Wednesday, June 29: Sun and Cooler! Will We Have a State Budget on Time?

Good day. I woke up to a much less humid morning. I was pretty darn tired getting up but I did get my butt out of bed. I  took a shower and got

Waiting

breakfast on the way out. I took one of those granola bars we

19th Street

had in the house. That kept me going to the early morning hours. I went to the Sunrise and I did  share.

A Day in the Life Video

I thought that was decent. I also talked to my sponsor which was good. He wants to know how to write a

blog and I'm looking forward to teaching him. Anyhow, I got to work late. I didn't want to work on some of the orchid until pop when I was interviewing 13 people yesterday. It turned out I had 6

My Computer at Work

Paperwork

no-shows. You want to shut up it would've been 19 people. The show rate was over 50% which

Inside Work

was good. Well I have to finish an online training and I waited last hour to do it. It was a lot longer than

The Building I Work

I thought it would be. You couldn't fast-forward through it. I don't want to read the stuff that was

15th and Market

printed on the computer. I was doing while waiting for this woman to finish. I did manage to finish

Sun Streak at Walnut

before the assistant administrator hounded me out of the office. I I left Market Frankford Line 

Walnut

to 15th and Market to Coffee Joe. It has the coolest Air-conditioning around blog look at

Blogging and Watching

Facebook and enjoy the sun and the cool AC in here. Do some people watching of course. I can feel my mood changing as I push back the negativity in the AC. Well the hopes of getting a budget in Pennsylvania on time  increased today. The PA senate pass their version of the state budget today.

 BIG NEWS

Senate approves Pa. budget measure, adding in funds for higher education 

Our union supposed to negotiate starting again July 18. That is over 3 weeks from now. Well hopefully

Outside Coffee Joe

the budget will be passed cleanly by the 18th. Both sides are acting like reasonable adult this time around as compared to last year. Linda day to be walking around Center City. I meant a nice woman who wanted to know where the

Chestnut Street

banana republic outlet was. She was walking the wrong way so I can hear her back toward 19th.

Reading the Phone

Nice outside. On my appointment went well and I found out she is pregnant due sometime in in the Fall. Interesting isn't it? Anyhow it went well. I then came home and Sharon made up

A Nice Day

Yum! Chicken

chicken and green beans along with this delicious white chocolate putting that she created. She also

Homemade Beer Bread

made from pure bred for herself. Looking low. She said she could put seltzer or another beverage

Dessert

with carbonation that's not alcohol. That was nice of her to think of me.

Tuesday, June 28: Humid! A Late Meeting

Well, despite going to bed very late came home late etc. I get OK this morning. I rolled out of bed got dressed and headed out. My goal was to walk to

To Baltimore Ave

dog make the meeting and then go work on time.

Out to West Philly

Well, two out of three ain't bad. The dog made a mess, a piece of artwork crashed to the ground and

49th Street

almost broke a mirror. That was a good time and I would just cut my losses get a nice coffee and early

One of the Dogs I Walked

for a change. While I was doing all this I was poking the bear. After yesterday's abortion decision the

This Fell

pro life extremist were out in full force. I of course had to put my contrary call me liberal views upon the

circle jerk of Facebook comments.

This just in after 8:28 AM. Buddy Ryan dead at 82! He was

Getting Iced Coffee

oh well regarded and loved coach from his players and two Eagle fans everywhere. RIP Buddy!!

Sam's Place

Boy it's been quite an eventful June out here in the good old US of A. I took the 42 bus and I warily

up the 59th St. but that's not far from where I work and 58th St. It is really humid out here I'm glad I work  indoors! Well I arrived at 8:39 AM. I have a ton of clients

60th Street

coming in today and my supervisors back

Workplace

from the south. I got some food ice coffee and I got a cool off and then change into

Where I get Lunch

my appropriate work gear.

It's 3:03 PM I just finished seeing about 10 clients today. It's

very humid and cloudy. I think the clouds are keeping it from being ridiculously hot. Good afternoon how are you? I just finished work after  interviewing

Changing

13 people. The day went  pretty fast. It is god

Walking From Work

awful humid right now. I'm waiting for the train. I hope you get some ice coffee and mellow out before a

meeting I'm going to tonight at 7:30 PM

I had a delicious tuna hoagie. It really filled me up good that's

Coffee Joe

for sure. I still have a little bit left but I'm going to eat when I get off this train. Well I went to the coffee to go and hung out there for about an hour and a half. It was very chilly but felt great compared to what it was

Its Time

outside. I stayed there a bit too long and had to take the cab to the meeting that within 444 N. 3rd St. I

Heading North on 3rd

did get to present the flyer in front of the assembled folks. I think people 

liked it. There were a lot

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of people at that meeting there were new GSRs there. I didn't cook a 48 bus home and relax with Sharon

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for a moment and then shower and got ready for bed.

Monday, June 27: Dog Walking, Work Then RAIN! Abortion and Brexit Results

When I woke up, I was feeling really exhausted so I skipped getting up for meetings and proceeded

Sharon's Table Book

then to get up a little later and take a shower and eat breakfast. I decided that I wouldn't be late to work

Funny Color

to walk the dog. I decided that I would take an extended lunch since I didn't have very many people

RyBread

scheduled. Well I plowed through some work didn't and didn't d thank you Patrick. I did clean up

Poking Around

my list of sanctions for a report that is due today. Well it turned out there are only two client showed

West Phily

up one was scheduled and one wasn't. The other one rescheduled for other days. I then took

My Old Neighborhood

a walk outside with and get the dog walking. It went fairly smooth way. The dog didn't do any crap

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and they did their business in a timely manner. I then went back to work the rent fall because I was a

The Old House

little bit sweaty running around. I did some handy shorts and a clean T-shirt to change into and that

Bodega @ 49th and Locust

really help me feel human after I came back at work feeling a bit sweaty.  I worked on my flyer for the last half-hour at work. I'm going to Larry & Veronica's place between seven and 745 depending

Catching the Bus Back to Work

Ending Work

on what I decide to do.. The have a printer and I'm going to have Veronica help me with making it

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look pretty. I'll email a copy of it and you can look at it if you have a minute.

It's due tomorrow

Cake and the Beanstalk

evening @ 7:30 PM.

I got it saved just in time before my boss literally stood over my shoulder and told me to log out and

12 Street Mural

leave. I was very fortunate I started doing my project before she stood over me. I wasn't able to get a print

Sitting at Cosi

copy but I don't think that matters. As I was going towards the early night out, I decided to go to springboard

Heading West

media and get a new cover for my iPhone. I could tell that the case was grimy. One of my buttons

Coffee Joe's

I could barely put Shin because of it. When when the springboard employee took off the

Cool Wheels

phone case, there were brown rings on the back of my iPhone like I set shot glasses or coffee cops

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on him. It was obvious some liquid had feet under the phone. I'm very lucky the phone didn't get screwed up.

Rain Starts

He recommended  A brand called Speck. So I got the case and the glass cover. The phone feels thinner

Printing 1st Draft

and looks a lot cleaner as well. I am pleased. I decided I'd go to Monday night beginners so I

The First Bus I Was to Use

took the bus up to the Coffee Joe after hanging out at Cosi. There wasn't that much people watching

Larry and Veronica Being Married

going on.

I left a little early from the beginners since I was running late

My Flyer

to go to Larry's place. His wife is going to help me with my choir event tomorrow night at 7:30 PM. It's

Towards W Philly

advertising a bus trip to New York on October 7 to visit the General Service Office.

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  It started to rain around 6 PM by the time I left Larry's place to head to West Philly to walk the dogs

Iceland Beats England

it was pouring. I was pretty wet when I got Hazel Avenue. I did manage to walk the dogs and feed them.

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It was a late movie Uber Pool was cheap and it was a good decision to take Uber out back home because

Raining HARD!

out of it and possibly wet Uber. We ate taking the scenic route I am with someone else. He

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dropped her off.  We were in the neighborhood kind of close to 

where I live. I took my

Uber Saves the Day

work clothes off took a shower and ate a very late dinner. 

Enough mention that to scream court boating 5 to 3 to overturn the Texas restrictive abortion law.

Supreme Court Abortion Decision

Folks are saying that this is a very important decision since antiabortion folks have  been instituting the law for the safety of the woman. It was a very full day.