Monday, July 28: Post Thunderstorm Moments to Savor. (It's a Choice)

Good morning today is Monday and we just had a pretty intense thunderstorm rolled through here

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and you can feel the moisture. The bus stop that eventful a lot of people seem to be here because I just missed the bus. The bus came but also another

Looking Back at 20th and Walnut

21 bus came at the SAME time! So we got a little train of 21's for today. And it's a special charm the 21 bus pass for me.

So it's the last week

La Columbe

of July and my last week of work before I take off for Burlington Vermont for one week. It's the

La Columbe

end of the month which means only one thing special ounces and carfare which rhymes with welfare!! Today we read

the chapter on acceptance. Specifically

30th Street

that this is the answer to all my problems. I can't ever get tired of reading that one. It's a nice not humid morning and I'm grateful for that. I was at La Columbe and someone from

 Sunrise said  "I like your pictures from vacation." He said that  my brother looks exactly like me. I just said yeah well we are peas in the same pod. Well it's Monday of last week of the month reports car fare in general mud meet Monday madness and Drexel ensue upon us today,

Striking a Pose Before Work

Heading to the Fresh Grocier/Shop Rite

hi I'm getting lunch since I had to work away the cash apps and the like. It's pretty warm out not that humid but it is warm outside

Heading In

which I guess makes sense on July 28.

Well work slows down nicely after 2:40pm. I cleaned up some of the mess in the morning

Lunch Room at Work

and then started working on my reports due the end of the month. Going home getting changed their five-time pick up my laundry. Then I go to the Monday night beginners and put out the commitment sheet.

Well, I did not have time for the laundry but I did take a quick shower. I was pretty warm when I got home.  So I got the bus to the Monday night beginners got some ice coffee and

6:25pm

ventured him. I passed my commitment sheet and got it filled up immediately. That was very good. We looked it page 52 and then on manageability is in the mind as well as in the

actions. Feeling I can't form relationships is just one part of that. Afterwords I had that feeling of alone in a crowd syndrome. I

POWERED?????

called the sponsor he suggested that I just go up and  introduce myself. It's  such a simple idea and sometimes I don't want to do!

Walnut

Went to at second meeting about self-loathing that was very good. I then took the bus the 40th thinking I was meeting Pat at St. Mary's

The Social

Church . It turned  out I was meeting at home to move the simple piece of carpeting out of this house. I now finishing up a Somoza and I ate some grape leaves that he had made 4 dinner. They came out of it can I get a buy me a can of that stuff!!

There I am

He left for an hour to go to work get some overtime. I'm waiting for

Pat's Waiting for Call

friend to call me at 11 will have a talk to since last Wednesday. I'm pretty tired and the internet is down at my place.

Saturday, April 5: Keeping It Moving on a Cool Spring Day

View from McDonald's

It's Saturday it's sunny and breezy out here. I got up with a very so back since that mattress was way too soft. Went to the Mickey D's and the coffee foodie at the spot

Leaving

pretty nicely. I didn't truck going up to Pittman New Jersey. I met my friends from the four except for Anthony Frankie. Frankie wasn't able to make it since her sons woman is

Downtown Pitman

having a baby very very soon. Anthony had to work. Nice time I had a tuna grinder which was just okay. I then left Pittman and got the 30th St. to return the car with five

The 408 Folks

minutes to spare. If I had missed 3:30 PM, drop off time at 30th St. I would've had to drive to call the way to the Philadelphia airport

Outside Vince's Italian Eatery

. And I probably would've gotten home for another hour and a half. It is now 3:31 PM and I am supposed to meet up with someone between 5 and

30th and Walnut Waiting for the 21 bus

6 PM tonight. I waited 15 minutes and then caught the 21 bus back to 4405. and clean my apartment.

To clean my apartment and returned a bunch of clothes to dry cleaner

The 21 Arrives

 I also brought three of my coats to get cleaned or repaired as well. 

Well we walk through what's really from my place on 45th and Sansom past Earth Cup to Baltimore

The Furness Building at Penn

Avenue back to 40th street. Then stopped at allegro pizza for a couple of slices and then walk towards the blue line coffee shop but that was closed. Came home and shelled

The New Trunk

out for a minute. Pat gave me a trunk that he had found at homebody's house sale. So we drove to Pat's to pick up the trunk. When I got home, Dean helped me carry it up the stairs. I still need to clean it and put

Checking out the Furness

some contact paper in it. All the help with the storage of clothing. It got pretty cold outside but it was nice to take a tour of West Philly. I don't seem to do that much these days.