I cannot get over the suspicion that I’ve been horribly maltreated by Nruns. I’ve been reviewing what I was doing for them a year ago. I learned a bit of timing, set up a split map for one of the Donuts races on Gov Is. (The 10k; we just had a repeat the other day.) Then Dec 7, driving the BNV at 2:30 am from warehouse to PP, behind Katie with her UHaul truck gate flipping up after a couple of turns; setting up Finish mats with the negro Aaron, but we were taking too long (because the Finish placement kept changing) so Bryan the Mexican did those mats. I watched over the split mat up the hill toward Bartel-Pritchard, temps at 15ºF but felt more like -5ºF. Grace Kim supervising, bringing me herbal tea from Dunkin or Starbucks. A bit of hand-timing finishers in that race, just for practice. That was it. Finally, the following week I did the split mat in the Big Apple Half, 5k mark in by the woods near Lasker Pool.
After this, no more timing work for me. What happened? Something I’m going to complain to Jen about, and hopefully do it tactfully. “I’m just a pair of hands these days. It’s like being back in the Volunteer days…when the come-on to volunteers is that you might be offered paying part-time work…which kept a few of us around a bit longer than we might have stayed, but after a couple of years it became clear this was never going to happen. Ha ha ha. And whatever became of Tina, I wonder?”
The Donuts runs this past Sat and Sun. Some marshaling over by Andes Rd, east side of island. Next Saturday, a marathon and half-marathon, and a ‘marathon’ shift of over 12 hours, beginning at 3:30 am in Prospect Park.
Looking east, to Brooklyn
Have been submitting last documents to the HRA site for SNAP. Also I think I had to send something in for Medicaid, but I never received a form in the mail, so have now printed it out.
The government shutdown did not affect me much in the past few weeks. My SNAP came in a week late, by which time my account was down to $14. When replenished a few days ago, I bought ingredients for a Chris Kimball ’emergency chocolate cake’ which you make with cocoa powder, flour, confectioners’ sugar, and oil. And coffee. Not bad. Other than that I have nearly nothing edible left in the house.
Pro forma letter from SSA in the past day, local office. About Jenn Rubin representing me. That is a followup on our meeting a month ago, but because of the shutdown nothing was done. We get towards the end of the year, and with recalculation my SS monthly benefit should go up to about $2200, maybe more. But that doesn’t matter. I need the back benefits commencing with 2017 in order to pay back rent. At a minimum that is $2400 a year. Four years is about $10,000, eight years is $20,000, as of next month we are nine years in arrears. The maximum could be twice that.
Anchor and Nruns together get me between $1000 and $1500 per month right now, though I don’t feel it, and Nruns spaces out its payroll and races in such a way that the races you work on this weekend won’t hit your bank for another three weeks. This coming Friday I get paid for working the Expo at Javits two weeks ago, day before the NYC Marathon. That will be a bit over $100. I told myself a year ago that I’d be just making it if I could make another $1000-$1500, and that seems about right. Barely.
Some distribution of black puffer jackets for Nruns at the last races (Haunted Island). One for Bryan Garcia, one for Charlie Scanlon. Not for me. You have to work through a full winter. Well I’ve done a full winter and a half. Nothing for me. I am not too bitter. I got my orange or coral lululemon bag two weeks ago, last of its color in the shop (TWC), paid for mainly with my jury duty check ($72) so I’m okay. Still I think I’m getting stiffed.
Spent all afternoon with Grimm last Monday. We smoked boo with his n, and the n’s brother, who had a terrific pong. Not quite nauseating. Bringing G some printouts today.
Have not heard from Dottie. What about Thanksgiving? When is Thanksgiving? Oh, it’s the 27th, that’s next week. Tomorrow is Moki’s birthday. I should do a memorial Mass for him, perhaps at St Malachy’s. Too late to schedule it for tomorrow but perhaps for next week, anniversary of his death, the 24th or 25th. Feast Day of St. Moki.
