August 31, 2018

Yesteryear
One year ago today: August 31, 2017, cookie cutters, piping.
Five years ago today: August 31, 2013, Tobruk, highly over-rated.
Nine years ago today: August 31, 2009, the "unnecessary" people.
Random years ago today: August 31, 2012, an unexplainedly popular post.

           This is the type of pictures until I find a decent replacement camera. It kind of looks like those infrared army photos. Digital cameras are sensitive to that frequency, so I wonder if this just has some lens filter problem or a piece missing. These are the trees overhanging my house that have to get trimmed way back before hurricane season. I’m back to working on the house in the mornings before the day heats up too much. That digital scale I bought also quit working. It had to be reset every time it was bumped or moved and finally started showing my weight 30 pounds under. And it would not work right unless your feet are bare and slightly wet. It was amazing to watch America go from the top to the bottom in less than my own lifetime.

           There was a new guy over in the yard last day while we were working. He is convinced the mess we are in is a result of the Yuppie generation. And he gave countless examples, saying it was them that let the whole country go downhill. I agreed with him, but asked him if he thought there was any reason for it. After all, that generation was no more or less a single entity than others, so did all of them suddenly start thinking alike, suddenly begin acting in unison to botch up the system that gave them such an easy go of life? When they could not collectively agree on anything else, how is it he says they all decided it was time to bite the hand that fed them?
           He had no answer, but I do. It was the government takeover of the education system. It programs kids for failure. It doesn’t matter if an individual winds up left, center, or right. The school has twelve years to work on his mind. Pay your taxes, don’t question authority, you are here to help others, and your most important possession is your credit score. Keep divided amongst yourselves so there is no single citizen bloc large enough to change anything. Burn grain alcohol in your car, eat genetically altered foodstuffs, and spend billions keeping people alive past their due date. Don’t ask where things are going, but hold on to that hand basket.
           Don’t stand up for anything, that’s racist, redneck, Nazism. Be terrified of being called a bigot. It is wrong to discipline your own children. Get your news from the television. Tell people who you vote for and support causes you know nothing about. Keep your nose to the grindstone and shoulder to the wheel and you will go to Heaven just as soon as you die.

Picture of the day.
Mount Errigal.
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           Tarpaper. That’s what I was working on in the yard today. I got fourteen large pieces cut to size when the material itself was getting too hot to handle in the sunlight. I still have not contacted that electrician so the electric system is still finicky on the north end of the building. That’s what I should do today, go buy the kitchen air conditioner. I’d like an excuse to go over to Winter Haven anyway. Find a camera that works, maybe? Later, I didn't find the camera and they were out of the digital recorder I wanted. Stock-outs were unknown in America before the millennials arrived. So were service contracts--if it didn't work, the store itself gave you a new one and bit the cost of sending it back. Basically, I went back home, moved 100 lb of tarpaper up the ladder into the attic and was so tired, I slept straight through.

           I did have time to do the books on the solo gig. It was a reasonable success musically, but financially a flop. I made $31 in tips plus a couple freebie Buds, but it cost me $38 or $39 to put on the show. I propped up my feet and did some research on the present investment climate. It's a shambles, considering the Founding Fathers planned for a free country with limited central government control. In fact, they government has a stranglehold on every possible business new or used. The final move will be when they eliminate cash. It won't be a move toward total electronic money as a set of new laws that outright prohibit the use of any form of cash. And I have racked my brain for years to figure out what that new cash will be, because they will never get rid of it. Cash will always exist in some form and I'd like to stock up on it now.

ADDENDUM
           I have some news about the housing bailout, the one that supposedly helped my friend get his mortgage reinstated. $14,000. And he never saw a penny of it. The repo mill tacked on exactly the same dollar amount in “legal fees” and grabbed the money. So it was not a plan to help anybody except law firms who had the number of these “housing societies”. It’s unethical, but I doubt that it is illegal. The funny part is the housing societies must know about it. Oh well, folks. That is how the majority of lawyers make money.
           Now this incident has some unique features to it. One is that they were dual-tracking him, and put the legal fees into the equation during a period where they had asked for 30 days to review his application for mitigation. I wonder if the newspapers would like to hear about that one?

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