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This blog is where I express myself to the world or at least to those who might stop by to read what I post 
. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers.
I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!
Thanks.
Carlos
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. Maybe God will use what I post (I am a Christian and this blog will have a most decidedly Christian bent to it) to good effect in the lives of my readers. I may turn some of my posts into a book. I may cease blogging here altogether. Who knows. But for now..I am content to post away in this, my own little corner of the world.
Rather than reading through my now lengthy list of posts you may wish to read what I consider to be my very best posts or you can just read the posts that deal with a single subject category that might interest you.
Please know that I am open to any input on any topic I write about. If you have something to say about anything you see written here please....feel free to speak up in the form of leaving a comment or sending me a PM (private message).
And if you are in San Diego and wish to meet the one and only Carlos (that's me
)...drop me a private message. I always enjoy meeting one of my readers!Thanks.
Carlos
PS. If you want to follow my blog such that you will get an email when I write new posts you can subscribe to my blog.
I scout out the area preparing to be homeless...
Posted 05-19-2009 at 09:29 PM by carlos123
It seems all but certain that I will end up homeless at noon tomorrow. I have accepted that and will make the most of a bad situation come what may.
Today, while eating at Soup Plantation (yum, yum) I spent some time thinking through what to do and it dawned on me that it might just be possible for me to not only survive but do rather well on the streets so to speak. Well, at least as well as can be expected.
It dawned on me that Clairemont has freely available Internet access points in abundance. The library, Jack in the Box, Von's, and others. I can pick them all up and can use them freely.
So Internet access is no problem.
Unlike downtown there are a fair number of public restrooms here that are freely available at most any hour of the day and sometimes late into the night. Jack in the Box, Food-4-Less, Von's, McDonald's, and several others.
So going to the bathroom and washing my armpits and other assorted parts is no problem either.
There is even a gym nearby where I can get a month to month membership starting at just $52 a month. If I get that membership I can take real showers and they even have a locker I can use all day for free where I can store my laptop (though I will have to take it out every night).
Work wise...both my jobs, the telemarketing job and my upcoming computer programming job later this week (if it actually materializes) are both going to be done entirely over the Internet. I don't need to dress up for an office, go anywhere, or do anything other than work through my computer. Which I can do homeless or not.
There are hotels galore nearby such that if money starts coming in I can get me a really nice room once in a while and splurge. That's going to be real nice
Food might still be a problem but I will be picking the brains of homeless people and learning the ropes from them as to where to get food. At least until money from work starts coming in which I expect to have happen shortly.
Sleeping wise...I found a nice spot or two where I should be able to just crawl into a bush so to speak and go to sleep in peace. There is enough background noise around that my loud snoring won't even be heard! I just hope a brown recluse spider doesn't get me.
This is going to be interesting if not also hard but God willing, I will survive and hopefully crawl back out of the hole into which I seem to be falling in a month or two if not sooner.
In the meantime this is going to make for a most interesting set of blog posts as I detail how I am surviving. Stay tuned....there might yet be a good book in all this somewhere. Maybe even my bad set of circumstances will have a silver lining if in the long run I am able to write a run-away best seller
Carlos
Today, while eating at Soup Plantation (yum, yum) I spent some time thinking through what to do and it dawned on me that it might just be possible for me to not only survive but do rather well on the streets so to speak. Well, at least as well as can be expected.
It dawned on me that Clairemont has freely available Internet access points in abundance. The library, Jack in the Box, Von's, and others. I can pick them all up and can use them freely.
So Internet access is no problem.
Unlike downtown there are a fair number of public restrooms here that are freely available at most any hour of the day and sometimes late into the night. Jack in the Box, Food-4-Less, Von's, McDonald's, and several others.
So going to the bathroom and washing my armpits and other assorted parts is no problem either.
There is even a gym nearby where I can get a month to month membership starting at just $52 a month. If I get that membership I can take real showers and they even have a locker I can use all day for free where I can store my laptop (though I will have to take it out every night).
Work wise...both my jobs, the telemarketing job and my upcoming computer programming job later this week (if it actually materializes) are both going to be done entirely over the Internet. I don't need to dress up for an office, go anywhere, or do anything other than work through my computer. Which I can do homeless or not.
There are hotels galore nearby such that if money starts coming in I can get me a really nice room once in a while and splurge. That's going to be real nice
Food might still be a problem but I will be picking the brains of homeless people and learning the ropes from them as to where to get food. At least until money from work starts coming in which I expect to have happen shortly.
Sleeping wise...I found a nice spot or two where I should be able to just crawl into a bush so to speak and go to sleep in peace. There is enough background noise around that my loud snoring won't even be heard! I just hope a brown recluse spider doesn't get me
. This is going to be interesting if not also hard but God willing, I will survive and hopefully crawl back out of the hole into which I seem to be falling in a month or two if not sooner.
In the meantime this is going to make for a most interesting set of blog posts as I detail how I am surviving. Stay tuned....there might yet be a good book in all this somewhere. Maybe even my bad set of circumstances will have a silver lining if in the long run I am able to write a run-away best seller
Carlos
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Hi Carlos, sorry to hear of your impending homelessness. I am certain of your resilience and that you will find what you need to survive. It is the job situation that I hate to see you lose tract of. It seemed finally you had a chance to prove yourself and maintain an income, which still may happen....I should not be so pessimistic. But ya know ...all along I liked the book idea..I would be first in line at your book signing!! lol I know there are best sellers on the market way, way less interesting than your story. Kate Gosselin's lies for cash for one. But it isn't just the homeless story Carlos...I think it your life story. I loved the tale you told about packing up your motorcycle and headed off to Canada, I could actually picture you, now that is a good writer. Whatever be, stay safe and good luck.~*~Pink Flamingo~*~Posted 05-20-2009 at 03:36 PM by Pink flamingo
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Thanks as always for the encouragement Pink Flamingo! I will gladly give you a book if I ever get around to writing one LOL. For now I guess you will have to continue to settle for this lowly blog of mine.
You know it's funny that you say my life story is interesting since I don't really very often see much of anything interesting in it. I suppose all of us have an interesting life in one way or another and that each of our life stories could be made fascinating if written up right.
Maybe my seeming ability to write in such a way that the reader can picture me doing what I describe helps to make my life story a bit more interesting than it might otherwise be.
I just wish I had more time. I never have time to do all that I would wish to do. I can't even find the time to put this blog somewhere else and independentally host it!
All in God's hands. If He wants me to write a book...He will have to somehow provide me the time to do it.
Thanks again for your encouragement Pink Flamingo!
CarlosPosted 05-20-2009 at 04:20 PM by carlos123
