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Loser.
Once I got that last rant (yesterday’s entry) out of my system I was ready. Well, Mom and I were ready. We headed out a little after noon today. First stop, Best Buy. We found the 32” LED Samsun...
It's over!
“That’s our entire economic system: buy things. Everybody buy. It doesn’t matter what you buy. Just buy. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money. Just buy. Our entire civilization now rests on ...
A walk in the desert.
Well, well, well. I got most of the kitchen painted yesterday. I worked for a solid five hours. So far on the project I’ve used 60 yards of masking tape. I broke open the second roll yesterday. R...
Back at it.
I’ve got the bedroom and the little bit by the back door painted. That only took two easy days. After that Mom said we could wait a few days to start up again. No such luck. After the last two da...
An old friend.
Perry and Arlene showed up about 10:30am this morning. We headed to Village Inn for a brunch, even though it was getting closer to lunch. We wandered over to Scottsdale to the place. https://www....
Out and about.
After coffee this morning we headed out. There were major traffic snarls in the Valley but Mom routed us around. We arrived fifteen minutes before the doors opened. This is what we came to see: h...
1 room done.
A couple of hours during the afternoon lying by the pool for the last few days will maybe end when the temp drops back to the normal sixty-something degree weather in a day or two. Yesterday I st...
Pie.
The plan was to use the paper journal I’d brought and then transcribe to Word later and then post to prosebox later still. The reasoning was that Mom had said that her wifi wasn’t working in her ...
Day 1
Since I had cleaned out the van and removed all the bedding I spent Wednesday night on Jassy’s loveseat. It was not a comfortable night. With the warmth of the apartment, the ticking of the clock...
16 hours to go.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. This morning I put the battery charger on the van and then Jassy and I went to do some running around. We went to the welfare office so she could turn in her application f...
Broken Prosebox?
I spent the day at the student union yesterday. I wrote an entry but when I went to post it Prosebox wouldn’t load. Now I’m at the library downtown typing into the little box. Forty-eight hours f...
Yesterday's entry.
Let’s start with the weather. It has been the usual crazy end of November weather. Saturday topped out at 72 degrees. Saturday night was a night in the mid-sixties. Yesterday it was in the sixtie...
Thanksgiving.
It’s been a week since I’ve posted an entry. And that means I have no idea what I’ve done in the past week. I’ll just scribble what I remember. Jassy and I hit a few more thrift shops and flea ma...
A walk in the rain.
Last night was a pleasant warmer night than nights past. It was 45 degrees at midnight. I pulled the goosedown bag off the bed and crawled into my summer bag and my three blankets in nothing but ...
Countdown.
The upcoming trip started as a curiosity. I had priced bus tickets. Close to three hundred dollars and nearly two days on a bus. Outrageous. Even though I have enjoyed several cross country bus t...
Escape?
We got the Thanksgiving dinner shopping done. It was a bizarre shopping trip. We didn’t have a list. We got things we just ran into that were on sale. We decided to wait on some items. It felt al...
Finally Winter?
I walked to the library a couple of days ago and found the third book in the trilogy. I also have the new King, Koontz, and Grisham on my waiting list. There was a really good review of King’s ne...
Cold around the corner!
Let’s get the weather news out of the way first. Friday night was a fifty degree night. Saturday was a thirty-five degree night. Last night was a sixty degree night. Today it was 74 degrees outsi...
A good day.
Another glorious day! Not too cold last night. 42 degrees at midnight in the van. I woke up at 10:30am. 51 degrees in the van. I wondered if my atomic clock had reset coming off daylight savings ...
First cold night.
This is the time of the year with the awesome temperature swings. By mid-afternoon with the temps in the mid-fifties outside the van, sitting in the sun will warm up the van to above eighty degre...
Two walks this week.
A few days ago I talked Jassy into going along on my walk. I didn’t have to convince Liam. He’s always ready to go. It was a beautiful day. Warm. Not a cloud in the sky. Not a bit of breeze. Bea...
Shake it off.
I finished reading “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert today. I haven’t read much in anthropology in the last several years so a couple of new facts were revealed to me in this book. The ...
A new pee bottle.
I finished reading “The White Plague” by Frank Herbert Tuesday morning. I packed up and spent the rest of the day over at the student union. Yesterday Jassy, Liam and I went for a nice long walk....
Clarification.
The best way to protest is with your wallet. Quit buying, quit working, quit paying taxes, whatever, quit being a production unit to the oligarchs. The chart below is the explanation for the abov...
Midnight to noon.
The best way to protest is with your wallet. Quit buying, quit working, quit paying taxes, whatever, quit being a production unit to the oligarchs. Well hell, I’m doing my part to protest that’s ...
