isolated / update

 I have been, for whatever dumb reason, isolating myself.

No jobs have come up, the money’s nearly gone, and I’m feeling pretty hopeless.  "What can I sell", I’m thinking as I look around my apartment.  I guess I’ll find out how depressed I can get when I try selling some things I don’t use or need, and no one wants them.  I tried Ebay-ing some things  – my mom’s "good silver", a 1941 pattern Oneida set of silverware for one thing – and had no takers, no bids, no nothing on them.

I’ve just been posting stuff and going away, not doing much reading here at all.  It’s clear today, and will be clear weather all weekend.  They say it’ll be in the 80’s this weekend – the first time in eight or nine months we’ve seen such warm days.

The car thing I’m going to with my biker friend tomorrow is NOT "the NW’s largest swap meet", it is a car show specifically for Volkswagens, and I think that some potential buyers will be there – A is confident that the car will sell.  I told him about the comments I got on that entry – how good this 47 year old car looks.

His second wife, the mother of the son in prison, is coming up for the weekend – they have grown a little closer since dealing together with their son’s bank robbery, and I guess both regard the other as "the one that got away".  From the sound of it, her present marriage is not going well at all, and looks to fail (and if she’s coming up to stay with an ex this weekend, well, I’d say that the present marriage was in big trouble).  When I was driving my friend to Eugene, and later to Aumsville to see the kid in court and in prison, I’ve met her a few times – she’s the best of his three exes.

Three bears were seen and tranquilized in the Portland metro area recently – the weather has kept their normal foods from growing and the black bears have wandered into the metro area in search of food.  One of them shut down an Elementary school on the west side.  All three were caught, not killed and taken out to the Coast Range or east to the National Forests and released, away from people.

Traffic court on Tuesday… and no money to pay for it; I hope maybe I can work it off.

Shit. I can’t keep thinking of this shit to write about, it’s too damn depressing.  I feel like stacking up all of my worthless stuff and lighting it on fire.

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Update

reply to a resume posted today on Jobdango:

Hello Kurt,

When can come to our office and fill out an application?

(a bus company here in PDX)

• Charter Buses
• Tour Buses
• Charter Vans
• Shuttles
• Airport Shuttles
• Scheduled Routes
• Custom Routes
• Tours
• Group Tours
• Wedding Parties

• Custom Tours
• Convention Transportation
• Corporate Trips
• <span class="vtip" title="School Booster Bus, School Bus Trips, School Buses, Bus Trips School, Charter Bus

School, Graduation Night Bus, Graduation Party” jquery1307133933515=”37″>School Field Trips

Athletic Teams

Military and Government

Church Groups

Hotel Transportation

Yeah!

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Reply:  Monday morning – what time would you prefer?

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Maybe maybe maybe – I think I see the sun breaking through those gray clouds

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I have to say this – I’m getting tired of that "darkest before dawn" stuff.

 

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