{"id":29122,"date":"2024-06-09T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=29122"},"modified":"2024-06-09T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:19:28","slug":"09jun2024-ocf-update-its-a-rainy-morning-sunday-thats-got-me-without-knowing-what-to-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/09jun2024-ocf-update-its-a-rainy-morning-sunday-thats-got-me-without-knowing-what-to-write\/","title":{"rendered":"09JUN2024 \u2013 OCF Update \u2013 It\u2019s a Rainy Morning Sunday, That\u2019s Got Me Without Knowing What to Write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloody Mary Morning\" width=\"783\" height=\"587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NbrB4B5FoBQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A rainy Sunday at the Compound.\u00a0 I\u2019m stuck in the house and getting on Camera Girl\u2019s nerves, I can tell.\u00a0 Next week will be very busy.\u00a0 Tuesday will be a marathon of work until the wee hours.\u00a0 I will be with the people, in all their gritty and idiosyncratic splendor.\u00a0 So, I must get some things done today.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got photos and quotes to get uploaded and scheduled.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve got some scheduling things to figure out for my writing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been so busy lately with work that I haven\u2019t been able to do any fiction writing at all.\u00a0 And that bothers me a lot.\u00a0 As you get older the number of creatively productive hours in a day or a week decreases.\u00a0 So, I need to make some time budgeting decisions to maximize my results.<\/p>\n<p>But life rolls on.\u00a0 And the now incredible increases to the cost of living are biting ever harder at my meager resources.\u00a0 I was looking at some repairs on the swimming pool and wondered if outright replacing the lining might make some sense.\u00a0 But when I heard the estimate, I was gob-smacked.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 So, I\u2019ll pay the piratical repair costs for patching for this year and decide about replacement next year when I get rich.<\/p>\n<p>But just to assert our rights as Americans to waste money we went to the Chinese restaurant for dinner.\u00a0 Sure, the cost was up about 50% from what I remember it to be.\u00a0 But it made Camera Girl happy and it spared her having to cook last night.\u00a0 And they have really fresh and delicious food at this place so it was a treat.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading how McDonald\u2019s might be pulling out of California all together.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I was thinking, \u201cSure mom and pop get a really good deal on food prices compared to a behemoth like McDonald\u2019s and they\u2019ll definitely be able to outcompete McDonald\u2019s on rental costs, utility costs and paper and plastic consumables.\u00a0 Oh yeah!\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna be a paradise for small businesses in California.<\/p>\n<p>Something that TomD commented about my Here and Now post.\u00a0 He stressed that our present ruling class is not just more of the same.\u00a0 He stressed that they\u2019re really working to destroy us, <strong>\u201cThe progressives want us disarmed, private vehicles gone (except elite), and everyone on the dole and living in huge Soviet style arkologies. 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