was, because i
was expecting it. the reason this could be lifechanging is that it triggers some of the family trust funds, so maybe i will shortly be very rich, or maybe i get nothing, i'm not actually sure.
by very rich i mean less than a million, but enough to retire on.

 

by arbitrary
5-19-22
tuesday i went to the bmv and switched my plates $10. spent an hour cleaning the stairs, and of course i posted about it to reddit. worked 8 hours. oh and a free 3 hour cle on cybersecurity on weds.
weds i paid the PA turnpike toll finally, clunky web page. tommy broke a tooth so didn't want me to come that night. he was supposed to call in the morning but didnt call till later. worked 7 hours.
thursday i didnt get out of bed all day until it was time to go do standup. caught up some online stuff.
got my paycheck, paid off my credit card, bought a share of tesla, $703, now $65 left in account.
tonight i found 20# rice, 2 gallons olive oil blend, potatoes, 2 gallons apple juice concentrate, a daffodil plant. keyed in my 40 item to do list. made some notes on a tort claim.

 

by arbitrary
5-22-22
friday i didnt get much done. worked 8 1/2 hours, found the ticket i was looking for, did some heavy cleaning at work while waiting for that last party to leave. had 1 beer. found 4 boxes of food,
plus leftovers from work. fed the fish, watered the plants, took out trash, made ice, found something rotting that scotty had left. little chores like that.
it's technically saturday morning now. maybe i'll call tommy. maybe i'll read through my to do list. probably i'll veg out on reddit before i finish putting away the 4 boxes. then a bath.
this is how this comic looked until i went in and edited.

 

by arbitrary
5-22-22
saturday was a routine workday. i thought i scored big with 100 jars of gif peanut butter, but it was a recall. at least i knew enough to check for a recall.
sunday's my day where i try to get up early to fix food for food not bombs, so that's what i'm doing now.
i made rice, and ice, and have fruits and veggies, and might do a cheese plate, and have a box of clothes. i still have an hour to pull a bit more together.
i washed the stairs and kitchen floor, sorted out one fridge, took the tomatoes outside, washed a pot that hobo sometimes roommate had left in his room. fed the fish.
i kill flies for the fish and also give them seaweed. i haven't bothered to buy fishfood yet. i still have some boxes of stuff by the stairs to sort, toss, or give away.
then i'll go to work, then probably go to tommy's.

 

by arbitrary
5-24-22
had a nice visit with tommy in kokomo. brought food. took him to the doctor for meds for his ear infection. he has a lot of health issues; next trip i take him to the dentist.
we got clothes at goodwill and cleaning supplies at the dollar store.
we took our dog for a walk to the dog park, where he got to go offleash and run around with some dogs. that's an indeterminate antecedant. there was a skatepark and a white whale sculpture and a tank,
and we saw 5 turtles and some ducks, and went to a coffee shop, and went to the bar where tommy was conceived 38 years ago on halloween.
i dumpster dived the 50 miles back to indy, so i have to go unload the car before work.
i want to go in early because coworker again left a big pile of unsorted silverware. no progress on the 40 -item to do list. just applied to be on an advisory board for local medical studies.

 

by arbitrary
5-25-22
wednesday i didnt get much done, but i had a good lawyer zoom, discussed my plans to try to reopen my practice. took out the trash, fed the fish, worked 6 hours.
found a broken lawnmower, a racquet of some sort, about 50 pounds of food. paid $56 on my electric bill, $80 still due.
my plan is next to go do laundry.
tomorrow i have to switch my internet provider. oh! and i booked a screening in kansas city for a week from now. $5K 1 week study i probably won't get into.
this space left blank for laundromat adventures.
I did two loads and had gumballs with some kids.

 

by arbitrary
5-26-22
thursday i didnt get much done on my day off. just junk mail at the po box. i bought some work shirts at goodwill, and some books i'll probably never read.
i found some pineapples. i got signed up for a new internet account, but now i have to install it.
i forgot the comedy club was closed tonight, so i wandered around downtown. dinner was a bowl of rice, $2.50 at thai paradise, coffee $4 next door.
a steak house pays $14-18/hr. i'm doing some research on wage rates.
came home to install the new modem, but i dont really want to go up to the attic so i'm putting it off.
friday i worked 9 hours. after 3 days of calling i got through to kansas city and booked a screening for a $20K study that i probably won't get into. 1000 miles, 2 screenings, a hotel, etc.

 

by arbitrary
6-02-22
trip report: 1000 miles. 2 hotel rooms, 4 states, 2 screenings, did not get in at either one.
one would have been $20K, the other was $5k. my blood pressure was way high, even with ashwaganda and garlic.
i was 20 minutes too late to go to the dispensary in illinois. tommy rescheduled his dentist appointment so i was able to get some sleep before work.
staying awake on the drive there was hard. coming back, i was able to have coffee. income $135. hotels $120. gas $150? missed 2 days of work.
now that i'm back. got my paycheck, paid off two credit cards, helped tommy with rent, made a payment on 3rd card, so i did not buy a share of tesla this morning.
partly unloaded the car. $64 in asian groceries. tonight i got a box each lemons, limes, lettuce, fruit, plus leftovers from work.

 

by arbitrary
6-05-22
thursday friday saturday sunday i worked. tomorrow i will do plasma then work.
saturday was the woodruff place yard sale. i got a bike, a tie, some books, some art, a pruning shear, $60.
sunday i went again. got 4 shirts. pride is next weekend - was worried i might have missed it.
first friday was, well, friday, but i missed it because i had work, but i stopped into a bar for a non-drink.
i took lemons, limes, english muffins, cake, green beans, potatoes, mac and cheese to food not bombs. cleaned the stairs slightly, took out trash.
the other dishwasher didnt show up so i did both kitchens with help from chef, and i'll go in tomorrow to finish up. tired. must get some sleep so i can get up and go do plasma.

 

new computer. i wasn't logged in so today's comic didn't save. i can re=enter it later. it's after midnight no i'm not doing that right now.
by arbitrary, 6-06-22

 

by arbitrary
6-07-22
tuesday i didnt do anything on my list. instead, i went to the southport farmers market. small but friendly. i got a brownie at long's donuts and found a bag of clothes which i will take to food not
bombs on sunday. routine workday, 7.5 hours, went well. found buckets of ice cream and fruit salads on the way home.
i pulled $700 out of my credit union so i can buy another share of stock tomorrow.
tomorrow all i have to do is plasma, lawyer zoom, work, then drive to kokomo.
so i should check gasbuddy and buy gas before i go. and get the stock deal done.
maybe indian food thursday. dunno if tommy will like indian. remember to bring bucket of dog food.

 

by arbitrary
6-07-22
i woke up early and my computer had died. so i had to fit in buying a new computer into an already busy day. i did two loads of laundry, did plasma at a new place so two physicals + lots of paperwork.
+$100. coffee and tots at jimmy's diner. $5. then i went to work for 4 hours, finishing up most of what we didnt get to yesterday when the other dishwasher didnt show up. +60
then to walmart. $220 for a new chromebook, using it now. $10 hardware store. took a pizza to hobo scotty where he lives the woods i sold him.
found a bag of clothes i will take to food not bombs sunday. and a few groceries.
came home, got online. now it's midnight. work again tomorrow, it's 7 days in a row of work, after my kc trip.
blood pressure was almost normal today. i can do plasma again wednesday if i get up early enough. i need to clean out the car before work. never called the lawyer today. overall a good day.

 

by arbitrary
6-08-22
posting from work. slow night dowstairs. did plasma, +150, coffee and a biscuit at jimmy's diner $4.
tommy's panicked over a routine letter from HUD so doesn't want me to visit tonight. i can sleep in or get the car worked on. i went to second harvest to tell them we are hiring for a dishwasher.
supreme court reversed a routine bivens action, sotomayor dissent. 29 cases to go.
a guy who was going to murder-suicide justice kav. changed his mind, is now in jail.
thursday i slept in, bought some stock, $800, went to the bank, post office, other bank, bought a grocery, bought a navy 3 piece suit, $13. did not take the car to the shop. will do standup tonight,
i expect. pride saturday so i'll have to get out of bed.

 

by arbitrary
6-10-22
friday: woke up at 5:30. got out of bed in time to get to work at 4 pm. work went fine, a bit overstaffed, so i was able to scrub one section of the floor.
gas $60. the stock i bought yesterday for $734 is now at $700, but they did announce a 1:3 split for later this fall.
i want to get up early to go to pride before work, but not sure i can sleep. my to do list for tonight is to activate my new plasma card that has $250 on it.
i called about screening for a $28K study in kansas city but had to say no because i would miss my mom's memorial service.
i need to get my plane tickets and car reservation and make some travel plans.

 

by arbitrary
6-14-22
on saturday i went to pride for an hour then worked.
on sunday i woke up feeling sick so did not cook for food not bombs, but dropped off some clothes and juice and was a bit late to work.
on monday i did plasma, $100, and went to tommy's in kokomo.
on tuesday i took tommy to the dentist in peru, in/ grisham air force base. went to a diner while waiting, had home made toast and mush and coffee.
we hit up several thrift stores, where i bought work shirts and a juicer and he got decor stuff for his apartment, and i drove back to indy and worked.
it is now wednesday after midnight and i'm answering emails from a lawyer for FIRE about political signs. in a few hours i will do plasma again, lawyer zoom, then work, buy gas, etc.

 

by arbitrary
6-15-22
the plan for wednesday was plasma, lawyer zoom, work, buy gas.
i missed the lawyer zoom because i got out of bed too late to do both. plasma +50, gas $58.
work was easy so i scrubbed the floor and cleaned a stove and an oven.
i dumpsetr dived two watermelons, gave one to a friendly hobo at the gas station. it's beastly hot so except for taking out the trash i might not do a lot of chores tonight.
plans for thursday: payday. pay bills, maybe buy a share of stock ($677), clean car, take car to fix headlight, call lawyer, buy ticket to denver, make better list, mow lawn, do laundry.
that's 9 things. i might do 3 of them.

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