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A couple ACs wanted to donate cryptocurrency. I set up LTC, BTC and ETH wallets at CoinBase. I'm pleased that CoinBase is so easy to use.

This morning someone gave me LTC 0.9990. CoinBase said that's worth more than fifty dollars.

Whoever did that just made my whole day.

The disadvantage of the crypto donations is that I do not know who to thank.

I'm also soliciting donations at The Global Computer Employer Index. The anonymous donation could have come from one of my site's visitors.

In this last case, I'm not asking for charity, but to enable me to spend more time listing companies. I have the hope that I will build out the site enough, and help enough job hunters that I could work on it full-time.

Very honored to have Governor @ricardorossello of #PuertoRico 🇵🇷 with us at the @WhiteHouse! We had a great time with him! He's a tremendous guy, very smart & very funny (as smart as the President of the Virgin Islands, who I met)! Unlike the disgraceful .@CarmenYulinCruz. I asked him, "do your folks have power yet, are they getting power?" He says "not politically." 😂

#PuertoRico is doing AMAZINGLY, we're doing a terrific job there. Like you've never seen in your life. In spite of massive, massive debt. We want to make sure that we put in debt and that is absolutely protected. Certainly any money that’s put in by people whether it’s public or private, they’re going to want to come in first position and that’s very important, and I think the governor understands that. I give ourselves a 10. We have provided so much, so fast. It was probably the most difficult when you talk about relief, when you talk about search, when you talk about all the different levels. Even when you talk about lives saved. If you look at the number, I mean this was, I think, it was worse than Katrina. It was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen. It went right through the middle of the island, right through the middle of Puerto Rico. We were actually there before the storm hit. We did a great job. A perfect, perfect job. TEN OUT OF TEN! It’s very difficult for a disaster relief to be a 10. Ours is a 10, a really great job. The best. As brilliant as when I nominated Neil Gorsuch, of the Supreme Court, to the Supreme Court! #PRStrong pic.twitter.com/Op2xDZxvNc

Am currently watching Episode 2 of STD. And it may not be canon to TOS, but maybe canon to the reboot movie?

But it is fun, so far.

So far, i am interested. So far, STD is.... fascinating.

Remember how he wasn't going to be beholden to Wall Street's interests?

Treasury Department sides with Wall Street, against federal consumer watchdog agency on arbitration rule

I get paid when my driver reaches beta, but I do not know yet when that will be. I'm taking quite a lot longer than I originally estimated because I didn't write any device drivers during my madness and my homelessness. I was eventually able to recover my 1337-ness in the last month.

GoFundMe so far enables me to pay my chiropractor for November, to cover the copays for my happy pills, and groceries for two weeks. I still need to cover can now cover my telephone and Internet.

My dental insurance is just $18.00 dental insurance. Dental is required by ObamaCare. Were I not a contract programmer I could do without the phone and net for a little while, but since I _am_ a contract programmer I need them.

(AC just donated $100 on GoFund Me. :-) )

My chiropractor is treating Cervical Radiculopathy - a pinched nerve in my neck that causes excruciating pain in my left arm. Nine "adjustments" so far have greatly reduced the pain, but he said I would require eight weeks, three adjustments per week.

I was looking into surgery when a spinal surgeon advised me to exhaust all other treatments first. He - the spinal surgeon - specifically recommend chiropractic.

Someone requested I accept BitCoin. I also set up LiteCoin and Ethereum:

• BTC: 1J5UybX7A69Nkc8hoaXJkVDyD5Z7nFXAat
• ETH: 0x85c281E0de06bBD58Ae72aACA5677b51C4353397
• LTC: LYk2fX9Yjnaro5aCQchqY9PjXH6eEDswnX

PayPal

I'll sign up for Amazon's competitor to PayPal after I post this.

I mostly appeared sane online the last few years, but really I was totally out of my tree. One day I told a couple of complete strangers that I was a Secret Service Agent. I really did believe that at the time. They at least pretended they believed me.

There is always some tiny speck of truth from which grows my delusions and hallucinations: I have a friend who knows Jimmy Carter. Somehow that speck sprouted all over my yard.

Internet patriots! Are you as tired as I am of the very shameful display of disloyalty that the NFL has become? This has nothing to do with race or anything else. The issue of NFL kneeling has nothing to do with race. It has to do with respect for our country, our anthem, and our flag. Major League Baseball has a better moral character, a deeper concern for mankind, and a spirit of charity. It's alternative sports, without all the Black Identity Extremists, the BIE. And for the first time ever, the World Series is coming to the Internet, on YouTube TV. Tune in to Fox or YouTube TV on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8:09 p.m. Eastern for game 1, the Houston Astros going up against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers used to play in my home town, in New York City. I was the best baseball player in New York when I was young. Said to be the best baseball player in the state of New York. Ask coach Ted Dobias. He said I'm the best he ever coached. I always knew I was good. I was always good at it. I was always the best athlete. Always the best player. Not only baseball, but every other sport too. Everybody wanted me to be a baseball player. But I also knew that it was very limited, because in those days you couldn't even make a lot of money playing baseball. But I was good at other things too. I was good at wrestling. I was really good at football. I was always good at sports. I was always the best at sports. So I know what I'm talking about when I tell you, it's going to be great. Tune in to the World Series. And tune out the NFL. Switch to baseball, and our country will win. We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go "Please, please, we can’t win any more." You’ve heard this one. You’ll say "Please, Mr. President, we beg you sir, we don’t want to win any more. It’s too much. It’s not fair to everybody else." And I’m going to say "I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning." Let's Make America Great Again! 🇺🇸

The failing @NFL has decided that it will not force players to stand for the playing of our National Anthem. Total disrespect for our great country! If you stand for our Flag, Anthem and Country, sign my petition. www.gop.com/stand-for-anthem-petition 🇺🇸

From the probably-watched-too-much-Cheech-and-Chong-as-a kid dept.

The strangest dream that i can remember that woke me up laughing went like this:

I took a glass and filled it with water
I took a tampon by the string and dipped it in the water, then dipped it in cocaine.
Then i dipped the tampon into the water.

In my dream i said, "I've invented coca-cola!" and started laughing. Woke up laughing and had a great day after that.

I need a few more dreams like that, i tell you what!

Remember when Republicans cared about the deficit? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

U.S. Posts Its Largest Budget Deficit Since 2013

GOP Congress Presides Over Highest Spending Since Obama’s Stimulus

It's October 19. Big and historic day -- and big week -- ahead for our stock markets! Stocks going 📈up tremendously! A bull market the likes of which this world has never seen. Blowing through many, many milestones. Great, great things happening on #WallStreet. Get ready for the Dow to go to 24,000 and more!💸 #Dow24K#MAGA pic.twitter.com/GQ5f2eVvEI 🇺🇸