FTD and Gypsying it

I feel like I'm time warped. On the cover of Rolling Stones magazine was the Boston Bomber. The news programs are talking about how the magazine is glorifying the bomber/terrorist. For days now I've been wondering what all the fuss is about. After all the Boston Strangler was caught when I was a kid. The most I remember is that it was a movie starring Tony Curtis. This morning the news shows were discussing a policeman's photograph's of the bomber and I finally got that I was FTD time warped and though I've been watching the same thing over and over, I just wasn't getting it.

The move has been going well with slow steady progress. I've arranged for internet and TV in Phoenix. The phone calls took literally hours. Direct TV and Century Link is like dealing with a bunch of sleazy used car salesman. They keep throwing a different price at you with specials every 5 minutes. Free programming for 3 months but you need to call an cancel or the price goes up. You get $5 discount for a year for having A- blood, after a year it goes up $20 a month, your locked in for 24 months but you can lower your price,  you get free installation, 10 minutes later I'm told I have to pay $25 for shipping and handling. What? Yo Buddy, what the fuck is the monthly cost? Yesterday morning, I got a call from a, "Candy from Bundles". Who the fuck are you? I thought it was some sleazy God knows what company. Turned out Candy was from the Internet company Century Link needing to make an internet installation to "Bundle" with my TV. Turned out Candy was incredibly sweet. We had a long FTD conversation. I asked her out on a date in Arizona. She agreed but there was that small problem that she lived in North Carolina. Oy, the minutia in life. She also told me her internet price goes up $5 after 6 months but I could cancel at any time. Candy was very sweet, no pun intended. I told her I was thinking of canceling my TV service. To expensive and confusing. She also told me about Hulu which is really cheap internet TV. 

I did change my move in date from August 14th to the 12th. This way I would spend less time doing the wandering Gypsy thing. Made my internet installation on the morning of August 12th, with the Direct TV coming in the afternoon. You have to love when a plan comes together. Guess what, I realized this morning my belongings aren't due into Phoenix till August 14th. Great, what would life be without confusional FTD fuckups. Still waiting to hear that I've been misdiagnosed and I suffer from really have Flufferfoot which is caused by my advanced case of Hangnail. Take 2 aspirin and I'm cured. Back to work and a normal life. Dream on Howard. 

So I researched Hulu which is internet streaming TV. I get confused with my normal cable now and this looked like it was going to be a task to learn and keep relearning like I need to do now with everything in life. Spoke to my ex-wife who gave me good advice that it would be confusing for me to do Hulu. Guess I'll stick with Direct TV, even though there sleaze bag billing practices challenge my retroeconomic budget plan.

I move out July 30th and into my new place August 12th. People keep asking me where I will be in between. Things work out one way or another. I'll be staying with my friends Steve and Sheila for the first half.

Have been having huge problems filming "Howard's Brain" with me erasing, losing and misplacing memory cards. It's hard work filming and I'm now frustrated to the point that I'm ready to stop filming till I can get help or get my shit together. I'm discouraged to the point I don't even want to pick up the camera anymore.

Last night I was on the phone with an FTD'er. I told her about my filming woes and I'm about to hang it up for a while. She told me she saw the Kickstarter "Howard's Brain" clip and it was like watching herself. She had her family and friends watch it so they now had a firmer understanding of FTD and what was going on with her. Even her neurologist had seen it. She told me how important me making the film and my work is to so many. Even her kids know my blogs. Told her that I was just and asshole that fell in shit, but she didn't believe me. Anyway she helped me immensely. I'm picking up the camera again and will keep on keeping on. I'll be looking forward to staying with this FTD'er and her family in beautiful Colorado on the second leg of my Gypsy trek towards Arizona. Yes, I will be filming it all.

Well, I'm already for Arizona but is Arizona ready for me?

Howard