Thursday, February 12: Cold🥶 West Dist. CAO.

Good day boys and girls today started out funky because I got a message from Mike that I was supposed to be there early for his doctors appointment and he had to blow off one of those rides. I completely forgot about the appointment. So I showed up at Mike’s around 9 AM and wanted to at least get him to the dermatologist, but he said he was gonna go ahead and blow that off as well, so I took the 40 bus towards the West District welfare office where the Mike’s medical assistance comes from the 40 bus is really crowded when I got on, but when it went through University Of Pennsylvania Bruce Street the whole bus emptied practically. Mike’s on a special medical assistance plan so instead of going to the close office on South Broad Street I had to go away up here in West Philly. And then find out that the office is closed to 11 o’clock due to “professional development.“ Anyway, I saw that there was a ShopRite so I went there got some muffins for breakfast and sat in the beer garden. I then got Mike a couple of pre-cooked chickens and now it’s 1054 and it is so fucking cold in this line today the wind is disgusting around 20 miles an hour. Well, it got a little bit better. We got into the office and I met up with Mister Grimes. Who’s the DA of the West District now . he took my name as Michael WARD and then I was seen by the Customer Service wrap about twenty five minutes to thirty minutes later and she was very confident and said she was gonna remove the closing and Mike has two more bank accounts to verify one was an ally bank one he didn’t know about or forgot about and one was another Wells Fargo. It’s now 12:22 PM. I am now on the 40 bus trucking through Patton village area. Anyhow, I got back from the 40 bus and went ahead and did a CVS run for Mike. That was OK. Two of the self service machines were out, but I made it through then after I came there I was gonna do a Td bank run, but I didn’t have time for that because I realized that I needed to go to Photo Lounge. For some reason, I thought I had off tomorrow and Mike thought the same thing but I’m working half day or close to that work till about 11:45. Mary and I are going to meet a friend for lunch. I expect to be going to Dave’s via Uber only because we got equipment to handle. Anyhow I went to Photo Lounge picked up gifts. I mean pictures and took care of that business. I got back to Mike’s and it was practically 3:30 PM. Put his food away and then headed off to the 4 PM yoga class. 

Wednesday, February 11: Helping Dave w/ Mom Stuff

This morning, I woke up feeling a very tired, but definitely better rested than I was the night before. I got a full seven hours of sleep, whichis cool. Mary made me some delicious bacon and eggs, and I went to the café to fetch your coffee. It was quite a nice way to start the morning. I then walked most of the way to Mike’s, but I caught a 12 bus at 18th and Spruce and got off at 15th and spruce. There was only three blocks but it really saved me some time. Fortunately today’s
Wednesday it’s I can sign out late from Mike’s. I then took some pictures for Mike for a Social Security application and then Dave called and wanted me to come up there and help him out with finding mom‘s phone book so we can call people. Also to do some cleanup of her room. I’m heading out via the market Frankford 
line in the Broad Street line. It’s only 2️⃣ minutes slower than calling Uber. Uber is an option if need be. Anyhow, I got home and quickly dove into the 20 Photo Albums that my mom had to dig in some representation of her. Inadvertently of course I ran it to old pictures of myself with people such as Linda, Amsterdam and Kim Lee people I used to see back in the day. It was a trip just as I was catchingan Uber to Media. Alice called and we talked for a little bit until Dave called her. Things are gonna be moving quite fast. I also had to cancel my 2 o’clock appointment.Hopefully I won’t get charged for canceling two hours ahead of time, but I think I have a good excuse. I arrived at Dave’s, and I walked the dog with him. We just shot the shit and talked about the business at hand. He then left on an important errand and I sorted out this box of stuff she has and found some phone numbers of people that she still had communication with which was a Royal find. Also Found obituaries from ColemanSellers my grandfather on my mom side a.k.a. my grandfather. It’s now 1:20 PM I formally canceled my appointment with Hockenberry, 

and Alice called me while David was away which was cool. She was needing help writing up the obituary. I’m hoping we can finish this part of the conversation before Dave gets back. Anyway, I’m in the basement and he has his lower ceiling. I’ve bumped my head like three times. I have a nice bruise on my head or at least a little tiny one. I don’t 

even know if I’m gonna get back in time to get the Mike’s by 4:30 which is my goal at this point, but I don’t wanna cut out on Dave because well that doesn’t have to be discuss. Well, there is no way I was getting back to Mike’s. I ended up going with Dave to the funeral Director after going over Alice’s obituary for three different copies and then Dave printed out the final copy and sent it to the funeral home. I then got a ride to the Media to Media station after Dave and A funeral Director guy talked to golf for 15 minutes. After that I came back to Mary’s and there’s no way I was in the mood to do any yoga even yen and I ended up just lying down and cozying up with her and then we got up and got some Indian. Mary’s going to see the doctor tomorrow about her injuries due to her fall. That’ll be good. Tomorrow I go to the welfare office for Mike. 

Tuesday, February 10: Prepping for Funeral

Good day everybody this is Mark speaking. I woke up after being late ordering prints and what not. I picked up the print. Anyway I got the Mike’s signed in found out. He was going to get cut off from medical assistance then we started prepping to appeal the decision before February 16. I then had to go ahead and pick up the prints and go to bleak printing to take care of that. Mary was very helpful. She guided me over 
the phone and I called her on Facebook messenger. And that worked out pretty well. I then went back to her place dropped off the Material and then eat lunch and walk back to Mike’s but before then I went to CVS to pick up some stuff there. The pharmacy doesn’t take buying groceries. You’re only buy 2️⃣ items at once which is pretty bogus. So it looks like the funeral service is Saturday and then the burial is going to be Monday. I still am going to do yoga hopefullyI’ll get a little more sleep, which would be really really good. OK got back to Mike’s. Went out to get outside for a moment and came back and 
signed out. I also wrote to the agency that I was not coming into work next Monday due to the burial. I ended up going to Tina‘s 4 o’clock class. I’m really pleased. She teaches 4 o’clock class. To me it makes up a little bit for the fact that Miah is no longer with the studio. Mary took the night off because she had a migraine headache. I left the studio and my goodness it feels mild compared the way it was. I gotta be at acquired at seven and I just could not get moving out of the studio after the class.Class was good. It was really toasty. I eventually walked home after doing a little hustling and hung out with Mary and charged up my phone. I didn’t have to leave fairly quickly because their tolerance for being late is lesser this time around. Mary went to her meeting. I got the Choir on time. I was signed
into the Choir Genius program even though the app didn’t work. I got my music replaced for the version from 2024. My version was from 2013. The piece is called “a man at war.“ It’s a very interesting piecemust say. People had a lot of technical questions about the piece and we’re moving out a brisk pace because our show is in April really a short semester. There’s a together concert on March 1 which I plan to attend. Anyhow, I left Choir and picked up my food at Royal Indian around 10:00 PM. Mary and I then watched a really good law and order episode. It was quite enjoyable. We then crashed around midnight.