At some outdoor workplace. Walk back and look for a place to work. Go back out and use the bathroom-I’m missing the bowl. Go back and get a chair and find a place to work inside.
March 18th, 2018
At work, trying to do things, but keep getting distracted by all the stuff under the desk-keep tidying it up.
moody, bad mood-switching to DST sucks
Please tip the writer.
Home Friday, w/o-not a lot of energy, dinner, watching the Airport movies. Tired, up Sat., laundry, tidy, out with E, M vacuumed, S cleaned her room a bit, up Sun., skip church, S to a party at the MAC, walk to Scrap, back, lunch, Goodwill, Pizzicato, Nectar, libe, pick up M, so, so tired, deliver C, shop, home, dinner. No w/o. DST change sucks. Tues. night-took E to OHSU for a biopsy-hopefully nothing. Work, pick up S, dinner. So, so tired and cold. No w/o-just can’t. My mood sucks right now-money worries, hassles, E isn’t healthy, etc… Gamelan is fine, but I was tired and got kicked off the fast bit. Friday-busy weekend ahead. Took E to ER last night.
Links. brighter side: Rolling in the mud with a baby elephant. Not so bright: everything else.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “It makes me sick,” said one trail driver in 1883, “when I think of onions and Irish potatoes growing where mustang ponies should be exercising and where four-year-old steers should be getting ripe for market.”, 50 Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy
March 15th, 2018
In some house on the other side of King. The carpet is soaked, and I’m trying to clean it up. Somebody comes and says that my credit card number got stolen. I look and it’s only the last few digits. Go back to cleaning.
March 14th, 2018
At a kite fest, getting set up. Walk down the hill and go into a thrift store to get pants. Look through them, then walk around. Look at knives and stuff and play around with a flip knife. Walk back down.
March 11th, 2018
At the grocery store, trying to take the leaves off of a cauliflower without disturbing the label and stuff. Walk around and get the plastic too tight. Crawl under the back to avoid a worker. (E said I was humming in my sleep).
March 8th, 2018
In some small 3rd world town. Walk around, go into a pet shop. Look at the fishes and reptiles. Walk into a underground view of a huge tank with an orca in it. It’s zooming around, banging into the wall and making a hole. It hits the clear wall, then back at the hole, then back on the wall. I decide it’s time to leave, as it’s going to break the wall. I get up to the street and it finally breaks the wall, and everyone below gets under the water. The orca is flopping on the ground, and people are struggling to get out. I say I told you so a bunch, and talk to the owner about the thickness of the wall.
More, more, more-no sir, I don’t like it.
Please tip the writer. I think this will be until forever, or until I get a fulltime job-I’m getting eaten alive with healthcare premiums.
Tuesday afternoon-making progress at work, but slowly. S is having trouble sleeping. Home, w/o, dinner, TV, bed. WFH Weds., up, get S out the door, E to dentist’s, M to class. Work, pick up S. Work, laundry, dishes, dinner, gamelan later. Working from home means “leaving early”, because there’s no commute. Gamelan-still struggling with the fast bit of the new piece. And it’s Friday-busy getting the new app deployed to dev-just a struggle. C got busted for not obeying mom. Monday-I tend not to do this over the weekend. Making progress at work. W/o Fri.-I’m actually jogging for the high-intensity interval, Sat.-cleaning, libe-got a bunch of instructional DVDs, dinner, watch DVDs, church Sun., shop in Gresham, home, w/o, dinner, bed. Work up early, couldn’t get right back to sleep. Late bus=getting on a later bus=late to work. It’s Weds., w/o last night-Matt did negative arms.
Here’s an interesting 2016 electoral map-marked much more accurately than others I have seen-except for Washoe County, NV…dunno what’s going on there. 
I like this comic strip:
Gamelan was good-still messed up on the new piece, fast version section-I’m pretty jelly on everything else. Busy trying to get this app running-close, but not really the way I want it… Got underpaid last week and we’re in dire straits. Church choir rehearsal last night-at least the piece is charted… It’s Friday-lots to do, many bills, not enough $$$. Next week is a make-up payment.
Links. brighter side: 
Not so bright: everything else. Here’s one-The Poison We Pick-this one is terrifying.
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Do you have difficulty controlling your condition with medications or other physician-prescribed therapies?”, Complete guide to fitness & health
March 3rd, 2018
Skiing, try to ski down the lift, but it’s steep and has a ridge. Make my way down the line and get back on the lift.
March 2nd, 2018
In a parking lot, need an oil change. Talk about where to go. Decide to go across the street. Wait to cross, inch out. Pull up to a bay, tell the guys I need an oil change. Go to the cashier and get a receipt.
March 1st, 2018
At home, Gina L is visiting. I want to play her some music, but my keyboard isn’t set up. I struggle to plug things in, but she says “I think I know who to have you talk to.” I ask her who, and she says “Brett”, I tell her that I know someone named Brett and she says that it is Brett C. She leaves, I give up and go outside. C is talking with a group of friends. I walk around then back inside.
February 27th, 2018
Walking around, trying to find an empty stall to poop. Walk to the back, full. Walk back to the front, one opens and I sneak in quick. The seat is filthy and I try to clean it. A maintenance guy comes and looks at me. The girl in the next stall throws TP over the divider. I can’t poop.
At a kite thing, start picking up. I pick up a bundle of rods and stuff, and some girl says it’s hers. I set them down and walk to my stuff and start putting things away.
Tough, tough life.
tip the writer-another tough money week…I think that’s my future-every week is going to be bad.
On the bus, Tuesday. It’s crowded-I had a panic attack last year on a bus like this-only apprehension today. E made me a cover for my cables, home earlyish, dinner, practice the other church piece. Had to switch over on the project-ack. And Db stuff. Weds., gamelan tonight. W/o last night-I kicked Matt’s butt with negatives. Gamelan was fun-new piece is challenging. Odd dream. No choir practice. Up early Friday, to work early, home early?No-missed the early bus, and the bus home was very late. W/o, chill.
Got to meet C’s gf, Costco-got the flu shot-insurance didn’t pay, C is shopping for frames. Home, Church Sun., no choir, but played drums on one and bass on another. Meeting, home, M to libe, very tired-slept in the car, M driving practice, home-still tired, no w/o, Olympics, to bed early. Slept almost all night, still tired. Flu shot?
Def. flu shot-it’s Tuesday and I feel better, but still a bit off. I went to bed early-ish, and slept most of the night. Work, home late-bus driver hit a car, w/o, dinner, Olympics, bed, up-forgot dreams, to work-just a mess. Less so, but still… Yet another “thoughts and prayers” moment. It will never end…maybe it will. The students are speaking out.
Gamelan-things went better. Another day-busy trying to get stuff working. Failed. Some stuff is better, but still failing. Choir went good. It’s Friday, which is nice, but the pressure is starting to build.
Now, Monday. It’s been snowing a little, but not enough to bring the city down. Cleaned all Saturday, C has a bad sore throat, church Sun., song went well, shop, libe, the usual. It’s Tuesday, supposed to have a snowpocalypse this afternoon. And it was not bad-I was able to make it into work with only a minor delay-YakTrax are awesome. Gamelan got canceled, more snow, slept in a bit, in to work only a bit late. Dealing with messy stuff at work, but getting through it. So far. Had a weird waking dream thing yesterday afternoon.
Friday! Came in early, leave early…Left early-home, hang out, w/o, watched the new Blade Runner. It’s gorgeous and the music is amazing. The plot, well, it’s noir, so meh-interesting, but not up to SF standard. Cleaned the house Sat., church Sun., S & E to friends’ for felting, M to libe, pickup both, S has a small futon bed in our room now, shop, w/o, dinner, bed. C has a new girlfriend, and he spends all his time there, so I pick him up most nights.
It’s Monday-I should get this posted-maybe someone will tip me…
Links. brighter side: puppies and kittens? Adorable sea creatures? Nope-sick, sad world. Thanks, Daria. Not so bright: America the Pariah, How We Could Have Avoided Donald Trump, The Bankruptcy of the American Left, Rural Christian white America has a dark and terrifying underbelly
Page 23, Sentence 5: “History tells us that when people pursue only their own national interests, there is strife and war.”, An appeal to the world
Listening to: a lot of stuff, but the phone & iTunes are a) not marking last played date and b) can’t copy them from iTunes even if I did know it.
February 22nd, 2018
At 30700, in my room. A bunch of people come in and it’s a party. Al B has a ton of beer, and wants me to pay for it. I tell him it depends on my bank balance. I go downstairs and fiddle around setting up my stereo. It has magnetic connectors.
February 20th, 2018
There’s a big fish tank in the living room. We’re trying to look into it and it has a big shark that starts thrashing around. It jumps out of the tank and we put it back in.
February 19th, 2018
Riding in a boxcar, get unhooked from the main train and roll down a spur. End up at a warehouse with Goodwill junk in it. Go in and look around. Someone locks the doors and we’re trapped. A guard comes to the back window and lets us out. We go around the front and walk away.
February 17th, 2018
At a kite thing just in our parking lot. John B is going to demo a 360. I suggest him doing half and me doing half, handing off and me picking up a Rev. I get set then change to me just taking his. Switch to inside a hall- he gives me a mini single line and says it’s hard to fly. I put it up and there’s a nice breeze at my back, making it easy to fly-I move it all around. He says to watch out for the lights because it might damage the kite.
February 16th, 2018
At the beach, E wants to look at the worms coming out of the sand. I walk right past a salamander looking one and she yells at me. I go and look and something else by the shore.
Walking up to U.S. the back way, some students drive by and say the dinner is super fancy. I walk up the stairs and E says all the things named after people are crazy given how expensive the place is. Rick Hawley walks up, recognizes me and starts asking me things.
February 15th, 2018
Walking around with Bill H., go over to a car plant. I accidentally trip him, and he slides under a car on jacks and out again. He gets up OK. Go over to look at stuff, and help someone work a little manual calculator thing.
February 14th, 2018
Doing some sort of maze adventure game. Have a sheet with the rooms on it. Go into the first one, explore around. It’s dark. Go into the next one, there are bees-people run around trying to get away. Keep going through all the rooms, another group is going the other way. I hear them as I’m making my way through. The map gets more and more filled in as we go. Come out into a courtyard and there’s a party for Miami freshmen. I go to the bag toss booth and start cleaning it out with another guy. A girl comes up and starts squirting bright green colored booze into our mouths. I look around for the school people, because most of the kids are underage.