One year ago today: February 1, 2021, the cat hut.
Five years ago today: February 1, 2017, how single women advertise.
Nine years ago today: February 1, 2013, silver is misbehaving.
Random years ago today: February 1, 1982, seems so sad today.
Another too-cold morning, so I get to pick the topic. Here’s the view of the scooter shelter. Note how quickly it filled up with things that come in cans. Paint, oil, weed-killer, starting fluid, fertilizer, paint, and pet food. This view shows a highly organized system compared to what went before. It was not meant to for this storage. It evolved as we went along and now, like any shelf-space around your independent sort of character like myself, it becomes indispensible.
Okay, my recent links to old lists of rich women gave the impression there were no self-made billionaires. I’ve listed millionaires, but how about billionaire women? This depends on how you define self-made since their marital states have been purged from the Internet. There is no denying their role in establishing these fortunes. You see the distinction I’m making?
1) Diane Marie Hendricks, 74. Co-founder of ABC Supply, $12 billion.
2) Judith R. Faulkner, 79. Sells your private medial records. $7 billion.
3) Meg Whitman, 65. Succeeded by failing, politician. $6 billion.
4) Judy Love, 84. All those Love’s truck stops. $5 billion.
5) Marian Ilitch, 89. Co-founder Little Caeser’s Pizza.$4 billion.
6) Johnelle Hunt, 90. J.B. Hunt Trucking. $4 billion.
7) Thai Lee, 63. Info Technology (spyware). $4 billion.
8) Lynda Resnick, 78. Health food & products. $4 billion.
9) Gail Miller, 78. Car dealerships. $3 billion.
10) Doris Fisher, 90. Gap jeans. $3 billion.
Ah, you wonder. Are there any self-made rich women under 35? Sure.
• Kylie Jenner, 21. Cosmetics, $1 billion.
• Huda Kattan, 35. Cosmetics. $610 million.
• Rihanna Fenty, 31. Cosmetics, music. $600 million.
• Beyonce Knowles, oops disqulaify this one, she lies about her age.
• Taylor Swift, 31. Country music. $360 million.
• Whitney Herd, 29. On-line dating software. $290 million.
• Karissa Bodner, 29. Cosmetics. $275 million.
Now don’t quote me on those women’s ages. Shall we say there are discrepancies? And unless they are declared married, it is difficult to define their status. Other than the above, the only significant rise of new billionaires centers squarely on computer and Internet technology. I admire this shift because it upset the status quo, in that most of the richest young people are those who developed the technology. In the old America, the concept was to steal the technology and manipulate the system, in that rarely did a CEO have any street-level connection with the product. They are the arse-holes that made sure you needed money to make money. Not one of them ever made good in the computer startup field.
Back to single rich women. Married or not? It’s not the status so much as the difficulty of defining self-made. It is not just females, either. You never hear of either Hunt brother or Koch brother claiming they made it solo. The media is reluctant to say if unmarried women are unattached, it’s one of those quirks of American society. Women will object to being called Mrs. Somebody, but have no qualms about being divorced or shacked up or having five kids and still listing themselves single. So you be careful, how does the saying go? Marrying a divorced women with kids is like finishing somebody else’s saved game.
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Before we continue, it is Black History month. Here’s my contribution. There is controversy over the claims of inventions by blacks. It seems they’ve invented very little other than the ice cream scoop. Peanut butter was an ancient Aztec formula and no, the traffic light was not invented by a black man.
The next few weeks for me are going to be a lot of “it depends”. When talking to people from Florida about vehicle tags, make them specify whether they mean the physical metal license plate or the tag which you stick on the license plate that displays the year. They use the terms interchangeably and presume you know what they mean.
I reduced 620 pounds of logs, limbs, and lumber scraps in 2 hours 45 minutes. That’s running the blower all the time, making it a two beer fire. This went past dark and I watched the stars come out, Orion our old buddy to the southeast. Sirius was the brightest I’ve ever seen, though I’ve not always lived where stars were visible. Tonight’s bonfire was maybe a quarter of what I need to rake and burn. This yard is not that big but has proven to be more than I can handle without cutting into my best times.
Most of the old Mitchfruit tree is burned and I raked a bit. Not my most productive day. I thought of going downtown for a while, but I’ve seen it so often and the only night life in most of Polk County is the pubs. Maybe tomorrow, trivia night. When I don’t play, I notice the patterns of other participants. Trivia has changed and I see I’ve adapted to their “new” ways but stump them whenever there are any questions that require thinking. When it comes to brainwork, not one of them can even manage the duh-yup repeat questions.
There are a group of the same women who participate, most of them regulars. In the past six years, all have gained considerable weight. There are no marriageable men over 30 in the area, so they have the same challenges as the billionaire women. Where is that site that filters out dating material for rich women? Tell you what, return tomorrow and I’ll have looked at both sides of that coin. There are tons of sites that give men advice on how to score rich women. We’ll take a look. I have a double prediction.
1. Men’s sites will say go look for women in fancy restaurants.
2. Women’s sites will play the love-at-first-sight angle.
That last one is no joke. I’ve met women that were otherwise catches who spend all their romantic efforts seeking that elusive knight that will sweep them off their feet. It’s nonsense. I shun women that fall for me immediately. Because I know the right women may like me right off, but you don’t fall in love with a coocoo oddball bass-playing rum customer like me all in one month or one year. Tomorrow, we’ll see what others have to say, because what they do is patently quite different from what they say. If you found a place to date quality women, the last thing you do is publish the fact on-line.
ADDENDUM
Yes, there is a site where you can order undetectable counterfeit money. Your nuts if you do, but anyway, here is the link. Let’s peek at the non-mainstream news. Trudeau, the Crime Minister of Canada has gone into hiding. There is video of his Australian counterpart running from a mob. The fake news has run out of narratives and grossly over-used them to the point nobody believes them any more. They are dumb enough to try saying the truckers are Russians or the protest is about racial superiority, but Trudeau and his mob have lost the initiative. If they try to break up the protest now, things will only get worse. A lot worse.
