2.09.2004
Number Two – Dateline: Chicago, IL
Woke at 7:50
Lynn showered while I dressed
Left apartment shortly after 8:10am
Stopped by nation-wide donut/bagel shop for coffee and bagel with sausage and cheese
Drove remaining two minutes to parking lot where van is kept
Brad drove up to van at 8:35am
While attempting to leave parking lot, van got stuck in snow bank
Ten minutes later drove van out of parking lot
Stopped by nation-wide donut/bagel shop, Brad needed a coffee
Arrived at warehouse
Near the front warehouse door the drainage pipes had frozen and backed up
Large icicles where hanging from the door frame
I broke the icicles
Four day laborers were waiting for us inside the warehouse
Pablo, keeper of warehouse keys, was not on site.
Keys are necessary to open the gate to the space Brad and I work in
It was thirty minutes before the keys made their way to the gate
The second FOURTY-FOOT container in four days arrived an hour later
Six of us unloaded the container in four hours
Brad and I dismissed the day labors at 1:00pm
Before they were dismissed I asked them to return at 9:00am tomorrow morning
Brad and I discussed, for one hour, better means of photographing inventory.
We came to no conclusions
We left for lunch
Lunch was at a major fast food restaurant
I ate a chicken baguette while Brad had a bacon Swiss burger
I almost did not eat lunch at the major fast food restaurant
The major fast food restaurant has sold its parking lot to a security company which places a “Denver boot” on the tires of cars whose owners venture "off the premises for any reason"
This I know because the very round security guard standing in the parking lot is someone who booted my truck eight months earlier when I parked in the parking lot on another major fast food restaurant’s parking lot. I walked into a cash exchange, located 10 feet from the restaurant, for laundry change before getting a burger.
It cost me $110.00 to leave the parking lot that day
It was the same round individual who was in the parking lot of the major fast food restaurant today
I was angry
Later, brad and I picked up six drop clothes that were in my apartment
My apartment is near the major fast food restaurant
I made tea
Marry, the oldest of the three cats, had managed to get into the kitchen cabinets
Had I not come home she would have been in the cabinets for 8 hours
As it was, she was underneath the kitchen sink for 6 hours
Marry hid under the bed as soon as I opened the cabinet
Brad and I returned to work
Brad and I spoke with Greg for thirty minutes
Greg would like me to replace the ventilation in the refinishing room
Left work at 4:00pm
Arrived home
Drank bourbon and ate snack
Wrote email
Reviewed notes
Made dinner for Lynn and Myself
Watched TV
Wrote daily notes
Lynn showered while I dressed
Left apartment shortly after 8:10am
Stopped by nation-wide donut/bagel shop for coffee and bagel with sausage and cheese
Drove remaining two minutes to parking lot where van is kept
Brad drove up to van at 8:35am
While attempting to leave parking lot, van got stuck in snow bank
Ten minutes later drove van out of parking lot
Stopped by nation-wide donut/bagel shop, Brad needed a coffee
Arrived at warehouse
Near the front warehouse door the drainage pipes had frozen and backed up
Large icicles where hanging from the door frame
I broke the icicles
Four day laborers were waiting for us inside the warehouse
Pablo, keeper of warehouse keys, was not on site.
Keys are necessary to open the gate to the space Brad and I work in
It was thirty minutes before the keys made their way to the gate
The second FOURTY-FOOT container in four days arrived an hour later
Six of us unloaded the container in four hours
Brad and I dismissed the day labors at 1:00pm
Before they were dismissed I asked them to return at 9:00am tomorrow morning
Brad and I discussed, for one hour, better means of photographing inventory.
We came to no conclusions
We left for lunch
Lunch was at a major fast food restaurant
I ate a chicken baguette while Brad had a bacon Swiss burger
I almost did not eat lunch at the major fast food restaurant
The major fast food restaurant has sold its parking lot to a security company which places a “Denver boot” on the tires of cars whose owners venture "off the premises for any reason"
This I know because the very round security guard standing in the parking lot is someone who booted my truck eight months earlier when I parked in the parking lot on another major fast food restaurant’s parking lot. I walked into a cash exchange, located 10 feet from the restaurant, for laundry change before getting a burger.
It cost me $110.00 to leave the parking lot that day
It was the same round individual who was in the parking lot of the major fast food restaurant today
I was angry
Later, brad and I picked up six drop clothes that were in my apartment
My apartment is near the major fast food restaurant
I made tea
Marry, the oldest of the three cats, had managed to get into the kitchen cabinets
Had I not come home she would have been in the cabinets for 8 hours
As it was, she was underneath the kitchen sink for 6 hours
Marry hid under the bed as soon as I opened the cabinet
Brad and I returned to work
Brad and I spoke with Greg for thirty minutes
Greg would like me to replace the ventilation in the refinishing room
Left work at 4:00pm
Arrived home
Drank bourbon and ate snack
Wrote email
Reviewed notes
Made dinner for Lynn and Myself
Watched TV
Wrote daily notes
