Sunday February 14: Valentines Day

Hi! It’s Sunday Valentines Day 2021. I woke up at home after a night of freezing rain on the Toyota last night. I got up in time 

 or my meeting and then I took a nap. I got up and took a shower and got my gifts together to bring to Lynne. I got to Ardmore at 1:36pm. We exchanged
gifts and talked for awhile. We got some food and went to Mapes. They were closed at 3pm so that was out. Next we went the Manayunk Trail and again the gate was closed and we had to go back to Ardmore. We took care of business and 
then went Overbrook Farms for a walk around 6pm. It’s pretty cold outside now and it’s getting dark at this moment. Check this I have tomorrow off to before Presidents’ Day. We went on our walk in Overbrook Farms. 
The walk was a bit of a pain in the ass because cars kept going by and we kept having to move out of the way of the cars. There’s a lot of traffic considering that it was nighttime and it was pretty cold. We then decided to treat ourselves to a chicken cheesesteak
and cheese steak. Every so often so it’s fun to have a treat like that.

Feb 4th: A New Day!

Today I woke up felt alright. I took Emily for a cold weather stroll & took a packed trolley from 63rd and Malvern to 19th St. After the meeting, went to the coffee

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shop for conversation to chill. I then caught the trolley and was notified by the operator that

the trolleys were running really spastic this morning. I  texted a friend who is looking for work and trying to keep their apartment. I hope she gets a job soon.

Work is a little mixed

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up in the beginning but I just slog thrilling got a lot of alerts done that were undiscovered. Now it's 515 and I am waiting for the 46 bus

Overbrook at 5:38

which is already about 5 minutes late.

Well I'm  now on the. 46 bus going up to walk Emily out in Overbrook to get that out-of-the-way. Wes contacted me we might do Ethiopian. But his wife has the car and you know how it is to be a married man,  

So I'll visit Pat,  I just don't know when right now. My guess is that I walk Emily and then just head straight back to his place. Emily shouldn't take that long. Sent a text to Larry ask him if he knew anything

 about the weather forecast? I got a reply that precipitation would begin as snow at Midnight then change over to all rain by the morning.

Emily the Cute Dog.

So my friends I will be going to work on time it will be wet. Nothing unusual there.Well I'm going meet Wes for dinner he's going to pick me up at 7:30. We plan to do some Ethiopian. It is now 6:30 PM.

Well Wes came over and we drove down to Abyssinia Ethiopian.

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We ordered a whole mess of platters combos and the food was tasty. Service was very good and we had good conversation. At the end of our dinner a woman asked us about an interaction I had with the waitress

Menu. Yum!

. This interaction was nonverbal. We wanted more water so I made a hand gesture that indicated lifting and pouring a picture of water

Groovy Bar

. I learned a new phrase microaggression. I wrote more about it here on another blog posting I made in response to the actions I faced and to this website the Microgresssions Project
Anyway Wes and I had a fund time.

Right when I got home I want on Facebook and a woman wrote a really anti-somatic cartoon with big noses like the Nazis Facebook quickly removed it and removed her

 Now to bed and see what weather we face tomorrow. Ice? Snow, or just rain.

29 January: Foot dragging in the cold

Catching Bus in Cold

Believe it or not it could be the last full day going over Doverbrook to and fro.

It's another cold day in Philadelphia I'm writing this polite quiet talking commuters and schlepping to

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Center City picking up a coffee and going to the sunrise. I KNOW that I am NOT going to ask permission to take pics from various people shoes. 

IT'S 12° SO COLD!

Work was a bit frustrating today I was just tired and I saw a number of people. Decided to go to the 30th St. method to Overbrook to go

View from 56th Street Station

work quiet and well mannered tease me into the evening.

I'm in a walk this dog and I think I'm going to crash and see what happens.Would like to get

30th Street Station

a haircut do some laundry but just not enough time in the day.

But I let Emily an announcement center had some food

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here in Overbrook and then lie down and I felt really nice.

Willy had a big surprise. Emily's owner returned back home from Australia. She had a tan since it is Summer there. She also asked me to watch Emily for 4 days next week. She is going to Vegas for a burn conference. She was at a "burn camp" in Australia for child victims of burns. It was odd in my mind.

there. I know surprises that she's off to Las Vegas starting Sunday so yes I agreed to four more days for $75. Good night everyone.

Saturday, January 25:

A cold day it is an old Philadelphia have a good one.

Overbrook train was about five minutes late and I met a nice passenger was going to New York with her friend who also happens to be going to the program over the guys name so it's all good but it's freezing my hands been out in the cold too long.

Well after the men's A bunch of us went over to La Columbe and had a really fun time. Next we went to a friends house and they shared some comedy sketches. I then met Drew
and went ton Saffron Indian Cusine 1214 Walnut St. Anything want to go home and see if I can shower fix my printer and then head to Melrose Park by 4pm.

Snow started coming down around 11:00 AM this morning mostly a light dusting but still continues as of now 3:23 PM.

Okay how much snow we supposed to get? I'm at Melrose Park I'm just walking to Amy's place

now from the train station. It is now 4:36 PM I'm just about to approach the home and I will be signing out from blogging for the time being looks like the snow's settling now so looks

like we did get like 1 to 2 inches pretty cold I lost my hat… Bummer.

We watched the weather channel and the movie Bonnie and Clyde feet Conoway and

Warren Beatty. Good thing the snow has stopped but the low tonight will be nine i can go to 30 street and catch the train from here in Melrose Park to Overbrook one smooth touch. I think it's cool that I'm taking the train because basically I'll be indoors a lot of the time.

Well I made it to market East station over stepped Mr. 30th St. but it doesn't matter I'll be catching the train Overbrook around 11:40. I wish

to  write a short note. I ran into someone from the program on the way up to Melrose Park. They were sitting in front of me and on the way back I saw them they were sitting behind me. It was pretty cool.

Thursday, January 23: Time to Get Up Early..Like 5AM

Good morning friends of sanctuary and from penis. It's five of 7 AM I'm on the night out bus. The bus driver had

Emily the Overbrook Dog

Pat Getting up at 5am

a very long night just  groused at me. Better yet, he ditched a passenger  as she was running for the bus. We could her yelling and just left

The 105 Bus

the lady in this cold at 5:09 Am. COLD!!!  Bus#9902

Speaking of cold as of 5:15 AM it is 10° outside. Thank God it's not windy!  Took Emily for a walk

105 bus had a problem and stalled!

and now I'm going to try to catch the 10 trolley. Boy, my 6:40 AM 10 trolley was late slow & crowded as hell!  My duck shoes don't keep my feet warm. I am at the Sunrise and w/ the coffee I feel better. Onward & 

Waiting for the EL

upward!! Right now I am showing at 30th St. station waiting for the westbound L. Apparently it's running a little bit behind 9:06 AM. I am heading towards 52nd St. I'll be getting

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off at 56 street I'll have to call him because my coworker and alternate will be out all day today is a sunny cold day in west

A Sidewalk

Philadelphia be signing off on this blog till probably after work. Good news I'll be at anything with Amy on Saturday YAY

it's 2:35 PM. Going to meet up with a friend from IOP

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tomorrow night as for today it's the regular group thing and I've been moderately busy here at work that's far. Work is

57th Street 5:15

done I had to take one of my 15 minute quickie maps that was good work I am now going to the elbow catch the train and try to get to the Starbucks by 530 then maybe meet somebody from group.

Well I didn't meet anybody from group

but I want to group it out very tired. I expressed my frustration with the dog job and I think they understood. I'm back in my well heated apartment to warm up I really don't want to go to Overbrook but pretty much got to.

I'm a call AT&T now to get my service change since Carolyn apparently succeeded in pulling her phone number out of my AT&T

account through T-Mobile will see how this goes. I will call Amy first while this album is playing on the YouTube. Then call AT&T. I I thought I had to midnight but it was really only

panic p.m. I took a cab to catch the 11:29 PM train Tovar Brookside get home before midnight. I'm pretty tired but at least I got the shower and sit for a moment.