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by arbitrary
6-17-22
I didn't get much done friday. The laundry detergent spilled so i had to rerinse the lowest layer of laundry, which i just now hung up to dry. I found the egg that was the odor problem in the bathroom
and took it out with the trash. i put most of the choose, no, cheese, in the fridge.
i worked 8 1/2 hours. we had a 100 person party and i worked the upstairs kitchen alone tonight, not sure where coworkers got to, so it was after midnight when i finished.
oh and i cleaned the walkin freezer because it's defrosted and broken right now. got a box of groceries, and brought home some leftovers.
i will probably just veg out instead of cleaning the car, the stairs, the fridge, writing a memo, and buying plane tickets.
good conversation with one of my bosses about how we should donate our leftovers to second helpings, a local food charity thingy,

 

by arbitrary
6-19-22
saturday i must have worked. it's a blur. oh yeah the sous chef said i could take the week off so i am headed to colorado tomorrow once i do a few errands.
today was sunday. as often happens, i woke up early but didnt get out of bed till time to go to work. so i still haven't cleaned the house or car or bought a new phone or called my cousin.
i took to food not bombs a bucket of ice cream, 50 pounds of cheese, a box of crackers, and some stuffed tigers i dumpster dived from work yesterday.
worked 34 hours this week, about the usual. downstairs kitchen today, was easy then harder by close. threw away first box of trash from car. many more to follow, need car clean for road trip.
i decided i would drive to CO because i never got around to buying plane tickets. i need to find out where cousins will be. i'll be a day or two late.
maybe i should check spirit airlines just in case it goes indy > denver cheap. house has gnats because i haven't thrown away the bad food yet. kinda sick today, like mild flu.

 

by arbitrary
6-22-22
by now it's wednesday, halfway through my week off. I never made it to Denver, I'm still home. I had the runs really bad for two days, so driving 1200 miles would have been impossible.
i'm doing a little better today. still too weak to be getting much done on the car cleaning i was trying to do.
the internet went out for a few hours so i planted potatoes, watered tomatoes, took out trash, but there's still overwhelming amounts to do. i'll just make it this week's task to do a little cleaning
instead of going to work. i have a guy from reddit who might want to rent a room, but he'll get scared away if i don't clean up a bit.
the internet is back up of course, for me to be making this, so i might or might not get anything more done today. i slept through my lawyer zoom.
my plan for the day is go pay my electric bill, take a bath, wash some dishes, take out more trash, get the car at least one box cleaner.

 

by arbitrary
6-23-22
paid the electric bill $190, got gas $11, was up till 4 a m cleaning, awake till dawn, got up around noon.
the guy and his dog who were supposed to come by to look at renting a room didn't. in an hour i'll go do standup. my moochy friend brian is going to come for a few days.
i keep running a bath then getting distracted by the internet.
tomorrow i'm gonna visit tommy. maybe by then i'll get the car the rest of the way clean. i did not do car repairs today or call the lawyer or other stuff like that.

 

by arbitrary
6-23-22
today in a historic landmark decision, the supreme court voted 6-3 that
new york's concealed carry permit system violates the 2nd amendment. shoulda used heller's "text history and tradition" test, not the old 2step song and dance.
with concurrences from alito, kav, and barrett, now we know where everybody stands. it's what we expected and hoped for, a week earlier than we thought.
3 other less important rulings. like the one where the guy gets to choose a firing squad over poison gas. pro-choice!
breyer dissented, saying guns bad. his swan song maybe.
duck season!

 

by arbitrary
6-24-22
today the supreme court overturned roe v wade, 6-3. or maybe 5-1-3, roberts would have upheld the statute without going quite that far.
we took some photos at the protest downtown but no really good ones.
i did plasma, $50, but it was a mistake because i felt sick afterwards so i didnt go see tommy in kokomo like i planned. maybe tomorrow.
so i'm just lounging at home for now. still need to keep cleaning the house and car.

 

by arbitrary
7-01-22
tuesday and wednesday i worked. brian is at the house. thursday i visited with tommy, got on the road to the east coast around 5 pm. drove all night.
2 cups of coffee, $100 gas. friday morning i got to delaware. took the turnpike some of the way to avoid hills. hung out at coffee shops. cheapest hotel i could find was $80.
alarm is set. it's 2 am. tomorrow it's chirch at 11, lunch at noon, gravesite at 1. it's a memorial service for my mom. nephew has covid so we are not all meeting at the house; we each have hotels.
i have a few words in mind for the service. didn't write anything down. maybe i'll bomb. tough room.
I ended up not saying anything. Nice visit with folks afterwards. We rented her second favorite restaurant, Harry's Savoy Grille, and had a tastefully restrained wake,
where i had one gin & tonic and lots of coffee. hung out at jamie's afterwards, then drove home all night so i wouldn't miss food not bombs, then fell asleep in my bed and missed it by an hour.

 

by arbitrary
7-05-22
chef has asked me to try to make it back by the 4th, that it would be a busy day. he wasn't kidding.
bouncy castles, face painting, balloon animals, pony rides, 700 people. they used paper plates so we didnt have to wash 1400 plates.
then there were paratroopers. what do you call them when they land with parachutes? i forget.
i missed most of this because i was inside washing dishes. it looked fun.
i brought home a bucket of potato salad but forgot it in the car so by now it won't be foodsafe. it's noon the next day so time to get up and have a second cup of coffee and a bath and do some chores
before i get back to work. my sister hadn't called the lawyers yet which is why they haven't written. pretty soon i will no longer need this job. she's asked me to give her a hand with the paperwork .

 

by arbitrary
7-06-22
all i had to do today was laundry, plasma, lawyer zoom, and the scrap yard, then work.
didn't get any of that done. headed to work, where i'll be just a few minutes late.
i got gas $47, $4.69/gallon, made it to work on time. slow day but the other disher took off so i did both kitchens so i kept busy.
found about 80 pounds of canned goods at my usual spot on the way home. driving home i realized i have tomorrow off, so i can try to do some of the things i didnt get done today, and make a list.

 

by arbitrary
7-08-22
thursday, yesterday, i was too late to get on the list to do standup, but i did a scrap run, plasma, laundry, diving, bank, po box, paid the internet bill, burned some brush and boxes because it was
raining enough to be somewhat safe. i looked up my PA turnpike account, nothing yet, and a ticket in northern indiana where i was found guilty but the mail telling me that never arrived.
today, friday, i didn't get much done, but i emailed city hall about why hasn't the trash been picked up for 2 weeks, made some notes on FEC v Cruz for Senate,
worked 7.5 hours. found shoes, a toaster, a keurig, plants and flowers, snacks, the usual sort of stuff. a hobo offered to buy my car for $5k next time he has it.
there's a state job i could apply for running the minority law school program. i'm white but the program helped me in law school - i was a very nontraditional student.
i told chef to cut my hours back to 4 days a week. i want to have a bit more time to do law stuff.

 

by arbitrary
7-10-22
stuff i took to food not bombs: ice, rice, potato salad, brussel sprout salad, garlic bread, cucumber-mozerella salad, oh i forgot the cheese plate. cookies.
worked. went ok. got in 40 hours this week. i will have fridays off from here on.
i'm doing this online auction at a local auction house where i hope to sell stuff in the future. i've bid less than $100 on a buncha junk, so tomorrow i'll see which ones i won.
i should do plasma, check the auction, call the lawyer, visit tommy, clean the front yard, what am i forgetting?
email my sister about estate details. and take a bath. and call about studies.

 

by arbitrary
7-13-22
i only got 2 items at the auction, $10. i never did plasma or called about the studies yet. nice visit with tommy. we went to the county fair this morning after barhopping last night.
worked today, easy day. 5 months in i am still scrubbing the gunk off the floors little by little.
i watched an adam sandler movie about basketball. i hate basketball, but he occasionally makes a good movie.
i sent my sister that email about estate administration details. i bought $5 of gas at 4.95 and $50 at 4.39.
i have to remember to pick up the auction items tomorrow before work. plasma, lawyer zoom, might not happen.
it's already 3 am.

 

by arbitrary
7-13-22
wednesday: i picked up the two items i bought at the auction. place was impossible to find; streets did not match the map, and you can't get there from here, but i found it. did plasma $50.
worked 6 1/4 hours, easy work, a little reddit at work, a little floor scrubbing upstairs.
i have two days off in a row now, although tommy wants to go to the fair friday.
i should get up early and take my car to get the headlight fixed, but i probably won't. when i wake up my mind is blank about stuff like that. i should finally sort and clean the front steps and the
stairs, but we'll see. i cleaned one box of trash from the car tonight.
my stocks and credit score are both over 700 this week, could be worse. i opened the second window and plugged in an extra fan. need to buy more fans. should make a list.

 

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by arbitrary
7-14-22
today, thursday, i didn't get out of bed. well i washed dishes for 10 minutes, and i had a list of all the stuff i was going to do today.
i took off from work on fridays so i would get more done, but if today is typical, it's not going to work.
friday i'm still in bed at dusk, but i did book two screenings in kansas city, and found out who they lawyer handling mom's estate is.
nothing firm yet, but it looks like i'm in the trusts and in the will; i've never been completely sure. so in not too long, i'll probably get enough to retire on. doesn't mean i'll quit my job right
away, but i'll be able to if i want to.
now i need to get up and run some errands involving tommy's cable modem. too late to go to the bank or post office.

 

by arbitrary
7-18-22
to do: call my lawyer. sort laundry. make better list.
today, monday, my day off, i didnt get much done, but I: PO box, bank, other bank. cleaned the boxes on the front porch. made ice, took out trash, put some bleach in the trash dumpster, empied buckets
so mosquitoes don't hatch. talked to my neighbor. about to take a bath then do laundry. i got email from the lawyer for the estate, read the trust documents, let her know which document she forgot to
send. a little dumpster diving went ok, bought gas @ $4.05/gallon, $21, tested my blood pressure (too high, i won't get into my kc study), bought a covid anibody test, $10, made some coupons for the
strip club, got some $2s at the bank, maybe i'll treat myself with a visit tonight after laundry. so far my treat was an iced coffee at starbucks $3.50.
some company sent a scam letter pretending to offer $110k for my house, but they don't mean it, and used weasel words so we both know it's a scam. i will call anyway.
stuff i found: a plate 2 mugs carrot juice coffee sugar eggs. some scrap metal, although right now steel is at 5 cents a pound, not worth the trip to cash in. oh and i bought some stock, around $300.

 

by arbitrary
7-18-22
saturday and sunday i worked, uneventful. saturday we had a wedding so it was pretty busy, 4 dishwashers.
i have recruited somebody off reddit who will call chef tomorrow about a job. she might also mow my lawn for $20.
an alaska court has entered a preliminary ruling in the case i haven't gotten around to intervening in yet. it gets everything wrong, especially citizens united, so what i ought to do tonight i head
to the strip club and bang out a memo about why it is wrong. i find it to be a nice quiet place where i can get some work done; it's where i wrote the first draft of the motion to intervene, that i
never filed, partly because my lawyer hasn't gotten back to me about it, which has me concerned - he may be challenged in the same way i am about getting stuff done on time.
anyway for now it's bath, laundry, make a better list.

 

by arbitrary
7-22-22
i'm on rt 66 at a truck stop near rolla missouri. $12 buffet plus coffee tax and tip. $80 hotel room. lots of $ in gas. over 1000 miles, 300 to go.
i did not get into the $30K kansas city study or the $6k springfield one. blood pressure too high. i am going to cancel next week's screening.
good thing i have a day job and am independently wealthy.
the car is full of boxes of stuff i found along the way. $10 hat, $10 coffee. hat says "kum & go", it's a local gas station chain.
the wawa of the west. springfield's a fun town, like a big city in 1950.
i just had about 4 cups of coffee so i should be able to make it at least to illinois. i'll have to cross the mississippi again, which i don't love.

 

by arbitrary
7-23-22
i got home from the road trip at 3 am, got some sleep, got to work more or less on time. work went ok.
got a few boxes of food on the way home that i should go unpack. reddit break first.
did the laundry finally around midnight. a load of whites, a load of blacks, a load of colored. the local hobos=possibly-prostitutes are being noisy outside my window tonight.
i re-read the alaska decision, that i will be writing some comments on once i get to it. tomorrow food not bombs, then work, then maybe kokomo.
tomorrow i need to get up early enough to clean up the kitchen and stairs a little, but i probably won't. should call the lawyer once i pay the phone bill, and make a better list.
on the road trip i saw three deer, and coming home tonight a raccoon, probably, scurried away from my front steps.

 

by arbitrary
7-28-22
monday nice visit in kokomo, went swimming, took the dog to a park.
tuesday i worked.
wednesday i got off work early and drove to kansas,
where i am waiting to screen for a covid study.
my blood pressure is only slightly too high so the screening could go either way.
i did not get in.

 

by arbitrary
7-30-22
friday i got back to town. saturday i worked 8 hours.
today is sunday. i am home. i hope to get some sleep. i work at 4 pm. maybe i will cut down to 3 days.
i forgot i have food not bombs tomorrow. so i have to put these green beans in the fridge.
so i have to put my shoes back on.

 

by arbitrary
8-07-22
it's been a week since i've done one of these. stock went up a little. had wednesday and thursday off. did not do standup.
worked friday saturday sunday. fnb today.
maybe i'll go to the state fair tomorrow.
i have to pay the electric bill. i paid off a credit card.
i should call tommy, and make a list, and write a memo.
two days later, i called tommy, made a list, wrote a memo, not same one but a related case.

 

by arbitrary
8-10-22
it's wednesday. i'm missing my lawyer's zoom right now, no big deal, and the person who has the link is out of the office today. shoulda asked her sooner.
today i paid my lawyer dues $180.
tomorrow i turn 62. tommy wants to celebrate so i will probably go up to see him tonight. after work if i work. i forgot to check the schedule.
i was downstairs washing dishes, and kept telling myself to go upstairs to check the schedule, but by the time i rode the elevator i'd be distracted and forget to check it. i assume i was scheduled fo
for yesterday, since i worked and seemed to fit in. the only reason 62 is important is that i'm going to file for social security, all $500 a month of it.
i want to get it set up with my broker that it just buys tesla automatically, so when i actually retire at 70 it'll have built up enough to be worth the lower monthly check. i did the math.

 

by arbitrary
8-24-22
i was thinking it's been a couple of weeks since i've made a comic. yup, my last one was 2 weeks ago. today is wednesday. i don't know if i'm supposed to go to work today. i didnt go. i called, twice,
but did not get through to the kithcen. so most of the past two weeks has been a stoned stupor, which i'm coming out of.
today i did plasma, made $125, took $300 off my plasma card, paid off a credit card, missed getting to bank #4 by 5 pm because i was on reddit.
so if today is my default day off, what should i try to get done? i took out the trash, but could clean the yard and my room. i put away laundry.
i'm working on an amicus brief involving unconstitutional censorship by san francisco. it's too late to go get an oil change. i checked the po box.
i should make a list, and make another comic tomorrow, my actual day off.

 

by arbitrary
8-25-22
frustrating day so far. had a bunch of iced coffee last night, so it was past noon when i woke up. i tried to go to the bank, drove to the wrong bank, got to the right bank at 5:02 and it was closed.
got rice and beans at hardees and i think i got shortchanged $10. washed out the garbage can, too a bath, no time left to burn that pile of cardboard boxes.
i'm on the phone with one of those scam guys who pretended to offer me $103K for my shack. it looks like his actual offer is about 1/2 that, but he's not letting me pin him down.
i'm gonna be late to standup if i don't get going, and i want to wear a suit because i do that now. more later, as mark maron would say.
i got to host tonight! first time hosting. ruthanne, the owner, said i did good. i liked it at the time, but listening to the show all i hear is my speech impediment.
the usualy carfull of groceries that i should put away. tomorrow plasma and bank then work, maybe buy another share of tesla.

 

by arbitrary
8-28-22
today was sunday. i had to throw away most of the food that was still in the car. took the rest to fnb.
i have some kind of cold. worked through it anyway, tokk a couple pills when i got hime.
in the morning i have jury duty, so i have an alarm set. then the plan is plasma, bank, call tommy.

 

by arbitrary
8-30-22
monday, i thought i had jury duty, but it turns out to be next month. i did plasma, $125, which seemed to take all day. i put $100 in the bank.
didn't get anythinbg else done.
brian gave me his non-running van as rent. he bought a new van and is headed out today.
i was gonna clean the yard a bit today but now i'm already late to work. all for now. added later: i cleaned some of the worst of the filth from my car. still more to do.
the cash machine at cvs was broken so i couldn't get my $125 yet. the kiosk at the electric company was broken so i couldn't pay my electric bill. maybe i'll go pay it now at the 24 hour place.
work was easy. dumpster diving went ok. brian's gone so i could start cleaning up after him. he is a rude guest, but i'm used to him, and he did give me the van.

 

by arbitrary
9-01-22
thursday i didnt get much done. i made a 19 item list and did 4 of them.
i woke up late. i went to the bank and the other bank, paid off a credit card and made a payment on my line of credit. i did plasma $100. i returned a call to a real estate investor. i did 3 loads of
laundry. my missing driver's license popped up in the dryer. the other dryer was broken so my clothes are hanging up here and there.
tommy's sick so i didnt go visit so i thought that'll free up time to do more stuff, but it didnt happen. i fooled myself into thinking it was first friday already, that's tomorrow, so i went places
where nothing was happening because today is actually thursday. there was no standup tonight, building locked, who knows why.
tomorrow i can try the list again.

 

by arbitrary
9-02-22
I got a few things done today. PO Box. Called the bank. BMV, got title and plates for the van, $106. I bought myself a coffee plant $8 aldi and found some lucky bamboo, which is neither.
Set an appointment monday with my lawyer; we hadn't talked since may.
The carroll county election board invoked their lawyer after insulting me, so several emails there as well as from their county prosecutor.
My sister is making progress on the estate; I will get a big check someday.
I forgot to go to first friday stuff. I sent the city a message about the missed trash pickup. I didnt send tommy any money yet, I was going to do that. I bought a big metal fan $7.
I'm a big metal fan too.

 

by arbitrary
9-03-22
sunday i got a few things done, not much. $50 for a tire, so i was late to work. chef wanted me to work yesterday, but never told me, so it wasn't my fault.
easy day at work so i washed the downstairs hood vents and scrubbed the floor in the walkin.
i took out trash and emptied buckets that brian had left. i shooed a possum out of the kitchen. i found a box of bananas and a box of shoes, both for food not bombs tomorrow.
i will be bringing rice and ice and rolls also.
other than that i wasted the day on solitaire and videos.

 

by arbitrary
9-13-22
haven't done one of these for a week.
today, tuesday, the alarm goes off at 8:30 and i think about tthe things i need to do, like an oil change and plasma. then i get up at 3 and go to work, where i am now.
monday, staff party, po box, bank, dumpsters,
sunday fnb tortillas, beans, tots, veggie bowl, took away a bag of trash. city councilperson wants to make us get a permit.
friday, worked. thursday, did not get out of bed, forgot standup. monday, kokomo to make sure tommy had rent money. he gave me work shoes and painted a picture frame i will hang up at home.
wednesday i got banned from a plasma center and filed a federal disabilities act complaint about it.

 

by arbitrary
9-16-22
my days off were yesterday and today. i got pretty much nothing done.
i did standup tonight, to an almost empty house. no jokes, told stories, forgot to record it. $10.
i didnt get an oil change or do plasma. i took out the trash and unloaded a few things from the car.
two boxes dumpster dived. killed a mouse. mostly laid in bed reddit and youtube. water plants fed fish. did not pay internet bill or PA tolls.
i wrote less than 1 page of the complaint i'm working on. feds denied my ADA claim. i can still sue.

 

by arbitrary
9-16-22
friday i didnt get much done. car got broken into and i think she took my spare house key so now i'll need to change my locks, and clean up the yard.
i got a haircut. $15. checked two places but did not get an oil change. one was out of business, the other was out of oil. dollar store and international market $15.
i found 4 boxes, met my neighbor jacob who is looking for his cat, cleaned and restocked the back porch fridge, washed kitchen floor, cleaned the stove, took out trash.
i need to work on the sign case complaint if i can stay awake.
gonna take a post,haircut bath which might put me to sleep.
tomorrow clean yard pay internet bill bring buckets back to work maybe do a scrap run or plasma if i wake up early enough. maybe laundry tomorrow night, or save it to do monday with tommy.

 

by arbitrary
9-17-22
saturday was mostly frustration, but got 3 things done. work went well, new girl was a pleasure to work with, and she will probably pick up one of my days a week. i got gas $36, on the 4rd try, after
my card didnt work at a couple places. i brought home leftovers for fnb tomorrow. i bought a bike, $60, to replace a stolen bike, put air in the tires, took it for a test drive.
i waited 1 1/2 hours for an oil change at walmart, then they wouldn't do it, so i was an hour late to work. work had a zydeco band tonight, but they weren't very good. kept saying bayou or zydeco in
the lyrics, because otherwise we wouldn't have known what they were.
i got an igloo cooler from a dumpster. i need to work on my sign complaint but probably won't.so that was my day.

 

by arbitrary
9-19-22
sunday i went to the strip club for lunch, finished a first draft of the complaint, $15. dropped off food at fnb, worked. tommy's busy so did not go to kokomo.
monday revised the first draft, sent it to my lawyer, paid the internet bill $100, finally got an oil change $50, went back to my old plasma place +50, laundry $10, found about 50 pounds of clothes
and some tools, washed the car, am back in bed. so that was 7 things, a good start.
there's still so much to do. i need to make a new list, to see what i'm forgetting.
i put away the laundry and did the 20 minutes of housecleaning i can do before back pain tells me to stop.

 

by arbitrary
9-21-22
tuesday i worked. it's wednesday now. nice visit with tommy. goodwill $50. got some work clothes and some revereware, and tommy buys tasteful knicknacks and disney vhs tapes.
found 2 boxes of food. wrote a first draft of a motion for an injunction. tommy gave me a mattress he found. arm wrestled with a 7 year old. got root beer at a+w. bank card didn't work.
tomorrow is the autumnal equinox.
thursday: hug from the club owner, ok set. internet went down all night at home.
friday i'm online at work, not a slow day, but manageable. i cleaned the yard a bit. need to move the van before it gets towed.

 

by arbitrary
9-28-22
saturday i worked, i guess. oh and plasma. sunday i took stuff to food not bombs, green beans, rolls, ice, clothes, fruit, cabbage, coffee, etc. revised the memo while at work.
made it to church on sunday. monday i didn't get much done but i took the car to the shop, which didn't work on it all day, paid the electric bill $118. cooked bacon. phone bill $40.
tuesday i had too much coffee so i cleaned the walkin and the dish machine and the walls and rescued 6 flowering plants from the dumpster and they finally have me scheduled for just 2 days a week.
so today was the first of 3 days off. lawyer zoom, took the car back to the shop, rode bike home, took out trash, watched a michael cera movie.
i need to get back to work on the second memo. after i took a bath i stopped being productive.
tomorrow i have jury duty. i made a list and made a comic. the other adventure was the internet went out for 3 days so i hung out in parking lots at night to get online.

 

by arbitrary
9-29-22
so far thursday i haven't gotten much done. my jury duty was tomorrow and has been cancelled. my car's not ready yet, it's some computer module thingy. $10 busfare and drinks.
i need to look up some knock knock jokes about aardvarks so i have fresh material for tonight.
I had a good set tonight. 9 minutes. aardvark jokes, knock knock jokes, then stories. got a ride home from a fan, who turns out to be our coffee guy at work.
i wrote about half of an amicus brief to the 9th circuit in a san francisco case, 3.0 hours.

 

by arbitrary
10-01-22
friday i picked up my car from the shop $280, i have headlights again. cleaned the car cuz the mechanic insisted. worked 40 minutes on the brief. listened to tesla AI day #2.
saturday so far i edited the brief for an hour at the strip club, checked my po box, dollar store $25, thrift store $15, sub shop $10, laundromat $5, that's a big splurge for me to buy a veggie sub.
mousetraps $5. i'm becoming reckless with money now that i'm rich, compared to my usual miserly habits. still dumpster diving.
i made ice and took out the trash and put out mousetraps. my house has become overrun again when i slacked off the mouse war for a couple months, time to get back at it.
i need to make a list, put away the laundry, clean the front yard, install a storm window over the stained glass window, fix the inner front door, feed the fish, maybe call tommy, call my lawyer, who
is two weeks late on our planned filing date, write a couple more complaints, get the password for my backup computer, stuff like that.

 

by arbitrary
10-03-22
sunday i worked on cleaning the car. took stuff to food not bombs, clothes, avocados, bread, sweet potatoes, cole slaw.
routine day at work. tesla had another record production quarter, 1% less than my prediction of 369,420, so the stock is down,
so i'm about to buy another share at 252, then head to plasma. car seems to be working ok.
today i could write memos or clean the house, fight the mice. maybe burn the pile of cardboard boxes.
the supreme court has started its new term, so i could listen to oral arguments.
i might have gotten a tax bill from the county. otherwise i think all my bills are paid. i should take some CLE classes this month.

 

by arbitrary
10-05-22
wednesday. fell asleep in the morning so off to a slow start. lawyer zoom. reddit. plasma. went to the asian supermarket and blew half my plasma money. went to the weed church for the
first time in a long time. only slightly unpacked the car, there's more stuff to bring in.
i bought more chili ramen at the dollar store. i found choose, no, cheese, and tofu.
still no progress on the complaint.
i guess i'll do another hour of cle tonight instead of going out dumpster diving.

 

by arbitrary
10-06-22
today started slow but ended up being a good day. bank, got some walking around money. p o box, oil check came and my first social security check, $561.
man that's a lot of gunshots if that's what that was. yesterday i heard gunshots but missed seeing all the police cars and fire trucks, it was 3 or 4 blocks from here i had a good set tonight, and i
wrote a first draft of the marion county complaint and emailed it to my lawyer, who has been blowing me off lately.
i found a houseplant and a hat and gave the club owner lady a pumpkin and learned her dog's names.
tomorrow i want to burn that stack of boxes and maybe clean up the yard a little. i have some seeds to plant for my winter crops. i gave a bum some turkey and donated a pizza to the weed church.
tommy and i might join the ymca. he likes swimming, i don't, but anything to get him out of the house occasionally.

 

by arbitrary
10-07-22
friday i got a few things done. i paid off my line of credit $503, put some money in the bank. i got a cup of coffee in the small town south of me $4. i did not buy the lawn mower i was interested in
because it didn't start when i tried. i bought a share of stock $324. i went to the strip club and did a second draft of the complaint i wrote last night. i burned boxes and weeds and trimmed some
shrubs. i gave some food to a bum. so that was my list for the day. oh yeah i found candy at tla drug store which i should go sort.
i am having my 5 pm coffee, then will do another hour of CLE or do another edit of the complaint, then drive to tommy's. charged my phone. fed fish, watered plants.
i did not make a scrap run or do enough yard cleaning, but today felt productive. i might upload last night's set if it recorded ok.

 

by arbitrary
10-19-22
it's cold. it's midoctober. i should have brought my banana tree inside last night. was hard to get out of bed today. worked. did not do the lawyer zoom, or get a memo into new hampshire for today's
hearing. i dumpster dived some stuff at work, 20 picture frames, 2 mirrors, a water quality test kit, a nice croquet set.
tesla 3rd quarter earnings were great, so the stock tanked again. this is actually good news for me because i want to buy more.
i'm grumbly because i ran out of weed, other than that it's a good day.

 

by arbitrary
10-22-22
it's saturday night. my day did not go quite as planned, but i had adventures. i went to an indian restaurant but they did not have a buffet, must have been another place with the same name or maybe
no buffet on saturdays. went to north side of town to early vote but it wasn't there, instead there was an electric car show so i took pictures. tommy just called.
then i dumpster dived, shopped, yard sales, went to a park, went to a ski chalet-themed bar for coffee.
after i had coffee i wrote some emails, cleaned the yard, burned brush, watered plants fed fish took out trash made ice put away groceries, gathered laundry, stuff i usually blow off.
so tonight's plan is bath, laundry, finish dishes. i will probably not go to the gay gym tonight. it's on the to do list since i can afford it now, but i've been putting it off.
I could work on the second draft of the new hampshire amicus. did i mention my lawyer fired me this week? tommy's calling back.

 

by arbitrary
10-23-22
i got 3 loads of laundry done and put away before work, something i didn't get around to last night. worked 4 1/2 hours. took food and clothes to food not bombs. wrote to kc about that lot we need to
cash in. did not hear back yet. the county admitted having gotten the email i sent. i picked up the picture frames and mirror i had stashed, and found some houseplants that will need repotting.
other than that no news. i worked on making a better lost, no, list, and read the first few pages of a book on how to get stuff done. tommy said come visit and then called back and said no don't.
i almost never read books anymore. when i was a kid, i always had my nose in a book, but these days i prefer reading online.
did i mention my teddy bear came back from the teddy bear doctor? he's horribly scarred, but alive again. this is mogwai aka mugwump, who used to go to work with me for 1%, so i owe him about $1000
right now. he had gotten mauled by some puppies on a trip to colorado, that time when, hypothetically, we got 1/2 pound of weed and then the van broke down and we took the bus home.

 

by arbitrary
10-25-22
tuesday i didn't get much done. worked 5 1/2 hours. lots of reddit. got stuff at my usual 2 dumpsters. disposed of a drowned mouse.
i forgot to go to the bank and the electric company on the way to work. chef wants me to work saturday. i repotted some plants i found sunday.
plan for tomorrow is plasma, scrap yard, lawyer zoom, take out trash.
monday i did not get out of bed.
i should probabbly get up and clean the house for 20 minutes before bed, but i probably won't.
i forgot to go to the damien center fundraiser saturday night. tommy didnt want to go, and i chickened out from asking this cute girl at work who might like me.

 

by arbitrary
10-26-22
wednesday i slept through the lawyer zoom, didn't make it to the scrap yard, didn't clean the house.
i did plasma, got a box of groceries, took out the trash.
i need to see if i have missed the 6 month deadline for a notice of tort claims for one of my cases.
i have $900 on my plasma card so i should find out how to get the money off the card.
right now i'm in that after-bath mode of vegging out, but i should try to do another thing or two today. i went to the bank and paid my electric bill.
tomorrow scrap yard and be on time for standup, and maybe upload some youtube files.

 

by arbitrary
10-27-22
thursday i didn't get much done. never made it to the scrapyard. didn't do the tort claim.
but i had a good phonecall with a lawyer about a sign case in northern indiana, and i had an ok set that i forgot to video, and i found a few groceries, and paid the phone bill and bought gas, and
worked out a few details about the estate with my sister, so it was not a wasted day.
more later

 

by arbitrary
10-28-22
friday was a pretty good day. i went to the strip club and did an hour of research. $10. I got $400 off my plasma card, put $200 in the bank, did plasma +50. balance on card $570.
did a few dishes. it's 7 pm and i'm so tired. i want to go to the bmv kiosk and renew my plates.
bert kreischer show tomorrow $50ish if i can get a ticket and dont forget to go. and there's early voting.
a few emails i didnt get sent yet today. maybe i'll take a nap before going out.
i guess i didn't get the job i applied for yesterday, where they urgently needed 200 lawyers. maybe there's something wrong with my resume.

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