i went back to work. got set up and started door dash last week; made $140 in about four days. that was actually good pay but i was new at it, new at figuring out how to maximize time and money. hopefully it will become easier.

lots of new material out there on the streets of galesburg. now i talk to everyone - especially people who work in the restaurants - and i'm beginning to know them. i'm beginning to feel like part of the working culture of the town, instead of an old retired geezer over her puttering on my books. it's an interesting feeling.

the danger will be if i wear myself out, and can no longer do it.

with calamities everywhere - i'm out there making twenty bucks, and each of my children is wasting fifty - plus bills piling up for the work we had done on the two houses - we are in new times, very tight, a new depression.

but i'm out there a lot. i'm seeing the town. i'll have stories to tell.