Showing posts with label 15th and Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15th and Market. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Saturday, January 9: I Got Stuff Done for Art.

I
Vine Street Bridge Construction
Well I managed to get up for the men's meeting and got their view the Über . I had some caffeinated coffee
Road Construction
and then I just dumped it out. I didn't have time to exchange since the driver was there and I had already
Center City
paid for it. I could not wait for them to brew a new batch. Got to the men's meeting and then I walk
Rittenhouse Plaza
to 15th St. DL and met Larry and Starbucks. Hung out there for a 15 minutes and then we
I am Scared!!
left and set up for the 10 at 10:30. That was interesting and I spoke for eight minutes me a chair habitat
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my watch after five minutes. Then I went Larry's afterwards. Veronica had asked me earlier to do a little filming
for her. That didn't take much time Larry asked me to help move stuff to the attic. Due to the uneven train
Christ Church
schedule, I will not be at Amy's till least 230. I'm now off to the photo lounge via the 17 bus. We then
A Long Ti e
plan to catch the 2 o'clock train to Melrose Park. That's the best I
can do. Well that was
Simple but True
OK with Amy. She greeted me very nicely when we got done I got to her place. Took the pictures out
Hoisting Stuff!
lined them up and she sifted through them. She picked the top five in the top three. These would
Filming Horror
be the ones I be looking for frames for. So we went to the thrift shop she knows of in Glenside. This
19th and Chestnut
is the thrift shop she goes to bayous frames for her own work. We went in there and it was very efficient
CONFIDENCE!!!
. She did a very nice job of finding things. She does have a I and she has experience as well. Next we went down to the Home Depot and got spray paint.
Photo Lounge
The spay paint will be used to paint
Lunch Being Made
the frames black.. I got the same paper as well to smooth out any of the rough edges on the frames.
Ready to Board!!
I also will need Windex to clean the windows to the old frames. It's been a total $15 for everything.
Melrose Park Station
That includes four frames spray paint and sandpaper.. After that was done. She then drove me to the Fern Rock SEPTA station for me to take the train. It was a very effective lovely time with her and we got
At Thrift Store
The Choice for Exhibit
stuff and I got a lot done. She's going away next week so it's good that I saw her. I decide to take the
Spray Paint and Sandpaper
Broad Street line to Fairmount and head home. On the way home I stop stopped at the OCF to have coffee
Fairmount Ave
house and charged up my phone. After that I wobbled home and talked with Sharon for a bit about
An Intense and Disturbing Film
her situation. She's not also pleased about it. I didn't took goober and met Larry for dinner
Finally Getting Home
at Nu wave pizza New World pizza. Next   we saw the Stanford experiment. That movie was disturbing.
New Eatery on Fairmount Ave
I didn't know how disturbed I was until the movie ended. It featured college students being guards and prisoners. The The students
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who acted as the guards really took to their job seriously with really ugly 
results. I didn't realize how to start that was till after the movie I decided to look at a message about an
Ok Cupid. Enough said. Larry, Veronica and I took the 21. I've been caught the 33 and then on the way home I met some woman outside of the bishops. We had a very adult conversation. That was a surprise!!!
She initiated the conversation which made it quite comfortable for this 54 year old man. She suggested the dating site called "Bumble." I came home talked to Sharon and AMY and crashed feeling more centered then before.

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Tuesday November 24: PennDot, Head Cold and Root Canal

Well, I got up with the full intention of getting my photo license completed today. It's a chilly 34° outside. Dig this. I took SEPTA towards 8th street to get my
COLD!!
license taken and realized at 11th St. and that I
The 48
forgot my photo card so I took Uber back to my house and now I'm taking Uber back out the 8th and Arch
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Street. Yep it's open they're  letting a couple people in at a time. I hear that the South Philly's pennDOT more efficient .This  is really close to the EL which gets me to work quicker. I've got about 15 to
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Uber Back and Forth

the root canal for a 2nd time. It's now 8:41 AM I'm at the doorway now getting in the PennDOT. I think I broke the record for the quickest PennDOT service!
The Line at PennDOT
I waited maybe five minutes flirted with a pretty woman
8th and Arch 
as I borrowed her pen. They  called my number I'm already to go. Well that round-trip with
Heading to Work at 8th
Über was definitely worth the money. 
 The total for Uber was approximately $15  round-trip!! Now it's
8th and Market SEPTA
time to take the EL an get some liquids it's a really 
really DRY due to my cold. A Kleenex wouldn't hurt either!
The Bodega at 58th
Well, seven clients came in this morning. I decided that I needed to eat lunch and get some more drinks for my cold. In eighth one just came in before I ordered but I do need to go out and put some food in
my mouth
2:50Pm
because I'm pretty hungry too. It's brisk and sunny outside right now. What's 3 PM. It's still light outside
Cool Building
and I'm running late to the specialist office. It is 3:02 PM and I'm at 15th and Walnut. When I got there a
Entering the Dentist
little bit late but didn't seem until about 3:32 PM. It was pretty routine for a root canal the usual drilling
Current Events
in the Novocain and what not. Went to get up see a beautiful sunset after the procedure was done.
Dentist Office
In the news outside my busy bubble, the Republicans were going to attempt to override governor Wolf's veto of a stop gap measure again. They want to do it tonight. More budgetary brinkmanship to come.

 Well I just found out what I'm doing for Thanksgiving. 1:30 PM I'm to be at my brothers house in media. We're going out to eat it at the golf club but he's a
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member of near Media. After the root canal,
Met Earlier at PennDot
Spruce I walk down to 17th and Walnut to the capital one café. It's at the corner 17th moment. I got my coffee half off because I have a Capital One card. Larry then met me
Capitol One Cafe
there after he had gone to Holt's cigars which is at 16th and
2011 and 2015
Walnut. We talked and updated our plans for Thanksgiving. We then took
Going to the EL
the EL to second and market and we went our separate ways he's going to have dinner and I'm
Did not Wait Long
going to the Starbucks at third and arch to chill until the GSR meeting. Well I just found out that the Republicans decided to call off the override vote as
Starbucks @ 3rd and Arch
of 6 o'clock tonight