A rainy Sunday at the Compound. I’m stuck in the house and getting on Camera Girl’s nerves, I can tell. Next week will be very busy. Tuesday will be a marathon of work until the wee hours. I will be with the people, in all their gritty and idiosyncratic splendor. So, I must get some things done today. I’ve got photos and quotes to get uploaded and scheduled. And I’ve got some scheduling things to figure out for my writing. I’ve been so busy lately with work that I haven’t been able to do any fiction writing at all. And that bothers me a lot. As you get older the number of creatively productive hours in a day or a week decreases. So, I need to make some time budgeting decisions to maximize my results.
But life rolls on. And the now incredible increases to the cost of living are biting ever harder at my meager resources. I was looking at some repairs on the swimming pool and wondered if outright replacing the lining might make some sense. But when I heard the estimate, I was gob-smacked. Yikes! So, I’ll pay the piratical repair costs for patching for this year and decide about replacement next year when I get rich.
But just to assert our rights as Americans to waste money we went to the Chinese restaurant for dinner. Sure, the cost was up about 50% from what I remember it to be. But it made Camera Girl happy and it spared her having to cook last night. And they have really fresh and delicious food at this place so it was a treat.
I was reading how McDonald’s might be pulling out of California all together. And on one of the talk shows the socialist pundit was putting a brave face on it and saying that this would open up opportunities for Mom and Pop shops. I was thinking, “Sure mom and pop get a really good deal on food prices compared to a behemoth like McDonald’s and they’ll definitely be able to outcompete McDonald’s on rental costs, utility costs and paper and plastic consumables. Oh yeah! It’s gonna be a paradise for small businesses in California.
Something that TomD commented about my Here and Now post. He stressed that our present ruling class is not just more of the same. He stressed that they’re really working to destroy us, “The progressives want us disarmed, private vehicles gone (except elite), and everyone on the dole and living in huge Soviet style arkologies. Males castrated.”
And I agree with that characterization. They differ from the past in what they are attempting to accomplish. Our former elites wanted us as factory wage slaves. The new elites just want us gone. And they think they can get the job done quietly and efficiently by eliminating our means of livelihood. They impoverish us and then weaken us with drugs, illicit and prescription, that they flood the environment with and stupefy our children with a digital narcotic. We’re being eradicated with poison like roaches.
Well, it won’t be easy but we have to learn how to avoid the traps and organize to assist each other in surviving. Alright, enough of that. Finish with something good.
I was watching the Coen Brothers version of True Grit the other day. They’re a couple of nihilistic film makers but they did a remarkable job with this film.