More Postcards From the Edge!

Today I took a day off from "moving by bus" and did errands.....got some free food from EMS, took bus to Medical and got my meds. Listened to a free concert in the park by a band called "Spicy Soup"...electronic blues/jazz.....pretty good!

Now at the library updating blogs, checking email, etc.

Oh, and I got a hot plate at Goodwill for $2.99.......now I can cook!

After I get done here, I am going to a free Vegan Supper in the park by the Library.

Hey it's free! Oh and I found another grocery store, a quicker bus ride than going to WalMart......which is a real nasty WalMart at that!

There are more blacks here than where I lived in Michigan, 26 miles N of Detroit!

Still Loose on the Street

I've survived a week of living on the street and without anyones help. My "in-between" age of 58 & 11 mo's puts me at a disadvantage, cause most programs start at age 60.

I plan to get as much help as I can....this will be my retirement and no family to rely on. Bah! The neighborhood is nice, lots of bars and resturants......and 100's of homeless, who, like roaches, disappear as soon as it dark!

Seen at lest one drug deal per day...where are the cops?

And if these two long legged, gorgous blondes are "hookers", I am saving up my money!

Homeless.......Not!

OK, I am off the streets......no more sleeping in electrical meter boxes or garages on the floor. I moved into a efficiency room in an old flop house. I made several bus trips to get my stuff.......last one was my 13" TV............moving by bus is no fun....glad it wasn't a 27" !

Library is open late evernight........hence I am posting! Lots of bums, homeless, runaways, etc. downtown.......they all hang out together. Already saw my first drug deal going down!

I wasn't too comfortable sleeping outside.....it was warm enough, but I was wary of coyotes, snakes, bears, etc. Oh, and packs of little 14 yr old male punks!

I have decided to never see any of my famly , children, etc.............ever again! To them I am dead! Oh well.

I haven't seen my oldest daughter, now 35, since she was 7. I can do it, their loss, not mine!

The adventure continues.

Life on the Street

Ahhhhhhhh, life on the street. I am downtown CS...to get a bus pass and to check out a "flop house in and old 1920 hotel. furnished all utilities across from a park and police station, with dozens of bars nearby! My kind of place.........$375.......now all I need is that money from my car. It's really not bad....clan safe and dry. I'll bring my little TV and Computer....and will be good to go.

Meanwhile the "garage" ain't so bad. It poured last night, lots of lightening, but I was dry and in my own airbed!

I tried to eat a $2 lunch with the old people today........you have to be 60! Someone needs to "define" a senior and make it the same. 50 for AARP, 55 for Denny's Senior meals, 62 for golf, and 60 to eat a $2 lunch. Uh huh.

I am at the library and my hour of time is almost over.

Postcards from the edge!

I am living on the street for two days now. I am getting a "garage" for rent in the apartment complex. I plan to sleep there! I was supposed to get it yesterday, but the dimwit leasing agent messed up the order and the door wouldn't open. So I had to sleep outside for the second night in a row. It's get darn cold at 4:00 AM.

The first night I found a spot on a wide ledge behind the privacy wall..........it was about 20' down. I was enjoying the view into the canyon when something "large" comes busting through the brush and starts shaking and climbing the tree in front of me. It didn't make any growls, but sound pretty big! Well........I left, LOL

Last night I heard coyotes!

Hopefully tonight I'll have "shelter", my air mattress and blankies.......I am pretty tired and sore!

I spend the days wandering around this end of town. At least it's not winter!

Homeless.......An Adventure or "The End"?

OK, as of today, I am homeless. My son and his 250# girlfriend asked me to move out. I have no money and no where to go.

I got a small storage shed for my meager possessions. I guess I'll be sleeping on the street or a shelter. Oh well. God really hates me...LOL.

I'll be updating this on Tuesdays and Fridays, since those are my days off.

I guess I will also apply for disability, cause it is getting more difficult to work with my arthritis in my neck. It is pinching nerves in my spinal cord. Getting old sucks.

From talking to the doctor, several vertebra are also misaligned.....evidently from several childhood injuries that were never treated by my child-abusing parents. Falling, bike wrecks, baseball injuries, that actually, several I was knocked unconscious, but my parents never took me to the doctor. Uh huh.

updates from the "field"......literally!

Uh Huh.........Why am I still Here??

OK, I am really, really, close to going postal.....I mean taking out someone in a bloody, gory, pile of worm food! How much can anyone take? Really? Most people would have "offed" themselves years ago, if they had to put up with the crap I do....yearly!

People laugh at me....yes, they really do, they think I am making up this crap. NOT!

Every year, at least 6-12 "major" events take place, and have since 1967. Just this year......just this year, (you'd kill yourself if you knew about the last 40 years).... I moved to another state, lost all my retirement savings, my car broke and has been stolen, I work for peanuts, my son attempted suicide and cut his wrists........took three hours to clean up all the blood, etc., etc.

Back in 1985 as I was facing bankruptcy number 2...I had the barrel of the gun in my mouth and my finger on the trigger. My biggest regret in life.......not pulling that goddamn trigger!