Sunday May 1st: Rain and West Philly with a Big Dent and a Massage

Outside the Back Porch

Good day everyone. Today is Sunday May 1st. Its May Day in socialist countries. Here is Philly we have a rainy day. This rain was forecast for at

Looking Out the Front Door

least 4 days. I got up and moved the care but

Driving in the Rain

NOT before I had to go back and forth because I forgot my car key for my rental. This VW Jetta has not ignition key but it detects when the key is not present. I decided I can skip the morning meeting and bring a 10 pound

load of laundry to do you do we do in West Philly. I just started to stop at the green line at 45th and Locust and take in the West Philly ambience and edit my

Green Line at 45th and Locust

blog post from yesterday. It's now

View from the Green Line

all the way to 11:24 PM. I have an hour and a half to get the car back at 12 I just got a call from Drew I'm gonna meet him at 1PM. That's the time I have to be at 12th and Chestnut  to return

Writing Todays' Post

the rental. I'm going to be driven to his place and help them get some work done to make a little money. And I'm going to my 5 o'clock massage. It's now

Concentrating

12:04 PM. I'm going to get out in the rain and head into Center City. The next part of my day.

Well, I decided to drive back to my place

OverPass Construction 

good my feet out very wet and I'm comfortable. So I went back home took care of that. I found a

Accident Report

scrape on the side of the car not cool but my $22 insurance on the rental saved my ass. Next group

OOPS!! :(

pick me up at 13th St. near Locust. We drove up to Essington. Boy, his place totally been

Going to Drew's

transformed since I last went there last late spring early summer. Kitchen looks beautiful downstairs

Drew's Place Renovated

looks nice. We  cleaned up his shop, took out all the stuff from one job. and then put a bunch of new 

The Office

stuff in his van for the next job. I earned 50 bucks!! I then got to take a shower and his nice new luxurious

Oatmeal

 shower. I really needed to clean up since I was  feeling pretty grungy, sweaty, and dusty. well, Jewetta do

Drew

you like to think so we didn't leave till 4:45 PM. He did get me to broad and Fitzwater. I don't how

Before Clean up

to take a cab from Fitzwater the locus so I wouldn't be too late. I did arrive at 1420 Locust at 5:26 PM. I

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was more then 15 minutes late but she was OK. I then went to the Shake Shack and got a yummy

Soon to Be His Crash Pad

Chicken sandwich. I was pretty hungry and it hit the spot. I took advantage of The Wi-Fi they had

Going from Fitzwater to Locust

another place and added pictures and some narrative to that hosting. I then walked a half a

1420 Locust

block over to Saxby's and met Larry and Veronica. They ate at Chili's before coming over to the Saxby's.

20th and Walnut

We caught up and then we went to the 60 minutes. That went pretty well. I then checked afterwords, my data you need to join I've used 23% of my usage so far.

Delicious at Shake Shack

That's almost a quarter of my data.

Color of Astro Turf

I have about 21 days left in the billing period. Anyhow I came home hung out with Sharon. I also

At Saxby's

bought some cereal and some almond milk so I can have breakfast. I need my evening watching

Essentuals

John Oliver. I had a lot of trouble finding new ones I haven't seen yet. Meanwhile time marches on

Political New of the Day

even if the band isn't. And babies will be made.

Friday, May 1: May Day in the City

Fairmount Ave at 8:20am

Good morning everybody. It's May day. Workers day supposedly. But not in this country. Money talks working walks. I am taking Uber to work since I

Construction on Fairmount Ave

ran behind due to the fact of I Took forever to put  on my ankle strap the thing on.

Uber in Action

We took a quite a different way to work. We took Kelly drive to Sedgley to Girard Avenue. It was the scenic route through west Philadelphia. I saw parts of West Philly haven't been

My Uber Car this Morning

through in many years.

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Well according to KYW News Radio, the top story was Bridgegate then the Freddy Gray investigation and

On Girard Ave

then the protest. So I'm thinking nothing awful happened.

Well Uber had it's rush-hour right so I

paid a little more. I then went to work a little early which helps because it got kind of funky busy today. The lawyer admitted that if he

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missed me so he said he's going to call later.

Using a PHONY Photo

One of my OkCupid messages admitted she used to picture Sharon stone as part of an experiment.

Not Pleased @ ALL!!

My response was to report them to OkCupid for bogus picture it's a little F you to her bullshit thank you. Where after lunch I worked like a Eager beaver

Looming Clouds After Work

and got really hot and bothered so I had to put on  some powder. I felt better after doing that!

56th and Market

I also got myself scared big time. I then went outside and took a breath and work mercifully ended. I then

56th Street EL Stop

went to the 5:15 PM about 20 minutes late. It was good to just hear nice messages and such. I didn't want to stress that street was going to catch a

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bus. I didn't realize I had me trapped pass. I then went to the concourse and bought the trans-pass I took advantage of the Wi-Fi inside Suburban station🌺I next thing  I am going to

Getting Transpass for May

catch the train to second Street meet Larry as he sells his silk ties. First I'm going to make this blog a little prettier and then I'll feel better as I go meet Larry. I am planning to hang out with him. That should be a

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decent well I'm almost done editing it's now 7:03 PM. 7:22 PM I'm at fifth Street I'm going to be getting off

Selling  Ties

at second Street. I caught the EL just-in-time. I should get there by around 7:30 PM. Well it's 8:21 PM

The Favorite

at second near market Street. The first Fridays starting to wind down. It's been really nice to come here

Music Filled the Air

since I haven't been on first Friday in quite some time. I ran into one person I knew outside of Larry.

Crafts of All Kinds

Actually no, that was not true. I met friends for sharing that live nearby on Meredith Street they

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said hi Sherry might be late a picture I took of them that didn't come out real well. Friends of Larry's

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are driving from flying in and are at the airport and I'm gonna help them move your stuff upstairs are

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going to be staying for the weekend. I had a nice time hanging out with Larry and wondering around for first Friday. I'm glad I just did it instead of bailing out. I'm securely relieved that it didn't rain at all the whole entire evening. I'm now on the 48 nothing up just going to tilt my head back and just sort of mellow out for the next 20 minutes. Well I got home and talk to my roommate Sharon and we

Relaxing in  My Room

talked and had a nice time and I got the light I don't get off my feet and take off my place which feels really good to remove that's for sure. It was a good and decent day after all. I just need to take it one day at a time.