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His Update/Reaching Out topic makes it seem like his attendance is about to have peaks and valleys. 

I imagine Trypt is working right now. He has some job while babysitting his luggage on the mean streets of San Diego. Its almost 11AM over there as I'm writing this. 

He's saving up to buy a one way ticket back home from what I gather. 

Trypt has been on the street for some time. I don't know if he's better off going to back to Ohio as the winter is coming. Drinking is expensive and probably caused him to fall into poverty. I hope he's granted time away from it while he has a set goal to get the hell out of CA.

While he did Quintasia something, she also did him something as well. Both parties learned something. When Trypt digs himself out of that mess he'll be a better person, hopefully kicking the drinking habit, and maybe he already did cause he can't afford it. Unless he's buying a little something while he's on the street, then he'll really be stuck. 

I'm headed to a city by the desert in southern California. After so many calls and hearing that wait lists span 3 months, or saying I would get a call back but never did, I reached the director of a shelter and he told me to come in Friday and not to worry. The man on the phone struck me as a no bullshit type of guy, so I trust it. If it doesn't work and I have to sleep outside, it will at least be warm out. It's substantially smaller than Cleveland and a lot less dangerous. So I think I will be OK.

In response to what Tony's said, going back to Cleveland isn't an option. I only have a maternal line of family, and they all live with other people. And half of the family is split and does not communicate. Shelters in the area have wait lists. Leaving CA will probably be the move in the end just for affordability reasons. But for now I am stuck. :)

I did learn quite a lot about the people around me in this. People I would have expected to be helpful were not, and people who I did not expect were helpful. I don't mean in regards to money, I have only asked family. Although someone here has offered, but I don't want to do that unless I think I'm about to crash out. I was very surprised by that and I see them in a different way.

I have had friends in similar situations over these last 15 years, and I would do things like look up shelters and pantries for them, find them cities to go to and get them proper routes, get them their medications, etc. When it happens to me, it's been a mixed bag about who would do the same for me. Well, that's fine. And of course I will never go somewhere again without having the money or place to come back to.

I know you mentioned doing remote work at the moment, but if you need some extra cash that can be made at your own schedule I've used the following in the past: 

Survey Junkie: I started with this one. The survey answering is tedious, they have mechanisms behind it to notice how long you take to answer a question, and the pay is literally cents on the dollar, but once you get into the rotation of it it goes pretty quickly. This one also does Holiday bonuses as a participation gimmick. 

Prime Opinion: The website grants rewards based on your overall participation done by your account on top of survey cash, but the survey sites themselves track you enough to eventually send you less surveys unless you wait, nullifying the intended reward system overtime. Still, this one had me getting more opportunities for making $ for watching videos, but their help service isn't too good at understanding problems.  

Inbox Dollars: This site's surveys are broken, but you can download game apps and link it to your Inbox Dollars account to have your time spent making in-game progress amount to actual money. I played some silly match 3 games and a Monopoly thing and came out with some extra cash. 

Branded Surveys: When Prime Opinion started making me wait for more surveys, I started using this one. It rewards a little extra cash at the end of the week based on how much you've already made, so it's another participation incentivizer. This site also offered some nice weeklies worth more than usual. 

Working an actual job is significantly more lucrative, but if you have spare time and need a little extra something this can quantify a value for it. They send straight to Paypal, and other than Inbox Dollars where they make you wait a week or so the others do it quickly with no fuss. 

I appreciate that.

I did get an Amazon Turk account before I got what I have now, which is similar to this stuff (filling out surveys). The job I have now pays pretty well. It just takes a week to pay out from when you do the work. So I really got in a pickle over that, because I couldn't focus to work when everything started going downhill here. But I have stuff paying out in a few days. Not enough to rent a private room yet, but enough to not worry about eating or getting anywhere. As long as I have a safe place to sleep and no one steals my shit, it should be smooth sailing.