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22-04-2020 01:28 AM
22-04-2020 01:28 AM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Thanks for swinging by @Sans911
I was a late bloomer when it came to Paul Kelly....gosh, just had a flashback to
watching Countdown in the 70s.
Unless I crack a significant win in the lottery (helps if I buy a ticket), I will be homeless next Monday and in crisis accommodation....and, boy, that really throws some entities for a loop when they want a forwarding address.
Me: Don't have one, use my email.
Them: We need a forwarding address.
Me: No you don't, are you a paperless organisation or not?
Them:.........?
At the storage facility, had to do an electronic signature, expected to be handed a stylus,
Them: Oh...just sign with your finger.
Me: (thinks don't tempt me); says you going to disinfect it?
Them:.....??
Me: I ain't touching that thing until I see you wipe it down.
Been a loooooong day, my taco feast has to wait until the morrow.
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22-04-2020 01:36 AM
22-04-2020 01:36 AM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
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22-04-2020 04:44 PM
22-04-2020 04:44 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Your "valderi valdera" "knapsack on my back" images ... were a real jolt from the past but cheered me up no end.
I am getting fitter at the moment by doing paving. I am actually enjoying it and staggering the work to suit my addled old body and mind.
Wonder if you were with the same helping organisation as I was for 7 years ... plus conferences and soup vans. It does help to walk on both sides of the poverty line, but at the moment your "in need" and I hope you get housing solved.
Take Care
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22-04-2020 09:16 PM
22-04-2020 09:16 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Stardate 97908.52
I'm that far in t'hole @Appleblossom I can't see the poverty line anymore.
My removalist touched base a little while ago to confirm thunderbirds are go tomorrow
and that - if I like - I can ride shotgun with them, up front in the truck, to the storage facility and
back home again. I can barely manage to climb up into a landcruiser since I've lost rotation in my lower back so will sadly have to decline the offer to be squashed between two sweaty beardy stranger blokes in a confined space for 30 minutes. ..... not on your nelly, mate.
Unplugging my computer now (sob) and this time tomorrow night (Thursday) the worst
will be over and I can kick back and relax.
Catch you all on the flipside.
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22-04-2020 09:21 PM
22-04-2020 09:21 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Good luck with the move tommorow @Jo-anneJoy
I hope it goes smoothly. I a really like you already- you seem to have a bit of sass!! Stay cool sweetie!! You got this.
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23-04-2020 04:51 PM
23-04-2020 04:51 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Stardate : 97910.79
...so the removalists were four hours late.......fortunately they were
boomers, not a beardy baldy tribal-sleeve tattoo in sight.
Last night the aged speakers on my computer popped their clogs after
22 years - guess I'll just have to read those library books that I don't have
to return until end June.
After watching the Big Truck turn the corner with all my worldly goods, when
I came back inside, Jailbreak was on the radio.....nice one, Bon.
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23-04-2020 06:11 PM
23-04-2020 06:11 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Glad you got your gear sorted.
Have you heard from anyone about where you are going to live @Jo-anneJoy
How many days is it again?
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23-04-2020 09:02 PM - edited 24-04-2020 09:07 AM
23-04-2020 09:02 PM - edited 24-04-2020 09:07 AM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
@Appleblossom Last contact from a housing mob about a home-at-last was on 31 March. The centralised IAP has assured me they'll subsidise transitional crisis accomodation so long as I kick in 50% of my income but as IAP workers aren't doing face-to-face, (and who knows how long the covid-restrictions will go on for), I don't know how short term band-aid that option really is, and can't get past the 'currently-all-our-operators-are busy, please-call-back' gatekeeper bot.
One of the new owners here asked where I was moving to, I said Nunya.
@Bandaras @NatureLover @Sans911
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24-04-2020 09:24 AM
24-04-2020 09:24 AM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
@Jo-anneJoy I really hope you can get somewhere with the housing people soon. Are you still in your old place till 28 April - with no furniture?
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24-04-2020 02:56 PM
24-04-2020 02:56 PM
Re: I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings; I've done all the thumb dings...
Thinking of you @Jo-anneJoy
Not that really helps.
Maybe worth showing up at front door of a local housing office.
They have to admit you exist then.
Keep faith that you deserve a place.
Hands open with a I dont know what else to do look on face.