Reality Based Community

Life in the Empire

We don't need another / a new discussion to prove it.

It is as it is.

Let this "fred" (discussion thread) live under the theme .......

long live this family

brothers, sisters, brethern, dogs, cats and birds, ants and flees, water and air and gas and Clare and Jim and him and the window Simm (??) and you and me and he and she and we and them and us and puss (???) and fish and the dish (it's on) and paper and pen.

Yip.

Views: 7011

Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Bingo.  It's the only I'm not sleeping under a bridge right now.  Or a yard of dirt.  

Replaced battery in pacemaker.  Feel much better.  Performing Slipcraft with Med System (MS) now.  The for-profit MS operates like the (for-profit) "Criminal Justice System" and Hotel California.  There are 3 circular steps:  1. can we sell you a procedure, 2. cover our butt  3. what's wrong with you... click back to #1... repeat.  The #2cya stage takes most of the time and paperwork.  Won't bore with details... will make it to Spring.  

US (for profit) media has become an information-void National Enquirer cesspool circus.  No info about the hurricane in Europe: Oh and guess what...  Cape Town is running out of water.  There's some kinda tea fight going on at The Guardian and it's this same tired old left-right liberal-conservative muck.  It's the fucking collapse of fucking "capitalism" globally.  Nobody will say it's name.  During the wars, the communists did this or the terrorists did that.   

Nobody would say what the capitalists were doing.  That's us USAns following a cartoon ideology just like the Sovietniks did.  Collective- individual is now liberal-conservative or some kind of other bullshit made-up duality while the fucking world burns.  There are lots of folk out who see it plain as day.  Red Blood Corpuscles I guess.  They wanna see if we got em.  Born in the fucking USA.     

Cruel is the rule... but sometimes bad is bad.   

  

So Jo & I are looking to change things.....again.

The situation as the Uni has become absolutely untenable for her. She has tenure, she could stay, but getting stabbed in the back by the people you are working your ass off to support in spite of a a slimy Dean who regularly feeds her platefuls of crow because he doesn't understand budgets or anything else that is his job isn't a life.

I'm looking for work....again. Broadened my search. Considering basic survival jobs. Something to get us through the next 4 years.

Waldo - my mother-in-law doesn't feel safe riding her bike anymore as she isn't stable when she stops and there was an incident that scared her. We recommended a trike or a quad with electric assist. I gave her the url for Utah Trikes. Do you have any suggestions? She would be mostly riding gravel roads so I suggested fat tires.

Most fat tires have presta valves.  Poo.  2 inchers are fine for any kind of gravel you'd want to ride on.  I got the fatties for off-road... unfortunately, never got to try them out thoroughly. But presta valves suck and you can't use them with the gas-station air machine.   

The korporat krap at the Uni was the last stand.  I cashed out at age 63 and took Social Scrut.  $1000 a month...( my own fault for avoiding "taxes" back when i was a capitalist and "libertarian")  But it was enough for me to tell the bosses... "fuck you- I ain't gonna do it."   

Retire now, Paul.  There may not be another 4 years.  

I’m not going to write anymore because there’s nothing more that can be said.”   

gave up reading the guardian, unlike my cousins. worked there briefly, secretary. one lunchtime saw a chap been hit by a bus outside the entrance, little brown fellow in a suit with blood in the wrong place looking dazed in the arms of helpers 40 years ago. my boss was not interested.  

meanwhile the magnetic poles are moving faster towards each other, the reversal is in motion, and accelerating, their trajectory indicates meeting west of Indonesia some time in the not so distant Tried telling cousins, who holiday frequently in the Phillipines, not lifting phone.

not to mention the solar minimum .

the old man has gone from his garden abutting mine down the hill, after 30 years of quietness.  At Easter someone plays loud sounds officiously at full blast.  First a litany of death threats, the chorus being I'm going to effin kill you.  Second, at equal volume for the whole town to hear, the name of a foreign god.

nothing since except the digging of foundations causing my garden to slide down more as the hill is steep.

and another thing, the woman and dog killed by our local road when they were on the pavement.  that is on my mind.  

a general warning went out last year, watch out for people killed by inanimate objects.  someone was driving the van, has been to court and pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving, they await sentencing, but who?  no name.  what strange justice is this?  the journalist I phoned said they are very frustrated, the police will not release his name so they cannot get information from the court.

meanwhile all the talk is about building a bypass and slowing the traffic, it seems peculiar to wonder who was driving, no-one else is concerned.

Sell-Off... seems to be the Brit version of Sicko.  

Goldman Sachs is openly saying in financial reports that curing people of terrible diseases is not good for business.

Sounds like a joke, don't it? It's not.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wall-street-admits-curing-disease...

On the other hand, this short clip encapsulates American morality better than any documentary does. And it's only thirty seconds long...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8tEGie9Pw

God save the Brits -- not to mention the rest of the planet -- from Americans.

What- yer gonna believe a buncha farkin comedians?    

https://youtu.be/JpleyI8bwnM   

https://youtu.be/6hm786xr68Y    

Took me awhile to warm up to Lee Camp. But he's probably the best of only a handful of people still doing actual journalism in this country. Not surprised they've all been banished to RT and that the US would want to shut RT down...because, you know..."Russian propaganda" which has now become the deep state's knee jerk response to truthful reporting. 

Yes Cape Town is running out of water. Been on the cards since I lived there aged 9. My mother lives there. Friend of mine came up to visit here & was thrilled to be able to take a shower without catching all the shower water in s bucket fir the toilet cistern. I am headed out of Egoli, City of Gold, in 6 weeks time. Returning to a tiny town in the mountains of Mpumalanga called Graskop. Google “Gradkop Lift Company” to see where i’ll Be. Last lived there 13 years ago a couple of years before social media burst in the scene & I met y’all on Tribe-:)
Bought s small wooden house there & have begun to pack ... again .., this time I keep wanting to call an auctioneer to rid me of boxes of “stuff”. Do not have an income earning strategy yet & my “4 year plan” after leaving corporate world just came to an end leaving me planless except for the move itself & a friend there with an art gallery she wants to re-open & one remaining giant horse dog to care for. It’s about nowish that my savings funding fails me. It all feels very peculiar. Will throw myself into walking the dog there & growing veggies. Scared, but so pleased to be leaving the grim gritty city.
And very surprised to find myself heading back “home” voluntarily after fleeing the isolation there so long ago for corporate job promotion.

Last night, after Waldo's response to me regarding not paying into Social Security enough for comfort later, I thought about it and realized that in the 40 years of my adult life I have managed to be in a full-time, paying into the system-type job twice: once for four years before I quit without any prospects and another time for one year term job.  I'm kinda proud of it.

Somehow we managed to put together a nest egg - helped by my father's dedication to leaving something for his children that was enabled by a now-extinct pension system - we've had the analysis done and there is an 84% chance that we will not run out of money before we both die. So it is possible to drop out of the chase now with some hope that we won't be destitute at age 90. Still...there is fear.  At 61 I can't collect Social Security even with early, lesser payout for another 2 years and Medicare eligibility isn't until 65....and Jo is 2 years younger than me. We haven't bothered making a will because there is really no one, nor any cause organization, that we have been able to identify that we feel compelled to provide a windfall upon our deaths.

Would be a lot easier if we had less. Less house, less art, less records, less books. We have tried so hard to go against our natural states as migrants (I was a homeboy before I met Jo, now I can't stay in one place). We are in Florida, in the South. Hurricanes are becoming regular annual events, and bigger too. We are far enough inland that we won't ever have coastal property - I think. But, more than that, it is the South. It is beautiful here but it will never be Home.

And, we don't have a destination yet. I want to move to, not from. We love the mountains but the lack of winter has increased the bark beetle and the forests are all burning - and, while not the South, the Americans in the West have their own special breed of noxiousness.

We are going to an artist residency in Portugal in July. Turns out it is near an area identified as a great place of American retirees to ex-pat. The website says you can live comfortably on $1500 a month there. Perhaps. We will be exploring the possibility. Maybe all that time singing Capoeira songs will help us pick up the language.

I am so very glad to hear from you, Cal.

and glad to hear from all of you.  just now must rush off, the news will be interesting...https://youtu.be/OOB-zuc2Hcw

RSS

© 2024   Created by waldopaper.   Powered by

Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service