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by arbitrary
5-20-20
somebody on reddit asked me why i haven't posted for a year.
i lost my password and couldn't seem to reset it, and then i just let it slide.
so i just set up arbi@comic.com so i'd have a new address to register with.
next up: seeing if i can get the donor button to work.
then i'll just need to get back in the habit of doing these daily.

 

by arbitrary
5-20-20
ok, i paypalled brad $10. so i should have donor status again soon
i want to thank vynlandish from reddit for the prompt to get aroundto doing this. it' been on my to do list for a long time.
i'm working at the amazon warehouse right now. i'll need to find a background to represent work.
maybe this one.

 

by arbitrary
5-20-20
what my life is like now: at 3 am i go to work and fill bags of groceries for 8 hours. 12 mile drive home. i wasn't able to get my weekly lawyer zoom meeting to load. slept till 8 pm.
made dinner for tommy. took out the trash. a little gardening. a hour of reddit. check my stock.
i'm supposed to sort papers for a hour, then i'll eat, find my badge, pack a lunch, and head to work.
so expect to see daily comics like this, slight daily variations. or i might forget, or lose the pasowrd. but that's the plan.

 

by arbitrary
5-21-20
so i'm either at work, or sleeping, or trying to sleep, or on reddit.
today work, picked up a hitchhiker looked at a house for sale on land contract, big lots $13 gas $7 made $45 at plasma, i think i found $40 on the floor at work. brought in the trash. got some grocery
socks, batteries, ginger ale, fly strips. for those of you new to this, it's usually a boring laundry list. went to bank #6.
my trivia question answers were a primate, freshwater fish, cadabra, and a book by douglas hofstater in besos' garage.
now i need to sleep until it's time to get up for work.

 

by arbitrary
5-21-20
I woke up. My roommate brings me coffee in bed, gas station "cappuchino" that he gets with his food stamps.
Slept all day, needed it. Now I have a two hour window before work. My tesla stock went up $17 today to $830..The bad news is I only have one share. I'm working at amazon for money to buy more.
I should take a bath and grab some dinner, instead of just browsing reddit. The kitchen sink is not going to get fixed today. I need to find one thing on my to do list I can get done in 1 hour.
I guess that means sort papers. The"bold" canada dry ginger ale isn't bad. It was $1.35, I've been meaning to try it. It is slightly more gingery, without being full on ginger beer style.
my donor status has now kicked in and i can edit as i go. plus it's the weekend so i don't have to go to work tonight yay. how do you people with jobs live that way?
As a general rule I don't buy sodas or food, but I'll make an exception to try (almost) everything once. worst food: natto. worst soda: ranch flavored.
my donor statu hasn't kickedin yet so i don't get to edit this as i go. after tonight i have the weekend off!

 

by arbitrary
5-22-20
brad got my $10 so i'm back being able to edit and comment. i am rusty at stripcreator and forget where frozenbrad is, but it'll come back to me.
i'm sure it was just a form letter, but there really is a brad. stripcreator was old when i found it 15 years ago via wil wheaton.
i asked tommy to bring in the stuff from the car. i'm just being lazy. i should get up and spend some quality time with him.
just knocking out the daily comic.. have to get back in that routine.
https://secretaardvark.com/
today's comic is sponsored by secret aardvark sauce.

 

by arbitrary
5-24-20
friday: came home from work, slept all day, then slept all night. saturday: a few minutes of gardening and cleaning up in the kitchen, then reddit and podcasts till late
sunday: 12 hours before i go to work. so i -should- get up and do stuff. maybe laundry. call mom. gardening.sort mail. i might not get any of that done.
www.kerista.com
oh there's that frozen brad i couldn't find a few days ago. it was under "props". so here's props to brad for running this site so well for all these years.
kerista is this hippy free love commune. i bought one of their comic books in 1975 or 6 and it influenced who i've been. a hippie stuck in a suburbal reality.
gardened 1 hr. went downtown had a tonic and lime at the metro.this memorial day i remember phil, dannon, and brandon. each hiv+, although cause of death varied.
phil died before we found a cure. dannon stopped taking his meds. brandon was staying with us here until someone offered him a lifetime supply of drugs. he was dead in a month.

 

by arbitrary
5-26-20
tuesday. worked. long line at the plasma center which was closed yesterday. about 4 hours sleep. 5 hours before i go to work, but i'm too tired to do much.
tommy brought me coffee and a big metal fan.
not that kind.
i watched episode 1 of dobie gillis on youtube. TIL scoobie doo is based on dobie gillis. (TIL= today i learned).
no new grants at the supreme court today. my stock is up about $7. made $45 at plasma.
i remember i wrote out a to do list on my pocket notepad. ok at least i found the list.

 

by arbitrary
5-27-20
got to work last night and there was a broken water line so they sent us home and i caught up on sleep.
took out the trash, transplanted seedlings, planted seeds, fixed the lawn mower mowed the lawn.
literally the rubber band had broken, that holds the throttle open.
saw a marmot in my yard today, and raccoon last night, and a rabbit when i was dumpster diving the food bank.
found the mirror that fell off my car, but it was too broken to save. hung up fly strips. killed some spiders. so puttering around the house.
musk rocket postponed a few days.

 

by arbitrary
5-29-20
i missed a couple days. i was going to make a comic at the parking lot before going into work, but i missed my exit and passed the airport and doubled back on ronald reagan boulevard.
work went well. i worked in the vegetable room all day, which i prefer.
made an appointment with my mechanic for wednesday noon. brought home chocolate cake and garlic bread. forgot tommy hates the smell of garlic. so we may give that to the raccoons. aka trashpandas.
i worked 4 days and got paid for 6, so should be an ok paycheck. i looked at a house for sale by owner on 10th st.
got an article picked up at rick's blog, about the six million bill texas got for winning their voter ID lawsuit (they won but still had to pay.)
now i have the weekend off to catch up on chores, or goof off. step 1: drink this starbucks. oh! i forgot the part where i went downtown and tried to vote, but they only offered a provisonal ballot.

 

by arbitrary
5-31-20
my city is convulsed in riots, but i didn't get out of bed.
stayed in and watched spacex take bob and doug to the space station.
today's sunday.i made a list of stuff i should be doing, so maybe i should go look at that list.
kind of disappointing reponse from a crimefighting aardvark.
i'm old and tired. if i get enough done on my chores, i might go downtown. o far i tranplanted seedlings, planted seeds, put away dishes took out trash made coffee. the hard part is starting to sort
all these papers. ... just drove tommy to the corner store for cigarettes. heard gunshots close by.

 

by arbitrary
6-02-20
where i live there were almost no republicans on the ballot
today was tuesday so it's wednesday now. work, plasma, voted.
i finagled my way into voting without picture ID. I used a couple of nonphoto ID's and went to a location with nice old lady who let me vote, instead of following the rules that say i can't. I keep
voted for bill weld, although i'm not crazy about him.
testing the system. Scotty paid $200 rent. Plasma $45. Tommy installed a doorknob on the back door. I'm not good at that mechanical stuff.
Had a 1 month work evaluation last night. Went ok. They want me to work faster. They might let me get produce donated that they are currently throwing away. So i sent a bunch of emails on that today,
reaching out to my contacts. Did not get enough sleep. But it was a good day.
Tomorrow I take my van to buck for a checkup.

 

by arbitrary
6-03-20
wednsday. i am exhausted after a second day of not enough sleep. about to go to work. my phone was turned off so i dont know if buck did anything with my car.
had a nice walk to drop it off and go get it.
i have a solid lead on a food pantry for the stuff work throws away, plus plasma tomorrow, when will i sleep?
i'm using the internet to try to find out more about where i work since we've had limited training.
i found a couple of mirrors when i was out and about.
and i got a watermelon slushie at the new sikh gas station down the street on my walk home. rare disposable income.

 

by arbitrary
6-04-20
thursday. work was work. was so tired i was like a zombie. now i got 5 hours sleep and somehow it was enough. then i went to a place called no questions asked for some free coffee.
had a great meeting with the founder of a food pantry located within "the church within" in fountain square. i'm trying to get my bosses to donate rather than throw away their extra veggies.
then plasma. $45. the needle slipped out of my arm, got all over my tshirt. maybe this would be a good day for laundry.
gallileo at hyperchange is touting an australian penny stock with some new battery technology, i might look into that. it went up 60% since his video 3 days ago.
oh it's friday, nearly making it to the weekend. ok, time to get up and fix some dinner. 3 hours to do whatever before work.
toast, melted cheese, hash, garlic bread coffee.

 

by arbitrary
6-07-20
it's sunday afternoon. tommy says there was this big motorcycle parade outside just now,but i didnt notice it. we live on the national road, what used to be rt 40.
i think the woodruff place community yard sale is today and yesterday, so i should get up and go to that. it's a small town 3 blocks long where instead of taxes they have an annual yard sale.
it's victorian mansions in what was otherwise the ghetto, although that area is gentrifying. i rented there before i bought this place.
this week i turned down 30K for the my shack i paid 7k for 10 years ago. i'd take 40. the last shack i sold for $15K is listed at 165k after a rehab i couldnt afford to do.
freshairarchive.org/guests/louis-ck
if i still had all the properties i used to have i'd be rich now, but it was impossible to hold onto them at the time.
didnt go to pride yesterday because it was cancelled. more because of the pandemic than the riots. i'll have to wear a mask if i go to woodruff. at 3 am the workweek starts all over again.

 

by arbitrary
6-07-20
ok the yard sale is postponed until october
so yesterday i made a list, and i got some of the easy stuff done while avoiding the big thing, which is to sort all these piles of paper in my room.
i did the laundry, and my sheet still came out grayish-brown,so i soaked it in bleach overnight, and now? still grayish brown. so gonna throw it away.
i photocopied my sscard for work (shutzstaffle?). i transplanted my hemp crop into the styrofoam coffee cups tommy brings me - re-use before recycle. and transplanted daisies into a bigger pot.
kroger closed early because of curfew so i didnt cash out my plasma card. i checked my paycheck- made nearly $1000 last week from all sources. activated a credit card, did the $1000 spend to get the
plan is, make money, buy tesla stock.
$150 bonus. paid my taxes and electric bill with the card. i'm at over $1000 in bonuses for the year. i made ice and put away laundry. tommy put away the groceries and did the dishes.
i need to put out fresh rat traps, fix a screen, sweep the stairs. so my weekend is chores and sleep. the week is work and try to sleep. i've been spoiled by years of early retirement.

 

by arbitrary
6-07-20
made more ice. took the recycling to the center but it was full so wasted trip, but i saw a camper for sale $2200 that i'm thinking about. mobile meth lab like breaking bad.
transplanted seedlings swept the stairs picked up cans in the yard. one of my hobo roommates likes to build a fire in the back yard and drink. the other hobo roommate is off working at a pot farm in
maine for the summer. i should have him send me some seeds. tommy made a birdbath in the back yard. i should get a bird feeder. killed some bugs. what's next on my list?
i took the recycling downtown. walked a block with the protestors. did a little dumpster diving. found art supplies, price tag $150, that tommy is happy about,
and 4 pairs of jcrew slacks that fit me. came home, wasted time on reddit till work. bath. never did sort those papers.
in rushville 42 miles away there's a bank that would pay me $500 to open an account there. i should call before i drive.

 

by arbitrary
6-10-20
i had this 14 item list of stuff to do today, but it's just been work, zoom with some lawyers from the parking lot, come home and sleep, water the plants take out the trash send a couple emails.
i told a story on reddit about my neighbor who was an eccentric scientist who invented stuff in his mansion. it got 1000 meaningless internet points and sparked some discussion.
https://old.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/h08s6n/found_in_a_library_book_tape_over_staples/ftlh6up/

 

today's comic didnt post. i wrote it in the parking lot at work, but i lostmy signal right as i hit send.
i got to leave 3 hours early today because we were all caught up. so today might be a road trip, or sleep.
by arbitrary, 6-12-20

 

by arbitrary
6-16-20
i guess the weekend was uneventful.i must have stayed in and slept mostly. laundry. monday work, some research on the work computers, a bit of sleep, work again.
tommy and scotty had an argument because tommy is sick and scotty keeps a smoky fire going in the back yard much of the time. i stayed out of it.
today after work i did plasma, found 3 boxes of groceries, got schwab.com to give me that $100 they've been owing me, my signup bonus. and i found the next bank 4 a signup bonus. so i worked 4 of my
hustles, and got a very few hours sleep, but feel rested. i did not get as far as mowing the lawn or sorting mail. paid the water bill, did not pay the credit card.put $22 in one of my bank accounts
just so they don't forget me.checked my email, blogged, bath, dinner, but right now i'm avoiding sorting paperwork.
one of the subreddits i moderate is /r/neckbeardnests which is kinda for mocking people with rooms like mine. $361 on my plasma card. the needle slipped out so i got stuck in my left arm too.

 

by arbitrary
6-18-20
yesterday i forgot tommy's birthday. he hides even more than usual on his birthday. exroommate hobo mark stayed over last night.
today, work, plasma, extra $10 for a study.opened a bank account at star, step 1 ofpassing go and collecting a $200 bonus. then i found a toaster in a dumpster, newaccount gift.
also found spice rack w/ spices, cast iron skillet, bag of potatoes.
time to sleep before more list items. oh yeah, made a list.
i got schwab to give me the $100 bonus they owed me.
bert's drive in show was $130, not the advertized $110, so i cancelled my buy.

 

by arbitrary
6-18-20
I'm at the parking lot at work, about to clock in for another day. today i worked 4 of my hustles, job, plasma, bank bonuses, recycling.
on the way here i found 15 1 gallon cans, fruit and beets. time to make some borscht.
that's all i have time for right now. today: club reopens. po box. look for that winnebago for sale. bank. sort papers, notarize a document send an email.
i'll probably just sleep all day.
this space left blank for now.

 

by arbitrary
6-19-20
work went pretty well i guess. p o box. bank was closed for juneteenth. dumpster dived a closed down restaurant near the bank, got a bunch of cambros. that's like industrial tupperware.
dollar store, gas station, $20.came home slept. some but not enough. added more dirt to my hemp seedlings. took out trash, washed the trash bin. killed bugs, watered plants, through out junk mail. no,
i meant threw. still need to unload car. i had a bunch of free espresso at work so i was kinda wired and am crashing now, but i have a long list of chores to get to.
have i mentioned my one share of tesla, $420, is at $1000 now? i check it obsessively daily. and i own about $40 in amazon stock so far, 2% of every paycheck. my paychecks go right in the bank while i
live on my side hustles; the plan is to buy more tesla if the price ever goes back down to buyable levels
so i could do chores, stay in bed, or putter around the kitchen. think i'll putter. i ended up unpacking the car, 20 minutes of hard work, then crashed.

 

by arbitrary
6-20-20
i spent most of the day in bed, podcasts and sleeping. but i did two things: found an open bank banch before 1 pm close, so i'm no longer carrying too much cash. $8k in bank.
and i got the online application for a promotion at work to work, so maybe in a month i get hired permanently at amazon.
it's a race between getting fired for being old and slow, and learning enough about the job to be useful.
i also trimmed some weeds in the front yard/jungle. i suppose i could wash the dishes instead of waiting a few days for tommy to get to it. he's been very sick lately.
so now my choices are, bath, dishes, go to the club, or stay in bed. we'll see. went to the club, boring. did nothing sunday.
i need to at least read over my 13 item list before doing nothing.

 

by arbitrary
6-22-20
got to work and realized i forgot my badge so i did a cannonball run from work to home and back in under an hour so i would have a 1/2 point for being late instead of a full point. hard mode: half
the highway is shut down for construction so took back roads part way. got into a big fight with receiving department and one of my bosses over how to pick produce, so for now i'll avoid that area,
that had been my favorite.
bought a tire from my tire guy, got an estimate for some car repair from a guy i sold a house to one time, apparently he just resold it for much more. prices are going way up in our neighborhood after
being flat for 20 years. got cash back out of the bank.washed some dishes, had dinner. need to go over my list, or just sort some papers.oh, i bought screensfor the windows, 4 for $40,so better
ventilation. screens $40 tire $47 mechanic $30, broke even today almost.

 

by arbitrary
6-25-20
right now i'm in phoenix. on tuesday i found out that there's a good study here. $10K+. I probably won't get in, but the screening today went ok.
it took me about an hour to get online and find a working outlet. i had a few hours to kill but the airport is in the middle of nowhere, no starbucks or mcdonalds or anything nearby.
i'm flying american to st louis and bus from there. i took a personal day today and will get a demerit for not working tomorrow.
enough points and i don't get my promotion.too many and i get fired.
the study would be 42 days and if i get it, i'll have to quit unless they give me a leave, and try to get rehired later.
about $670 for ther trip so far, plus two days lost pay. i better see if we are boarding.

 

by arbitrary
6-27-20
friday once i got home i slept in.
saturday i didnt get much done. paid my $1002.06 credit card bill, cashed in my $150 "points" to cash on the card, filed for a refund of my american airlines airfare,
since they dropped me in st louis instead of letting me change the ticket to indianapolis as their rules state. i expect i'll have to fight for the refund.
i haven't washed the dishes or done the laundry or even taken a walk outside. it rained so it's nice and cool out.
$3300 income $2200 outgo.paid down some eccounts
i should clean the fridge.some of that stuff's been in there too long by now. including what i had for dinner.
tenant just paid $200. i guess that's for june. he runs late but pays steady. another of my side hustles. caught up my accounting for the month.

 

by arbitrary
6-29-20
it's tuesday. i'm in the parking lot outside work, waiting for rain to calm down - it has.
all i got done today was passed my results call for the arizona study, bought a ticket on southwest back to phoenix for saturday.
ok, time to go in and push a cart for 8 hours, bagging groceries.
maybe more later.

 

by arbitrary
6-30-20
deboba: best i could do
so as i was saying before stripcreator at emy revised comic, i didnt get much done today.
i forgot my badge at work and had to borrow a temporary one from the guards, so i had to re do my time punches when i got home. i paid off $62 at chase,
and took out cash to put in my other bank, but forgot to go to the other bank. my van just drove me home like a horse would.
i transplanted some houseplants so i can put them outside while i'm gone, and threw away some stuff in the fridge, and read part of today's supreme court case.
i didnt call mom or rochester or get that document notarized or even read my to do list.
i applied for a leave of absense at work which will get denied soi will have to quit and hope to get rehired whehn i get back in august.

 

by arbitrary
7-01-20
i didn't get much done today. work went well. i met a produce manager who trained me in how they stock the produce aisle; i have plans to revamp it, so knowing the current system is a step forward.
i paid $500 on one of my credit cards, still owe $200. i took most of my houseplants outside for while i am gone. i took out the trash and put out more ratbait. saw the rat.
i got 'promoted' to moderator of /r/trashpandas at reddit. scotty agreed to look after the yard while i'm away. tommy bought me lemonheads. i took out the trash. left the dishes for tommy who seems to
be on strike. artillery barrage underway (weigh?) the ghetto near july 4th. i forgot to upgrade my cybertruck reservation before the software price went up.
oh yeah my one share of telsa hit an new all time high of $1120 today. i have 3 hours for a bath and whatever i want to get done before work.
not enough sleep, and i am off coffee, getting ready for the study.

 

by arbitrary
7-03-20
it's friday. i just worked my last day at the warehouse until august. or never, if they don't hire me back. i filed anotherHR appeal for "points" they gave me while away in phoenix. trying to leave
on good terms. i paid off my credit card, but then i just put $290 of auto repair on it. work done by the mexican guy I sold a house to two years ago for a literal bag of cash. I doubled my money but
should have charged twice as much, prices here have gone up. while waiting on the car i read a chapter about amazon. i'll read more on the plane.
i lined up a car rental, that i can sleep in if i dont find a cheap hotel. airbnb and couchsurfing weren't working and the hostel is closed for covid. i'm not going to camp out at the airport sunday.
i can't count my chickens until they hatch, but between what i made at the job and what the study pays, i'll have a nice nest egg to invest in whatever my next deal will be. tesla's at 1200 and still
climbing. if i'd followed thru and bought that option at $1200 in january i'd be rich now. instead i only have one share. i just need to pack and i'm ready,i think.

 

barely got out of bed today. everything seems ready to head out tomorrow.
by arbitrary, 7-04-20

 

by arbitrary
7-06-20
bus 8 to the airport $5. southwest to houston to phoenix $230. rental car $50. decaf $2. slept in the rental car close enough to a mcdonalds to have wifi. taxi to the clinic, $20, got there right on
time. i'm alternatate #3, so i probably won't get in, and quit a high paying job for nothing. i don't regret my decision.
if i end up as an alternate, it'll give me a boost up to get into the next study.maybe they'll even do this one again. and 3 is a low number, i could end up getting in.
right now they have me locked in a hotel room doing a 2 day quarantine. the throat swab was far less painful this time. they should have been by with lunch by now.
i'm reading "the everything store", it's like a biography of a company.well written. i have a few more books about amazon i planned to read while here.
my one share of tesla is up $1000 now.

 

by arbitrary
7-07-20
today i hung out in the hotel.occasionally they come by with food or to take my temperature, but it's very solitary.
so i play solitaire and watch nero wolfe reruns and hang out on reddit - all the same stuff i do at home. got no work done.
on the plane i outlined some stuff to write so i should be writing feverishly, but i have the internet to distract me. the hotel room is fancy, but kind of a prison, but i'm fine with it.
tomorrow early they move us to the clinic, then overmorrow i'm pretty sure they will send me home.
i'm alternate number 3 and the odds of three people washing out are not very good, but i havent given up hope.
at least this beats pushing a cart around all day.

 

by arbitrary
7-08-20
today we moved from the hotel to the clinic. seems small for a place we'll be spending over a month, but i might not have seen it all yet.
i've been weighed, piss tested, blood drawn, lunch, but so far no blood pressure or ekg or physical. it's hurry up and wait.
ok ekg done. there is a rumour, unconfirmed, that 3 people got dropped. so i might still have a shot to get in. i forgot to bring headphones. it's very noisy here.
i will ask later if there is a quiet area. the noise might screw up my blood pressure reading sometime soon.
now it's night. they moved me to a noisier area. rumours swarming, i'll either get in or i won't.
next morning: i got in! just nobody told me till now.

 

by arbitrary
7-09-20
we don't take the pill for an hour, but i've been told i'm in.
i was worried i'd quit my job for nothing, but now i should be making $10K+ in 42 days.
which means i make at least $30k this year. i shouldn't count my chickens yet.
i 'll have all fall to either do another study or go back to amazon or even find some other job,something i enjoy or something that pays well. plus there's my lawsuit.
i have some plans of writing a short book while i'm here. that usually doesn't pan out.
just waiting to take a pill now. i think they give us breakfast first.

 

by arbitrary
7-09-20
spent the morning, after taking the pill, getting stabbed every half hour. they had trouble fining my veins for a while.
emailed tommy, caught up at reddit and jalr, ordered a laptop charger from amazon, talked to amazon hr reminding them i resigned.
they were charging me "points" for not showing up; too many points and i'd get fired. i'm trying to keep that door open.
showered changed clothes. the next few days should be easy in comparison.
i need tostart writing.i wrote on the plane and in the hotel room but need to get back at it.
the supreme court finished up its final 5 cases for the year but none of them excite me.

 

by arbitrary
7-10-20
we are on the easy part of the study now. 1 blood draw, 1 blood pressure check, 3 meals and a snack.
my new laptop charger is here somewhere but amazon left my name off the package so it hasn't reached me yet.
my old charger is dying so i struggle to not run out of juice. i hope it's the charger and not the laptop itself.
didnt get much of anything done today. tesla up another $150 today. amazon noticed that i resigned last week and turned off my work account.
i have my notebook here and i should be writing but the internet is a distraction.
11 pm: started writing

 

by arbitrary
7-11-20
did nothing. reddit and youtube.
day 7: more of the same. i took a long walk, pacing the 150 feet of the clinic 30 or 40 times.hung out on reddit telling aardvark stories.
calculated my gross income this year at 37,400. so i'll need to find some expenses to write off part of that. plus i might work some this fall or do another study.
oh i should take some cle classes while i'm here, i already paid for them. my driver's license will expire before we get out of here, which could be a problem when i try to fly home.
time to change my purple scrubs and maybe shower before dinner. the food here is a little better than at lincoln because more mexican food. us subjects are about 1/2 spanish speakers.

 

What's a Duckworth?
9 cats.
by arbitrary, 7-12-20

 

by arbitrary
7-14-20
my computer dies in one minute. charger doesn't work. my package with the new charger is somewhere in the building. i just ordered
another one off amazon. so i should be back in a few days.
my computer died just as i was hitting save on this one. the new charger just got here, a day later.

 

by arbitrary
7-14-20
when i used to live at the no limits housing coop,i had an eccentric roommate sylvia. trans, asian, a bitcoin miner, she had no job or income but would order stuff off amazon all the time.
i finally understand. my 3 amazon packages came today, laptop charger, headphones, dr bronner's peppermint shampoo. i got amazon prime so free 2 day shipping for $12/mo, first month free.
it took me about 10 years to order 3 things off amazon, and now i'm at 3 a day. but on the study it's my only link with the outside world, and cheap at the price.
studies not only pay well, you (usually) don't spend any money when you are on one. except i'm going tobuy a spirit ticket to fly to nashville for $53 and megabus from there.
the clinic here is a little lax they don't even check the packages, could be cookies or beer. they let their staff go during corona, and not everyone has come back. so they are a little short.
i was totally jonesing without my laptop, using the old slow windows 7 machine in the main room. it'll be charged up again in an hour. happy the new power cord fixed the problem.

 

by arbitrary
7-16-20
it's thursday. i thought it was wednesday. it's all a blur. i've pretty much given up on writing that book about amazon. and i havent started any CLE's yet.
i got an inquiry about buying one of my channels on reddit. it would be fun to unexpectedly monetize that. probably won't end up happening.
today was all reddit and youtube. yesterday i bought my spirit ticket home and called tommy via my laptop. my phone is dead so he's been stressing.
the food here is open to criticism but it could be worse. meals are the big event of our day. occasionally they check our temperature and blood pressure. no blood draw today.
we are probably three days from our next busy session of taking another pill. these $6 headphones help insulate me from remembering i'm stuck in the study.
my $41 ticket to nashville is via florida, so maybe i'll jump ship there for a short vacation. otherwise greyhound home $30.

 

by arbitrary
7-17-20
they just tabbed me up for an ekg. the tan scrubs group that we've been sharing the clinic with goes home today. they did 22 days for $8000.
we are the purple scrubs group. there's a green scrubs group across the hall doing the same study we are, but we have no interaction with them.
just a month left to go. it's not a problem being in this long. this is my longest single stay study; i've done others this long but they were broken up with some outpatient periods.
but it's also the best paying one i've done, so no complaints.
i don't know if we'll be alone here now, or more likely they'll put in another group with us at some point.

 

by arbitrary
7-20-20
nothing happened yesterday worth writing about.
today i talked to my mom near philadelpia. i'm going to go visit after the study is over, after stopping home for a bit
she is 91 and kinda needs someone around, and my nephew is going back to school so it's my turn.
today as usual was reddit and youtube. forgot to shower.waiting for the stock market to open.
my stock opened flat then went up $125 after noon. the earnings report comes out wednesday and we are expecting good news.
it's like a soap opera, i obsess over the little details. price went back down on tuesday. and back up on wednesday.

 

by arbitrary
7-22-20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-K_eA4Yxc&feature=youtu.be earnings call
i am waiting to get tabbed up for an ekg, and waiting for the tesla quarterly results call to start
we got paid $4,100 today. i tried to buy another share of stock, but the schwab site wasn't cooperating.
they made money in the middle of a pandemic, so my online buddies are celebrating.
i did 3 1/2 hours of CLE'slast night and will get in some more soon. so i'm not completely wasting my time here. but mostly.
http:// www.stripcreator.com/comics/four_legged_tripod/496546/
the airline wrote back about my ticket dispute, so i can follow up on that.

 

by arbitrary
7-23-20
today was one of our busy days. took a pill. blood draws twice an hour. they had trouble finding my vein so i got stabbed 4 extra times. no breakfast. ekg's, vital signs.
i took 5 hours more cle courses.
now i should really get to work on that book i'm not writing. and i could take that online loan officer's course, just for something to do.
study runs along easily. one guy keeps the tv on all the time which is one of my pet peeves. murder porn on right now. but it's no big deal.
day 18.friday. did nothing except reddit. one guymentioned he might throwmesomecontract work.made a comic fora pro bonoad hoc voting riights church i've joined.

 

by arbitrary
7-24-20
I guess the first question is where to start.
The basic idea is to create a series of educational videos that teach about voting rights and the voting process.
As for what this will look like is uncertain. A person talking directly to a camera?
Animated in some way? A series of related pictures that go along with an audio lecture similar to a powerpoint presentation?
Let me know your thoughts. Thank you, - Tim
arbitrary aardvark here. i can knock out these clip art cartoons quickly and easily if that helps any

 

by arbitrary
7-25-20
day 19 of 42.oh wait that's the title.i didnt do anything again today.just reddit and youtube.
i mean, i called my mom on her birthday, she wasn't in a talky mood. emailed my sister.
hecked my bank to make sure the amazon bonus check didn't come - it didn't, and probably wont.checked the jalr bulliten board i moderate.
didn't even post an aardvark ofthe day to /r/aardvarks. i have 4 minutes before bedtime to fix that.
sunday day 20. more of same. watched a japanese gangster movie, no subtitles.

 

by arbitrary
7-27-20
8 things on my to do list for today and i've done 1 of them. i stay up online for hours after bedtime, then feel tired all day, which contributes to unproductivity.
if i really focus i should be able to knock out 3or 4 more. if i were at home this is when i would have some coffee. 42 days is a long time with no coffee.
i think i'll take a brisk walk, pacing back and forth in this room, then pay my lawyer dues online; that should be quick and easy.
done and done. $180. i feel more awake now. what's next?

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