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Break from the sun.
The weather here in The Valley of the Sun wasn’t optimal for lazing by the pool for the last couple of days. Day before yesterday it was too windy. Warm but windy. Yesterday it was too cool, bare...
Life's a bitch?
In my previous life (pre 2008/09 meltdown) my only plans were to get up in the morning and go back to work. For the last six years there have been no long term plans. The last plan I made was to...
Forty days.
It was warm enough to hang out at the pool yesterday. It’s supposed to be even warmer this afternoon. It looks like at least the whole coming week will be warm enough for a few hours every aftern...
Lovely.
I finished painting. Mom is happy with how it turned out. It only took me five weeks. Actual work time was probably less than forty hours. Not too bad. I finished reading “Under the Banner of Hea...
Seriously.
Yesterday I finished painting the living room and getting everything put back in order. It really looks nice except for a tiny bit of paint that had seeped under the masking tape. No big deal. I’...
Just saying.
Yesterday morning I used the last of the light green paint on one wall in the bathroom. I then went to the pool to read for a few hours. The sun was hot. The pool was warm. I found out after re...
Some sunshine!
I got the inside of Mom’s bedroom closet painted yesterday. I was finished up by 12:30pm. It was warm enough to go lay by the pool for a few hours. It was actually warm enough to lay out after sw...
Desert snow.
Woke up yesterday, the first day of the new year to snow on the Superstitions. Not just a dusting but a light coat all the way down to the valley floor. Beautiful indeed. Mom said that she had ne...
New Year's Eve!
Yesterday I painted the living room. I finished off the second 60 yard roll of masking tape and started on the third roll. Ridiculous. I started about 10am and finished about 4pm. I had everythi...
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...
