Finally got the old laptop hooked up and running ...

Here are a few of the entries I wrote over the last few weeks, but never uploaded:
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4/10

The last apartment I had without anyone else living with me (or me them) was a one bedroom efficiency in Jacksonville around 7 years ago.

The apartment in New jersey is a one bedroom efficiency.

The old apartment came furnished in thrift store furniture. The bed was old, and the mattress, someone told me later was a bed that someone had been murdered in.

Ahh, that explained the outline of a large stain on the other side....

This apartment belonged to a guy who split several months ago, after his wild, described as psycho - girlfriend disappeared, supposedly gone to Israel.

No one could discern any reason the widely known local girl would suddenly go to Israel.

The consensus was she has joined the many bodies - legend, folklore and police files has it - that are buried and scattered along the marshes and waterfront of new Jersey.

To anyone's knowledge - no one has filed a missing persons report for either.

I did come across an impressive number of knives in the kitchen.

Among the furniture left behind was a brand new Sealy Prosturepedic mattress, no stains evident.

Im leaning toward keeping it. For luck.

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Ahh yes, April showers.

"We shoulda brought along some soap to go with this shower we're takin'.." the woman at the light-rail station quipped.

I peered up through the blinding rain and cold winds of the sudden thunderstorm, barely protected by artistically designed roof of the Exchange Place light-rail station, and smiled wanly, as I scanned through the weather channel forecast on my cell phone...

The day had started out amazingly warm, hitting the upper 70's.. the previous day being foggy damp and in the forties.

"Yeah, the weather on this side of the river can be brutal."

It was so warm, I had debated taking my jacket with me to Manhattan that afternoon.

There was not a cloud in the frikkin sky all day. Who knew the cold front would come back as the evening fell?

According to Weather Channel on my cell, The forecast for the Newark/Jersey City area that evening, was for a slight chance of thunderstorms.

Heh. I coulda used language that was FAR more descriptive.. then I coulda brought my umbrella, anorak and hipwaders along with me.

"Oh man, weather like this.. Id rather take the bus, as it can be brutal waiting for the light rail because of the wind and cold. I only walk from the station when the weather is nice." Eric said afterward.


I collapsed on the futon, cold, soaked and wet, having walked the umpteen blox from the train. If I had taken the bus woulda dropped me a block away from the apartment.


According to the weather channel, today is supposed to be cloudy and in the fifties.


Hm.. I wonder if that means I should wear the snow boots?


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Classified ads in the Bayonne edition of today's Jersey Journal:

- Jersey City - Phillipine couple seeks female room-mate. Share kit & bath. $300 mo. Call (201)...


- Bayonne - Multi-dwell Ranch. 4 Br's, 2 LR's, 2 kit, 2 bth, 2 DR's, att garage. Steps to light rail. Reduced price 200k. by owner. by appt (201)...


- Cigarettes - FREE carton by referring a friend! FREE smokers candle with 5+ carton order. Marlboro $19.95, others $9.95. Must be 21! (800)...

(Cigarettes are nearly $5 a pack retail in the metro area. There is a lucrative business in importing cigarettes from where the taxes arent so high. Dont think that the mob isnt involved in this...)

- (732).... Somerset, NJ. $50 an hour. CC ok. 9am to 9pm.

(Prostitution is a perennial moneymaker for the mob, specially in NJ. Read the recent article on where a Lodi, NJ massage parlor was raided and 17 off-duty officers were found to be there. They are still trying to explain why none were arrested....)

- Bi-Curious? Listen/Record ads Free!! (201)... 18+


- Blonde Hot Shemale. Cynthia 44D, 29, 38, 10. *Porn Star Beauty* Irish Massage (201)....

("10"?????)

- Rainfall Center. Korean Massage. Table Shower. 10A-11P. (201)...


- GRAND OPENING (201) .... PRIVATE PARKING "NEW STAFF"

(Even the mob has to advertise for business, y'know......)


- Hudson City LIQUOR STORE - with lottery. Bldg & Business. Gross Income 900K plus. (201)...


- Looking for lost American Eskimo (White). Last seen 4/3/01. 3 yrs old. 57 to 67 lbs. with cast on left leg. Please call (201)....


Ahhh.. the suburbs....


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